I really cant believe how fast time is going by here! It
really is hard to believe that I have already been in mexico for 3 weeks now,
it seriously feels like I have only been here for a week, at most! Thank you
all for you emails, and grandma, yes, i do get your emails, and i got your
dearelder letter, thank you so much! I love you!
It is so good to hear that everthing is going pretty good at
home, however, i am sorry tanner for larry, he was a good geko, you could maybe
have the slug that we found in our sink this morning hahahaha. Anywho, life has
been going really good here! Like i said, time has been flying by just because
we are working all day everyday! So a typical sunday, we have church from 10 to
1, but we get there at 9 so we can go pick up investigadors for church, and
then right after is usually when we have our baptisms, usually. During the
week, on p day we wake up at 530 every week just because everything that we
want to do is so far away from us that we have to wake up that early to be able
to have time to write our families and what not. We get back to work at 6 on p days.
During the week, we have our zone meetings on tuesday, and that takes up half
the day as well. The other days we start preaching at 1030 11ish and usually
dont get back home until aroun 930 or 10 some nights just because we are always
soooo busy, we normally teach about 7 to 10 lessons a day, and contact around
20 people, so there is a ton of work to do here!
So this week was an interesting one. Saturday we had one of
our families get marrried (the second picture) so that they could get baptized.
Interesting fact about mexico real quick, no one really believes in getting
married, so right now we are working with 3 other families to get married so
they can get baptized. Anywho, since this family got married, they had all of
their family there. Well, long story short, they wanted to postpone their
baptism till next week. So then we had 4 who were going to get baptized. Well
with the other family, she didnt want to get baptized (the mom) because of
certain monthly problems, and so we have to postpone her baptism along with her
two kids. So we were down to only one baptism. So we went to go pick her up,
btw her name is maria, before church so she could get baptized, and low and
behold she wasnt there. We went back to her house after sacrament meeting and
she still wasnt there, so we were kinda bummed. But, during church the bishop
was talking to a member who has brought her mom a couple times to church and she
said that she wanted a blessing and to get baptized, so of course right after
church we went to their house! This lady, marinela, had been abused by her kids
ever since she got really old and stopped working, and she got super sick, so
that is why she wanted a blessing. Let me tell you, anoiting oil in spanish is
not as easy as it seems haha. But, it was definitely a spiritual experience for
me having to rely on my companion and the spirit to help me out with what words
to say, and luckily my companion sealed it and gave the blessing so i didnt
have to, but i definitely have some work to do in that area. Anyways, since we
were there, we taught her about baptism, and she was so receptive and wanted to
get baptized last night! Miracle i know! Anywho, for her to be baptized, we had
to have our district leader interview her, and luckily they didn't have any
lessons planned, so they were able to come that day so she could be baptized.
So during the interview, we went on changes to go see if this maria was home
and to see if she wanted to still get baptized. Luckily she was there! Even
though it was me and our district leaders companion, who got here the same day
i did, and we didnt really understand all of what she said, we were able to
convice her that it was the best day for her to do it. Meanwhile, while we are
walking back to the chapel with maria, my companion and district leader are
still in the interview with marinela. Well as you know, we need to priesthood
holders for witnesses, and we only had one. So on our way, I call the bishop,
but just our luck, he was in DF (district federal) and couldn't go. So as I hung
up i said a little prayer to help us out. Right as i finished, we randomly ran
into the primary president and her husband, who has the priesthood! So with
broken spanish we asked if they could help, and they were glad to come (Take
note this is at like 8 at night by now). So we get to the chapel, changed, took
pictures and everything, got in the baptismal font, talked her through
everything, but right as i was about to start the prayer, maria gets super
scared of going under the water and basically runs out of the font.......Talk
about luck. Satan really does work hard all the way. But, i had a thought to
call my companion to see if they were going to bring marinela before I got out
of the font and changed, and luckily they were only another 5 minutes away. So
i just stayed in the font (that is why we didnt get pictures this week of us in
our whites) until they got there, had another small welcoming/talk thing, and
then got her baptized. Marinela (the little old lady in the picture) was
seriously a miracle baptism. Everything that happened with her should have just
gone wrong, but God made it possible without a hitch, as always. I hope that
next week maria will be able to get over her fears of the water, and I also
hope that next week we will have the other 6 along with another family we found
yesterday who is a part member family will be baptized next week. The work here
is seriously on fire!!.
Real quick, answers: Our city where we live is a mix a both
rural and urban, most of the shops are just houses combined with the stores,
but everyone sells something, and most of the people sell the same thing, it
really is no wonder how everyone is so poor here because everyone does the same
thing.
However, all of the outlining cities are very countryish,
very very old fashioned.
For our grocerys we go to a bodega, which is owned by
walmart, so they have coco puffs :) we cook about once a day, sometimes twice,
but we sometimes dont really eat dinner because the members feed us so well for
lunch.
And no i dont know what the name of the falls are, sorry :/
Love you mom!!
Elder Noel
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