I can´t believe how quickly this week fly by! My companion says she can´t even believe she has been here a year. I´m sure once I get the langauage it will go even faster and I can´t even comprehend that! I totally woke up to my bed shaking this morning. That was a new experience! My companion says that tremors and earth quakes happen a lot here and I don´t know where this one origionated but I felt it that´s for sure! No damage where I´m at though. Who knows about other parts of the city! So I´m happy to announce that I think I¨m getting a handle on my sunburn and ridiculous amount of mosquitos. The mosquitos here think I taste like chocolate or something becuase my legs look I´m sick. And they are godzilla mosquitos because holy smokes. I´m just red. Twice now I´ve had a little old lady look at me and start rubbing my legs with stuff lol. The other day a member put her home made bug spray stuff on me and last night one of our investigators put vapor rub all over them lol. I looked really nice and slimey! I´m not sure what will actually help because I just constnatly itch! Ok now on to food lol, I am so pleasantly suprised by the food here. Wow. It´s actually been really good. The other day though, we had a member feed us like we weighed 600 pounds. Oh my gosh, the amount of food! The family wasn´t in the room while my compaion and I ate and we literally looked like the scene in the great outdoors when he eats the ridiculously huge steak. I was so physically ill it was like thanksgiving! But I would rather have too much than too little! I also ate tuna the other day and for anyone that knows me, that´s a pretty big accomplishment. Heavenly Father is blessing my taste buds that´s for sure! I started reading the Our Heritage book last week and have like 20 pages left. It´s so good. I think I was supposed to read it early on in my mission because the stories and trials of the saints in that book make me feel like 60 mosquito bites is a piece of cake. It´s also made me realize that these people that risked their lives and lost so many of their possesions and family members to settle in salt lake did this so I could have the gospel. And here I am only giving a year and a half so that others can have the same. My sacrifice of time seems so minimal compared to what the saints gave. I also found something or refound I guess something in preach my gospel that has helped me a lot this week. There was a part that said, Your confidence and faith should be in Christ, not in yourself. Rely on the spirit rather than your own talents and abilities. I like this a lot because right now I feel so unable to help this people. I can understand the main topic of what their saying and share my testimony but really helping is a different story. But I´m going to have confidence in Christ to put words into my mouth. I know the more I trust him and open my mouth the more I will be able to say. We had some great lessons this week especially with Michael who came to church again this Sunday and Glorias family who attended church yesterday also. I´m not sure if I told you about Glorias family but it´s a grandma, a mom, and a daughter and son. The son is 2 and the daughter is 11. They are soooo awesome. I honestly can´t even believe how prepared and ready the grandma. The first lesson she asked a lot of great questions one of them being what happened to her husband that had passed away and never been baptized. My companion talked about baptizims for the dead the opportunity to learn the gospel in the spirit world and she was just beaming. She was so happy. A couple days after this lesson we took this family too the temple to the grounds to walk around and sit in the waiting room. The elders in the area also brough lots of their investigators. The ward mission leader, the bishop, and the temple president all came and talked to the investigators about the temple. It was a really cool experience. How cool that there is a temple right here in Tuxtla! We also had another amazing experience that taught me more about me not being the judge. A man drove by us last week and asked for one of our books. My comp gave him a pamphlet and started walking away and I said wait and gave him a pass along card with our number on it. My companion looked irritated so I asked her what was up and she said he just stopped to talk to us because we´re girls. He´s not interested. I did not at all feel the same. Well, the guy saw us again yesterday and said he wants to meet with us. He said he has a book of mormon at his house that he´s been reading. Wow! Coolest part was the street he saw us on was totally not where we were supposed to be and we were standing there staring at our map. Heavenly Father put us there, no doubt in my mind and I´m excited to start teaching this man the gospel! It´s been a good week and everything gets better every day. Great news I haven´t seen another cocroach in the house! Whoo! So that´s been awesome. I think that´s about it for this week. We got permission to head into the central part of Tuxtla today and we´re going to eat burger king, apparently it´s my companions favorite lol. I hope everyone is doing great! Love you all tons! Oh! one last thing! I´m going to teach english at the church once a week starting on Tuesday haha. Should be interesting. We´ll see how it goes, but lots of our investigators are really excited about it! Let´s hope I can teach english better than I can speak spanish! PS! For all my tumblers out there that read this I would LOVE to see videos or pictures of new skills or skills you have been working on! Hint hint. That would be the best present ever. Have a great week everyone! Love, Hermana Baer
Ok I think that´s it lol, also I need taylers mailing address. For letters and packages if it´s different. My companion has a ton of music so I´m going to by a memory stick and put her music on it for him. So thank you thank you. Also I still need megans email if you would be so kind! Gracias! Hope you have an awesome week! Love you tons.
Te Extraño mucho!
Con mucho amor, Hermana Baer
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