Well, another week has come and gone here in Mexico. This week was pretty good. We're finally feeling comfortable in our area, so hopefully in the weeks that come we'll start having more and more success. This week we started out doing divisions with the district leader, Elder Sanchez. He came to our area with me, and I did my best to walk him to death. (We have a kind of big area that's kind of far from everything, so we do a lot of walking.) Other than that though, things went pretty well. We're starting to find some people to teach here as well, which helps quite a bit. We have a couple good families we are teaching, and I have high hopes that they will keep progressing. One investigator in particular, Guadalupe, is coming along pretty well, and we'll see what happens with her in the week to come.
As far as news goes, we had stake conference here this weekend. They said they were going to be broadcasting the Sunday session to our chaple, so we were pretty happy that we didn't have to go all the way to the stake center. But what we didn't realize was how they were going to be broadcasting it. We got to the chaple and realized that they had set up a skype call from the stake center to broadcast the conference. And they didn't even have a seperate microphone or webcam from what I could tell. So it was a bit... impossible to hear what anyone was saying. And then the video cut out for about ten minutes or so about half way through. Needless to say, I've seen better stake conferences. Still, they are trying though.
Other than that, we had a "day of exercise" for the entire mission today. I prefer the name "Sam still hates competetive sports day". We got there, and they had a rotation set up so that every zone would be playing or doing something, and every 20 minutes we changed areas. However, because of how the rotation worked, we ended up playing against the same two zones the entire time. And one of them had about twice as many missionaries as our zone, and about three times as many by mass. So, needless to say, we lost. Bad. Still, it was fun to get the entire mission together for something like this. And we don't have district meeting because of it, so that's good.
That's about it for news for me this week. As far as me being the only american, that is a weird occurance. When I came, there were five americans: me and my MTC companion, Elder Grant, and three sister missionaries. All in all there were 11 of us that got here the same day. Now there are five of us. That doesn't usually happen.
I'm glad to hear everything is going good for you guys there. I can't believe there are only two more weeks of school. I guess this means you've pretty much survived teaching 6th grade. Do you know if you'll have to teach it again next year, or do you go back to fifth grade only?
Ok, that's it for me this week. I love you, and I'll talk to you next week.
Love,
Elder Samuel Long
P.S. I got a postcard from you today, from when you went to deadhorse point. Just thought you'ld like to know that the mail system is still kind of crappy here.
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