Every corner has a tortilla shop, a Mexican bakery or paneria, a little tiny tienda or basically a 7eleven, and somebody selling stuff out of one of those 3 wheel nacho libre bikes. about one third of the roads are paved, one third used to be paved in the nineties and are now totally destroyed, and one third are just dirt. The most common way to get around is walking, bikes, motorcycles, scooters, volkswagen bugs, and buses. Less than ten percent of the cars here would pass a safety and emissions test in the United States, so I really enjoy when someone offers us a ride and we get to experience a mexican car ride. This week was very similar to last week, still don't have any potential baptisms or progressing investigators. We did meet a new lady though who was really excited to go to church last sunday, except she and our other family we are teaching didn't make it to church. We even insisted on picking them up but they just said, no no no elders we will meet you there on sunday. Frustrating, but good to know where they stand, so we can better teach them about church attendance.
It turns out that I can listen to anything church musicy, and anything instrumentals, like piano guys, or covers or whatever, so I think that very soon I will be buying an ipod, and some speakers. My companion has both but after he is gone I don't know what I will do.
Every day we have basically the same schedule, wake up, get ready study until about 12 then teach until 1:30 then go to Lunch, then go to teach for the rest of the night. We always eat a late lunch and a really late dinner somewhere inbetween appointments.
The great sin of Mexico is this: apathy. Most of the members don't have it, all of the less actives have it, and about half of the rest of the people we meet have it. They just don't care about the right things as much as they ought to. Nobody wants the best, they just want to be comfortable, its very different from the United States, where everyone always wants the best. In my opinion, people here settle for less than they are worth and less than they deserve. It is really sad. But they're are a lot of people here that have this awesome fire burning inside them to share the gospel.
This one lady hermana Ernastina, she is gold, she is always helping the missionarys, feeding us, coming to appointments, she really gets how important this work is. So you all have a challenge from this missionary. Go to your ward mission leader, tell him you want to feed the missionarys and tell him that you want to go on the next opportunity to go with the missionarys to teach a lesson, or offer your house as a location that the missionaries can bring people to teach. (Many times we cannot teach, because we are not allowed to enter the home if there is not a man in the house with us) then become friends with the missionaries and the person you teach, If you are already doing these things, then I give you blessings and love, if you are not, then you may receive my blessings and love as soon as you do. I don't mean to rude, but missionarys need members, we have already had to cancel lessons, because the members cancelled on coming with us. Now I'm not blaming these members, they had good reasons to miss the appointments and I would never expect them to put us before there own personal affairs, I'm just saying there can never ever be too much help in this work. Missionary work, is all of our work, so please remember your brothers and sisters who need this gospel and share it with them. In the name of Jesus Christ and as one called and set apart to preach the gospel I promise you will be blessed for this.
If anyone has any questions please ask away,
Referring to my title, there are literally hundreds of little wild dogs. Most of them probably have weird diseases or fleas, and the movie nacho libre is spot on, the corn, the lucha libre, the 3 wheel bikes, the clothes, the houses that are made of concrete, and sometimes the food too. spot on depiction of mexico.
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