Hola,
Well, another week has come and gone, and with it, I'm officially on the downward slope of the mission. As far as what I did the day I finished a year, I must admit that it kind of passed by without me noticing. From what I can remember, I didn't even realize until the day after it had passed. And no, I haven't burned a shirt yet. I don't know where, but a couple of my shirts have disappeared in the last year, so I don't really want to intentionally destroy another one until I get a couple new ones. That's on the list for next month though, when the money comes.
As far as this week goes, it was pretty good. We keep working, but it can be a bit difficult to find people in home here sometimes. Still, it's a beautiful area. Now, as far as my day in the life, or whatever you want to call it, I've decided to use Tuesday. So, we left our house in the morning, and went to our area. We spent a lovely couple of hours trying to find addresses that the sister missionaries left us, with little success. Then we went to the food. (That's how a lot of our mornings end up. More people are in home in the afternoon here.) Anyways, on Tuesday we ate in Ameca, like always, and I honestly don't remember what we ate. (I do remember that on Wednesday we ate nopal and avacato soup and chicharron, or fried pork skin, and zucchini cooked in salsa. It ranks among the weirdest things I've eaten here, but just for the nopal soup. Chicharron is pretty popular here. Anyways, that has nothing to do with Tuesday. I just felt like sharing it.) So, after we ate, we met up with our neighbor, Gibran (it's pronounced like he bran), who is a member and who agreed to help us with a lesson, a guided visit of the chaple. So, we went to the house of the investigator, whose name is Janeth, and then we went to the chaple in Amecameca. We got to the chaple and started out explaining the name of the church. Then we went to the sacrament room, where we explained the importance of keeping the sabbath day holy, and the importance of the sacrament. Then we showed her the rooms in the chaple, explaining what we do in each one. We ended this in the room with the baptismal font. (It's kind of nice that all of the chaples here have a baptismal font, not just the stake center.) In this room we explained a bit about the importance of baptism, and authority. Then we ended the visit in the sacrament room with a prayer. (What I just explained is the general format of a guided visit. (I don't know what a guided visit is actually called in English. Guided visit is the translation of the name in Spanish, visita guiada, or VG for short. If you find out, let me know.)) After the guided visit, we returned to the area. We had an appointment with some investigators that we have been teaching with the senor missionaries that are also working in Ayapango, the Finks. But when we got to the house, we didn't find anyone in home, so we went on the search again. We spent another couple hours looking for someone, with little luck. Finally we went home when the sun disappeared on us. (That's why the highest number of lessons that has been reported from our area in a week, even before we got here, has been twelve. Basically, this area is a bit more difficult than normal, but we're doing our best.)
That's about it for me this week. You are right, Amecameca is pretty strange at first, but it's a good strange. It's a pretty interesting, and surprisingly busy place. Especially in the center there are always a ton of people, in particualar when there is a fair going on. And there are a lot of fairs here. It's almost impossible to get a good look at the center because it's almost always completely full of people selling all sorts of things. But once you get out of the center it's actually pretty calm. I do hope you get the chance to see it in person some day. It's something you have to see with your own eyes to properly appreciate. Oh, and if that mexican restaurant wasn't selling rabbit, it actually wouldn't fit in too well here. Pretty much all of the restaurants in this area sell rabbit. I'm not sure why that's their thing here, it just is.
Well, that's it for me. I love you and I'll talk to you next week.
Love,
Elder Samuel Long
P.S. I still don't know how Mother's day will work as far as calling home goes. I'll let you know as soon as I know. I don't even know where I'll be then, so we'll see what happens.
P.P.S I haven't had Mac and Cheese and Chili here. It's possible to find them for sale here, mostly in walmart, but not too many people eat that kind of thing here. It's on my list of things to eat when I come back.
Oh, I also wanted to send you some pictures.
These are some of our new neighbors.
And this is actually a picture from my last area. This is one of the fun stories I'll be able to tell about my mission. Basically, we got a lovely infestation of some little devils known as pulgas. But you would know them better as fleas. Basically imagine having mosquitos that never leave you, and that get under your clothes, and you'll get a picture of what it was like. A fun couple of weeks that was. I'm free from them now though, so that's good.
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