Silence

Hi family,

Lets see... this week was alright. That p day kind of messed it up though cause we didn´t have any down time and didn´t get much done. 

We were walking through Suchiapa one day and we saw a fairly tall house with a couple doves on it. We decided we should go to that one. When we walked up to it, it had a wall all the way around it and a big yard, with grass! Its really rare to see that here. The other thing was that it felt like it had air conditioning pumping out of it, the doors and windows were open so we weren´t really sure but it felt amazing. No one answered the door that day but we were definitely going to go back until they did. We finally went back on Saturday and a guy was just sitting in his chair without a shirt of course. He just looked at us and asked what we wanted. We didn´t really say anything to him for some reason, just hello. He ended up getting out of his chair and coming to talk with us. All he asked was where we were from, we told him, and he let us in. He said he never lets any religious people like us in. I guess we were the first ones. He said he turned down just about every religion. He didn´t even know what church we were cause he ended up saying his son went on some two year thing with those Mormons or something like that. We told him thats what we were. We ended up having a good lesson with him. At the end of that he took us out to his back yard. He has a ton of birds, some deer, a rot weiler, and a really ugly turkey. I was able to get some pics of some Tucans while I was there. He is very rich. His daughter left and said she had to get a suitcase. He asked how much money she needed and pulled out his wallet full of $50 bills (500 pesos). When we left, we were walking away and he called us back. He asked how we were doing financially and if we needed any money. Pretty tempting but we of course turned it down. 

We helped clean the church on Saturday as well and the only people to show up were one of our investigators, his wife and her sister ( who are members), and Hermana Angelica. I was kind of mad cause that doesn´t look too good. We cut the grass with some machetes and cleaned all the water that was in the building from a rain storm.

Yesterday was pretty cool too. The whole day just seemed to drag on for some reason. We were just walking all over town and nothing was happening. We had one lesson and that didn´t go too well. After that we saw a road that looked like it didn´t go anywhere but we decided to walk down it. It was a dirt road with fields all around it. One of the fields had a soccer field and a donkey. Welcome to Mexico! We just kept walking and walking. We ended up at the river with a big suspension bridge over it. We went over that and just kept going. We walked up a hill and ended up in a different town. It´s called Rivera Buena Vista. We walked all the way through that. It was so weird to be there. Its really small and the houses are actually spaced apart. At one point we had about 8 dogs start barking and running at us but nothing happened there. We walked to where there were no houses and stopped. For the first time in our missions there was silence. This was pretty amazing. Suchiapa is a pretty loud place, all the time. We just stood there and listened for awhile. We could still hear birds and crickets of course but no one was driving, yelling in a speaker, and shooting off fireworks. I then saw a guy walking down a road with a rifle in his hands and we headed back. I haven´t seen that much here. I think he was just hunting though. We talked with a few people there and we are going to go back this week. I didn´t have my freaking camera this whole time, cause the battery was dead, but I will next time. 

Well, that was my week. I better go.

I love and miss you all!
Aaron