It’s actually been a pretty good week, they seem to be going by faster now, which is good.
Belen is BEAUTIFUL!!! You should look it up. On one side are the Sandia Mountains and on the other side is a mesa and in the middle is the Rio Grande. The past 2 weeks have been the only weeks where the leaves change and they all changed to a gorgeous golden color. It was so pretty.
Oh my goodness, yes! So much good food. A lot of it is just stuff that I had never thought would go together and green chilies on everything, and when I say everything, I mean everything. The style in New Mexico is very different but good. It’s a mix of American with Mexican and Native American. Spicy spicy spicy food. But is really good! Guess what! One of the members fed us Coney dogs! Except New Mexican style with beans and green chili on top of the hamburger :) It was so good.
Halloween was ok, an Elder hit his year mark and apparently when an Elder his a mark its tradition to burn something. 6 months=a tie one year= a shirt so he burned a shirt on Halloween. It was kind of amusing.
It has been a pretty good week except for the sickness. One of the Elders who came out with me and is in this ward has Bronchitis, and I think I have it too. The others are calling it the "new missionary sickness" apparently everybody gets sick in their first area.
It’s been going pretty well. This week we had a couple of lessons with some interesting new people. All of the people that we are working with are former investigators who were dropped. The one with real potential was found tracting a few weeks before I was transferred into this area agreed to be baptized at the end of this month. He’s really nice, a big Native American guy. But we definitely have our work cut out for us because he and his girlfriend aren't married and we also have to teach all the lessons.
I really don't know what the missionaries before me were doing because it doesn't really seem like much has been done or accomplished and we are starting from scratch with almost everybody. But that's alright, it has been a really good experience for me.
Tomorrow, we are going up to the Albuquerque Temple with one of the Elder's recent converts to walk around the grounds, so that should be fun.
Love you!
Em
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