Hola Everyone:
Well, this week has gone by pretty fast although nothing really
that exciting happened. My Comp and I
have decided that we have done a lot of contacting here in Actopan without
having a whole ton of success, so this week I decided that we were going to try
something a little different. Around
Actopan, there are a few Pueblos that we have to travel a little bit to, but
they are still part of our area.
I wish I would have taken my camera but there are a ton of
trees in the Pueblos that we visited and it sort of felt like we were going out
into the woods. Anyway, we talked to a
lot of people but no one had much interest in the church, but at least it was
something different.
On Sunday, we did have an investigator come to church which
was really good, her name is Patricia and she was a referral from the Relief Society
President. We have taught her a few times
and it was really good to see her come out to church. She brought her family with her so we will
have to see if we can also teach some of them this week!
Probably the biggest thing of the week was helping out one
of the members of our Ward. For a
living, he is a butcher and buys animals that he brings in, kills, cuts up and
then sells. This past week he had a whole
truck load of sheep come in and asked us if we could help him out for little
while. For those of you that know me, I loved
studying anatomy in school and still remember going to the cadaver lab at the U
of U for scouts. Anyway, I thought it
was really cool to help out the member.
Here in Mexico, they do things a little different and we found that most
of the sheep were pregnant which was weird.
The whole experience though, helped me gain an appreciation for things
in life. Here in Mexico, they use every
part of the sheep for something, from the blood to eating most all of the
internal organs. One of my jobs was
cleaning up the stomachs which was pretty gross! The best part of the day was that after we
were done, we made some barbacoa which is pretty good!
Well, I though that Elder Soares was coming this past week
but he will be here on Wednesday so we are really looking forward to seeing
him! I hope everyone has a great week, I
love being here in Mexico and for the experiences that I am having.
Love
Elder Fawcett
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