VERACRUZ-IN' : HOLAAA!

Hola! Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! My Thanksgiving was a lot different than the usual. On Thanksgiving day we had interviews with the mission president. I actually forgot it was Thanksgiving day until we got to the chapel in Tierra Blanca and the mission president´s wife, Hermana Palmer, shouted out HAPPY THANKSGIVING when we arrived. Hahaha, she then presented us with our Thanksgiving feast... carrots, ranch, and granola bars! It wasn't quite as filling as the other Thanksgiving dinners I have had, but it's all good. The interviews themselves went pretty smoothly. Presidente Palmer gave me great advice like usual and I´m working on applying it this week. The rest of my Thanksgiving day was spent with the one lesson we had scheduled, lunch with a recent convert (we had the usual... chicken) and my piano classes. And yeah that was my Thanksgiving! It was actually a lot more fun than it sounds. Haha, the rest of the days this week were pretty normal, except for Saturday.

Brand new puppy!!

Hermano Juan and I rocking his sombreros. The one I am wearing is actually really expensive!

On Saturday, we had quite the interesting day. We left the house at 7:00 am (we usually leave at 10) to go help the parents of a member in the ward cut down a tree... or so we thought. We got there and found out that the father had already cut it down (He is a 75ish year old man and is a magician with an ax!). So instead of cutting down a tree, we cut the tree stumps up into firewood. It was pretty interesting because he only had one ax and well we didn't know what we were doing... haha he had to show us how. After tearing up one of the stumps, we finally got the hang of it and finished off the rest of the tree. But yeah so that's how we spent our morning, they also gave us these super good empanadas and a ton of bananas. Elder Mendez and I combined ate about 16 empanadas. After that we visited Arturo and Soledad, they also gave us a ton of food, chicharron tacos, and then after that we visited Juan and Lucia, who also gave us a ton of food, a whole fish each... We were literally dying the whole day. After stuffing ourselves even more with the fish, Hermano Juan took us on another one of his tours, because they started harvesting the cañas, which from what I saw are these super large sugar canes. He also took us on another tour to show us his new baby cow! It was born literally that morning! It was super fun, unfortunately the mom was super protective so we weren't able to get too close to the baby but it was still way cool! Pics are below. But yeah that was the most noteworthy things that happened this week! Hope you all have a great week this week and enjoy the cold (I'm still dying of heat out here...)! Miss you all!