Chicken foot soup, RS drama and the temple...

i did eat chicken foot soup. it was quite possibly the grossest thing i have ever tried. there is no meat whatsoever as you can imagine. i mean how much edible meat is on a foot?

so this week was the first week that we didnt have a baptism. but we have 5 people with fechas for next week. so that should be really cool. so i have been starting to have weird dreams. some dreams are in half spanish and about missionary things. i dont really have normal dreams anymore in some way all of my dreams are weird.
so we got to go to the temple on sat because the mision doctor lives right next to it. elder bentancourt got sick. he is better now. he had stress and was not drinking enough water. so all of the relif society drama is world wide and even worse in mexico. evryone knows about evryones buisness and somhow news travels even faster in mexico without internet or mostly phones.

First baptism

This is Tyler's first baptism, after he had been in the country for a few days. His name is Panchito. His companions are Elder Bentancourt and Elder Alvarez.

Showers in Aculco

So, this is how Tyler takes a "shower". They heat up the water with the coil-like thing and then use those massive amounts of water from the bucket to get clean.

Tyler's first day in Aculco, Mexico

beet juice

Part of June 9, 2008 letter

so this is what happend this week
one day for lunch we had "salad" it consisted of cut up tomatoes cilantro and chicharon. thats it nothing else. and for a drink we had beet juice. it was discusting but i had to eat it. so the people here are really straight forward. they tell it how it is. if you are fat tyhey call you gordito o gordo. stuff like that. also something interesting is that aloty of people here listen to american music. they have no idea what the song says but they like it anyway. so something kind of weird and kind of confusing happend on sat. some lady proposed to me for her daughter who is 11 years old. i think she was joking but i cant really understand spanish sarcasm yet. it was weird.

yesterday we had two more baptisms. it was awesome. carlos and lupita. carlos is the uncle of ximena who we baptized last week. and lupita is her grandma. i baptized lupita and elder bentancourt baptized carlos. it was a really cool event.

it has rained everyday for the last 5 o 6 days. on wed i got sick so we went to the appartment early. and it started to rain really hard like 30 min later. the water was coming under our door and from the walls and the floor. it is crazy.

1,330 stairs...in one day

This a picture the mission home sent. It was taken the first night he was there. He still hasn't figured out how to send pictures.
Below is part of Tyler's June 2nd letter.


So this is what happend this week:
i started to count things like dogs and stairs. these are the one day stats: number of dogs i saw 106 and number of stairs climbed 1330 and thats not a typo. insane amount of stairs here.

so there is a dirt soccer feild near my appartment and they play soccer there evry sat and sun. there is this game that some people play there all day evryday. they hit this tennisball against this big wall with the inside of their wrist. it is kind of like wall ball but not . there are always people playing it. there is this one guy there that has a hunch back and he is really good.



the people here eat weird stuff. not the mexican different stuff but they put ketchup and sour cream on evrything. like chicken and lettuce and weird stuff like that. im the tallest person almost evrywhere i go. it is kind of weird. erlier this week i got these weird foot pimple things on the arch of my foot. i popped them and water came out so i think they were just little blisters. they are gone now.

so this is weird. my comps are both native and they both dont use deoderant. they get cologne or axe spray and spray it in their pits and think that is going to last the whole day. another thing about the people here. i dont know what it is but no one can sing. they cant carry a tune. it is so hard to sing with them because they are way off on evry song. so evry sat night and sun morning the catholic churches here set off fireworks during their survices. it is really loud.

yesterday (sunday) we baptized another person. her name is Ximena she is 8. her uncle and grandma are getting baptized next week. it was really cool.
i had tripe yesterday it was gross.