Here are some pics of the main road I live in,
and my doors from the street.
Buenos
Tardes!
Another
great week has come and gone here in the ever so lovely Mexico city. It was a
really good week, and now I have officially been here for 6 weeks! First
transfer done. I am staying with Elder Hernandez which was a surprise, we both
thought for sure he was gone, by the end of this next transfer he is going to
have over 7 and a half months in Carrera alone. haha so long. The next
transfers are on Christmas eve but I heard they might either have them the week
before or after, hopefully after so there isn't a risk of me moving and not knowing
the members for Christmas skyping and what not. But I cant believe these first
6 weeks are over, they went so fast. Probably the hardest 6 weeks of my entire
life for many reasons, but definitely the most rewarding. 6 more weeks and I won't be a trainee anymore. yay. So an elder in my zone was talking to me the
other day and was like, we are going to have 102 weeks in our mission so if you
just pretend like that's 100 weeks, then every week is 1 percent of the Mish.
That makes it seem like so much shorter. haha.
The
teaching is going really good here, one thing that is frustrating, however, is
that we have so many golden investigators, but everyone lives together and is
not married so they cant be baptized. ahh Its just another hurdle that is a
pain to deal with especially when they have kids. Oh well all else with the
people is good. The Spanish is really finally starting to kick in. I can really
understand most everything now, probably 90 percent, but I have to focus pretty
good. Sometimes I find myself day dreaming when people are talking to us
because it takes so much effort to listen and understand. haha. Now the
difficulty is just being able to say everything I want to. It is definitely
something that is just going to come with time. We did have a lesson yesterday,
we taught the restoration and I taught most of it, and I could say everything I needed to, it was my first taste of what it would be like to be fluent. haha.
feels nice. one day. . . . The other day I gave a blessing to the little boy,
Alejandro, of the Eldas, and Elder H gave one to the little girl Zoe (sounds
like soy). I was mad at myself after because I gave it in English, when I probably could have done it in Spanish.
So last
Friday Elder Hollander went home, so we had to take Elder Gillis in and we have
been a trio since Friday. It is really nice to have someone to really help me
with the Spanish, and someone that I can actually just talk to normally. haha.
He taught me some good slang things that are good to know for the streets, because
when the crazies come to you, you want to sound like you know whats going on,
and your not scared of him my taking in formal Spanish, which is all
missionaries are supposed to use. Elder Gillis is from Canada so our trio
represented all 3 countries of N. America. haha. We didn't really have room for
him in our house, but it was good anyway, we had to get creative, his chair was
a bucket with a cutting board on it.
We had
conference this weekend of our zone and stake. Elder Gonzolez of the 70 talked
to us all Saturday and Sunday, as well as our mission president and his wife.
Both days were all about how members and missionaries need to work together! My
struggles here exactly. haha, just what our ward needed to hear. Good stuff
So we
have an investigator named Guadalupe (the lady with the tiny house with no
lights). She used to be a nun, and is crazy she thinks if it isn't in the bible,
then it isn't doctrine. She is so difficult to teach because she gets off track
so easy which is such a distraction. After 4 visits we finally got through the
restoration and I was really thinking there is just no way with her. But then in
this last visit she asked Do you guys believe in Angels? We said yes why? and
she said because when I close my eyes I see two angels sitting in front of me.
My whole perspective changed on her after that. haha.
I don't
know what my problem is here but I seem to get so attached to people here, the
Elders especially. haha its weird because with Elder Hollander going home and Elder Gillis is getting transferred, I was so sad about it. I don't even know
why, haha.
The food
this week, I had one awful thing. Chicarrone. Don't know if that's how you spell
it. It is just fried pig skin, which is half decent if it is just in the fried
form but we had it in an awful soup thing so it was just soggy greasy nasty
pig skin. Probably the most unhealthy thing I've ever eaten, at least it felt
that way. haha. One of our lunch appointments this week fell through so she
said buy whatever and I will reimburse you. So we went to the grocery store
right next to our house and I bought some microwave pizzas and pepsi. Not bad.
All other food was good, we ate some tortas today that were really good at the
temple.
So. . if
possible it is really just so great if you guys can send real letters, typed or
whatever, even if you email them as well. Letters take just under 2 weeks to
get to me. You can also dear elder, but tell me if you do so I can watch for
them. Because I want to have the hard copies of letters that i can read at
home, because when they are only email I only get to read them once, then never
see them again. But email is still good too. I was reading all the letters from
the MTC when we had some down time today and I love reading them, over and over
again.
You guys
had such a crazy week!! That party looked SO fun! I´ve always wanted to have
one of those! The costumes looked hilarious, such a good time. Sounds
like Josh and Kayla's house is coming along, I am excited to see pictures!
Mother,
to answer your questions, most everything we drink is from the members but the
water I drink at home is from big filtered water jugs that we buy for 12 pesos.
I have a filtered water bottle that the MTC gives you, but I don't ever use it.
But this is why I wanted the normal one. So we have one meal a day with members
at 2. We eat breakfast in the mornings, which for me is usually cereal,
oatmeal, bananas, yogurt, granola bars. Then we just eat when we come in
for the night after planning around 9:30.
It was so
great to hear from you all Thanks for the letters Mom, Julie, Nichole, Brandi
love them! Especially love the pics, I want you guys to send me hard copies of
them all! haha.
Love you
all!
Elder
Elgan
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