November 8, 2010

OH. HI FAMILY. its me YOURRRR SON THATS IN MEXICO. first off chapala is soooooooooooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeet WE HAVE TO COME HERE. we have started contacting people on the boardwalk at night time cuz there are a lot of people and its sooo sweet. there are tons of just leetle boats floating out in the water (i have no idea why or how but everyone just leaves their boats abandoned out in the water) and there are piers and waves and palm trees. anyway so we go out on the boardwalk and piers and contact people at night. on tuesday it was dia de los muertos here. its kinda like a mexican halloween. its something that mayan people started wayyyyyyyy long ago and over the years i guess its just turned into something way huge. this is what they do. on dia de los muertos they build shrines of their
loved ones that have passed away, with candles and fountains and statues and pictures and crosses and virgens and just everything that the family member loved. the goal is to make the biggest and coolest shrine and you display it outside your house or out in the plaza. so thats the first part. the second part is that then they go to the persons grave and clean it and put flowers and stuff on it, then they BUY THE DEAD PERSON FOOD AND PUT FOOD ON THE GRAVE FOR THE DEAD PERSON TO EAT AND THEN THEY LEAVE. some people really think that the dead people eat the food so they leave all their favorite food here, and then i guess in the night homeless people just go to the graveyard and have a huge feast! but its kinda cool to see how much they love their families and people that have died. its such a big deal and they spend sooo much money buying dead people food and shrines and stuff like that. something that me and my comp have started doing is on the busses whenever we go somewhere one person gets up in the front of the bus and one person in the back and we make an announcement to everyone about how we're missionaries and what we're doing and say our testimonies. then we go person by person to see if anyone is interested. so we started doing that, then the other day we get on the bus and there was this guy on there singing with a guitar. it doesnt sound that bad, but he sings love songs and at first he sings like enrique englesias, then all of a sudden he goes SOOO LOW like will farrell when he has voice immodulation hahaha! then the other day we get on the bus and we are about to make our announcement and 2 CLOWNS get on the bus and do OUR EXACT IDEA. one goes to the front, the other one to the back, and they do like a monologue thing. they just wear normal clothes and just paint their faces hahaha last week when i bought MY SWEET NEW FAKE ROLEX i talked to the guy who sold it to me and we went and taught him this week! hes cool and his name is hector. we are teaching this other guy named luis
that we met on the boardwalk the other night. hes cool too hes like 20 or 21 and he used to be pretty CHOLO but hes trying to change and stop robbing so much. he has way bad kidneys i guess and cant be away from his house for more than 4 hours cuz he has to do dialisis all the time. i feel bad for him. AND THEN I HAD THE MOST MANLY WEEKEND EVER. listen to this. the family vazquez, well the dad armando asked if we could help him work on the MOTOR OF HIS TRUCK so of course we said yes, as if we had any idea what we were doing. so we get there and he invited us cuz the manual he had about his CARBURATEUR was in english hahahahha. so im reading these instructions and its like `make sure that the valves attached to the nozzle of the pumps are securely fastened to the bolts of the piston valve hoses...rotary....gurder...` hahah and hes like `k so what do we need to do?` hahahhahaha he wanted me to translate words that i didnt even know in english hahahaha i was like `well according to the drawing here...` hahahhaha but we got his truck working and now i know how a FUEL PUMP WORKS! how manly right? so just when i think my MANLY WEEKEND is over, yesterday after church we went with the family aguilera to their ranch to eat again where we went last week and the chickens ate our food. so we get there and guess what we did? WE CHOPPED WOOD TO MAKE A FIRE TO GRILL HAMBURGERS. i feel like the biggest man ever. the hamburgers were sooo good though for real and now i know how to GRILL STUFF. hahah i had my plate in my lap again yesterday and a chicken JUMPED UP ONTO MY PLATE AND STARTED PECKING MY FOOD hahahhaha i love going out to that ranch. the animals are so hilarious. i love you guys tons! thanks for all you do for me and i miss you tons! AND STAY OUT OF MY ROOM MANDY! just kidding thats fine. just dont let fake baby poop in there. that is sooo sweet that its a girl. there is tons of stuff here that i see that i wanna buy it like sweet mexican dresses and leetle shoes and stuff. write me lots this week! thanks for all you do for me! love you guys tons! and next time i write you ill have DIEZ MESES! whaaa???? byebye bye