thanks for the cleavland update. it sounds like you had a realy good time. i realy miss spending time with my family.
my ward here has an interesting culture to. almost all the member have been members of the church for less than 5 years. and mexico has a different culture in general. every one is less formal about everything, witch i like but sometimes people dont give much thought about how other people might feel about somthing. for example crying babies usualy stay in the chapel. and if you are ever in mexico, be prepared to deal with ridiculous drivers that speed and pass all the time. the only traffic laws are the multitude of speed bumps at intersections and where ever people might go to fast. it works fairly well. thats cool that you got to see kristen and her family. do you have any pictures? ive been running with my friend elder sanches in the mornings. feels great to be able to do that.
my spanish is getting better. i can understand ost things. i heard that president moson promised missionaries that if they read the book of mormon in their mission language, they would be fluent by the time they finished. im in 1 nephi chapter 13 and i already can understand better then i could before. my speaking still isnt verry good. somtimes my comp has to re teach things that i said but it getting better. i can contact people without much trouble.
when i get home ill cook some food and teahcyou how to eat it without silverware. just tortillas. sometimes we get soup without spoons just torillas. there are tortiarias that sell them on every coner. every corner. we only have an electric burner and one pot so we cant realy cook much. its funny the tricks satan uses the create hatred of the church of christ. we got asked if we recieved money for eahc baptism. the church across the street warned its members about us beeing a cult? thats awful. i wish i could show them that scripture in the acts that says if this work is of man it will fail. so dont fight against it or you might be fighting against god.
we found lots of new investigators this week. great week till saturday. the sisters had a baptism first thing, and i did it. but a lady came with her kids. right after the baptism, she said she was going to the store, and she left her kids. we had to wait with the kids for four hours wile we tried to figure out where she was. she eventualy showed up again adn casualy took her kids adn left. then no one was home for our apointments. and no one came to church the next day either. its okay though. things are going well.
today we wnt back to the weathly members house and played socar and stuff. then we went to a beach. its realy touristy. ist cool having mountains right on the edge of the bay but its too touristy for me.
did hilary win for the democtats? if she did youd better buy an asult rifle so she dosnt try to take your bible. or freedom. and a pick up truck to carry it.
it hasnt rained since ive been here. i gues it rains for 2 monts strait around agust. that sould be enjoyable.
half our ward is tourist. there is this one old guy that lives here and gives out 500 pesos to people every sunday. i got it twice. he wont take no for an answer. send some pictures. i should write val now.
have agood week and get dad to type a little next week.
love you.
ben