So I don't really know what's up with the title of the letter for this week but what the heck, it sounded good so i threw it in there.
This week has been all about work!(surprise surprise) No
i'm kidding this week has actually gone by really fast. I can't believe I
have already gone 2 weeks here......and also can't believe i still have
about 97 more to go! This week has been all about menos activos, or
less active families. We don't have too many new investigators at the
moment so the thing we have been focusing on is getting the less active
members to come to church and feel the spirit. It's been quite the time.
Our ward is awesome though. They work hard, they are willing to help
out, and they are almost always coming to church ready to lend a hand in
a new class or reach out to investigators. Sooo funny story, this week
we have been teaching a family with three little kids and we are trying
to help them get baptized. The missionaries have been working with this
family for about a month now and they are progressing so quickly and are
very excited. They have a baptismal date on the 30th of April and so we
are trying to get through all the lessons. But we were teaching a
lesson about the commandments the other night and we got to commandment
number 7: thou shalt not commit adultery. When we began to explain to them how adultery is sexual relations outside of marriage,
the mother of the family stops us and asks if that applied to them....we
were like ummmm yes. But then she went on to explain how they
weren't ever actually married! haha. So
now we are working on getting the papers ready and the parents married
so we can get them all baptized.
The
food has been MUCH calmer this week (haha) as is to be expected following
last weeks lineup. On a normal day we will have either oatmeal or pb
sandwiches or nothing for breakfast, then each day we have a food
appointment at 2 o'clock and that is usually pretty normal food (normal
being an obviously relative word in this situation): its usually some
type of chicken or pig or cow meat with some vegetables and soup...and
lots and lots o'beans haha. Then for dinner we usually have some type of
pasta we buy at Walmart or pb and jelly or pb sandwiches. So not too
diverse but the pb sandwiches are good after a crazy mexican lunch.
Much to my dismay the chips here are VERY different. The only types that
i have found are the same are pringles and stax. The chips are also
VERY VERY expensive along with any other American food you can find but
believe me it's worth it when you have mexican food all the timeeee. We
are allowed to brush our teeth with the water and rinse/spit the water
out....but if you swallow it you will die.
Nah
i'm kidding but it will make you really sick so we have to boil water
for soup and the rest comes from a giant jug of water we buy from the
store down the street. We use that for water, ice, cooking when it isn't
gonna boil, and anything else that means this liquid is going into our
bodies. But it isn't too bad, they have tiendas or stores on every
corner in the city, usually 2 or 3 per block selling the exact same
things with a little variation, so we just buy a drink there or i carry a
water bottle around with me that we fill up at lunch at the members
home.
So
fun fact, and yes this is a confirmed fact by the locals. There was a
study done of the most dangerous places in Mexico and Puebla was second
from the bottom. So we were like wow why is is so incredibly
safe.....apparently it's because all the family of the drug lords live
here and so nobody wants to mess with them....it's pretty logical if you
think about it -haha- but yah that was a cool thing to find out. This
week we also went to Centro or the central part of Puebla and got to
walk around in a cathedral. It was pretty sick. The whole place had a
very European feel to it with the buildings and I'm pretty sure it's one
of like 7 places in Puebla that have grass and trees. Apparently
the volcano had a mini eruption this week too and the people near it
had an earthquake type experience. Darned if we know anything about that
being from the US -_- They were like do you get those in the US? I said, come see me in San Francisco haha but it's been fun. 
Spiritual thought of the week comes from D&C. Now i know what you're
thinking and the answer is yes, i did finish the Book of Mormon
finallyyyyy, but anyway I'm only into section 6 but i have already
noticed a concerning pattern. In 3 of the sections the lord is calling
Joseph Smith to repentance....yes, Joseph Smith. And all i can think
about when I read this is if Joseph Smith had to be called to repentance
and rebuked by the lord how much more do i have issues with that. But
the relief comes in verse 10 of section 3. It is right after the lord
has rebuked Joseph and told him that he has transgressed. But the
scripture reads: But remember, God is merciful, therefore, repent of
that which thou has done which is contrary to the commandment which i
gave you and thou are still chosen and art again called to the work. The
lord doesn't care if we have transgressed, he only wants us to come
back and be healed again. Jeffrey R. Holland gave a talk a few sessions
ago and said the Lord doesn't care how far away we have strayed at one
time or how rough the journey has been as long as we return to him in
the end. He wants all of us regardless of our current or past states,
and it is no coincidence that in the very next section it talks about
the final harvest and the time to repent being now. Turn to the Lord so
that he can heal you. You are never too far, you are never too lost, and
you are never too deep in the water that the lord cannot reach in and
pull you out.
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