¡Hola everyone!

¡Hola everyone!

I don´t have much to write about we are working hard here in the CCM to learn spanish. It´s coming along great too! This is the second Pday in a row where we went to the Mexico City Temple Its so pretty. Its funny how easy it is to tell who is a member driving on the bus on the way to the temple, All the members smile and wave so much and everyone else just stares at a bus full of gringos or totally ignores us hahaha. I can´t believe it is already my fourth week here it is going by so fast! The days are long but the weeks are short. Elder Matthews has an eye infection and we get a kick out of making up stories about what happened. Most people believe us when we say he got slapped by an hermana after she pronounced her love for him and he said come back in two years haha but Presidente Bennett told us to tell people "All you need to know is the little girl is safe, the fire is out, and everyone is ok" whenever someone asks what happened haha. Love you all keep writing me!

Your favorite Elder

Elder Matthews has an eye infection thats why hes got an eye patch on

People outside the gate are always blasting their mariachi music. I like it a lot we can hear it when its quiet in class cause its hot so we always have the windows open. 

The independence day is going to be huge I wish that we were outside the mtc wall to see it. I want to try and play the guitarrón (the big fat guitar) The funny thing is both of my teachers and the guy we taught yesterday in our first trc all somehow started talking about music but they all like american music with english lyrics like the classic rock bands more than mexican music. I really like both though

My companion and I switch off playing soccer with our district and lifting weights during gym time and every night we do 200 or 300 pushups or lots of abs.

I was bored on the bus so i just took a whole bunch of random pictures so you guys can see what mexico city is like

Mexico City Temple

Heres two pictures from today Ill send more next week on a better computer since i cant see what ones im uploading until i select it on this computer

For halloween we just walked around to the other missionaries casas and trick or treated but everyone was only giving out what they didnt want like youd expect haha thanks for the pictures they look good. Im writing in my journal everyday or every other day when theres not much going on. I added all those emails too but i dont have  much time to write a big email and theres not alot for me to write about to everyone so my group emails are going to be really short at least while im here in the mtc. did anything happen with her thimble of salt? good deal with katie hahaha. I cant find my patriarchal blessing i think i forgot to bring it but i dont think i need anything else except pictures and treats. at least elder matthews says he needs treats, hes gluten free so occasionally they dont have a meal he can eat so he just gets fruit for all his meals. 

We just got back from the temple it was really cool I listened with one ear in the translating thing and one out to try and understand but the whole veil part had to be done in spanish it was neat next time ill do it all in spanish. I bought some cool looking scripture cases for my spanish scriptures at the store by the temple and found the missionary library for only 87 pesos instead of 350 like it is at the tienda here in the mtc so i bought that too but they were all out of cool ties so hopefully theyll have some cool aztec looking ones next time. I think the next time we go is either next week or my last week but i dont find out until the day before. Its also been raining all day so the streets are all flooding through all the street the cars tires were like half under water and everybody drives a small car or a moped so it was crazy. there were lots of people out today with skull painted faces though for dia de los muertos it reminded me of coco but that was the only part similar no orange petals or anything haha. Thanks for everything mom I'm doing great here! I should get a haircut soon though my hair is growing back really fast. Love you!

I like to call this piece "we are all steak"