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Joseph, this is the best i can get for your birthday, because it takes too long to send a letter and i cant email home later in the week. so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!

so p day will be on mondays. and i found out i get an hour to email, so please do email me, because it takes 6 weeks for any letter or package to make it to me. i am in a little pueblo in Morelos called Cuautla, but i also go to many other small pueblos around here, we have about 10 pueblos in this area. dad, if you want to find my house on google earth, i am on gil muñoz, just below calle real.( sorry i dont have the house name) we are just out side of the city of Cuautla, and my actual city name is Anenecuilco.my companion is so incredible. His name is elder snyder from farmington utah, on his 20th month, has been zone leader, is white, and is a wonderful worker. you dont know how hard i prayed for someone like him to be my first trainer!! he is very diligent with his time, and strives to never slack off. my first day here, the other elders who knew who my companion was, said i was so lucky to get him.

Mexico is definately not how i expected it. it is so tranquilo here, except for traffic and having an awful government, but also very hot and humid. for some crazy reason, everyones house is made out of cement, which makes everything even hotter! everyday, i am sweating like crazy and walking up and down big hills! it stinks, but everytime i say that, it makes me love all this so much more for some reason. everyone is friendly here, and very poor. i love being able to say buenos días or buenos tardes to everyone, and they always respond! i love it here!!!we dont have a mamita, because our ward is big enough to pass us around. the relief society feeds us everyday at 3(a different family) the mamitas are only for tiny pueblos, that the branch cant support the missionaries. the food didnt affect me until yesterday actually, then i started getting the squirts.....elder snyder says he has got some of every color of the rainbow! haha. so far im still brown. speaking of brown, i am getting tanner! haha.

the elders before us didnt work too hard as far as we can tell, the area book was practically blank, and no one was really progressing. the most recent date we could find was back in april.... so we had to do it all ourselves. (of course the Lord too) but so far, we have made great progress! we had 17 new investigators in our first week, and already have 4 with a baptismal date, shockingly, the baptism question is always in the first lesson. i wish i could have realized that while i was in the mtc to practice it more.

we got 6 of our 9 progressing investigators to come to church yesterday (happened to be stake conference) and it turned out to be a wonderful experience. one family is the moore family (gringo name for some reason), the dad is a lawyer who lives in the city, and only comes here every weekend. he cheats on Karina (the mom) and sadly she knows it... she has 3 kids, alejandra, luis, and juan pablo. they all love us, and have been so accepting of the gospel. the only problem is that the dad is a big time jerk, hard core catholic, and still claims to have feelings for Karina.. we are working really hard for them right now. please help pray for them. and all of our other investigators, and also the people of anenecuilco to have soft hearts.

i am speaking a ton of spanish, and elder snyder is so understanding of my innocence. he makes me teach a part or two of the lesson everytime. the members give me a hard time sometimes, because im very slow compared to them, but at least i do understand pretty well what they are saying! sorry i need to get off now so i can still have time to write to the presidente. love you all so much and cant wait to hear from you next monday!

much love
elder facer