Week 48 in Mexico, Week 18 in Zihuatanejo

Okay, Hi everyone!  This week has been pretty good.  My companion and I bought a pizza because we thought that we were going to have transfers, but no, so we just ate pizza.  This week we finally got with Diana, after not being able to contact her.  She is really excited for her baptism, and her daughter too.  Good news, Diana brought her son, who is like 25, to church this past week, and he liked it, I think.  He was there for all 3 hours, and we also started to teach with Crescencia´s friend, who works with her in her restaurant.  She might progress, she is a little shy, but we´ll see what happens.  We didn´t have transfers and that's a good thing, because this transfer lots of things are going to happen.  My companion´s birthday, stake conference, 2 zone conferences, I´m going to sign my visa, Diana´s baptism, and some other stuff that I would have missed.  The only problem is that I have to travel to Guadalajara to sign my visa, and it is 10 hours in bus, so I´m going to lose 2 days this transfer. This past week we had the last district meeting, and this picture is of the 2 districts in Guerrero. 

It is officially the rainy season here, but we are still waiting for just a little bit.  It gets way hot here, and all I want is a little rain to cool it down.  Everyone says that when it rains here, it rains hard, so it should be pretty exciting now that its going to start up here soon.  

OK I´ve got to go!

Elder Carey

Week 47 in Mexico, Week 17 in Zihuatanejo

Okay, Hi everyone!  How is everyone doing?  This week has been pretty good.  We have had some good experiences, and been able to find more people to teach.  Crescencia got baptized and I was the one who got to baptize her. 12 missionaries came to the baptism, because we had a meeting with an area seventy.  It was a good service, and lots of people came.  That was the big thing that happened this week.  Some members also took us to go meet some of there friends, and they accepted to be taught!  So we have found some more people to teach.  Diana and her daughter had to move, and now don´t live in our area, but it is only something temporary.  They did accept a baptismal date, but weren´t able to come to church, and we haven´t been able to contact her, because we don´t have minutes on our cellphone, the good news is that today we get more minutes.   Also, this is the last week of the transfer.  I think I might be going, but I´m not sure.  We are going to find out this Sunday in the night.  I can´t believe I got here in this area in January.  Oh, something else happened this week.  Yesterday, a less active member invited us to come to a family home evening, and we went, and the whole family was there.  There were about 25-30 people there, and it was really good.  At the end, they gave us tons of food.  Now we are hoping that all of them can make it to church to start being active in the church again. 

Have a good week.
Elder Carey

Week 46 in Mexico, Week 16 in Zihuatanejo

In this email there are just lots of pictures of us.  In the morning today, when we went to the Parthenon, on the way we passed by a nice part of the city with lots of hotels and stuff, views of the beach and ocean.  It was interesting.   Apparently some guy in the government made the Parthenon like 50 years ago, and  did it with government money, so the government took it from him, and now its just a big abandoned building. We took tons of pictures.  We also got into part of the building that was outside of the gate.  There were a ton of bats, and one almost hit me. There also is a picture of us making the sushi things for mothers day. okay!  So this week was pretty good.  Crescencia is still excited for her baptism.  Everyone in the ward is helping us with her.  She is having some problems with her mom and family, but that isn´t keeping her from being baptized.  It´s pretty exciting.  Diana also came to church yesterday.  She liked it a lot, and her daughter came also, and liked it as well, she said she also would like to be baptized, but we are going to put the date tomorrow.  Okay, well this is all for now.

Elder Carey

Week 45 in Mexico, Week 15 in Zihuatanejo

This week was really good!  I was able to go in divisions to San Jeronimito and also we had a zone meeting this past week.  Its crazy because some mail from January is just barely getting to me.  We also had a ward activity this past week for the Childrens Day.  Our ward mission leader had some piñatas made like my companion and I.  It is hard to describe how it feels to have a "mini me"  get destroyed by a bunch of little kids haha.  Our investigators are doing good.  Crescencia attended church again, and is progressing quite well.  We weren´t able to have a lesson with her, but we saw her a couple of times.  She went to the activity also.  If she keeps up like this, and we don´t have any other big problems, she should get baptized the 16 of May.  She is very excited about it.  Besides that, the other investigators are doing good.  We are having a little bit of trouble finding some new people, but we have a couple future refrences from some members.  It is getting really hot here.  The good news is that the mangos are in season and all sorts of other fruits.  Well thats about it for this week!  Got to go!
Elder Carey

Week 44 in Mexico, Week 14 in Zihuatanejo

This past week was really good.  We got to go on divisions with the zone leaders, and I went to Lazaro Cardenas.  Its very hot over there, and there are a ton of mangoes.  The members here are also starting to give us bags of mangoes.  Our investigators are doing good.  Crescencia is progressing very well even though she is having some problems with her family.  Her mom doesn´t want her to keep listening to us, but she is quite determined to get to her baptismal date the 16th of May.  Diana is also doing good, but she is just having problems with her family getting sick.  Every time she is about to come to church, someone in her family gets sick and she can´t make it to church.  We think that Satan has some part in that because she is super prepared to receive the gospel, but Satan doesn´t let her advance with the attendances.  Everything else is going good, we are trying to find more people to teach, and some members have some references for us.  I hope everyone has a great week!

Elder Carey

Week 43 in Mexico, Week 13 in Zihuatanejo

Hi Everyone, This week was pretty good.  We didn´t have electricity from Monday in the afternoon till Wednesday in the afternoon.  The nights were pretty terrible because it is still pretty hot here.  We moved the mattresses into the study room, that has 2 big sliding glass doors, so that it wouldn´t be too hot.  The problem was that it was sleep with the sheets, and not have lots of bugs bite me, but very hot, or without, so it would be cooler, but lots of bugs would bite me.  The nights were pretty long. I don´t get bit too bad when we are in the house, it is outside with the other people that I get bit.  Besides that the week was really good.  We improved a lot in part of our goals and stuff.  Cresencia went to church.  Diana couldn´t because Satan is really keeping her from going to church.  She had a sick nephew and could not go.   
  

This week is going to be really interesting, because we are going to have divisions from tomorrow till Friday in the morning.   I will be going to work in the area of the zone leaders for the next few days.  

 Okay here are some of the pictures that my companion took the other day.  We went to this place that is a hill right above the sea.  There are some pretty sweet vacation houses.  The view is spectacular, but you´ll have to judge for your self.  1 more thing.  The other day some members gave us some sea food to eat, and now I have some more weird food that I can put on my list.  I got to try 2 things that are a little weird in the US.  1 caracol, from what I know,  it is the meat that is inside of a conch shell.  2 cucarachas del mar.  Translated that is cockroaches of the sea.  Someone showed me a picture, and it is like small turtle the size of a cell phone.  It was actually pretty good.   Just a little bit spicy.  Its funny because, now when we go to eat, like today we went to go eat quesadillas, and I was going to put the spicy salsa on my quesadilla, but someone working there told me, careful, that one is spicy.  I just think its interesting because people don´t think I can take the heat.  I still haven´t got to habanero peppers and stuff like that, but sometimes I eat stuff more spicy than people think I can handle.  Well that's all for now.  Have a great week! 

Elder Carey

Week 42 in Mexico, Week 12 in Zihuatanejo

Today was the day of transfers!  My companion and I didn´t have any so we are both going to stay here.  During this week we have been working with David some, but now he doesn´t really want to progress.  We think one of his brothers or his mom had some part in trying to convince him not to get baptized.  He still likes seeing us, and we go there a lot to visit his cousin, who is a member.  Diana is doing really good, she is progressing a lot, and we finished teaching all of lesson 1 and she understood  everything and is way excited to get her answer.  She wasn´t able to come to church this week because she had to go see her son, because he just got married.  But this week we are going to work with her some more.  Also we have been teaching a friend of our ward mission leader, and she accepted a baptismal date this week!  The only problem is that she doesn´t live  in our area.  She only works here, and she is here all day.  The other missionaries don´t have a chance to teach her.  Her name is Cresencia, she  is doing pretty good as far as the teaching goes.  She just needs to go to church, but that is another part of the problem with her work .  She might be able to get a free hour to go to church.  She hasn´t been able to go to church since she began the discussions.  Well that's about all for this week!
Elder Carey