what a frustrating week! for some reason our numbers of nuevos, con miembro, and reunion sacramental dropped to an all time low.... it has been really hard to see this, and realize that it could have been our fault. no baptisms this week, but we are preparing one family to be baptized this week. its a mom and her two kids that are old enough. she cant read, never went to school, and has 9 kids.... the husband is a member, but drinks and isnt married to his wife, breaking the law of chastity. so we are going to try to go to tasco this week, in guerrero, to get them married and baptized this saturday. elder snyder has had an ingrown toenail for about a year now, and was going to wait it out for the last nine weeks, but it just got too bad. so we went to a doctor, and he numbed him and pulled it all off! gross but way cool. it reminded me of alyssa when the piano dropped on her toe. but this is super inflamed already. haha.
well since you want to know a little more about mexico, i will see if i can help with that. a two liter of pop, cost 10 pesos, and a 1.5 liter of water costs 9 pesos. its sad that we buy pop, because it is cheaper that water. everyone drinks about a 2 liter of coca cola every day. if we dont see more that three kids under 6 carrying at least one 2 liter back to their house every day, it was very rare.
all food have three esential ingredients, salt, chiles or peppers, and lime or limón. i love the food here so much. it took a little time to adjust to, but it was definately worth it. sadly some people think we are huge gringos, and cant eat spicy, so they make this wierd chicken stuff that is pretty good, and mexican spaghetti, or noodles with crema which they call sopa. i think it will be even harder to come back home, and try to adjust to american food because americans dont have a specific type of food. when you think mexican food, it is always tortillas, frijoles, chiles, y pollo. we have those things in about every meal with a side of crema which is sour cream. they eat it like we eat frysauce. also here, everything is 100% fresh. fruit, chicken, tortillas, everything is freshly made. but in america, its all preservatives and junk. haha. but i still love it! haha.
everyone owns a volkswagon bug. and so many people in the morning need a push start. haha! here it is almost ok to shop on sundays, because that is their way of life. they dont go to a big convenience store and stock up. they only buy just what they need for that specific meal or to prepare for dinner. so if we eat at someones house on sunday, and they run out of drink, they go buy another, even the bishop sent his wife to do that last week..... but our bishop is still a great leader, it has just become very common here...
i sleep pretty well, the weather still too humid and hot. but its fine. elder snyder will never be trunky! he is a champ and such a gread dad. thats what they call an elder who picks up a brand new missionary. i know my geneology for 3 generations! its funny how nice everyone is here. if you turn down food, you are pretty much the devil and they dont forgive super easily haha. so we eat a ton! even the poorest people will buy us a 500 ml of coke if we only taught them a lesson, it is their way of saying thanks. if some busy store owner is working, and we ask him for direcciones, he will gladly stop what he is doing and help us to the best he can. even though addresses are pretty much worthless in anenecuilco.... the house numbers dont mean a thing, and most people dont even know the name of the street just above or below them. only their street.... also we have a huge area to cover. so it can be very hard some times. haha well this is about all the info i have time for today, and hopefully next week i can give you a good weekly report. i love you all!!
elder facer
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