Week 11 - Sunny Acapulco

...In Acapulco! We're down here for the Interina for all the newbies. We would usually have Interina in Cuerna, but since most of the newbies are in Acapulco, the church figured it would be easier to send us all to Acapulco! So we're here. I literally got off the bus 20 minutes ago, and now we're emailing. So I have no pictures. It's incredibly hot and moist all the time. Like getting a hug from someone who just ran a marathon and they're not letting go. It's a bit strange.

The beachfront in Acapulco

Speaking of pictures, I can't send you any this week, either. Pretty much every good ciber is closed, or full of other missionaries, so we had to go to one where all the computers have viruses. It's pretty rough, and I apologize in advance. Next week for sure.

So, this week has been really weird. We've only taught maye 2 lessons, and the rest of the week has been us moving houses, and immagration. We went to immigration on Wednesday, ith Elder Paul, the exec Sec., and we bought Street tacos. I idn't even get sick! I can handle Street tacos, but not little ceasar's. apparently. 

We had to change to a different house because our landlord changed. We got all settled in on Saturday, and it looks pretty cool. It has a lot of potential. (Pictures next week)

We helped a family set up some christmas lights on friday, and they were shocked when I told them that we have a holiday between Halloween and Christmas. So, No, i don't get any kind of Thanksgiving here. Unless me and Elder O. Buy our own stuff from an abarrote. It's cool though. Whatever.

I had to speak in Church Week 1. It was pretty rough, and we thought we were the only ones speaking, so Elder Ortiz prepared a really long talk. When we had finished, we found out that there were two others speaking right after us, and we had just taken all the time. Church in mexico is pretty cool, though. Everyone is pretty chill, and there's not a lot of judgement in the building. The real fault in Mexico church is that a lot of people gossip, and it makes investigators not want to come to church. Some people are rude right to the investigtor's faces. Other than that, we just have to remind people a lot that they can't take us to lunch on sunday, no matter how hungry we are, or how much they want to feed us.

I also have to play hymns in church every week until I'm transferred. I'm not amazing, but I get better every week, and I'm the best they have.

We see the district a lot, because We have district meetings every week, and because Elder Ortiz is the District Leader. I'll try to get a picture with them next week. The zone, we also see a lot of as well. My zone is the Cuernavaca zone, and I am the only newbie in it. We have the Secretaries of the misión office, as well as our zone leaders. I see our zone whenever we go to the offices, which is quite often. We went bowling as a zone a few weeks ago.

Not many people speak English, but when they do, it's because they lived in Texas of California, or Chicago for a while. It's like an Oasis of peace when I find someone who can speak English, but it's usually spanish. The Bishop served in the U.S. spanish speaking, but he learned English there, so if you coax him enough, you can get him to say a sentence or 2 in English. His wife. who also speaks English, says he's just scared of it, a Little bit.

Well, that's all for now. I hope my email is interesting enough for you. I'll try to send some individual emails to you guys as well, just saying what I can. Love you guys, and see you next week!