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