September 20, 2010

FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it feels like this computer is my best friend cuz i use the same one everyweek. it was the 200th anniversary of mexicos independence on i think the 16th. its hard to really know cuz they do all the celebrating on the 15th. on the 15th we had a huge party in our church it was soo hilarious hahah me and elder smith sang and wore those fake moustaches. there were all these people singing and we did the ´grito´ its way cool its when everyone yells ´VIVA MEXICO! VIVA MEXICO!´ hhaha its hard to explain but everyone just screams its way cool. after that they had food and dessert and drinks and stuff it was funny. i was gonna tell you guys last week but i decided not to until independence day had passed, but i guess that on the 15th of september is when people here like to KILL white people hahaha but...kinda for reals hahahahahah and every year all the people go to the cathedral in centro and celebrate until midnight and there are thousands and thousands of people there and i guess last year someone through grenades into the crowd and a bunch of people died :/ we had to stop working early on the 15th. haha but im still alive so thats good. right now we are just looking for new people to teach mostly. we found some more new people this week that are kinda cool. we talked to this girl named estefanie a couple months ago, then when we went by her house she wasnt there, so we thought she just didnt wanna talk so we havent gone back to her house, but this week we went to the house of that family that got deported and those guys werent home, and when we turned to walk away we saw that estefanie girl walk into her house across the street. we decided to go over there and talk to her so we went and knocked on the door and she opened up and we talked for a while. shes like twenty so we started asking who else lives there with her and she said that she used to live there with her mom and dad, but then they got divorced, then about 2 months ago her mom went to have a surgery and something went wrong and she ended up dying. she said thats why she invited us over the last time cuz she wanted to know more about God and stuff it was so sad so we got talking and we´ve visited her a few times this week. she just lives there with her little sister thats like 18 its way sad but we´re teaching her.... anywayyyys oh yeahh hahahhahahah k so yesterday we were walking to church in the morning and we walked over there with that homeless guy pepe cuz he always just walks and talks with us, so we keep walking and he always just leaves us at the gates of the church but never wants to come in, so yesterday i asked him to tell me a story and he was just talking and talking and i dont think that he realized it, but we walked into the church and sat down in sacrament meeting hahahaha he finished his story and then we were just in there and it started, and he stayed for the whole thing hahah he smells bad :/ but he didnt yell or anything he just sat by me all calm the whole time. he started taking off his jacket and he wasnt wearing anything underneath so i had to stop that, but other than that he was good! he left right after sacrament meeting and went and layed down out in the street again, but that was kind of a cool thing that happened haha i love pepe. my comp is going to guadalajara today for some conference things and im staying here again with elder DOGOOD hahaha and his new comp elder glazier. oh yeah! the gomez family got baptized yesterday! it was way cool. all 5 of them got baptized. the coolest part was that we invited other hermanos to baptize with us, so hermano navarro baptized the dad, tomás baptized the mom, my comp batized the daughter, i baptized the son and the bishop baptized the littlest girl. it was way cool. after that we had to empty the pila with buckets agian so that part wasnt way cool, but it was way cool seeing a whole family get baptized like that again. i think thats....ALLLL...write me tons this week and have fun. love you guys tons! byebeybyebyebye