A Quick Week

May 23, 2016

Hey y'all,

This week was pretty good, there was a lot to do. We went to the mall last P-day , and it was the weirdest thing. The malls here look like the ones in the U.S, they're clean, big and have lots of stores. When we were in there, I felt like I was back in the U.S, and then when you look out the window and you see the dirtiness of India. It is the weirdest feeling, going from a mall to the outside "realistic" world of India. Mom sent me Twizzlers, so I opened them up and shared them with some members. One of the funniest things that I've seen on my mission is to watch a bunch of Indians eat Twizzlers. They didn't like them nor did they like the Gold fish either. TO give you an idea of the traffic system, and the dangers of India: The number of cars on the road in India is 74 million. The number of death rates due to accidents is 196,000 a year. Thats 22 people dying from a crash here an HOUR. One missionary told me when he was in Bangalore, he saw a family of four on a motorcycle (yeah, they try to fit as many people as possible on them) and this family hit another motorcycle head on, which caused everyone to fly off, and in that moment a huge bus came by and hit all of them. The bus was on top of all 4 people, and for some reason the driver ran away, so local people moved the bus away, and tried dragging the bodies to safety. This week I had to fill out an Absentee voters ballet, for Americans that are currently out of the U.S. So I had to go to the U.S Embassy and give them my form. It was pretty fun to step on American Soil. We looked through our phone I tried calling some people up to teach, and were able to get 9 new investigators this week. We met one of them in a pretty sketchy area, so when we went there we took off our name tags and ties to blend in a little more. We taught Ravi Teja who isn't progressing, but have started teaching his mom. We also met a guy named Kranti who is a golden investigator. We met with him and his family, and wants us to meet with his friends. He knows a lot about the church because one of his friend's is LDS. He is very interested and has asked many questions. They even fed us dinner and we only knew them for an hour, and gave us a ride back to the main road (which was a good distance away). Its hard to believe that I graduated a year ago, man time flys. We went to a resturant called Absolute BBQ, which was pretty cool. It was sweet , because people come with racks of meat and gives us unlimited chicken, fish, lamb etc. Other than that, it was a good week here in Hyderabad India. 

Love,

Elder Magnusson