Week 2 in the Mexico MTC
Hey hey
hey!!! How is it going every body? It’s good to hear from everyone.
I love reading all of these letters; it makes me feel like I am back home when I
get all of them. It’s good to hear bout ocean side and all of that
chocolate sounds amazing. I have a quick request before I get into how my
week went... would you message lots of my friends to try and get their
addresses? I have been writing everyone I can, and sending them through the
church mail service to our house. I hope you can tell all of them that I
have mail for them.
This place
is still amazing. Tell hunter and the new kid to bring fly swatters
though. They will be the heroes of their district. Their are so many
mosquitoes here we have started a new game to see who can kill the most of
them in our classroom. I am winning be miles. The other day I killed 16
in one morning. It’s a new found talent.
My
companion elder beach is a really cool guy. He is from Atlanta, Georgia. The
only problem with him is that he is a UofU fan.... we try to avoid the topic of
college sports as much as we can. But really he is a great guy. He
is almost completely fluent in Spanish and he helps me a ton.
My district
is awesome... except one hermana. She is a nightmare,
she is super loud, she flirts with every elder in the entire mtc, she is super inappropriate,
and she can not sensor herself. The other day I accidentally fell asleep
in the computer lab while studying Spanish and she thought it would be
hilarious if she gave me a wet Willie. I was very angry. She has had lots
of conversations with the zone leaders and the branch president but so far
nothing has worked. But, as a district, we are doing very good. So don’t worry too much.
Besides that
though everything is great. I have memorized the first vision and the
missionary purpose in English and Spanish and I am working on heleman
5¨12. The rest of our district is awesome. I have started talking
more and more. And our lessons with our pretend investigators are going better
because of it. I feel like I am getting a little bit better at Spanish
but it is still difficult. Pray for me. I need all of the help I can
get.
I gave a
talk in sacrament meeting the other day. It went ok but I wasn’t as prepared as
I should have been. Presidente Mechado is our branch president, and he doesn’t
believe I assigning a talk to a specific person. He tells all of us the topic
and expects us to prepare a 5 min talk and then he picks who will give it in
sacrament meeting. Dad I think this is a really good idea for what you
should implement in our wards sacrament meeting. It is super intimidating
though. And not everyone prepares. But I will have 5 talks in Spanish
ready for me to use when I finally go out in the mission field.
Our mission
president is Presidente Pratt for colonial Juarez. He reminds me a lot of
grandpa Borup. He was in our branch when I gave my talk.
Ping-pong
is the best stress reliever I have found. I play it every day. My entire district
is about at the same skill level. So it makes things very
interesting. If Daniel has room for ping pong paddles and balls and a net
he would be my hero. We have some paddles but they are really awful and
almost all of them are on their last leg. We only have two balls left. An
elder had his mom send down a whole box and now they are almost all gone.
They do
have a store here and that is where I bought all of my stamps I think I will
buy lots more before I leave. I have never written so much in my entire
life. Its fun.
I only have
a couple more minutes so I’m going to finish up. I rely love this place. I miss
home a ton. I miss all of you guys. But I know that this is where I
am supposed to be. The spirit here is amazing. There are almost 600 of us
here now, all of us going around the world to different countries. I know
that this is the only true church. I love all of you guys
Elder
Weston Burrup
