Happy Dia de Muertos with my chocolate skull
Elder Hernandez in the middle
Me and another new Elder that came with me, we are the noobs of the zone, and Elder Hollander who goes home this Saturday
Hola everybody!
Another crazy week here in Mexico, the whole week
has been a celebration for Dia de Muertos, day of the dead, but really more
like week of the dead. haha. Its probably the biggest holiday besides
Christmas/New Year here Elder H. said. The kids go trick or treating every
night from our Halloween until yesterday. The whole city goes all out with
parties, decorations, pan de muerto is all over-bread of death-just a hunk of
bread covered in sugar, not bad, not bad. We had to be in house at 7:30 these
last few nights for the crazies that roam the streets all hyped up on pan de
muerto. But now November is here, and it sure doesn't feel like it here, same
old same old hotness, really it is the perfect temperature though, it just tends
to get a little warm when you walk 100 miles up hills everyday.
The Spanish is coming along pretty good, all the
members say I am speaking really well, but it is hard to notice too big of a
difference myself.
Today was kind of a crazy day, we had another zone
activity, so we rode the metro into Buena Vista and went to this gigantor mall
and bowled and ate Chinese food. haha It was a pretty good time, but I don't
love the zone activities just because they eat away at our p-days. Oh well
after we went into the Walmart and bought some food, I was so happy to find
apple cinnamon cheerios and nature valley stuff. haha. We then took an
adventure to the temple to buy some things from the temple store, but come to
find out it was closed so that was a big waste of time and money. oh well
I did get a little sick in the beginning of this
week, not bad, but my stomach wasn't quite right for a couple days, and lots of
heart burn in the nights, haha but I am better now. Freaking Mexican food.
The teaching is going well, this week was kind of
interesting because 4 or so of our investigators said they didn't really have an
interest anymore, which is just so frustrating but then we also got like 7 new
investigators, so that was awesome. I am really hoping we are gonna have
multiple baptisms by December.
We had a mission conference on Friday where
president Anaya told us how we need to be doing a lot better on baptisms, and
work with the members in our ward more, hmmmm what a grand idea, and Sister Anaya gave a big spchill on safety, a lot of it being about electrical wires
and things, I wonder if it has to do with the missionary that was killed that
you guys said?
The food this past week has been good, but nothing
too memorable that I can think of, except pan de muerto and a butt ton of candy
from the Eldas who have enough to last through the next millenium I'm pretty
sure. haha.
Sounds like you guys had a fun week, haha loved the
kids costumes. Britt those pics of Cambodia looked AWESOME. Thanks to everybody
who wrote me, loved the letters Britt, Julie, Nichole, I wish I had time to
write you all back individually!
Don't have much more time to write if I want to send
pics but I think I covered the highlights!
Love You All,
Elder Elgan
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