Lexie - July 21, 2014

Hola! The week flew again. It's crazy how fast they go when the days feel like eternity sometimes lol. This weeks hard day was Wednesday. I felt like I was melting I had no idea I could sweat that much! Teaching in the middle of the week is always harder because people are working. Weekends are way busy and filled with lessons. Alrighty, here's all my weird stuff this week. I decided to start a reward system for drinking water becuase I don't drink enough. So everytime I drank water I got an orange tic tac! Well... that didn't last long. Pretty soon I was just downing tic tacs like water. I think I have an addiction. Tuesday was really long but really great. We had our first conference with the new mission president, Presdient George. He's really great to listen to because his spanish isn't very good right now so I can actually understand him lol. I've done really good here with staying happy and not acting like I miss home to much but he started showing us pictures of his dairy farm and I was about going to cry looking at pictures of cows. I don't know what that means but it was way weird lol. His wife doesn't know any spanish and you can tell she feels really uncomfortable but it will come and I talked to her a lot. Oh so I recieved a dear elder from Tyrel at the conference! That's about the funnest thing ever to get mail here! It probably costs a little but if anyone wanted to send a dear elder my way I wouldn't mind a bit! I taught my first english class this week lol. It was with a kid in the ward named rodrigo. I taught colors, family, and how to say I like and I have with these things. It was really fun and he's really smart. Some of the teenagers at the church kind of observed and my companion talked to them about bringing a non member this week and some of our investigators are coming this week I think. So hopefully more people on Tuesday. It's pretty fun. Ok so Tuesday night I believe it rained like CRAZY. Oh my gosh it was a down pour lol. I'll send a picture. So much water. It hasn't rained at all except for a couple times at nigth while i've been here which is really weird for this time of year. So I guess the clouds just opened. The roads were like rivers! Oh and I was really tested with food this week as I ate a sub sandwhich with everything on it. Heavenly Father is blessing my taste buds of my gosh. I could never have done that at home. But all went well. I have a mosquito bite in my armpit and I don't even know how that happens so that's super comfortable! I taught my companion the frase "food baby" this week lol. Apparently "comida bebe" is not a frase in mexico. She was laughing so hard. But everytime we leave lunch with the members I feel like I'm going to explode. And then we walk in the 100 degree weather up a mountain. I feel so sick for abuot 20 minutes everyday I swear haha. Last but not least of the crazy things this week I had to speak in church! A whole stinking 8 minutes in spanish. I about died. But I decided not to be nervous because everyone knows my spanish is awful haha. So I smiled lots and talked and now it's over haha. I'm sure it won't be the last time! That's all the interesting things this week! It goes by so fast. I wanted to send a quote that I got from my teacher in the MTC that I read this week and have decided is really awesome. "Christianity if false is of no importance and if true is of infinate importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." -C.S. Lewis. Isn't he wonderful. I think this quote is amazing and every day I'm realizing more and more how lucky I am to get to focus on my Heavenly Father all day long. Without distraction. When I get home I'm going to make sure that the gospel is the center of my life because the time we have here on earth is so little. The really important thing is the eternities after. I've been listening to a song this week that says "It's not about a worldly climb, it's all about His design" I love this. And I'm so grateful to be here in Mexico learning and growning in the gospel and sharing that testimony with everyone that I can. Contacting is much easier now and I can just walk up to anyone, sounds more like me huh! Hope everyone is doing great! Love you all!