WOW. Mexico is kinda crazy. This week has been super long,
but so good!
We left the MTC last week and that was great. We flew through
mexico city and wow glad I´m not there, a city of 50 million it was nuts. It
was kind of hard in mexico city. We changed airlines and had to print new
boarding passes from the lady in broken Spanish but we made it!
We spent the
first two days at the secretaries house and in the mission office training. our
mission pres and his wife are the best, she made like cafe rio for us the night
before we left to our areas, way good. I got my comp! His name is Elder Abreu
and is from the Dominican Republic, His Spanish is impossible to understand, he
speaks sooooo fast. way faster than the Mexicans and he doesn't say his s´s
which makes it even harder but I am learning really fast.
I am in Perote, the
coldest area in the mission. it is kinda like Utah in October all of the time. It is either too hot for a sweater or too cold for anything but a sweater and a
coat, never just nice. and it changes four times a day between hot and cold. I
like it a lot, the Mexicans hate the cold but it is like 45 degrees, so even at
the coldest when it is misty, it isn't too bad. Oh here it doesn't rain, it just
gets so foggy that you are just damp, its called Chipi chipi!
Anyway, Cool Story! Our first day here we dropped my bags off at the apartment and went out
to work, and literally 100 yards or less from our house this family of four
stops us, says they have a testimony of the Book of Mormon, they just moved but
were taking discussions, and want to be baptized, they are getting married this
week and baptized on Sunday, also we do baptisms on Sunday here, kinda different.
Perote is super poor and the people are willing to be taught but our biggest
problem is the word of wisdom and law of chastity. We also have a hard time
getting people to church because we meet in Altotonga, a 40 minute bus ride
that costs about 35 pesos each way which is a lot for these people (about 3
dollars.) but we are going to have a casa de oracione where people will take
the sacrament and learn. we start that in the second week in December, I also
start teaching English classes then as well, that should be interesting. right
now we are teaching five new investigators and a bunch of less actives, the
biggest problem is less actives here. Our ward has 800 people in it but about
45 come to church. We are focusing our Missionary efforts on getting people to
the temple and enduring to the end rather than just baptisms. Speaking of baptisms, Elder Abreu, my comp has baptized 72 people here. He leaves in February! Crazy.
The work is good here. Another fun thing the Mexicanos cannot drive, they drive
like mercielagos fuerra de infierno here. like 70 miles an hour, pass on a one
way, no stop lights, we are lucky to be alive after a week.
Church was good, I
had to talk which was fun, the bishop just came up and was like hey can you
give a 6 ish minute talk "Sure Bishop con gusto seria un plesur! haha I
talked on faith, bread and butter of missionaries. anyway, sorry this was kind
of all over, we don´t have a ton of time!
Miss you guys, love you all, stay
safe, read the book of mormon! Hasta la vista!
(edited by Jason Draper - something about the computers all being in Spanish(jajaja))
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