Week 85: Carnivals are lame

Elder Hendrix enjoys the ocean view in Los Cristianos.

Elder Hendrix lives just a short walk from
this beach in Los Cristianos.

Elder McDade and I are killin it out here in Spanish Africa. He's a really cool guy. We had a great first week together and we're excited to keep working hard. He's about 18 months old in the mission. He entered the field a transfer after me, so we're a really old companionship. Which is super cool actually. We've both had really young companions for the past year, so it has been a really weird but relieving change for both of us. We're both pretty experienced missionaries and we have no problem with the language, so we're gonna take advantage of this companionship and get things done. It's so much less stressful, so we're really motivated and excited to be together. Elder McDade is really cool. We get along super well. He's really tranquilo. We have a really similar personality.

Elder Hendrix with his new companion, Elder McDade.

As for this week, we had lessons with several investigators! We were able to visit Mayalene and Miguel finally, which was awesome! They're doing really good. They haven't been able to come to church lately because Mayalene got a job kinda far away and had to move there. So that stinks. But at the same time, we're really happy for them because they've been looking for work forever. It's really hard to find work on this island. But they're continuing to pray and read! We had a really good conversation with them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They still have a strong desire to be baptized, which is great! They think they'll be able to come to church a little more next month because Mayalene will start having Sunday mornings off. So we're excited to continue teaching them and helping them learn more!

So we got probably a solid 10 minutes of sleep this entire week haha. The carnival is here. It comes to Los Cristianos once a year, and it just so happens to take place literally right outside our piso. We have a perfect view of the whole thing, which is cool, but it's always so loud and they blast music with like 7382 inch subwoofers until 5 am. It's insane. And on the weekends they have huge parties. Literally thousands of people come. There's a huge stage they set up where they have like bands and stuff. It's cool hearing modern music again, but it's ridiculously loud. It's cool watching the mosh pit though. It gets pretty insane. I took a few pictures of it from our apartment. I'm so excited for it to be over this week. I think there's only like 5 or 6 days left. We'll be able to finally do studies and not have to yell at each other to hear haha.

A view of carnival from the piso.

Today for P day we walked around the boardwalk and took some awesome pictures. I've been here for almost 5 months already, and it's still not getting old. Haha I love Tenerife! Check out my blog to see all the cool pictures I took today.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Hendrix