Mexico is hot. LIES!

Hey Family!

So this area’s climate sure is different than Valle de Bravo, where I was at a year ago. It has been so STINKIN COLD! Remember how we thought Mexico is also hot. LIES! It has been below freezing temperature. It hasn’t snowed/rained which is good, but it sure is chilly. President Whitehead gave us permission to use scarfs for the cold. Too bad I don’t have one. haha. I think I notice it hear a lot more because there is no heating in the houses here. The good thing is that it is warm in the day.

So this week was a pretty good week. Tuesday we had a zone meeting in Toluca. It was good, but pretty long. We didn’t get back to our area until almost 7...Wednesday I went to Ixtlahuaca to work with Elder Carrillo who is from Merida, Yucatan (friends of Elder Roca). He is a really great missionary. He came into this area that is really hard, the ward was super disanimated, and nothing was really happening. He has been changing it a ton. Everyone is a lot more excited and they have been bringing a lot of people to church and they had a baptism yesterday. It was pretty fun to work with him.

Also on Friday I went to El Oro to work with Elder Bird. We had a good time working together. Unfortunately the pueblo we worked in had some Catholic party that EVERYONE was planning, so we didn’t have a lot of success. Elder Bird is really great, but on Saturday President called him and told him he was going to be the new financial secretary. So now my companion, Elder Medina from the Domincan Republic (my companion in Valle de Bravo) is coming to El Oro. Now I’ve got a district full of Latinos. haha.

We haven’t had a lot of success in our area. We do have this joven named Santiago that we are working with. He came to church a few weeks ago and he came again yesterday. He is kinda shy but a very noble kid. We are bringing him to an activity on Saturday with the other youth.

Hermana Luz gets back this week so hopefully we can find her and continue teacher her.

Other than that, that was my week. 

The only other thing was this past Wednesday was dia de Reyes. It’s where they celebrate the 3 kings that went to visit Jesus. They don’t really have Santa here, instead they have the kings. They have special bread that they make called Roscas de Reyes with baby Jesus dolls inside. I think I sent some pictures last year. Anyway, in the center here in Atlacomulco they had the three kings and you can take pictures with them. I told Elder Lopez that we can’t pass this opportunity up. We paid the 40 pesos and got one :) I think it’s funny because they couldn’t find a black person so they just painted one on. haha. 

So that is about my week. I love you all. I am glad everyone is doing well. I miss you tons!

-Elder Thomas