It sounds like you guys had fun at the reunion. It always feels like a bit of a culture shock, to me at least, when we go right from spending time with dad's family to spending time with yours. Don't get me wrong, I love both sides of the family, but they are very different. Still, I'm glad you got to spend time with all of them.
As far as things here, things are going along about the same. We had interviews with President Crickmore on Saturday. We were able to do my entire interview in Spanish, which I hope is a good sign. The thing with Spanish is that, at times I feel very comfortable with it. But at other times I'm still convinced I don't actually know it. The problem is that, like english, there's more than one way to say things. So when people say things the way I know, I'm fine. But otherwise, I sometimes get a bit lost. Still, that's part of learning a new language, and I feel a lot better with it now than three months ago.
As far as the culture here goes, it is pretty different from the US. For example, there was a fair in this area for a couple weeks. There was a ton of stuff for sale, and we walked through it several times, finding things. Anyways, at one of the stores, being openly displayed, were some completely real, totally not fake 50 peso ($5 US) Ray Bans sunglasses. If you didn't know, real Ray Bans cost about $150 US bare minimum. The upside, I now own some completely real, totally not fake Ray Bans. (shhh.) This was kind of a culture shock to me, because that kind of thing is usually kept out of the open. Still, I doubt anyone things they are getting real Ray Bans there. The people here also like to eat until they cannot move, and expect the missionaries to do the same. Like, seriously if you aren't taking at least two helpings, they think you hate the food. So we eat a very big meal with the members, and then much smaller meals during the rest of the day. Still, the food is pretty good here, so there are worse fates.
I actually read through my patriarchal blessing not to long ago, but I will definitely try to remember to read through it often. And speaking of patriarchal blessing, Elder Tadeo had left his at home by accident, and had his parents send it to him. Now, I haven't seen a ton of patriarchal blessings, but his is deffinitely the longest I've seen. It's five pages long. Mine is just about a page and a half. I don't know what all it says, but I do know it said several things about his mission. For example, he knew he was going to Mexico because of it. And interestingly enough, people guessed this exact mission as where he was going. This is mostly because President Crickmore used to be his stake president. He was actually pretty close to their family before coming out here, so he has a pretty close relationship with President and Sister Crickmore. Just goes to show how small the world is sometimes.
That's about it for this week. I love you so much, and look forward to hearing from you again next week.
Love,
Elder Samuel Long
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