It’s been a week in Tulancingo. So, I’ll just start off by saying that I am in a trio right now. There’s me, Elder Perez and Elder Pantoa. Elder Pantoa is going home. He’s leaving us today to go stay with the Assistants because he’s going home tomorrow. It’s been pretty interesting, but a good trio. And Elder Wells is in my District so that’s pretty cool!
Tulancingo is a kind of a pretty place and kind of not. An interesting fact about Tulancingo is that I don’t know if you all have seen the movie Coco, but in the movie when they are in the Land of the Dead and they are trying to get into the party of the super famous singer. And there’s a bouncer outside and a wrestler with a silver shiny mask walks up and they say,” Oh my goodness, you’re Santo!” So that wrestler is a real guy and a really good wrestler. He was actually born here in Tulancingo and his name is El Santo and they have a famous restaurant for him.
I also learned that we do have bikes in this area. I just didn’t see them because they were getting fixed. Well, we were actually riding them one day and getting contacts and I stopped and contacted this guy who was about 30 years old. I asked him if I could give him one of our contact cards and asked if we could contact him. He stepped back and looked at our bikes. He asked us if we liked our bikes. We told that we did and then all of a sudden, he started going through his jacket and all his pockets. You could tell he was looking for something. He then asked us if we planned on selling them anytime soon. Like you could tell that he was thinking about robbing me and couldn’t find what he needed to do so. He then started looking on the ground to see what he could find and that’s when we told him to have a good day and took off!
With there only being two bikes between the three of us, Elder Perez rides his bike alone and carries my backpack. While, Elder Pantoa rides on the pegs on the back of my bike. Interesting, but fun. One of our short journey’s is shown below!
So, another story. We were contacting on Wednesday and we found this lady who asked if we could maybe help her daughter. We went in to the house to see this girl that was about 18 and she was super super skinny. She is suffering from some type of disease. I’m not sure if it has to do with her brain because its hard for her to move and even talk. We gave her a blessing and then made an appointment to come back to teach a lesson. When we went back, we talked to the girl’s mother for a while and the girl was still kind of out of it. But then all of a sudden, she came to and kept telling her mom she wanted us to leave. But we continued to visit with the mother and she woke up even more and started getting really upset and screaming that she wanted us to leave now. She most definitely did not want us there which we thought was very interesting. We haven’t gone back to visit them yet, but we plan on it this week.
Also, Elder Pantoa and Elder Perez got here to Tulancingo about two weeks before I did. It’s because they were in Tecamac when they closed it and so they opened this area. So, they found this investigator whose wife is Catholic. Their son died like two months ago on Wednesday. And so, the family invited us to listen to this Catholic celebration and eat some food and then wanted us to share something. We listened to a lot of prayers, one for every bead on the necklace. Then we were able to share somethings with them about our church, so that was pretty cool.
On Saturday, we went to teach a lesson to some investigators, the Olvera family, but they didn’t have much time. So, we ended up playing a game with them because that’s what they wanted to do. We played Scrabble. Well, those of you that play Scrabble know that it’s hard to play in English let alone Spanish. But interesting enough, I won!
Today for P-day, we went for a hike in the mountains as a District and it was really good to be in the mountains again and it was really pretty. There was a really cool bridge we had to cross and a lot of really neat waterfalls. This area seems to be really cool and I am excited about being able to help open up another new area. I love the people here in Mexico and I love being a missionary!
Love
Elder Fawcett
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