September 26, 2013
Hey,
Thanks for all you emails.
First off, the Mexico Temple is beautiful. I think that is now my favorite temple hands down. The Telestial room
and the Terestial room were the same room. The Celestial room is my
favorite Celestial room I have seen. It reminds me of the Aztec architecture. It was the most spiritual experience I have had so far.
The ride to the temple was crazy. The streets have only one rule, if you
have the courage/stupidity to to do it go for it. There were buses
cutting off other buses the roads have no lines so people are driving
between lanes. If you want to go from one side of the road to the other
you just shoot it in one turn. I was scared for my life on that bus. The
city is crazy every open spot on the sidewalk and the parking lots was
filled with little stands and carts selling bananas and auto parts and
other crazy stuff. I am so glad that the MTC is fenced off with a 15
foot barb wire topped fence.
My companion is Elder H****. He is from
sandy. We get along great. The food here is kind of weird sometimes but
most of the time it is good. Breakfasts you have cereal and two choices
of hot breakfasts. The hot breakfasts range from waffles to bean
burritos to spam covered in catchup to eggs covered in spaghetti sauce. Lunch always has corn tortillas, and beans and either rice or
noodles. The meals for lunch have been chicken, beef, or pork covered in
a variety of sauces. The best two lunches the gave us steak on Sunday,
it was thee most juiciest steak i have ever had. It was so good. The
other best thing I had for lunch was today they gave us steak again but
this was more tough and covered in a chilly lime power, we put this into
our tortillas. Dinner is smaller than lunch. It has cereal and a choice
of two meals. The meals are usually chicken or hot dog casserole (gross) or
some shredded pork. We did have pizza once.
The weather can never make
up its mind. one day it is hot and humid. The next it is freezing, but
no matter what kind of day it is it rains. There was only one day where
it didn't downpour. It did sprinkle but didn't downpour. I'm glad I got that
nice umbrella.
Dad i took your advice and took my wallet with me to the
temple. And Go Notre Dame.
Oh i forgot to tell you about my flight. It
was cloudy every where so I couldn't see the ground. On my first flight
to Atlanta I got the middle seat on the middle row. I was also at the
front of the economy section so there was a wall in front of me. My
second flight to Mexico i got a window seat. It was great but is was
still cloudy and I couldn't see anything. But i got all of my stuff back and they didn't check my bags so i got to keep my treats. I have the
window seat on my flight home so i hope that it isn't cloudy.
My first day
was crazy because we had no down time or exercise time. We went from
one class to another. Every teacher we had spoke all in Spanish and we
went to so many orientations. The second day was better. We still had
orientations but there was exercise time. Now we just have classes in
the morning, excercising before lunch and study time the rest of the day. Right now we have one teacher his name is Brother Hopoate (ho-pwat-A). He hasn't been here for two days and we don't know why. The first day he was
gone another teacher came in and he brought his class. His class has
been here for five weeks and he taught them and my class was just
sitting there confused. The second day he wasn't there we tried to learn
on our own, but we were confused and didn't learn much. We taught an investigator who later became our teacher. We have to teach him in
all Spanish and it is hard especially the first day. We taught him five
times.
I sleep just fine here. The room is kind of small but I think that
this is the first time I've slept on a bunk bed. There are four elders to
a room and we each have our own small closet. There are many noises that
sometimes wake you up. These include car horns, police sirens,
thunder, semi trucks revving their engines right behind our house for
minutes on end, fireworks and gunshots. NO LIE.
Our district loves to
talk to the natives and try to have conversations. It helps our Spanish
and no I am not fluent yet. I am far from it.
Our district likes to stick
together and do stuff together. There are eight elders and two hermanas. There is Elder C****, Elder S****, Elder S****, Elder M****, Elder S****, and Elder L****. We live in the same casa and our rooms are right
next to each other.
The MTC gives us a credit card with 100 pesos and
for the first four weeks they put another 100 pesos on the card. I've
spent a few of the pesos in the store of a Spanish hymn book a small
note pad, and some Mexican candy. My favorite candy I've had so far is
called ponch. It is marshmellow gram cracker coconut and cherry filling. I
like it.
I have only run a half mile since I got here. My district says
that they like to run but it is more fun to play basketball and
volleyball.
The area of Mexico is kind of pretty the buildings are really
colorful and they look like they are build on top of each other. It
reminds me of the movies when they show the overview of the city Rio. Speaking of movies, mom, dad you better be keeping track of all the movies I miss so I can have a movie marathon when I get back.
I've met just
random people from my school here. We talk some but it hasn't been people I personally know they are just people from my school. I did meet Tyler. We talked for a little bit. He wanted to tell me something, but we
only saw each other twice and one of the times it was ten at night and we
had to go to our casa and the other time he was late for a class. We
tried to meet up during our free time but I couldn't find him where he
said he would be. Oh well.
I love ya'll so much. I do miss you, but I'm
having fun here. See you in 49 months.
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