Mexico Letter #10

 

MEXICO CARTA #10

Welp... here we are with email #10... ten weeks, wow it's kinda going fast! It's already been 2 months.... it seems like the outside world is going soooo fast though too haha. anyways... onto the letter….

FAM,

I had a great week,, here are some things that happened...

• my shoes have got mold...what can I do? haha
• my backpack broke
• the shower water was cold again... wow it is starting to get cold here! at night, it freezing!!! I'm gonna buy a blanket today, I've been using my towel! Ha!
• That's all the points I can think of off the top of my head.
• 1 more!!! duh.... I got the package from home... but guess what? I forgot to tell you NOT to use FEDEX mom!!! use just priority US postal service, I think. If you sent the other package already via FEDEX... bummer ha. I don't know how much you had to pay to send it to me but I also had to pay $500 pesos, about $45 US dollars, to receive it... haha It was a bummer, there goes literally 1/3 of my monthly money. I haven't gotten it yet, just paid for it, I get it tonight, so I don't know if it was worth it yet.... haha jk, but I'm excited! thanks!

We also had another baptism, which was great, last Friday! His names is Alex, a 9 year old who's mom got baptized 2 weeks before I came. The work is goooood ;)

Okay,  I had a bunch of cool experiences this week, I had the opportunity to give 3 people blessings, and one specifically, the first, was awesome. I walked into the bishops office and a priest was in there and the bish was about to give him a blessing. He turned to me, told me I was going to do it. I was shocked, and kinda scared. I didn't know the things to say, like before the blessing in Spanish, so he talked me through it then just stopped and I went on with the blessing... I had no idea what the boys' reason why or what was going on in his life before I gave the blessing.  I just kept my mind blank, said whatever came to my mind, struggled to string the words in correct Spanish, closed it, and the kid left.  I was wondering if I had done a good job or not and the bishop turned to me, and said in Spanish, ¨What you said was exactly what he needed to hear. You didn't know why he needed a blessing, but I do. It was perfect.¨ It felt really cool.

We found a family! YEAHOOOO!!! I have been praying sooo hard to find a family!!! We were walking by on the dirt road and I  was looking at this house on the corner, and when we came to the front of it, there was a lady washing her dishes. We yelled, buenos tardes and kept walking. About 20 seconds later, I stopped and realized we needed to go back. I quickly made up an excuse that would help me start a convo... it was lunch time, I was just going to go back and ask her if there was a place that sold tortas that we could buy for lunch... so I went back, the convo about food places near by turned into the gospel and we set an appointment for Sunday, yesterday, and taught her and her 2 daughters.  The father works all day every day, except a hour at 5, so we hoped to catch him, but he wasn't there. We went with 2 young single adult girls in our ward, one who is leaving on her mission in 3 or 4 months. As members. they really helped—I don't think the lesson would have worked if they weren't there. I have realized how important members present during lessons are!

Wow! We have a lot planned to do this week. First off, its daylight savings this Sunday! One more hour of sleep  ¨the celestial kingdom joy¨!! We are building a house! I am stoked! and also we put together a Noche de Barrios, like a big ward FHE at the capilla on Wednesday that is going be a giant reenactment of Lehi's dream. I am veryexcited!  Also I have a few divisions, or exchanges. We have a HUGE day tomorrow with citas, we found 4 new investigators on Saturday alone. Things are just going good, and I am happy ;)

I loved the  mail I got last week! Jared Lisa and Laura Matt, you guys ROCK!! I loved that thanks, all the drawings/notes are posted on the wall in my house. THanks dad for your words of wisdom and mom your warnings of health risks, I understand the danger of Denga, we´ve given many blessings to members this past week that have it, including the Bishop and Sandra Luna ha. Also got a package!!! ;)


Pics: I play soccer with my district and some other Mexian guys that are there every p day at 6 am, it's such a blast. Its like a cement hockey rank, so you can play off the walls and stuff,  its bien potente, I love it. So, that's our playing field! Ha!

I love you fam, more next week! Have a good halloween! andTtodd and Annie—have a happy birthday, I can't believe Todd is gonna be 17...wow.

LATERRR!!
-Elder Connolly