OK, so I´m sure you all wanna know where my first area is...and it is.....Cancun!!!!!
Yup I´m in the city of Cancun and it is NOTHING like the tourist stuff that you hear about! Heck, I don´t think I´ve seen any gringos other than other elders yet! Yup, I don´t think this is Kansas anymore! My companion is great! he´s a native named Elder Cruz and he works so hard! My first day was the longest of my life!!! We just taught lesson after lesson after lesson!!! My companion does about 90% of the talking, which is a good thing. It takes ABSOLUTELY ALL OF MY CONCENTRATION TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SAYING!!!!
Oh did I tell anybody I would be sleeping IN A HAMMOCK!!!!!! Yup, no beds. Its so weird. I live in humble circumstances, but most of the people I teach in in far humbler places. Mexicans are so poor! Most of the people we´ve been teaching live in glorified 1/2 garages, if that. Its such a humbling experience. Things that we consider necesities are luxuries here. You are very well to do here if you have AC, televisions are somewhat common, I´ve seen one computer in someone´s home, heck, a good 3/4 of the people we teach don´t even have a door!
Oh 95% of the time, we don´t actually knock on doors. We just walk up to their yard and yell "BUENAS TARDES" or buenas dias or buenas noches, depending on the time of day.
Oh and in the words of Bob Barker, control the pet population and get your pet spayed or neutered. Seriously, I´ve seen HUNDREDS of stray dogs, most are friendly though, just because they know they depend on us to survive. But I´ve had 2 or 3 close calls with some mean dogs.
Spanish is so hard!!! A couple of elders have told me that my spanish is better than most that are new to the field, but I still feel so inadequate! As I said, I think I can understand most of what they are saying, but it takes every single drop of my concentration.
A goal of the mission is to have a baptism every week, we´re doing pretty well with that, with 3 tomorrow, and few next week and more the week after. Elder Cruz says that I´ll be performing at least one of the baptisms, but we´ll have to see.
Oh, my first full day in Mexico, They left one of my bags at the Mission Office!!!! ugh!!!!! My biggest bag as well!!! Hopefully, I´ll be getting it tommorow. The people here are extremely accepting to the gospel, or at least pretend they are, I don´t know yet. We teach a lot of lessons.
But its just so awesome when I see people change their lives to come to the gospel. People are pretty much never married here and the teen pregnancy rate is pretty much 100%. I saw a couple get married last week so they can get baptized. The wife is getting baptized this week, but the huband will have to wait because he´s having some issues with coffee.
I don´t have much time left so I´ll send pics next week! I´m doing well!!!!
Love,
Elder Kevin WIlde
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