Cuchi, Cuchi

This is going to be a short email

We did a bunch of stuff this week. We found some people that are super ready to get baptized. We had some really spiritual lessons with them and they said we could come back anytime we wanted.

Sofia and I became best friends after I lost 4 games of Jenga.

And my area is going to become part of the Puebla South Mission. So i'll be here for two weeks and then who knows where i'll go. That's about it because anything else that has happened won't really matter in a week.

Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

This is what the majority of my area looks like, tons of apartments

 Apartments continued

My district 

Sofia and I had a tajin eating contest (basically like a sour pepper flake thing) and this was her face

my face eating tajin

Jenga 2.0

Filling up the water at the local well

Adios Chimuelo

Hello and welcome back to another week of my mission.

I don't have a lot of time, and i have no notes, so we are just going to hit the most important parts with a few pictures (i hope).

Number one: We found some people in our ward that have been to church and can get baptized, so there are going to be some baptisms there in the next couple of weeks. The bishop and his counselors tried coming in to tell us that a 12 year old girl wasn't worthy to be baptized, the zone leader interviewed her twice, found no problem, so she is going to get baptized. I understand a little more why everybody is always mad at the bishopric there.

Number two: I was going to baptize a girl that some other elders in my district were teaching, but then the zone leaders told me we couldn't go to the baptism, so lets just say good thing they weren't man enough to say it to my face and they had to call me.

Number three: I got transferred and now i'm in an area called Almecatla. I'm back in Tlaxcala again, like 30 minutes away from my other area Tule. I was 6 months in Tlaxcala, 6 weeks in Puebla, and now i'm back in Tlaxcala to probably finish out the mission, but who knows.

Number four: My new comp is named Elder Escobar and he's Pablo Escobars grandson. I haven't gotten to talk to him a whole bunch because we were with a member that drove us around all day.  The member is super cool. basically like Parker(Adair), but Mexican.

And that's about it for this week

Questions, comments, or concerns, you can contact me here.

Elder Warburton

Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

La familia Garcia Deolarte. The only family that i took a picture with in Alamos because they are super awesome. When we showed up they were super inactive and in just 5 short weeks we got them active again and on track to get sealed as a family.

This guy is named Jorge and he is a lot like Gabe. He had a ps4, but he is always in trouble so it always gets taken away and every time he gets in trouble we all sang "Adios Chimuelo" 

One last ride with the boys. We always have to burn stuff i don't know why

My new comp elder Escobar and hno. parker adair  

Taco Pizza

Hello everyone i forgot to say this last week but happy 5 de mayo.

The week started out good. After writing we visited a family we are teaching with the ex ward mission leader (we are currently without a ward mission leader) and after he took us out to eat tacos so that was cool.

On Tuesday we had zone conference and it was good. I learned some stuff and it was good to see some people i haven't seen in a long time because i've never been in this zone before. They always tell us that the zone conference will end at 2, but we always get home around 5 or 6 and this time was no different. We missed the food with the ward member and there was a miscommunication, so the relief society president chewed us out, but it was all good in the end.

My comp decided that he had enough sleeping with the bed bugs/mosquitoes, so he asked president permission to sleep with the elders in the neighboring area. So, the first night we tried to get there in a combi (its only like 10 minutes walking, but we were late) and we got totally lost. It was 9:30 and we were wandering the streets not knowing where to go. We found a member and he kind of explained how to get there, but then we asked some police guys if they could give us a ride. They said yes and the whole time we were thinking "this is going to be the saratov approach or were going to be fine" and in the end we got there and we were fine. So, since Wednesday we have been sleeping over there and it has not been very fun. They only have two beds, so we've had to make do with that and basically no one is sleeping and we are all tired, but my comp got permission from the president so that settles it. One night a member from their ward brought us taco pizza and we ate it and Elder Dameron (from Idaho) ended up in the hospital and we all had diarrhea. Then two nights later we got it again. 

We ate with a lady in our ward who does acupuncture and we decided to let her do it on us. She put some needles in our head and in my ankle. It felt like she was moving around the tendon. I think it might of helped a little bit, but who knows. Basically i prophesied that i was going to relive spraining my ankle because every time she moved the needle it felt like my ankle was being sprained again. Maybe i'll go back and do it again though. I don't think its permitted, but its better than taking pills.

As for the people we are teaching. Lets just say we are still teaching them and its hard to find people here.

That's about all that happened this week.

Adios 

Elder Warburton

Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

                needle in my head

            another needle in my head

                          needle in my ankle

                       a cemita from last week

A Culinary Trip Through Puebla

This week on adventures in mexico: it rained, it was hot, and we walked a lot.

After writing last week we visited the lady from Nicaragua and she made us food. It was good, but basically Mexican food just without salsa and the rice was a different color. She also probably smoked like 6 cigarettes in the hour that we were there and she smoked one while she was cooking, so it took a lot of will power to eat the food. 

We found an awesome apartment that doesn't have bed bugs or mosquitoes and it has doors on the bathroom and shower, so that was awesome. The only downside is that the assistants said they were too busy to come and look at it and nobody else wanted to help us, so we lost it and the search continues. It rained super hard that night and we got soaked and depressed, so we bought pizza.

This week we did interchanges with some of the other elders in my district. One of them is from Ecuador (Guayaquil south mission, Megan) and he cant eat any spicy food at all. During the interchanges a member gave us some tostadas of cow foot and rajas that in my opinion weren't spicy at all. He took one bite and said that he couldn't finish it. We also had some good lessons and did lots of contacting. At the end of the day he bought tacos, so it was a solid interchange. 

The next day i had interchanges with Elder Salerno (if you remember my letters from like 8 months ago he is the Argentinian that was also a secretary with me). We had a really fun time and got to visit a lot of the people they are teaching there. At the end of the night he locked me out of the house. Then he let me in and a dog went into the house too so i locked him in the kitchen with the dog and the dog was going crazy trying to eat his food. All in all a good time as well.

One of the members we ate with this week gave us roast beef. Just thought i should throw that in there because its been a year since the last time a member gave me roast beef. We also didn't have electricity in our house a couple of nights ago because some one ran into a power pole. It feels like i'm re-living all of the experiences i had a year ago in Zacatlan. All that's left is twisting my ankle again.

And finally last night we did some divisions of support (i don't know how you say that in English missionary terms) with some other elders in my district that have been having a hard time. We basically listened to their problems, and went and did some visits. One of the members i visited with Elder Dameron (the guy i was with) invited us 4 back at 8 to eat hamburgers, so that was a good way to end the week.

Adios

Elder Warburton

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Elder Warburton

  México Puebla Norte

Food from Nicaragua