July 12 - FINALLY IN MEXICO

Well, I finally made it to Mexico. It´s going pretty good so far. I havent taught that many lessons to non members yet, which kind of makes me disappointed, but I have been contacting people in the street and getting to know the ward. My companion is pretty cool. I still dont know him that well, but he's super chill and easy to get along with. He's from Mexico City. Im going to try to help him learn english. Theres so much good food here. Tomales, mole, fresh homemade tortillas, its all delicious and dirt cheap too. I think my least favorite part about the area is how dirty everything is. Well, its a tie between that and the fact that our area is separated by this gorge and we always have to go way out of our way to cross the only bridge across it and then circle back around. It takes forever. We played some futbol today with another companionship and a whole bunch of other people I didnt know. Today is our P-day, just like in Salt Lake in case you didnt already figure that out. I havent taken that many pictures mainly just because I dont want to look like a tourist and I dont want my camera to get stolen, but I wll send some eventually. Its really not that pretty, anyway. Just a grubby little city. Although, once in a while you'll come upon these gorgeous trees full of bright colored flowers. Its been raining a lot. Friday, my first day, (I stayed in the Mission Presidents home on Thursday night before going to my area) I got totally soaked. We walk or ride buses everywhere. No cars, unfortunately. The mission president seems pretty cool, and ya theres a few things that are less strict here than in Utah, but all the rules are pretty much the same. I like it here even though I dont get all the comforts of home. Its just a nice change to be in a place where people live in more humble circumstances. It makes you appreciate certain things a lot more. I cant drink the tap water, but my water bottle filter thing the MTC gave me seems to be working so far. I havent gotten terribly sick yet.

Tanner is already engaged?!!! What?!! That was fast.

Thanks for telling me about Grandpa. Did this happen recently? I had no idea.

Im so jealous of you guys, going to Puerto Rico. Marc looks so tall in that picture you sent me. What happened?

I love all the people here, but Im still struggling to feel like Im actually helping them. I dont know. Im trying to, but most of the time I just feel like I dont know what to do or what to say to people. I just feel like Im there and thats it.

Love,

Brett