Jared is practicing his Mexican smile...nailed it

the longest legs he's seen on a spider

baptism

tacos al Bistec=steak, onions, fries and a bit of heaven

Hola familia!

 

     Another week that flew by here in la gran misión. This week, we did an activity for our ward, to try to excite them in missionary work. We invited pretty much all the members and a lot of investigators. Presidente Whitehead came and everything. He did something with M&M´s. But it stood for Members and Missionaries. It was clever. My companion and I did another activity called Vender Chocolate. Which is Sell Chocolate. The object of the activity was to get your partner to try your favorite chocolate, and the partner is supposed to give resistence. Like ''I don´t need that one, I have my own favorite'' or something like that. I´m not explaining it very well....but the point is, the chocolate represents the church, and our job is to share our ''favorite chocolate'' with everyone. And they all have doubts like ''I have my own church that's my favorite.'' But the point is, they need to try the chocolate in order to know if it's their favorite or not. I think the activity was good, but only 30 or so people came...0 investigators. We invited and were expecting 75 or so. In other news, more drama in our ward. Our bishop called Presidente Whitehead, and told him that my comp. and I only greet the women of the ward, and not the men. Which is totally ridiculous. But Presidente called us and my comp explained to him the truth. We were trying to figure out why he would say that, and we concluded that it really was ridiculous. haha. But then we found out that our bishop is being investigated by the stake for...some stuff...makes sense why he'd want to shift some drama to us. haha. Our ward mission leader is awesome. He works hard, and comes to teach with us 1 or 2 days a week. Here's a message to every ward in the world, if the missionaries ask for help, references, anything. Please do your best to help them out. Because it's really frustrating not having any support. In other news, we had a baptism this week! Her name is Alicia Gomez Lopez. She is our age, and we found her one day and we found out her brothers were baptized a year ago, but she wasn't. So we taught her and baptized her. Also, there is a food here called chicharon. In english, it's pig skin. I tried it for the first time yesterday at lunch. I was joking in my head about it tasting like a football. Then I tried it, and realized that it really does taste like a football. haha. Literally, just imagine deflating a football, and trying to eat it. haha. Also, there are a lot of stray dogs here running around in the streets. They have no fear of cars, and often run along side them barking about an inch away from the tire. I was in a taxi yesterday going to church, and there was a dog in the road just sniffing around. The taxista honked, and didn't slow down. The dog went to run away, but left it's leg behind....I don't think I've ever heard a more disgusting sound in my life...or a sadder sound when I heard the dog behind us...my comp turned around to look back, but I just couldn't. He told me the dog's leg was just completely broken. It was really sad. Anyways, no mom, I don't need contacts. haha I have been wearing my glasses more because I like not having to take out contacts every night when we are so tired. That's all I have for this week. I have some pictures to send, so I'll get on that. I love you all!

 

Con amor,

Elder Barton