Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: First Week in the Field

Hi Mama!! This week has felt long but it’s also gone by really fast too. The area I’m in is called Tepalcapa which is known for Malls. My campanion is Elder Martinez and he is from a place in Mexico that is 2 hours away from here called Morelos. My first week was good. We went tracting and taught some families and other people. It’s really hard because I don’t fully understand Spanish yet. I can pick out words from conversations and can tell when my comp is teaching about a certain lesson. With one family we taught the first lesson to, I could feel the spirit so strong and they could feel it too! It was awesome! The whole family has the parents and then a son and a daughter. The son wasn’t there but the daughter was.

For breakfast and dinner we eat in the apartment and then for lunch members feed us! Except for the first day after I dropped my stuff off in the casa we went to the mall and ate at a Chinese place! and the Chinese lady was speaking Spanish! It was weird but cool too haha. The food is really spicy here, at least to me it is. One interesting thing I have eaten was pumpkin that I’m pretty sure was soaked in vanilla. It was really weird....

The weather is good! Cold in the nights and morning and then pretty warm during the day. I’m finally getting over my freaking cold I’ve had for the past 3 weeks. It doesn’t help that we walk up some huge hills and then that it gets cold here at night. There are tons of dogs here in the streets, it’s crazy! yeah we aren’t supposed to pet or touch them at all. They are nice though and don’t chase after us haha.

Thank you for the update with everything at home! Um I’m not sure what I want yet for Christmas. I haven’t gotten your other package yet. I guess there is a new rule here where we have to wait to get packages during interviews which is during week 5....I think it’s really dumb. Oh also I need more ties. The rules here are that they have to be as wide as 4 fingers and I only have barely 4 ties that work. Um besides those maybe just some snacks...?

I’m glad you liked my thought! Thank you for the thought you shared too! (It was from Elder Holland's talk "Be Ye Therefore Perfect -- Eventually.") My thought for this week comes from D&C 3. I started reading D&C and it’s awesome! Anyways read D&C 3 and replace Joseph’s name with yours and think about it as if God is talking to you.

Oh also!!!! I forgot to include this before but the member family that owns the building we live in, their son was in my singles ward!!!!! I didn’t know him super well because he went to his girlfriend’s ward but I still knew him and it’s crazy that I’m living with his parents!

So the pictures I sent include pictures with my teachers, district and friends in the CCM, a picture with all the people who left with us to the field, my new comp, and our church building! I took a video of my casa I’ll send in a second. Also, I only have till 5 so I’m trying to write fast. I have 20 emails to read but not a lot of time left, please tell everyone I’m sorry! my comp made us late for emailing today…

I love you so much! Tell dad and the rest of the fam I love them too! I will talk to you next week!