Caucel- June 9

Buenas!!!!!!!

This week was actually very crazy. I am here in my new area called Caucel 2. (prounouced Cow - Kell). It is super different than my other area. It is really flat and our area is mostly a large suburb and a lot of the houses are the same and there are hardly no points of reference haha. 

"Forbidden Forest- saw a huge iguana!

Unlike Campeche there are no hills, it is completely flat!!! Also it is much hotter, but this last week it was cloudy and rainy and felt really good. One day it just poured rain but we keep walking and it is ok.  The ward here is really big!!! There are 6 missionaries in our ward and I think there are 200 or 300 active members. It is fun.

My new companion is Hermana Delgado!!! She is from D.F. Mexico! She is really great and a really good teacher. She is super different than Hna Martinez haha but I love her tons still.

This week our whole stake had a huge baptism altogether!!!! It was like the story of Alma preaching to the people in secret in Mosiah 18 and they all baptized. We had I think 35 people who were baptized! Woo hoo!!! And one of them was from our area. His name is Stiff (Steve). He is 15 years old and a really good kid. He was super nervous. and he was the very last baptism of all! The whole thing lasted a few hours. It was really cool. Hermana Garcia (presidents wife) asked Hna Delgado and I to help out the people so I helped them out of the font and gave them a plastic bag for their wet baptismal clothes and hna delgado and another elder mopped up the water during the whole thing, because if you can imagine 35 people entering and leaving the font is a lot of water haha. We also stayed a little bit after to help clean up and a little kid threw up in the bathroom sink and I volunteered to clean it up haha. It wasn't that bad, I just put bags on my hands like gloves and it was ok, mostly funny actually because the elders were too grossed out.

By the time the night was over and we cleaned up it was almost 10:30!!!!! And it takes an hour to get to our stake center! There were some other elders but we were the only hermanas left and President and Hermana Garcia were going to drive us home and we were in the car it was really late and they asked us if we wanted to stay in the mission home that night instead because it was too late and we said Si!!!! 

So that night we went to the mission home and they gave us food and we slept in beds!!!! Ah! It was so weird to sleep in a bed. And with air conditioning. Too weird. But so awesome because we stayed overnight in the mission home. Hahaha it was so fun.

Remember that studying the book of Mormon will bring the distance between you and Heavenly Father to zero. This book is so powerful and are words preserved especially for us. They were prepared and hidden in the earth for 1400 years until they were translated by Joseph Smith and now it is in tons of languages and people all over the world are reading it! There are lots of prophecies of this coming to pass and it is awesome to see it being fulfilled. 

It is also awesome to be a missionary here because the Book of Mormon was written in the Americas, so we can tell people that it was their ancestors who wrote it!!! so cool.

I love you all so much! 

Have a wonderful week! 

Stiff who was baptized on Friday! And confirmed on Sunday. Cant forget the confirmation.