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I completed one week in Mexico!! Campeche is really good. Our area has lots of hills and lots of neighborhoods. It is very hot all day and all night. But the nice thing about Campeche is that a nice breeze comes in from the ocean in the afternoon and kind of cools down, but then it gets really humid but it is nice. I have heard that in Merida it is way hotter and no breeze.
I love telling people that just last week, I was in snow!!!
The center of campeche is really pretty. It is closer to the ocean and the buildings are very pretty. We visited the center of Campeche when we went to go watch Conference at the Stake Center. Sadly, I only listened to one session in English. I could only understand some things... but I am sure it was good. I loved how the Orem Institute sang in one of the sessions!!! I definitely recognized some people (Julie Riding!) so that was fun. Way to represent. The last session I watched in English! I liked it a lot. I liked the talk about where our treasure is our heart is also. It{s so important to remember what really matters in this life!! It especially rang true for me right now because the people in our area really have so little. Lots of houses are just cinder block homes like the ones we built in Mexico. A lot of homes are less than that. They don{t really have many chairs, they usually have to go find some in their yard when we come teach. There is lots of garbage in the street. So it is just a very different scene. But it is very beautiful. And we have the gospel! I don{t know what else we need!
We found someone to teach last week and he was 104 years old!!!! He looked 70 though. He said his secret was fruits and vegetables. I believe him. The people we teach and the members are so awesome. The kids are so cute. For the most part, I don{t understand what is going on. I can speak ok Spanish during the lesson. But if they respond or ask me a question I just look at Hna. Martinez haha. After every lesson ( after everything) I always ask her, ¿que dijo? which means, what did they say? Its my most frequently used phrase haha.
I am probably the tallest person in all of Campeche. Haha everyone is so little. One of the Hermana missionaries we met at conference said that I am the first "real american" in Campeche. (She is from California, but Mexican). So that is interesting. I liked meeting her because I could speak in English again! Woo hoo!
Today for p-day we washed our clothes (by hand in our little sink in our yard) and cut my own hair! That was fun. I felt like Mulan when she cuts her hair with a sword.
Something that the people do is when women greet each other they kiss each other on the cheek. I was so awkward doing it the first day haha. Lots of people are just super nice and on Saturday tons of people gave us food haha. Usually that doesn't happen but someone gave us tostadas, someone else gave us apples, someone gave us some tortillas, and one of the families we taught gave us these little mango pop things. The food here is pretty good! Although one time a member gave us a chicharron, I still don{t really know what it was but just imagine a Styrofoam sheet of crispy something. I don{t know how to explain it but I ate the whole thing to be polite. It was huge haha.
Remember to pray!!!! We pray all day and it is the best. It is so apparent that we could not do this work without the Lord. The same goes with life as a whole. We could not endure to the end and enjoy our lives without divine help.
I love you all!
Have a good day!
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