September 30, 2008

This week has been pretty good for me except for a couple of things that are a real downer. Anyways first the questions then i will fell you in on the rest of my week. First I have not gotten any mail since the last package at the zone conference. I think that is the only time I will get mail are at zone conferences, and they are every 6 weeks. I believe that it takes a couple of weeks or maybe not even that long to get to the church office buildings. (aka mission office. Just in case anyone was confused when they read this like I was confused.) Either this Saturday or next I will know if I am going to be transferred or not. I am not sure when the next zone conference will be either. Also I don't think I have any stamps right now,so I can't send letters, because I believe that I sent those home because i thought I would be using international stamps but oh well.
My zone is called Tecamac, and we are outside of the city of mexico, the name of the city I am in is ecatepec in jardins de morelos. So look for those two names. I am not sure which you find. We mostly travel on foot and once in a while we will take a taxi or a combi, a combi is like a well the buses atome but smaller. In which the combi is pretty cheap. My comp has 1 sister who is 14 years old and two older brothers like one is 24 and I am not sure how old the other one is. I think both of his brothers served missions in mexico (he thinks...) My companion loves music, absolutly loves it. He can play the guitar like non other and can play piano also.
I am doing better. I guess it was only two day thing, but I am doing good. It is very cold i the mornings then hot in the afternoons. Also it rains a couple of times during the week and it doesn't rain lightly. The people are nice, they love feeding us too. (at least we know that he isn't starving right?) I am picking up more spanish each day. I asked one Elder yesterday how long it took him until he got the language and he said "that you learn something new each day and it shouldn't end. The secret to learning the language is to teach and work hard everyday." I like what he said that we are to work and learn more each day because it shouldn't end. So yeah a typical day is like this, we get up at 6:30 to exercise and shower and play guitar. Then at 8 to 11 it is study time. To study the language and scriptures and stuff. After that we head out to visit some people if they are home, but most times they are not so mostly we just we just walk around. At 2 is lunch usually with a sister in the ward, and most of the time the food is good but there are things that didn't taste like it should or that I am not us to their culture or something, because they put salsa and other hot stuff. The best is their qusidillas which are just amazing. Also tacos and gringas and trotas are pretty good to. Which most of that stuff is from street vendors. Anyways we get done with lunch at about 3:30ish give of take a half an hour. After that we do some more searching for the less active members till like 6 when we usually have appointments till about 9 to 9:30. Then we go to the house and I write in my journal and Elder Armenta plays the guitar some more so yeah that is a typical day so far. (Wow, that sounds like fun. Keeping busy i see!)
(k so he just rambles about us talking about stuff like his monkey.)
So the reason I did not type yesterday was because we had a zone activity. we went bowling, an ate a lot of tacos at a members house. the bowing was fun, the mexican people are funny when they bowl because some of them don't know how to bowl, like literally don't know how. (and he believes he knows how to bowl? just kidding, he knows how to spin so I guess he does know how to bowl.) It was fun. I also took some pictures of it. It was an awesome group of missionaries. the zone leaders are Elder Adams and Puga, Elder Adam's is from Ogden too, he went to Ben Lomond High I think. So that was fun. And it was packed, like we were sitting on top of each other. It wasn't comfortable. Oh but the food was so good! I had like 15 tacos, okay not really. I don't know how many I had but they were good. We didn't get back to the house till like 8:45 ish. So yeah it was kind of a long but fun. Oh also we were going to have a baptism on Sunday, but the family backed out of it. We were going to baptize the mom and daughter but the dad didn't want them to get baptized and also the mom and dad were not married but they were living together so yeah there were problems and they didn't get baptized. but we do have one on the way. So yeah i think that is it for this week. Love ya!

Shawn