1st letter from Mexico after being there for one week.

Well the time here in Mexico has been rough and good at the same time this first week. The good is that we have 5 scheduled baptisms already for the next couple weeks. The bad is that the spanish here is quite different from the one i learned in the MTC! The accent is hard to understand, especially when they talk so fast its like its all blended together! It has been quite the lonely week with the gap in communication. My companion is from Peru and doesnt know next to any English. He has been in the field only since may. He is hard working though and his last companion finished his mission so he really didnt work hard last transfer and has a fire in him to do some work. His name is Elder Harvey. Eventually here in the next little while i will start filling in the missing puzzle pieces that bridge things here.
As for the town, it is called Alegre, which is a suburb of Mexico City. There is supposedly a lot of people out of town this whole last week for vacation for the New year so i havent had my real taste of how things are here yet. Practically every single house and building is made of cement here and the places where most the people live are no bigger than are middle floor. The people are really nice and will give you practically give you anything. Its really humbling to know they will make these good meals for us and they have a family and probably live on like 200 pesos a week or something. I have no clue but one dollar here is almost 14 pesos. So its pretty nice when its soo cheap. They have Walmart here to a.k.a Bodega Aurrera haha. Im quite the attraction to since the people live up to my expectations which means tami would be consider tall here hahaha. I have already taken my entire head out in the apartment to since there is a low spot. Always have to watch the ground and your head. One for dog crap, and the other for ropes, bars, and what not. Anyways i dont have too much time left. I bared my testimony my first week in church and man did it draw quite the crowd hahaha. No one knew who this tall white gringo was haha. Im excited to do work here though and i know i will have some extreme success with the people once i can get the language down and with the things im learning in my studying. That book The Infinite Atonement is reeeeeaaally good by the way. Gives me chills when i read it. I cant wait to finish it. entonces. les amo y epero que todo esta bien en Los Estados. Hasta luego!

Elder Scott