How´s it going? I can´t believe I am going to have another sobrino!! I
can´t wait! While I have been gone, our family has gotten huge! And counting.
Felicidades Aaron and Lynze. I can´t believe you went to Monterey!! Dad, Mark,
and Bree look like studs in their wet gear. Haha. I remember the last time we
went there the Mexican restaurant got me really sick. That was just the
beginning of things to come. Shayla, you never told me if Jeff knows Orrin
Bunn.
This week was a lot of fun. Last tuesday, Elder Bunker and I were in a mall
while Mexico was playing soccer. Every store had their TV on and a ton of people
were gathered around. When Mexico scored a goal, it sounded liked we were in a
stadium. People are pretty pumped here that they won. Chilangos.
We saw a lot of progress in some of the people that we are teaching this
week. One of them, Rosalía, has gone from smoking 7 cigarrettes a day, to like
half of one and is already in first Nephi 17. But her sister, who was one of our
best investigators, left us. She moved back in with her husband in San Pedro. We
were pretty bummed about that. Another, person that we are teaching, Tanía, is
the daughter in law of a member here. She is really smart, and captures
everything that we teach her, and then teaches it to her husband. He doesn´t
want to let her go to church but she is convincing him little by little. She
read the introduction to the Book of Mormon and was asking us about the Urim and
Thummim. We also found a new family to teach this week. I love teaching
families. We were walking down the ciclopista one day and I contacted them. They
accepted really easily and then we went to the appointment like a week later.
The mom´s name is Monica, and she told us that she and her husband had been
walking along and her husband, Genaro, said that he wanted to get closer to God.
Two blocks later, and we contacted them. They think that is the answer to their
prayer and we have another appointment with them to go back. The work has been
harder in this area than in any of the others, and I don´t know why. Maybe it´s
because we spend so much time in micros and meetings.
I have been studying and practicing spanish a lot more lately. All of the
sudden it is more interesting to me. I have practiced the pronounciation a lot
more and it is actually really cool. I don´t want to sound like a gavacho any
more. The Chilangos talk so funny and use some really goofy phrases. Elder
Bunker and I have a lot of fun mimicking them. I´ll be bummed when he goes home
in 3 weeks.
Today we went to the Dinamos that are in our area. I don´t know if that is
a word in english but it also means rapids. It is the Rio Magdalena and is in
our area. It was awesome. We went with Elder Paxman and Elder Sanabria. It was
nice to get out of the city and enjoy nature. There was a path and a park along
the river and we just walked around for a while and afterwards ate quesadillas.
Here, if you want a quesadilla that has queso inside, you have to ask for it.
Weird huh? If you just ask for a quesadilla, they won´t understand. You have to
ask for a quesadilla de queso.
So that´s about all she wrote. The zone was pretty relaxed this week, not
much happening. I have been learning a lot these past few weeks, and the Ensign
of this month was sweet. It helped me a lot. I sent Travis Marker a letter
like a week ago, but I forgot he would be leaving soon. Just let him know.
Bueno, I love you all a ton!! Thanks for everything and I pray for you each by
name every day!!
Elder Hubbard
