Week 13 October 23-29 English Classes

Hey Everyone,

So, this week has been pretty crazy! We have started to teach English classes for Guerrero and Tecomatalan. We hold them each Tuesday and Thursday. We will be doing so for the next several weeks. They have been going really great and have been fairly successful! Last Thursday I had 30 people come, 14 of which were nonmembers! Slowly but surely, I have been trying to figure out how to teach English. It definitely is a bigger bite than I wanted to take, but I’m figuring it out! And it is going pretty great!

I left my camera at home, so I don’t have any pictures. But next week I’ll send them all!

So, we went to a member’s house on Friday for lunch and it was an adventure. She lived 30 minutes away by bike in the middle of nowhere. When we were riding to her house, a huge snake almost tried to bite me, but Elder Cruz freaked out and I was able to get away hahaha. It was black and orange and looked so creepy. It was a little bit longer than my arm. We decided to ride our bikes from that point on. Anyways when we went to the members house we had great Mole Rojo. It was super good, you should all try it. I think Red Iguana has it! This woman was very sweet and talked about how her son had passed away, but instead of falling into her own sorrow she looked outward and upward and started to help other people. She developed a passion for making her own things and teaching others to do the same. She was very sweet and really taught me to always keep learning and improving. She reminded me that that is exactly what our gospel is about, always improving, always trying harder to be a little better. It was sweet to feel the spirit of her home. After the comida (food) we went to the capilla (chapel) to set up our acitividad missional (missionary activity). We made a scripture scavenger hunt to lead 4 teams all around the building. The activity was to teach team building and how we are all trying to reach the same goal of salvation. We need to help others to achieve that goal as well. It took us about an hour and a half to hide all the cards. When we had finished, 20 minutes before we needed to start, Elder Cruz realized he mixed up the cards and none of the clues were in the right spot. The WML and I had to re-find all the cards we hid and then hide them again. It took an hour to find and redistribute them again. Luckily everyone here in Mexico comes 40 minutes late to every activity so it ended up working perfectly! The Lord truly helped us find all the papers again.

Today for our district activity we tried to make pizza roles we had all the ingredients but the ovens here in Mexico just aren´t the same.  It took forever to cook and ended up not being that great. But we had a ton of fun playing capture the flag.

The mission field is awesome and full of surprises! I have never felt so much closer to God. I know he loves each and every one of us and wants to help us with our trials

Love you all,

Elder Snow.