Mexico-Week 14

Hello everyone!

This week was a whirlwind.  I’ve never done so much in a day in my whole life but it was totally awesome.  

First, we had no electricity in our house for 3 days, which meant that all of our food went bad and that we were showering and planning and studying in the dark.  We couldn’t cook for 3 days. Such an adventure!  Actually it wasn’t that bad, but it was stressful.  We don’t know what was wrong with the luz (light).  It just went out one morning and we tried everything we could to get it back.  We went to the central place for the luz and everything.  They sent two people over and they couldn’t figure it out. Romueldo sent a friend of his as well but that did nothing.  Then, on the third day, we came home and the lights magically came on. Prayers work people.  Trust in God.  

Secondly, we had intrevistas (interviews) with Presidente.  That was both scary and awesome.  I’ve never felt so planchado en mi vida (burned in my life) pero (but) in the end it really helped us to grow a lot and to have more faith in God.  He told the whole zone that if we weren’t planning a baptismal service every week that we didn’t trust God.  So, what did we do?  We went home and planned a baptismal service.  We are having a lot of faith.  A lot. A lot.  We’ll see what happens!  Presidente's awesome and really does receive revelation from God!

Thirdly, we went to the Pena again today.  I bought a painting – I’ll send a picture next week.  It was great but really, really tiring.  I’m soooo out of shape after not doing stuff like that for four months!  We ate hotdogs and cookies at the top of the mountain and climbed up way higher than we're supposed to go.  But it was awesome.  We had to go in missionary clothes, which wasn’t fun.  

We haven’t had saldo on our phone (minutes on the cell phone)all week.   

Here are answers to your letters and questions:

Yaya, Josh got his braces off! Way to go!  You look great, la verdad (it’s true).  

I haven’t tried any weird food yet, apart from cactus, which is GROSS.  The cactus flowers are super good but the cactus itself is sooooo gross.  But we have to eat everything that they serve us and try not to throw up.  Elder Erekson actually did throw up the first time he tried it).

I’m doing very good (I think) at learning Spanish.  I can understand 99 percent of what people say and the rest I can understand their explanation.  It’s kind of great.  I can’t read or write in Spanish that well yet though, so I’m working on that.  

Mom, I can’t believe you went to New York City!  I hope you had a great time.  I loved it there.  Queretaro is nothing like New York, but it is still awesome.

Elena went to a Science Power seminar at the U?  She got to dissect a cow eyeball?  THIS SOUNDS SO COOL!  What was it like? Was it gross?

Adios, Hermana Talbot