Hello friends and family,
Another week has passed crazily fast but every
Monday feels like the past Monday was a million years ago. On Tuesday I hit my
5 month mark. Wow! We taught English class and then headed on
out to La Vainilla, by combi 45 minutes away and it’s super green and pretty. It seemed like all of the La Vainilla was
cookin up Iguanas that day. If any of you have dissected a frog in science
before it’s kind of like that, cut open belly over a grill. I was fortunate
enough to pick two up. First, one that
was being cooked and another that was still alive, awaiting his doom. I’m told they taste like chicken and fish put
together but I still don’t know. Iguanas
are a pretty hot commodity here though.
I’ve heard you can buy one for about 200 pesos or if you have really
good aim you can use a slingshot to catch them.
Very exciting stuff.
On Wednesday we took a bus to Tonala for a
district meeting. When I we got back to
Mapa, it was miserably hot. While we
were eating dinner at a member’s house I was leaving wet marks on her table
from my arms and we were both dripping.
You know it’s hot when sweat falls from your eyebrows into your
soup. On Thursday it was also crazy hot
but in the afternoon the clouds literally dumped a lake on Mapa so that was
nice.
On Friday we had English classes and we have a
new student who’s 74 years old. It’s
pretty great. That night all the members
met up at the church and we had an activity at midnight. I think it’s the first and last time to play
Temple Jeopardy at midnight but the combi (transportation mini van) for the temple
was leaving at 1:30 am so we had the job of keeping everyone awake. We got to the temple around 5:30 am for
breakfast, and then entered around 6:30 am.
We had a lot of first timers which was super awesome. We left Tuxtla around 2 pm and finished out
the day strong with some lessons.
Sunday we invited one of my favorite investigators
over to eat with us at a member’s house after church and he accepted a
baptismal date. I was crying internally,
it was amazing! It also rained a ton but
we forgot our umbrellas so we used sweaters and it was not very fun. All in all, it was a good week. Two phenomenons I’d like to note though. First, is that when it’s raining, the people
here are cold. It is not cold out, but
they put on pants, jackets, and shoes.
It’s very bizarre but they’re all so accustomed to heat that they get
cold really fast. Also, the tortilla stereotype is 500% true. Sometimes people ask us for money but it’s always
so they can buy tortillas. In prayers
when the people give thanks for the food, it’s thanks for the tortillas. There is a stack at every single meal and
often we don’t use silverware or napkins, we use tortillas. I am so not kidding. There’s a Tortilleria on every corner, like
Starbuck’s or 7-11’s back home. Mexico
lives off of tortillas. One shock is
real when I tell people we don’t have Tortillerias in the US. A tortilleria is a store that exclusively
sells tortillas. That’s my cultural
thought for the week. Haha. Until next Monday!
Con much amor, Hermana Dangl
Herman Dangl & Hermana Arellano in front of the Tuxtla Temple
A picture with my favorite child here in the mission, he is so cute!
Soaked by the rain, and using a sweater because we forgot our umbrellas.
Yes I am really sweating here a lot. It is dripping off of my face.
The iguana awaiting his time to be cooked.
Barbecued Iguana!
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