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More from Nueva Rosita

Hola Familia!! Alright, I tried to allow more time to update this week. I am doing better!! Its still pretty dang hard, but I am beginning to feel a little more comfortable and am just pretty much accepting I won{t understand anyone for a while. Not much has changed in the way of whats actually happened this week, but the Lord is truly blessing me with comfort through the words of his prophets and apostles. I have taken quite the liking to reading general conference talks and I will share some insight with ya{ll on what has been helping me later in this email. First, Mexico. So I sent a hand written letter home (and if my parents feel like typing it up yall can read it on my blog), but its pretty much Mexico. Nueva Rosita is really hot and seriously I am sweating ALL THE TIME. Its pretty disgusting actually, but I am so used to being hot now that I usually don{t notice. We eat a huge meal at lunch ( 2pm ) and basically only have a snack in the evening.. but I love ...

More about Nueva Rosita

Hola!! I have like 10 minutes left so I will try to type fast and give y'all an idea of Nueva Rosita! About 2 hours from the border. There are mostly paved roads, but pretty dirt and broken up. We often walk on gravel, and we walk everywhere. We occasionally take a bus or a van to a colonia further away in our area, but not super often. The church is nice and right in the center of town. Most people are pretty familiar with it. There are a lot of Catholics here and mostly other Christians, so that's a good foundation. Almost always people accept return appointments or to start the lessons, which sounds great except a lot aren't actually interested The people.. generally pretty friendly. This one man named Javier wants justice because he's very unhappy with his life, but hes not exactly on his way to accepting the gospel. He just constantly is asking me to help him and wants me to tell him the cure for diabetes hahaha.. he's pretty persistent with th...