This past change has flown by...

This past change has flown by! 

Some events of this past week:

On Tuesday we had our zone meeting. Also it was Elder Wanner’s birthday. The sad news was that his package didn´t arrive. I think his parents sent it like 2 months ago. I will probably get mine by Christmas. haha but that´s okay. I still will look forward to it :) I heard Fedex is the safest to travel, but who knows. Anyway some of the hermanas brought him a cake, which was nice. They do some weird tradition here where you put your face in the cake. I think it´s a waste of a cake, but we ate it anyway. 

We found out later Elder Jex wanted to do interchanges so we had to switch at around 4:00. I wanted to buy him pizza or something to celebrate, so that was kind of a bummer because I slept at the Zone leader´s house. Oh well, we will still have to celebrate.

Fortunately, we went to some member’s house on Wednesday for food and we made pizza for his birthday, so that was fun.

We also are working with this one guy who likes talking in English to us which I like. He was living with his girlfriend but they have been having problems. We went over there and talked to them. Elder Wanner listened to both sides of their stories and then told them that to comply with the Laws of God, he thinks it would be best if they split up for a bit and lived in separate houses. It was pretty much like Dr. Phil haha.  Hopefully he will get baptized.

One thing that was kind of sad was on Friday. We went to this house with this girl we baptized a few months ago.  We haven’t been able to get a hold of their family for weeks. The parents have had a bunch of economic problems and they told us that they don´t believe in God anymore. It was so sad because all of their faith was gone and they didn´t want anything else to do with us. It was a bummer because I worked a bunch with them last change...

Later that night we went to Almoloya for an interview. The lady had just accepted a job but she would have to work on Sunday. We told her that working on Sunday is not something God would give her. She ended up accepting to be baptized. We were so excited, but the next day when we went to interview her, she wasn’t there. I think it’s because she accepted the job. :(

Yesterday we only had 2 people in the chapel, but hopefully this next week we have more. It´s just frustrating because the people say they will come and we have members go for their house and they aren’t there or say they have to do something else to do.

Today was pretty good. We went with this guy named Charley to the university gym here and played basketball. It was fun, but I stink! Ni modos. Later we went to Carl’s Junior which was super good. We came back to our place and relaxed for a bit. Then we went and got me a soccer jersey! I am super excited! I got "Thomas" on the back too.  We wanted to go to these pyramids that are somewhere around here, but we don´t know where. Who knows.

This next week is changes. I hope I stay, but we will see.

Anyway, that´s my week! Hope everything is going great in the USA!

-Elder Thomas

This next Monday is Independence Day in Mexico! They have decorations up and everything! This Friday we have our Mexican party with the ward!