The area I am in, Los Fresnos, is way out in the middle of nowhere. It is a small town just outside of Brownsville which is a town on the border near the ocean. Everything is really spread out and there are a lot of farms and fields! A lot of the stores and restaurants are completely Hispanic. On Tuesday we went to a tocaria and it was super good and cheap! This morning we went to a warehouse on the border to do something called "digging." Basically there is a giant pile of ties and you look through it for good ones and buy them for 50 cents. My companion's name is Elder Murdock and he is from Idaho Falls. As far as things in common we are both two white people in a Mexican town.😂😂 He is big into football and played at Boise state for a while before his mission. He has been in the mission for the same time as me. We came in to the field together but he went to the MTC in Mexico.
We do have a car! Our area is really big and everything is super spread out. But we only get 1200 miles a month so we still have to bike. I am still trying to figure out who everyone is here and who the people are that we are teaching but it seems like the members here are way more willing to help and do missionary work then in Harlingen and also it seems like there are more people here that we are teaching. We are actually in a ward here and there were 87 people that came to church. It was just barely made into a ward a little bit ago and there are so many people that come they had to add a portable building like thing on the property so everyone can sit in one room for sacrament! There are some people that have already been being taught but I am still trying to get to know all of them and what point they are at as far as progressing towards baptism. One of them that I know well is named Matthew and he is getting baptized this Saturday! The other one I know well is named Maria and she is a part member family and is super cool. We had a dinner appointment with her yesterday for her birthday.
Last night we knocked on an apartment door and a guy opened. We asked him how his night was going and he responded, "It was going..." He completely rejected us but he also told us to go talk to the people up above him. I am pretty sure he told us that thinking that they would wreck us with the bible. So we went upstairs and knocked the door. They let us in and we shared a message with them. I am pretty sure it was a preacher and his brother. He kept saying scriptures out of the bible with the exact reference and place where they are. We talked a lot about the need of the Book of Mormon and gave them one. I think we will be going by again in a few days to talk to them and see what they think.
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