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10-28

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Aight so I know a lot of you guys on this list are cool and tough and all that, but are yall cool enough or tough enough to join the BANDA MACHOS?? I think NOT!!! PS we only sing macho man by the Village People soooo. So I've been eatin big lately because I splurged and bought peanut butter and jelly and I've eaten probably about five sandwiches a day bc anything that tastes like america right now is my fam as in pb&j, rootbeer, and pizza. My ward here is actually the best. My bishop brought me and my compa blankets and a heater because we were eating with our favorite ward hermanas and they asked how we were doing with the cold and we admitted we only had sheets and no hot water. So they called the bishop who called the mish pres who told the secretaries to get us some stuff but they wouldn't till monday so opispo brought us the goods. Also we fixed our water heater in the true mexican way and we got gas so I had my first hot shower in three weeks on saturd...

Jaurez 10-14

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Aight yall where do i even start. So the last night in the ccm was rough because my distict was so tight. I stayed up till 2 playing rook, i got a perfect game, 200 pts, btw, and then said goodbye to the cancun peeps. Then it was my turn. We got to juarez and everyone was like depressed, but we went to the president's house, which is like parade of homes nice, and had some good fake mexican food, and then went to a hotel to sleep. I met my new compa in the morning, hes from ecuador and is actually an amazing missionary. I'm his first son, or trainee tho so its a little rough. Our area has been closed for a while, idk why, so we didn't have any leads or knowledge of the area at all so its been kind of cool to start from scratch. One night we were in a dark alley and a huge dog started shaking a whole garage door and it freaked me out, and the drunk people are like a zoo here, but other than that the people are great. We concact a ton of people every day, but then when the ...

First day in the field

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Hey haha I stayed up pretty much all night with my house because half of them were going to cancun at two in the morning and then I left at four in the morning so Im pretty tired. Mexican airlines are sketchy it was weird we took a bus on the runway and walked to the plane lol. I got to sit by peters on the plane so that was nice and we stay at a hotel tonight so one last party before i meet my new companion. the mission president seems cool and so do the people i just didnt expect to miss the ccm this much but idek what this has to offer so i just want to get into it. Ill let you know more when i actually know more. Love you Elder Roberts

Photos from the Mexico MTC

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Photos from the Mexico City MTC. Elliot leave Monday morning to go to Juarez.