Week 2 in Mexico

hello everyone! Alot has happened in this last week. i feel like ive been here for like a year already...happy two weeks to me i guess. I heard it flies by after the first transfer though, so hopefully people arent lying. i think its going by slow because ive been a bit pessimistic and i totally need to change that. i dont know its kinda hard cause my comp is kinda lazy. He doesnt ever want to contact or visit new people or walk. And thats all i really every wanna do. i want to change peoples lives and have this change mine too, but its hard to do when i feel like we arent reaching our potential. We could be doing so much more to help the people. I told him no more taxis or buses and we are going to have a full schedule no messing around. Yeah so theres a few times ive wanted to punch him in the face but i dont. 

So they feed us like crazy here! But only for lunch cause thats the only meal we get here. My companion has been out for 13 months adn has gained 60 pounds....i eat three times as much as he does... So be prepared for me to weigh like 250 lbs when i get home. the other day i ate 18 tacos for my pre-lunch and two soups with 10 tortillas con rice and chili for my real-lunch. I eat so much! And i never get full. All of the mexicans think it is so weird that im white, eat so much, and love hot chili (peppers or jalepenos). I will literally eat anything that they give me. 

The people here are nuts...like i told you last week. This member who we teach alot, Fermin, was driving us to an appointment and hit a guy that was walking. The guy rolled onto the front of the car and then rolled off. He got oup and walked away like nothing happened...Then Fermin drove off like nothing happened. I was trippin out in the back seat. 

Ive taught a few lessons now all by myself. im learning way fast apparently, but not fast enough for me. i know i can do more and learn faster i just have to really work hard and focus. In the lessons the people dont care if my spanish isnt completely correct, the get the message and they like me cause i try to apply it to their lives...maybe too much. I try to kinda make them feel guilty but in a good way 

cause they want to change...yeah now that i write that it sounds bad. Oh well. They all call me Flaco cause im so skinny but im mucho fuerte. haha.I prepared a whole lesson and taught it to a new investigator for her first lesson. She is now getting babtized. Yeah im way stoked. I taught the second to last paragraph in the intro to the BOM and then D&C8:2-3. and put her name instead of "oliver cowdery". Yeah it was cool i was stoked i did so good. But my spanish still sucks to me.

Everything is good here i just think about yall way to much. Everytime i get sad or frustrated i listen to that Jeffrey R. Holland talk that jesse gave me on the importance of a mission. Yeah if that doesnt make you want to go on a mission or stay on a mission i dont know what will. 

I love you guys so much!

Con Amor, Elder COnley

p.s. Happy birthdays to Haley and Conley!!!!!!! Sorry i missed yours haley i didnt have time last week at all.Today i went shopping for shoes for conley and for some reason my debit card from back home wont work so i couldnt get her anything. Yeah i saw the coolest shoes im so bummed i cant be there . Love you!