This week I got to see the more dangerous side of Mexico. Monday night we were in one of the smaller Pueblas around our city walking in the dark and we heard a man call out "elders" behind us. When its dark and you're walking alone and a man calls out elders in the street its a good idea not to stop. Luckily we didn't stop and we had an investigators house pretty close by, so we knocked on the door and luckily the guy kept walking and didn't rob us. On the bright side, we got a baptismal date with this investigator. Then last night (Sunday) we got kind of robbed. We were waiting for the bus and this guy came up and gave us high fives. I was busy trying to figure out if I was supposed to know him or not when my companion handed him 10 pesos and I realized he was there to take our money. Lucky for me I ran out of money that day, so I had none to give and the bus pulled up and we hopped on. Then on the walk home back to our apartment last night, we took off our jackets and ties, so we would be less of a target to rob.
This week I made some new friends with the kids of our investigators. The kids cant talk in Spanish very well and I cant either, so we get along pretty well. My companion will teach some stuff, and while he is teaching ill entertain the kids for a bit until its my turn to say something. Lets just say there are some wild kids here in Mexico.
We met an inactive family this week and they have a boy that just turned 17. We went to their house to celebrate his birthday and we got some good bread/cake stuff. Hopefully we will be able to reactivate him and his mom and convert his dad. We got four dates for baptisms this week. It would have been six, but a lot of people here aren't married. They'll happily accept a baptism date, then we find out they're not married and have to backtrack and help plan their wedding.
We went to a neighboring area on Saturday, Humantla, and sang carols in the park. It was a good time and we contacted a lot of people.
Pirated movies is a big business here in Mexico and I wondered how long it would take before The Last Jedi hit the streets, well I got my answer today. Now every time we walk past a pirated movie shop, The Last Jedi is staring me in the face. Hopefully I can remain strong with this daily temptation.
We also played soccer today for p-day and attached is a picture of the winning team.
Adios
Elder Warburton
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