Navidad

hey evreyone,

so this week was really busy and allot of stuff went on. On wed. 24th i went on splits with Glenn my comp fom the mtc. that was cool we worked hard and got alot done. then the 25th we had our christmas party with the zone. it was alright. we ate food and played soccer. then we went home and went to call our families. it was nice to hear from the fam. and it seemewd really normal while i was talking but after it just seemed like a dream. weird.

cambois: so last night we found out the changes. i thought i would go but no. im staying in the area. my comp is going to chalco and im getting a newbie. elder zapata streight from the mtc in mexico. so this should be a pretty interesting change. i think it will go really well and we will have alot of success.

so more random things from mexico.

we were walking up this main street called periferco at about 2 in the afternoon and we looked ito the median and we see a guy walking down the middle. and we looked a little closer and he was peeing right in the middle of the median in brod daylight, i was so shocked. i laughfed allot.

also when i was with glenn we said good afternoon to this old guy sitting outside of his house. and he answered saying "navidad navidad! navidad!" me and elder glenn just started busting up. imagine if you said hello to someone in the states and they answered you by saying christmas! christmas! christmas!.

also on sunday we were at church and i saw some white people walk in. like legitamate whities. i even asked myself what are they doing here? so i talked to them and found out they are from idaho. the guy works at byu idaho and knows Bill Riggins well. that was pretty random that white peolep came to church in mexico and that they actually know someone i know.

well i hope you all had a feliz navidad. love ya

amor y dedos

elder skaggs

The Tepito

whats up SD?

hey so this week was just alright. on wed. we went to the temple with half of the mission. then we had a christmas devotional after. it was way cool to go to the temple again. i felt the spirit so strong and i actually understood evrything which higly surprized me. that was cool.

on friday we had our ward christmas party. it was cool. we ate pasole. which is a soupo like thing with really big corn kearnals and meat. it was good but they ran out of salsa so i didnt get any so it weas lacking a bit of flavor. then we did the piñatas. it was cool. the really little kids started then the young men and then the young women. it was cool. i helped make the piñata go crazy. then we ate cake and played basket ball.

so this week was like the week of the "virgin". on thursday i thjink was day of the virgin. and starting tuesday and wed people started to have partys to the virgin. it was kind of weird. they put up a giant statue or painting of the virgin just so they can have an excuse to drink like crazy. we got some pretty hard stares this week. good times.

on tuesday we started to see people start the walk of the virgin. people traveling to the basilica de la virgin (like 15 miles away). we saw people walking riding bikes in trucks. i counted over 50 peolple in one day. my comp told me that one lady last year went there on her knees. they all get there and worship the virgin and then leave. a bunch of peolpe go there.

so this week i through down some more pansita. if you dont remember its stomach. this time i actually could eat it. it was still pretty gross. it dosnt taste amazingly horrible but the texture gets to ya. but i did it.

so yesterday a member told us that she weas going to take us to a market where we could find shoes cheep. so we got in the car and asked her whear exactly we were going and she said. tepito. so tepito is famous here for two things. like the harmana said stuff dirt cheep. asnd the other. its like the most dangerous place here in DF. the stuff is so cheep cuz you buy it then ten feet later they will steal it back. amazingly we didnt get robbed. that might have been because we didint buy anything. cuz here in mexico it is terribly hard to find shoes big enough for my "giant" feet. people say that my feet are massive which they are compared to their tiny feet here.

well all is well and im doing good. we are working but havnt found much succeess but the Lord will do his thing. love ya lots. keep working hard and keep in touch. amor y dedos

elder skaggs

Algo Differente

hey

this weeek was a little diffrent. we actually had success. this week was good in some areas but bad in others. ill start with the bad. we were working really hard this week. and getting allot of lessons set up. but almost all of them fell through. about 95%. not kidding. so that was kind of a downer.

good news. we had 3 baptisms this week. on wed we had one. a girl named claudia. by finding her we have started to re activate her whole family. mom, grandma, uncles. they are way cool. on sunday we had two more baptisms. Yadira y Diana. a mom and her daughter. they are way cool. Yadira´s sister and mom are members. so they have a way good support.

this weeek was much better. today we went to look for shoes but we couldnt find any good ones on sale. so i think this next monday we are going to another place to look. but i did find a sweet hoodie. its one of the hand made mexi ones. it is blue. and cost me only 90 pesos or like less than 8 dollars.

last night we had the Christmas devotional brodcasted to the stake center. i was kind of dissapointed with the show. i wanted to hear more music. i have appreciated english music more since i got here cuz the people here can not sing if their life counted on it. im being serious. the wards sound terrible. no one knows the tunes or how to hit notes. im not saying that i can sing good but i can follow a tune allright.

so this wed we get to go to the temple as a mission. that will be so cool. im looking forward to that allot. it will be interesting in spanish.

i hope you are all doing good. love ya lots and keep in touch.

elder skaggs