So every weekend (when it doesn´t rain), the
city has a big party. Complete with lots of honking, loud jumbled music and
fireworks. It seems like everybody plays their music as loud as they can. They
even had airplanes flying low and playing music. Which is not the smartest idea
because you only get a couple seconds of the song. There are also tons of
really loud explosions. Like really really groundshakingly loud explosions.
Besides that, this week has been pretty normal.
My Spanish is progressing and i´m getting better at teaching. Everyday has
basically the same schedule so the days kinda blur into one. But it doesn´t
matter because we are working so hard all the time that we don´t have time to
think about stuff like that except on pdays. Which is how it should be.
Tuesday was our "half way there"
party which consisted of cinnamon rolls and staying up 15 minutes later. We
party hard. Although the cinnamon rolls were quite delicious. I don´t feel like
i´m half way done. It feels like i´ve been here a couple months but at the same
time, I feel like I need to learn a lot more before going to Chile.
As many of you know already, I got sick on
Wednesday. It must have been something for dinner on Tuesday because the next
day, many people woke up with parasites, me included. So while the rest of my
district went to the temple today, me and elder Strang stayed home and within
close range of a bathroom. My intestines finally realized that i´m in Mexico.
But all is well because I have plenty of medicine and they have a couple good
doctors here. I´m much better off than Elder Strang who is waiting to get
results back to see if he needs to go to the hospital. I´m already feeling a
lot better. And plus, today is pday so it was the perfect time to get sick.
The MTC is getting way too full. The lines at
meals are ridiculous. Sometimes we don't even have time to get the food before
our time is up. But we are finding loopholes to getting to food faster. There
is also only one barber so getting a haircut takes half your pday. But
conveniently, I won´t need one while i´m here.
Melissa-I got you letter on tuesday! It´s so
weird being able to understand spanish. Also, it got here really fast so i´m
going to start sending letters back.
How was cannon beach? I really miss just
sitting on the beach and not having anything to do. Who went? How long did you
stay?
I´ve decided that one of my goals during my
mission is to get really good at soccer. I´ve been playing everyday for about
an hour and I´m loving it. Plus Latinos are ridiculously good at it so if I
wanted to learn, this would be the place.
That's all for now. I´m putting more pictures
up on dropbox today. I might send another email with the things I
inevitably forgot.
Love you
Elder Thompson
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| all I could eat at lunch |
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| almost racist |
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| a very important sign |
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| Everyone has these cool bikes |
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