Monday, July 28, 2014

July 28, 2014

Whew..... Where do i even begin. first of all the keyboard that i am typing on is different that a regular one so im having some difficulties typing so if i mispell lots of words you know why. Mexico is crazy, its been a big change form living in Utah my whole life. The driving here is nuts and i dont know how people dont run into eachother more often. Their are dogs, turkeys, chickens, sheep, cats roaming everywhere just chillin. Three quarters of our misión is in puebla and the other quarter is in the country places i guess. I am in the country three hours away from puebla in a city called serdan. Their are two sets of sister missionaries in the city of serdan then meand my comp are in charge of three Little towns that are like thirty minutes away form where we live so we have to ride a bus everyday. We are assigned to a Little branch of members in a city called tlaxichuca or something like that. The members are really solid and are relly good to us. Theirs prob like 40 members who came to church yesterday. 
 
Our área is kinda slow right now, my trainer who has been out a year says this is his most difficult area. We have a couple investigators but their really not progressing and the missionaries have been teaching them for like six months. So we have been trying to focus on getting some new people and weve been contacting a lot. I now know why bo was always teaching less actives, we teach tons of lessons to less actives. I guess Latinos just have a hard time staying in church or something. Our investigators have to come to church five times before they can be baptized so that's kinda a bummer. We did our wash today and luckily a member had a washing machine but not a dryer so i got to hang all of my clothes outside which was pretty fun. 
 
The people where we are assigned literally have nothing, they usually have a blanket for the door and a Little one room house with dirt floors. We usually sit on a bed when we teach lessons. I still haven't gotten sick or anything and i feel great. I take a vitamin and a pro-biotic each day and that's it. The food here is so far pretty good but my comp says we haven't had the bad stuff yet. Ive never eaten so many tortillas in my life as i did this week. We always have some kind of soup and then something in tortillas. They eat their main meal at 2 o'clock so that is when we eat so by the time night rolls around im pretty hungry. Ive already lost the weight i put on in the mtc which is a bummer. I know im going to love this place once i can speak the language. 
 
This week was hard, i honestly cant understand anything the people say. All i know is when i get home im going to be super good at gestures cause that's pretty much what its been this week. They talk so fast and it all sounds like a big mumble. My comp speaks no English so its kinda hard right now. I get to go on splits on Wednesday with a English zone leader so im pretty excited about that. Besides the language being really hard everything is pretty good. The church is way different down here. Yesterday was the first time i didnt go to church in a regular building, our branch just meets in this random room haha. The wards had a talent show on Thursday and it was the weirdest thing. Just imagine papa Dave law dressed in a mouse costume dancing for two hours, that was basically what it was. This place is crazy but i know i will love it. The Little kids love me here and ive already given away my toys that i brought here. I love you guys and hope all is well. Church is true
Prayer list- Julia to get married
verónica- come to church
<enrique-quit being a bum
Cado law- to learn the language

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