Five Months in Mexico!!

Hey! 

Well, I hit five full months out here, and the time is starting to fly by. Kinda freaks me out to be honest!  But this week was really good. I had a lot of spiritual moments, pretty special moments at that.

But a few noteworthy things happened! To start, we had a baptism this month as a Barrio and one of the Elders here did the ordinance! It was super special! It's a less active family that we're all working with, us 4 missionaries, all together. They're a super special family. And actually, I'm gonna be baptizing one of their kids this week (Manny on the far right), so keep an eye out for that!! :)

Everyday is a good day out here, and if there's one good thing about being out here In Cerro Grande for this much time, it's that I know the members realllyyy well, and I'm good friends with just about all of them! :) I have some pictures to add with that.

Elder Sanchez and I continue to be really good for each other. We help each other a lot with advice and things like that, and when we teach we really teach together, and we always feel the Spirit as we do so.

I realized this week that Im most likely not gonna be seeing the baptisms of our 5 escogidos (investigators), due to attendance as a requirement, but Elder Sanchez helped me yet again, advising me that we don't always reap what we sow. And it made me think about the old tall tale about Johnny Appleseed. Hahaha.  He planted the seeds and later in his life he saw all the happiness his apples brought to the settlers, right? Well I kinda feel the same as that, and yea it sounds pretty silly, but it made me feel good.  :) 

Also, have you guys ever eaten a chile habanero before? Well, I have now, just this week. And I learned 2 things:

1.) Don't eat it!

2.) If you're gonna eat it, don't chew it whole bunch!  Haha!

I ate it, didn't think it would be so bad, so I chewed it a whollleeee lot and well... I introduced my mouth to a whole new world of spice and hurt.  Remember the first chile I told you about? I can eat those now, they aren't so bad.  Literally, I was crying - my tongue was shaking, and I drank like a half gallon of milk!  But, it was a genuine Chihuahua, Mexico experience, and for that, I'd say it was super cool at the same time! Hahahaha!

And well, in other news... I've made really good friends with the kids out here in Cerro Grande. Almost all of them love English, and so I always help them with that, and they always sing songs in English, and I teach them how to dance 'como un gringo' Hahaha! But yea, the important thing is that I'm loving the life out here still! Honestly, it's really great to be out here. Super hot, and I mean like super hot, but it's awesome still! :)

Oh, also, we went to a Stake Conference of a different stake this week because Elder Sanchez was invited to give the preisthood to his previous convert!! And so he did and it was a super amazing moment to be honest :)

I love you guys a bunch and I hope that you guys have an awesome week! God loves you, and He never makes mistakes! :)

Till next time!

Nick

P.S. Mom, I totally heard the song 'Right Back Where We Started From' in Centro and I totally thought about being a kid watching the Extremely Goofy Movie and it was totally awesome!! I forgot how awesome that song is!! Hahaha! (Following is the link to the song if you want to take a listen to the soundtrack of Nick's childhood :D)

Cleopatra - Right Back Where We Started From, The Extremely Goofy Movie

And this is a picture with some of the great kids from Cerro Grande I mentioned earlier, Eli, the boy, Vania, the smaller girl, and Anet. Their Dad is a baker and he gives bread a lot!  Hahaha!!