December 9th 2013
Well my area is one of the nicest in the mission. It´s several miles by several miles and it´s very easy to get lost or to not be able to find appointments because many of the appartments aren´t numbered. We missed like 10 appointments this week because of this. We finally got a cell phone so that helps. We still don´t have beds. It´s really warm during the day here but it gets really cold at night. I wear a coat in the appartment all morning to warm back up haha. I ate cactus covered with cheese this week. It was weird but good. Most all of the food here is good. Especially the tacos from street vendors. I´m sorry to say it but they put our tacos to shame. Dad would be in heaven. There are a lot of people on drugs here. The use household products to get high and it really messes with their minds. That´s why I say there are crazy people. I feel sorry for them. We encountered a group of teenagers doing this a few days ago and we tried to concince them to stop. All they did was offer us cigarettes and laugh at us. There are a lot of people like this. I really is sad. I guess it´s a lot worse in the poorer areas of our mission. We have to be in our apartment by 9 every night instead of 9:30. Rarely if ever does anything happen to missionaries but the president of the mission says that it is safer this way. I´m glad that Curtis is in the MTC. I hope he enjoys it and I´m glad that John and Jackie sold their house. I got an email from Aunt Becky this week, but I don´t know if I´ll have time to write back today. I will next week though. I´m sorry about Brother Wellard. That´s really sad. I don´t know how people can live without a knowledge of the afterlife either dad. I know for a fact I couldn´t handle it. My Spanish is not really progressing. I feel like it was better back at the mtc to be honest. I hardly ever get to say anything in lessons and that doesn´t give me much opportunity to practice. My companion and I are going to work on that though so that I can participate more. I love the members here. They are so kind. They would do anything for us. A lady that isn´t even in our ward wanted to do our laundry for us at here shop for free. People always give us food too. I feel bad because some of them have so little, but they do it because they believe that they will be blessed. We watched the Christmas Devo. last night....in Spanish. Sooo...the only thing I understood was the songs. I´m glad I was able to understand them though because I love songs so much. I miss you all. I wish I could be home for Christmas with all of you. In two years I will be. Which I guess isn´t really all that long when you think about it. Thank you for praying for our investigators. They are hitting a lot of opposition so all the prayers in their behalf will help a lot. Sorry I kinda all scrambled. I tried to answer all of your questions but I may have missed some. BTW P-day is different a couple times in the next month or so. I´ll try to let you know more details next week. I love you all. Elder Schow
