Hola de Tehuaca

Hey guys! Soooooo once again I have no time to write emails. Just know that I love each one of you and appreciate all your emails! So I am in the field! I'm in the Zone Tehuacan and Area Observatario. I'm working very hard and Spanish is coming along pretty well. I'm loving the people. My companion is Elder Hernandez and he is from Sinola.  He is great and we love to work hard.  He only speaks Spanish so my Spanish will get better really quickly.  We have a lot of inactive members in our ward so we are working on reactivating them.  We are also teaching a lady who is seriously considering baptism but she knows what a big decision it is, so she wants to take her time and be sure.  I think she is being really smart about it.   The members are taking good care of me.  Lunch is the main meal here and we eat with members.  I eat chicken every lunch.  There are pollerias at every corner. My stomach has had a few issues with the food but I am working through it.  

My apartment is only about 5 minutes from the church which is nice.  My comp told me that they used to have a lot of bed bugs but they recently smoked them out.  He said he had a lot of bites.  I have my mattress cover on the mattress - so far so good.  We don't have warm water in the shower, so we warm the water on a hot plate and then use a cup to pour it over our heads.  Fun times.  

I've been able to play some basketball and volleyball here.  My comp is pretty good at futbol and has been teaching me some tricks.  He is really good at juggling.  Sometimes we play futbol de las puertas in our apartments.  We just basically use the doors as goals.  

Our area is really big and we do a lot of walking.  When we are desperate we take a combi for a few pesos when we have to get up the big hills.  

Thanks for all of your prayers and emails.