Chicken foot soup blah!!!

This week was pretty good my comp and I worked with the other missionaries and had a Talent Night in the ward that was super fun. This last Friday as well I got the chance to eat pata de pollo or chicken foot and apparently it is rare to get it because the other missionaries that we eat with both have 3 months left in the mission and they said it was the first time they ever had it. Honestly it wasn't that bad, the flavor was fine, and if you like to eat flesh and ligaments this is the perfect thing to eat. I ate the whole thing and was totally fine, but my comp and one of the other missionaries couldn't eat it. With these other missionaries my comp and I are helping them to find a new house that is better and doesn't have a crazy dueña. So the other day we talked with some members from our ward and they said they have an apartment open where they live so we went to check it out. After looking at it for awhile we went to the roof to see the boiler and when we got there, there was a dead cat that looked like it caught fire and died. I have some photos or it and will send some so you can see it. Ok so my comp is the district leader and ever Sunday we have to go report our numbers to the Zone leaders. They pretty much told me I have a 95% chance of being changed this net cycle which I was already sure of, but I will find out if I do have changes this Saturday. Other than that not much has been going on.

 

1st transfer!!!!

Changes coming up and I'm going to leave my first area finally and I have been here almost 6 months. Changes are on the 29th and of course I have no idea where they will send me, but I'm ready to leave this area and meet new people and try to find more people to teach. I have had a ton of fun in this area with both of my comps and have learned a ton in the last 6 months here in Mexico. This last Saturday we had an activity in the church to help us find news and get referrals from the members. We made a little visitors center with a bunch of pictures of Jesus Christ and other things and contacted a ton of people outside of the church to get people to come in through this visitors center and teach a little so that we could find some that where interested in taking the discussions from us. My comp did this in his last area and it had a ton of success and they found a good amount of people that wanted to listen so that's why we decided to do it again, but here. Honestly it went pretty bad and we didn't get any news and the people outside were very rude. This is how it would go down, " Good morning how are you doing? Well we have a little visitor center going on here in the church to get to know a little bit more about us and it's super fast and will only take 5-10 minutes." A lot of these people would either keep walking and not look at us, say they didn't have time, or when we went to shake their hand would jump out of the way and start to laugh as if we had some disease. As well as we didn't get that much help from the members which really hurt us. After all of this it bugged me a little because we didn't get the help of the members and the people in the street were rough, but in these moments I always remember Jesus Christ and how he was the Son of God and people still rejected him, laughed at him, spat on him, and later killed him. I had a good time though with this activity and it helped me practice my Spanish. 

Sick really we have had a bunch of people get sick with influenza here and it has been going around, but luckily my comp and I haven't been sick yet.  Oh my word I have an investigator that is 14 and she has the same face as Madison and almost the same attitude. It is the Mexican version of Maddy for real. Anyways I love you all and hope that you just having a blast.

Crazy lady spilled the rice!!!

Success is finally coming after 6 months of people not progressing and struggling to find new people to teach my comp and I have had three baptisms and we are working with others to get to that point. Sorry I couldn't write yesterday I didn't get any time so I'm writing today. First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABE!!!!!! I hope you had a great birthday and had tons of fun I love you so much and send you my love all the way from Mexico. I'm doing pretty good and I am learning a lot everyday. It's crazy that Gabe is 13 now everybody is getting so big and a lot is changing back at home it's a little weird because I will have 8 months in the mission on the 22nd of this month and it still feels like I just left. 

So in our area we have this really crazy lady that has something wrong with her head, but she acts normal every once in awhile. The other day we had a little ward party and she was there with her daughter and she wanted to help with the arroz con leche or rice with milk. So she put about 15 cups of this arroz con leche on a tray and started to pass it around, but the hermano said it wasn't time yet so she put the tray on a chair. The hermano told her to take the tray back to the kitchen, but when she picked up the tray it caught the edge of the chair and fell all over the floor it was pretty funny. This Crazy lady has also yelled in my face multiple times and for other white missionaries she tells them that they are the father of her kid and one time she said to me, "I have my papers I have my paper to go to the US!!" This lady is bonkers, but she is one person I will never forget.