How have y'all been doing? Still waiting on some updates, haha, would love to hear from y'all! I've been doing really well lately, hasn't been a super eventful week, which is good and bad. I have felt a lot more confident in everything lately, which is neat. I just really can't believe its already been a month, feels like I got here a few days ago. Its really wierd time wise in here, haha, the days feel like a week and the weeks feel like a day. Its been awesome though! I've loved it (even all of the super difficult junk).
I feel like I'm going to spend at least a paragraph talking about food every week XD, guess its just super important for me. This week though, I decided to go to the Tienda and buy about 10 different wierd candies (all the candy is like 5-9 pesos so like 40-80 cents, love Mexico). Some were really funky tasting but were not bad, like one called Flippy&Mammut, it had some like strawberry "jelly" covered in a marshmallow on a graham cracker. There were ones that were just nasty like Bubu Lubu (I asked its Boo-boo-Loo-boo), that was really nasty chocalate covering a...thing, I thik it was a marshmallow that they forgot to add sugar to, I don't know, gross. Some were okay/pretty good like the Krankys that were corn flakes covered in chocolate. But the holy grail of that adventure was the Choco Retas. They are like bb sized balls of really good chocalate with about a pound of mint flavoring. Each one is like an Andes mint and there are like 50 in each 6 peso bag. I have bought many. I have no regrets.
Oh yeah, there was an 8.1 mag earthquake on Thursday, that was interesting...to hear about. It happened at 11 pm, so we all slept through it, because we are like 650 miles away from the actual source, so there was a gentle rocking here. I feel super bad for the people closer though. It was really bad for them, and I really wish they would let us go down and help them, but no, so that sucks. I kind of understand because bus gas all the way down there would be expensive, but I wanna help.
We started TRC this week, and that was super fun! Essentially, we practice teaching with our teacher everyday, but in TRC you teach a real person not acting! It was awesome, we taught two ladies from upper Mexico City about prayer. I ended up talking with one of them a lot about cooking (because she mentioned she really likes it too) and she gave me a really neato traditional recipe for the good-good corn tortillas that I am super excited to make! It was really neat to actually be talking in 100% spanish to people who know no English for so long, I am no where near fluent, but that really helped raise my confidence in it!
Speaking of Spanish, its 100% from here out basically. During your last two weeks in the CCM it is 100% spanish 100% of the time. They give you these little dots for your nametag which mean "only speak Spanish to me" and "make fun of me if I speak English". Its been really tough, but really fun. I feel like I am learning so much so quickly, its crazy! The Gift of Tounges is 10/10.
My district has been playing a ton of soccer lately for our gym time. We actually played for abount an hour and a half this morning (sorry for the delay in the email). The latinos are all super fun to play with, some are super good, but they dont ever get competitive like most Americans do with sports, so its always just super fun.
Not much else, pretty calm week. Been loving it here though! The people are awesome (some are a little on the "aggresively mormon" side XD, but they are still pretty chill). I really like my district, they are super cool. Being a zone leader has been interesting. The districts in my zone are all awesome though, so its been a lot easier. The Spirit here has just been amazing. I knew that it would be strong, but I honestly feel "spiritually exhausted" basically every night. One verse I came across explains it pretty well from 1 Nephi 1:7 "And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen". Its been really fun though. I love all of you and thanks again for all of the things y'all did to help me get here! Love Y'all! Till next week!
<3 Elder Fox
(My sister Ellie wanted me to send some stuff in Spanish every week to help her practice, so I will try to explain a small story every week in Spanish, but heads up, I'm still learning, so there may be mistakes, sorry in advance)
Como lideres de zona, mi companero y me necesitamos asignar un leccion para la Reunion del Sacerdotio. La semana pasada fue nuestro primero semana, entonces, nosotros no tuvemos el coraje para pedir cualquier otra persona a ensenar. Pues nosotros dicidemos a enseñar. Nosotros no se preparamos hasta la noche anterior, pero hacemos bueno :D. Fui muy nefvioso, pero fue muy divirtido, y yo siento como mi testimonio fue fotalecio mediante la oportunidad.
Pics:
-Some of the candies I had
-The drawing of me and me posing that my teacher drew (she says I look like/act like and have the facial expresion of a cartoon character XD)
-Some really bad pictures of the really cool green parots that are everywhere here
-Table soccer tables in our gym
-The feedback cards from our TRC friends (sorry, to lazy to translate) (One is super sweet)
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