¡MÉXICO!

Another week in the mexico puebla norte paper company. Sorry for the bad introduction, but sometimes i just feel like my life is the office.

This week we saw a lot of success and some pretty hard setbacks. On Monday all of the new missionaries came and it was awesome. It was so nice to not be in their shoes and to actually know what i'm doing here. it made me think a lot about how almost a year ago that was me coming and i was like "whoa i want to be one of those cool secretaries that can speak Spanish and knows how to buy tacos someday" and i'm glad to say that the day has finally come. We got to help train them a little bit and mostly get to know them and help them feel comfortable here in the mission. 

Then that night all of the missionaries that were leaving for there houses stayed the night with us. Elder Neff and I were in charge of taking them to the airport, so we basically didn't sleep because we had to be up at 1:00 am to get ready to go to the bus stop and then to the airport. Tuesday was one of the longest days ever. So we got up at 1 to get ready to go to the bus stop and take the bus to mexico city. When we got there we got elder Voci through terminal one (he was my companion my very first day in the mission and i was his on his very last) then took a taxi over to terminal two and got the other Americans through. We had about 4 hours of break time in between sending off the Americans and the Latinos, so once we got the Americans through we were ready to rest for a little bit. President didn't let us go to the temple :( so we were about to sleep when we get a phone call from President saying that an elder and sister missed their flights. So, we had to go find them and help them change their flight so they could still go home. We found out that they didn't fill out the mandatory immigration cards, so when they tried to go through the gate the airline wouldn't let them and they had to fill out the card so they missed their flight. After that all of the Latinos showed up and luckily we were able to get them all through without any problems. So as we were finish up with the Latinos we got another call from president and he said we could go to the temple, but only to buy a rock for a missionary who had to go home a couple of days later for medical reasons. We took a taxi through down pouring rain and mexico city traffic to get to the temple (one of the coolest taxi rides of my life) and were soaking wet by the time we got into the visitor center. We ended up buying the rock for the elder and got to spend a little bit of time in the visitor center. I found the sisters who gave us the reference for Claudia and Teresa (more on them later) and got to talk to them and thank them and it was a good tender mercy. It was hard being at the temple, but not being able to go in, but we just had to be obedient to what president said. Then after that we finally made it back to Puebla.

We have been visiting Claudia and Teresa this week, but mostly just with Teresa and Jesus, Claudia's son, because they are home all day. Jesus always amazes me each time we go over. He is 9 years old and has scriptures marked in his Book of Mormon about faith, baptism, the atonement, etc and every time we show up he is watching the living scripture Book of Mormon cartoons on you-tube. He is also sharing the gospel with all of his friends at school and family members, so he is basically a better missionary than we are. Teresa is also progressing really fast and is definitely going to be ready for her baptism. Claudia on the other hand basically broke my heart yesterday. She said that she talked with her husband and that they decided that they aren't going to get married until the start of the next year and i was just destroyed. Then we asked her what she understood about the law of chastity and she knew what it was all about, but didn't think that it applied to her. We left her with Alma 39 to read to hopefully help her understand the importancia of this commandment in Gods eyes. 

On Thursday we were also blessed with a huge miracle. We finally got to visit a family of 3 siblings (the parents are never home in mexico) that we have been trying to visit for along time and they are awesome. They all accepted baptismal dates and are excited to learn more, so i cant wait to see how they progress. God is always willing to bless us with miracles, but sometimes they don't always end up how we expect, so we will see where this one goes.

Today is a big Mexican holiday (I really don't know which because i just haven't gotten around to asking) so we have to be in the house by 7. Last night our stake had a huge party but the mission president said none of the missionaries could go to the noche mexicana, so we just had to take the people we are teaching and drop them off at the door.

Ahora bien no puedo escribir ni un céntisimo parte de las cosas que han pasado esta semana. Entonces es suficiente a decir "esta semana fue buena."

Adios

Elder Warburton

No pictures of mexico city because i forgot my camera 

 

Elder Warburton

México Puebla Norte

 Bowling for Elder Neff's birthday

Pampas a Brazilian grill where they bring out meat on swords.

The cooler noche mexicana party

Cooking with hna Teresa. She is just like grandma buck and is always worrying about us and giving us food, but she speaks Spanish