Fried pig skin! With a hearty helping of hot sauce. It's pretty easy to get, all of the candy buses that drive around the neighborhoods sell it as an off menu item. Jesus just bought us a serving the size of a dinner plate a few days ago and... honestly it just tasted like hot sauce with an awful texture. It's normally spelled with only two r's but this culture seems to like to show off their ability to trill their tongues when converrrrrsing with white guys.Family it was such a good week!
I feel happy, I really feel happy. Elder Olsen is great because he knows how to have fun while he works. That's what I'm learning from him while I teach him Spanish. He's very humble and willing to learn. His good attitude just makes me want to put forth more effort in helping him pick up the language.
Elder Mora is still hurt so we went all bike this week. We cover 7 major neighborhoods in Eagle Pass and the majority of our work has been found in Loma Bonita. That translates to beautiful hill. So it's bitter sweet when we find more families to work with in that neighborhood, well pretty much all sweet, it just means we spend more time riding bikes up hills.
The "S" family met with missionaries for two years, and they congratulated us last week for being the first set of missionaries to get them to go to church, haha. They are planning on being baptized June 7. Their daughter Elva and her two twin sons are getting super sped through the lessons and are preparing for the same date.
The "C" family is still learning at a glacial pace, their is a hole missing in their testimonies that I'm having a hard time identifying. I think it's hard for Patricia to get accustomed to Relief Society, because all of the sisters there all have their little clicks, and she's not the bold type to assert herself in to talking with them. She's skipped the last hour of church the last 2 weeks. Maybe the ward members have grown accustomed to the group they already have, and i can only hope they recognize that their branch is about to increase in size significantly. Not only do they need to warmly say hi to the new faces they see at church, they need to bring them into their lives and let these new families become involved with their families. The Spanish branch has faced some trouble with retention in the past, and so we'll have to make some efforts to help these changes that are about to be happen become permanent. It's also difficult for Patricia and her son to commit in becoming active in the church when her husband and oldest son aren't religiously inclined.
We loved meeting the "R" family this week. They're a really funny, really well behaved family of 9 living in La Heradura. It's a lot faster paced and much more fun style of teaching with 7 kids that all have questions, when doctrine needs to be taught in a manner so as to be understood and engaging to all age groups while being conductive to the whispering confirmations of the Spirit.
The El Centro elders baptized "Mara" and her son "Joe" on Saturday, so that's great for the ward when they can see the fruit of their labors.
I keep asking Elder Olsen what we did this week and he just keep saying, "We rode bikes!" We did do quite a few miles this week.
My testimony is getting stronger and stronger. I know this is the Lord's work and that he is directing it. My mission president is an inspired man and I'm grateful for his efforts in training us. I feel like I'm getting a little better at recognizing impressions from the spirit. We were on the way to contact some referrals and I felt impressed, just a little thought that I could have brushed aside or decided didn't make sense if I wasn't looking and asking for a thought, to talk to some kids outside the house of a street I'd never been on. We did and went up to the house and the woman who lived their said she was baptized into the Mormon church but wasn't attending. The Lord knows his sheep, they are numbered, and he is caring for them.
I love you! I miss you!
Stay Salty!
Elder Tyler Meidell
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