Hola everyone! We are an hour away from the mission home, but still in the same city. The city of Queretaro is huge!. It never ends.
Awe! I can't believe Nick lost his first tooth. He's so cute. I sure do miss you all.
OH MY GOSH! Is Grandpa ok? The story of him going to the hospital freaked me out. We will be fasting for him on Sunday. I will worry no matter what because he is my grandpa.
Janice Kapp Perry and her husband came and did a fireside for us in the MTC.
It is pretty rainy here in Mexico. There is flood-type rain. It has caused some problems in the houses of our investigators. My companion's umbrella is trashed so she uses mine and I use my rain coat. I'm doing good. It still hasn't settled in that I'm here. It is like a dream. It is hot and dry and also hot and wet here. No matter the weather I want to cut off all my hair and have it elder length. We don't have heat or air conditioning, but we don't need it because the temperature is always the same. Cold isn't cold here. We have a kitchen but it isn't really functional. We only eat one meal a day around 2:30 p.m. No one should be worried. We eat enough in one meal to last us all day. They don't have bagels, loaves of bread, milk or cereal. All of the fruit is unsafe. So, food isn't really an option unless we go to Sam's Club, and you need a card to get in the door. We were supposed to meet elders who had a Sam's card, but they didn't come.
My companion is from Cunyectas, which isn't too far from here, actually. I'm in San Juan. The streets are mostly paved with rocks. I'm in a ward.
Right now we are visiting in a city that is in the very center of Mexico, but I can't remember the name. It is really pretty and touristy. It seems much nicer than our area (lucky elders! :))
My Spanish is improving. Everyone (the members and my companion) say that I speak really well and that they can understand me better than others who have come through. According to my companion I'm fluent during the lessons. Is the Spirit real? You bet it is!
My favorite scripture is Helaman 5:47
Peace, peace be unto you, because of your faith in my Well Beloved, who was from the foundation of the world.
I'm not allowed to give out my actual address (not that I would know it, haha)
My first view of Mexico City.
I can't remember what I have already told you about so I'm sorry if I repeat. Getting from the MTC to Mexico was crazy. We didn't get any sleep the night before we left. We had a layover in Dallas and I got to call home. It was really hard not to cry when I heard my mom's voice. (I'm such an emotional rock!) When we got off the plane it took us forever to get through customs. We went through a confusing time where our guides who couldn't speak English were trying to tell us how to exchange our money for the bus ride to Queretaro. We had a 2 hour bus ride. The assistants to the President picked us up and we took taxis to the mission home. The president came over an hour later, we had interviews and then they took us to a sister's house. We hadn't eaten any food since Dallas and they gave us some chips and salsa. I was so hungry. I wish we had gotten dinner.
This is my companion, Hermana Medina
We had zone conference this week which was super boring because they talked about a lot of numbers and a lot of abbreviations. I didn't know what they were talking about so I tuned out for 3 hours. It will get better with time, I know. We had to take a bus to the meeting and they were showing some horrible zombie movie. It is a good thing I had a set of earplugs and my scriptures.
We have many more investigators than we did last week. Now we have 8. Romuelo is by far the best. We met him while trying to contact one of our referrals. He saw us knocking on her door in the heat and asked us if we wanted some water. He's really old and extremely nice. He's very interested in the message we've shared with him and his wife. because his son and daughter-in-law died a little over a month ago. They have been looking for answers ever since. So awesome!
We have some crazy rules here in the mission. For example we have to fast once a week. Our investigators only have 7 lessons to accept a baptism date and attend church or we have to drop them. We had to drop our first investigator this week, Enrique. It is super sad, but understandable because he doesn't have a desire to change. Hopefully with time that will change.
Every day we follow the missionary schedule. We study, go out and teach, contact referrals and such. We have lunch with a member family. We go home exhausted and plan for the next day. The people are awesome. We can't eat any fruit. The bread here is delicious, but more like eating cake or doughnuts every day. The tortillas are corn and soft. we eat them with every meal.
So that's life here in Mexico. Until next week, Hermana Talbot
At a member's house.
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