Great Week!

Current address:

Avenida Pie de la Cuestra No. 102
Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo
Colonia Colinas de San Pablo
C.P. 76125 Querétaro, Queretaro
Mexico

Sorry about last week, we didn't get home from our zone activities in time and I was unable to email. Sucked but I'll try to get a good recap of both weeks.First off though. Shout out to Jeff and Ashlyn for getting their calls this week!!! So stoked for you guys and can´t wait for you guys to get into the field and serve the Lord!

First off though, SHOUTOUT to Jeff and Ashlyn for getting their calls this week!!!

So stoked for you guys to get into the field and serve the Lord! You guy´s will be great!

 Last week was awesome. Tuesday we had a district meeting and that was alright. Before we left though president Williamson asked me if I'd give a blessing to one of the sisters... In Spanish. This was my first blessing in Spanish, in front of president no less, and I was super nervous. But the spirit was there to help me and guide me what to say and I was able to give the blessing. It was a super cool experience. The rest of the day was nothing spectacular. Wednesday and Thursday were super sick though! Elder Burbidge and Elder Tovar had to help president those days with some things and me and elder Carr were on our own, knowing little Spanish, in an unfamiliar place, with no way of contacting anyone for help. It was awesome. We went out and taught lessons. People listened to our broken Spanish and accepted our messages. We had one guy come up to us while we were walking and asked what we were doing and we were able to talk to him and give him a book of Mormon and set up more appointments. Then another guy offered us a ride and in the car he told us he was less active member. Then he asked for blessing and we were able to give him a blessing on the side of the road. We taught some others and one family said they'd come to general conference with us! It was a super fun two days. Friday was good too. We found a really cool investigator and she said she really feels like her family needs our message and we're going to go back and teach them next week. We also so a Ferrari while walking home! Some member gave us lunch and when we left she gave us an apple flavored thing in seran wrap. Later that day some high dude asked us for money so instead I gave him the snack thing. He just started eating the whole thing, seran wrap and all! Elder Tovar tried to help but he walked away and I'm pretty sure he ate all of it. Then conference on Saturday and Sunday was amazing! Luckily I was able to watch it in English with a few other American elders. What a blessing. But we were able to watch all sessions and learn a lot. We had two families of investigators come to the Sunday afternoon session! They really liked it! It was great to see them there. On the way home from priesthood session, the ward mission leader offered us a ride and we crammed 6 missionaries in this tiny car and drove home. It was hilarious and he took pictures so hopefully he sends them to us. For lunch on Sunday we ate at the church with a family and they had a whole bunch of different foods. There was a bowl of something so I went over and was going to try it and I grabbed the spoon and stirred it up to see what it was... A FREAKING CHICKEN FOOT came to the top! I quickly walked away and pretended I never saw it. I hope I never have to actually eat that during the mission. P day was fun. We went to the Nike store and looked around and we walked around the mall for a little bit. Then we went across town and met up with our zone and President and his wife and we all went bowling. It went longer than expected though and that is why I was unable to email last week. It was a ton of fun though. Tuesday was tough. We walked all day long and people kept cancelling on us left and right. Tovar said that´s just part of the mission and to not let it get to you. We did have a baptisimal interview that night with Sergio and he should be getting baptised within the next week or two! Wednesday was good. We taught a father and son, Jose and Osvaldo, who seemed really interested in our lesson and we set up more appointments next week with them and I´m excited to see where it goes. For lunch we went to a members house and for some reason, the peppers are hotter here in Mexico. They said it was´nt hot and so I took a bite and I´m pretty sure there was a legit fire inside of my mouth. Hottest pepper I´ve ever had. The rest of lunch tasted like nothing and it was not a fun experience. I learned though that if someone says a pepper isn´t hot, they´re lying.  But ya the rest of they day was pretty good. We invited the Perez family to church and they said they´d come. Thursday we started a "swear" jar. We can´t say "flip" or "freak" or "a la goma" or stuff like that because it´s not very missionary-like and if we do we have to put 10 pesos in the jar. After a day we had about a 100 pesos because it´s hard for all of us to adjust. We've been doing better though. It´s just tough when something bad happens to you and you can´t say anything. For example like when I got pooped on by a bird... Ya, that sucked. Right onto my freshly washed pants. Elder Tovar thought it was hilarious and I did too after the fact. Initially, I was peeved but after I was laughing about it.  The next 3 days were great. Every day we had different members feed us and we had American food everytime. Domino´s pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs. Tasted like home. We also had a lot of cool meetings with investigators and a lot committed to coming to church or reading the Book of Mormon! Then last night, Elder Tovar and Burbidge had to go help President with something again so it was me and Elder Carr again. We had no success until the end of the night. We were walking home and saw a lady sitting on the side of the road and we started talking to her. Not really talking, more listening. She talked for a good 40 minutes straight and Elder Carr couldn´t get in a word. Then we finally had to cut her off and tell her we had to go to another appointment because it was 8:40 and we were still far from home. We gave her a pamphlet with our number on it and she seemed too excited to get our number. I think she just enjoys talking. But we had to speed walk home and barely made it in time. Today we went around the city and went to buffalo wild wings for lunch and just hung out. But ya it was a great two weeks. I can´t believe 2 months are already gone! Time is flying by. Thank you everyone for your prayers! I´m doing great and I love you all!

-Elder Fillmore