Elder Tyler Maxwell Jones Week 2

Sounds like you guys are having a blast. Make sure to tell Tina, "she´s a fat lard." That´s amazing that you guys can actually fit both cars in there. I would´ve never guessed that they both would have fit.

This week was stupendous. Elder Creager is from Utah. The Spanish is coming along pretty well. I´m starting to be able to talk fluidly with a few pauses and stutters here and there. We´ve tried talking to some natives and it was decently easy but I think they must talk like babies with us because whenever they talk with one another I have absolutely no clue what they´re saying.

The food here is really good. At breakfast they have this mango yogurt drink that is super good. So I usually just get one of those for breakfast. 

This week was fun. We had a mini plague go through our district. My companion got a lung infection, we had a couple elders go to the hospital and pretty much everyone had a sickness of some kind. I was pretty fortunate to only get a sore throat, congestion and coughing. We went into the clinic for my companion´s lung infection and I suppose I must have been coughing more than normal or have just looked sick because the doctor wanted to look at me. Ended up I was alright, I didn´t have strep or anything. He just gave me some liquid to gargle and some cough drops. However, that was singly the most nasty thing I´ve ever gargled, but it was alright. However, one good thing about it was that they have a ton of Ensigns in the waiting room of the clinic. I don´t know if the one I read was recent or not but it was about Christ and included a bunch of quotes from prophets about him.

This is one that I really liked and wrote down in my notebook. Its by Joseph Smith.

¨The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the apostles and prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that he died was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it¨.

I got to go to the temple last Wednesday. The Mexico city temple is so beautiful. they have the coolest paintings in there. We got headphones to listen in English as well. We also get to go to the temple today. And we might go next week and I don´t know the plan after that. So I´m super excited for that.

This week the elders that first tried to do their laundry ended up with white shirts that looked like they had tire marks on them. So I waited until that was figured out to do my laundry. They have little detergent pods at the store that are super squishy and fun. I got some of those and did a few loads of laundry, I´ve got my whites in the washer right now. 

We get about 100 pesos a week which is about the equivalent of a little over 5$ to spend at the store here. I´ve heard that they don´t make any profit off that store so things are super cheap. So far I´ve gotten a bunch of squishy detergent pods, a Spanish hymnal and they had a set of books including True to the faith, our heritage, our search for happiness and Jesus the Christ for about 175 pesos. I got those books last night and they´re super good so far. 

Sorry you guys are having hot weather in Indiana, Here it´s absolutely perfect. There is rain but it´s always slightly cool in the morning and only gets slightly warm in mid day. Although this week we were on our way to language learning and Elder Creager suggested that we go to the house to get an umbrella. While we were on our way it started pouring and hailing a little bit. We got to the house and got the umbrella but with how hard it was pouring the umbrella didn´t really do anything. So we got to class drenched in water. But it was alright, we dried off. 

The people in our house are doing Christmas in July for some reason. They put an umbrella in the middle of the front room, wrapped it in green paper and put a little foam star on top of it. So there are Spanish Christmas carols every night now which is pretty fun. 

We have 2 people that we practice teaching in Spanish to now as well. We can pretty much go without notes all the time at this point and the lessons are starting to go a lot better than they used to. I accidentally mixed up the word pecado and pescado in a lesson which was super funny since pecado means sin and pescado means fish.

We had over 200 missionaries arrive last night. There were under 50 that came the Tuesday that I arrived. The number of missionaries here is supposed to double by the end of the month. When we first arrived I remember hearing everyone talking in Spanish and not knowing what they´re saying and being worried about how I don´t know what anyone´s saying. So consequently Elder Creager and I have a lot of fun talking in Spanish as fast as we can with newly arriving missionaries.

Elder Creager and I are going to go get our hair cut in about 15 minutes. 

Thanks for writing,

Hope you guys have a great week!

 

 Oh I also realized I never wrote down my line of authority. I haven´t needed it yet but if you could ask someone to send it to me that would be great. Thanks!