The computers here
are all older. So I don’t think I will
be able to send pictures until my next area.
I don’t know if I’m transferring yet or not. It isn’t easy to use a computer here. We have to go to this one store where they
have 10 computers. People just come and
pay to use them. Very few people have
computers in their homes here. It is
also funny because there are whole areas here where people just go to pay to
play video games. It actually looks more
fun than playing in your home. There are
always tons of people to play with.
Mom, I am very proud
that you gave away a Book of Mormon. The first week or so contacting was
definitely the scariest part of the mission.
That is really sad
that Lisa’s niece had to go home from her mission in Mexico City. At least she was well enough to go state
side. I guess it's a really big problem here
with American missionaries that their stomachs start bleeding. My mouth started bleeding the other day
because I accidentally bit my cheek. My
companion started crying. I guess that
the food here sometimes messes with Americans stomachs so badly that they start
throwing up blood. My companion makes me
eat yogurt every morning though. The
yogurt is supposed to help. I guess one
of her companions already went home for that.
So she doesn’t want it to happen again. This week I have been great health wise. I think it was because a lot of people were
out of town this week for Dia de Los Ninos, 5 de Mayo, and they had spring
break for two weeks. So the bishop’s
wife fed us every day this week. She
would just give us peanut butter and jelly or frozen pizza. She was sorry about it but it was honestly
the best thing ever because you start missing things like that on your mission.
Anyway the second
counselor has face time. Since we are
eating with them on Sunday, they said we can call you guys after we eat. So church is over at three for us. Then we will eat so I will probably be
calling around 5:15pm. I just have to
figure out how to call you guys by face time.
The second counselor’s
family is one of my favorite families to go to because they are so funny. The
wife loves to sing English songs. She
sang one for me and she was saying, “a won da won, a won da won.” It
took me awhile but I realized she was singing, “How Great Thou Art, How Great Thou
Art.” It was the funniest thing ever :)
Oh I got the letters
this week from Grandpa and the kids from their family home evening. They were
very funny. My district leader was
reading Tyler’s letter and he said, “awe, is this your littlest brother?” Nope that’s my 16 year old brother. He just started laughing so hard.
A bad story from this
week was that I accidentally blew up a pigeon! So we left the window open one day because it
was super hot and there isn’t any air conditioning. Then the next morning I went to turn on the
furnace. You have to hold down the gas
and use a lighter to light the inside.
Then it kind of explodes with fire inside. When I did it though, all of
a sudden tons of burnt feathers flew out.
Then a pigeon fell out the bottom....It was definitely one of the
grossest things that I have ever seen.
So sad.
Oh another funny
thing that happened this week involved my companion. One of the things that
brings my companion more joy than anything else is confiscating investigator’s cigarettes,
coffee, tea or anything else they have against the word of wisdom. So on any given day she will have tons of
things in her backpack. We were at a member’s
house though and everything fell out of her backpack. It was so funny because all she could think to
say was, “uhhh… this isn’t what it looks like.”
She taught me a great
way to help sunburns though. I got a really
bad sunburn the other day. That coffee isn’t
good for drinking but if you make a paste out of coffee grounds it helps
sunburns a lot. The other day I got
blisters on my face from the sun. It was
super annoying because I put sunscreen on three times a day! But my companion put the coffee on my face
before I went to bed. When I woke up all
the blisters were gone and it was just a little pink. She is a miracle woman J
One of my favorite
things about México is the panderias. They
have them all over the place. It is
fresh bread stores that are super super cheap. At first I was amazed at how expensive it was
because we bought 2 cinnamon rolls, a loaf of bread, 15 rolls, and then 4 of
these pieces of bread with caramelize sugar all over them(they are the best). When we bought it, it was 40 pesos. I was like $40 dollars just for that! Then I realized that was about equal to $4 in
the US. Also I have grown addicted to chili
here in México. They put it on pretty
much everything. At the beginning I
hated it but now that’s the first thing I buy in the stores. The best is when you buy a mango. They will cut it down the middle with their machete
and then they put chili powder in the middle. Also pretty much every succor here has chili
covering it. My favorite is cucumber
with chili on top.
I have become a
little addicted to the tiendas here too. There is a tienda every 10 feet. They don’t
have a front you just walk in, choose something, pay and walk right back out. To buy a ice cream bar you just walk in give
them 2 pesos which is about 20 cents and walk right back out.
Oh another crazy
thing I learned this week. Last year in
the mission there were only 18 hermanas. As of right now there are 74 hermanas in the
mission! Anyway I am going to see if I
can get the front person to send pictures for me. I will see if it works!
Love,
Hermana Jones
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| Hermanas in our zone |
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| Our whole zone. The Elder on far right is from Peru. |
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