Week 2 in the Mexico MTC

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