week 12: pig skin is not my favorite

This week was a lot of work and a lot of fun. We had to drop a lot of investigators so we did a lot of contacting. It's sad when we have to drop investigators because they aren't progressing. We started teaching this new guy named Rafael. He's trying to learn English so we taught a lesson in Spanglish...I'm a pro.

We also had a ward party this last Saturday. That was awesome! Me and one of the other Elders helped set up a trampoline, and when we finished the guy helping us started jumping and yelled for us to come over. We took a selfie with him which was fun. We also had those corn on the cob things from Nacho Libre. They are really good.

Yesterday we got to go to an internet cafe and watch the Face to Face with Elder Soares and Elder Christensen. That was awesome. I got to watch it in English, but there was a question asked and answered in Spanish so I watched that part in Spanish. I also finished 2 Nephi in spanish. I've decided no one has the right to complain about the Isaiah chapters until they've read them in another language. 

--Elder Thompson

Bits and pieces from family phone calls:

Today is Independence Day in Mexico, so all our usual internet places were closed. We finally found one...the cameras on the computers didn't work. The guy there asked if we had stuff to hook up to the computer (like cords to download pictures). I said yes, and he was all "yeah, none of that's gonna work". So yep, no pictures this week.

We're meeting the other elders for lunch today at Little Caesars Pizza..it's pretty much the same as America!

I had the worst meal of my mission this last week. Pig skin soup. The pig skin was boiled and then added to REALLY SPICY broth. It was so spicy, I really couldn't taste anything which was probably a good thing, but the texture of the skin was awful. All the elders were dying, but we got it down and no one got sick.

Interviews with my mission president last week were so good. I really am feeling like I'm adjusting. The homesickness is so much better. I'm getting used to the heat/humidity and not nearly as sweaty. The language is still slow, but I can see improvement.