Well I'm finally here in Mexico! It is so crazy! Mexico City is very busy!
The weather is probably about 70 degrees during the day and it gets really cold
at night so i am grateful for the sweaters you sent mom and dad!
My new p day will be Monday, but since we traveled on Monday, they are
allowing us to email today (January 22, 20140)!
Only send mail through USPS, or there will be taxes on the mail. My mission president said that the mail service is very reliable, however I
will only be able to receive letters and packages about once a month because I
am so far away from the mission office..
My mailing address for my whole mission will be:
Elder Connor Keith Koehler
Mexico, Mexico City North Mission
Apartado Postal #98
Cuautitlan Izcalli, Edo. de México 54740
MEXICO
Mexico, Mexico City North Mission
Apartado Postal #98
Cuautitlan Izcalli, Edo. de México 54740
MEXICO
Saturday January 25, 2014: My language study today was more efficient! One of the zone
leaders said that Gordan B. Hinckley said that if you read the book of Mormon in
another language along with your native language, you will be fluent by the time
you finish! So I am reading one verse in Spanish, the same in English, then
again in Spanish. Just one chapter helped soooo much!
I was so hungry today and
had no food in the apartment that i resorted to eating a tuna fish sandwich...
it was okay at first surprisingly, but by the end it was horrible! haha
Sunday January 26, 2014: Today I got to meet the whole ward! Everyone was so nice! We met
with Jaime for the first time today too and he told us that he didn't want to
change religions and that he just wanted to learn more about Christ, but by the
end of the lesson we helped him to want to change his life and invited him to be
baptized and he said yes!
Monday January 27, 2014: Today was my first p day! It was awesome! I got to meet most of
my zone and finally speak some English again! We played soccer and it was fun! I
met an elder that is in the same ward as hermana lopez (From my district in the
MTC) too! It was cool finding someone that I had something in common with!
Things are going much better my second week in Mexico!! I am able to
understand a lot more and I am also able to speak better! Not necessarily
correctly, but I am retaining more vocabulary. What gets me, is trying to speak
in past tense because there are 2 different ways depending on the situation! But
with study, it is coming a lot easier. Also, my zone leaders told me that my
language is coming along faster than average! They said i will definitely have
the language down by my goal of 3 months or even sooner!
So to describe Mexico a little more, it is very dirty. There is trash all
over the streets! Also, everything here is very cheap! I receive 1500 pesos each
month and that gives me about 350 a week (which i don't even need that much) So
I'm pretty rich down here! haha
