hello, my family!!!!!! and others that might be reading this,
well I'm glad that people are taking my advise and writing the poor sister missionary in the mtc. it really helps a person from not going crazy in that small place.
so the weirdest thing just happened. our mission just received dvd players... i see so many problems with this plan because our mission already suffers from missionaries not following a lot of rules. also the fact that we are in Mexico and Mexico is number 1 for pirated movies (from what i understand that is). sorry i know i didn't know how to spell well before the mission and now it is even worse hahaha. so from what i understand, all the missions in the world are getting them but who knows that could just be a rumor. it seems that the church trusts us missionaries a little to much.
this week we had interviews with the president. he was actually on time to the interviews this time (the last time he didn't show up until like 5 or 6 and they were to start at 3) so we were happy because it let us go to our late appointments which were the most important ones of the day. we keep talking to less active people and keep hearing the same thing. that they're not ready to come back and that they really don't have a reason for not going to church...their just being "lazy". i really don't believe that. sometimes they just don't want to tell us what is the real problem. also sometimes we find out that they don't want to go back because they are going to another church and they don't feel like loosing all their friends from that church. i don't really like that response because it always leads us to telling them that if they don't come back to the only true church of God they will not see there Father again, and then they get mad. but i like the times when we talk to them, share a scripture, and they feel the need to come back to the church. it's really the coolest.
so mom wants to know what we do on Sundays and what types of food i have eaten and also what i haven't liked.
so Sundays all we really get to do now is wake up, plan for the week, study, maybe pass by our investigators if we have any, be at church a little before 12, then maybe teach the gospel principles class if our mission leader didn't show up, then sometimes we may also teach the priesthood lesson if the elder's quorum teacher hasn't shown up, then after church we go the the sisters house to eat. once we're done there, we go back to the house to change our suits and pick up the PMG for district meeting. our president changed everything to sunday for some reason it doesn't make 100% sense to me because sunday is a great day for preaching. oh so that is basically my sunday.
so some of the foods, well beans and tortillas are a given
but some foods i love green enchiladas, discada, gorditas, tacos de barbaqou (when they are not sold on tricycles, that's just to dangerous for me) also the carne (meat).
some that i don't know if i don't like but most won't like: tripas, and menudo, i haven't tried them but i don't think i will be liking them because i know what they are made of hahaha.
something cool that happened and really shows how important going to church is. this week some people broke into one of the churches here in Mexico and stole a lot of electric wiring 3000 dollars of it. so the stake called the area authority to ask what he should do and they said do everything possible to make sure that the church would be ready for Sunday meetings. so in one day the church fixed it all and it cost the church about 5000 dollars. it's crazy that the church would do that and also shows the importance of going to church. yet people here have all their really lame excuses on why they shouldn't or can't go to church.
also i forgot to mention that i have realized how important an education is from living here in Mexico. they drop out and start working in all sorts of low paying jobs thinking that that job will be fine for the rest of their lives. in my opinion it's not the smartest idea because they have a lot of problems because really no one here in Mexico is educated. also it makes me laugh that people complain about paying 500 dollars for college when in the states that would only pay for your books.
love you all and i hope that you all have a great week.
love ELDER PACK
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