Two white guys can't just walk into a Mexican military base

HI! haha How's it going? We had a good week, it flew by really. So to start off we tried contacting different places in our area. I lucked out because our area is HUGE! We have a lot of small village city things that we visited. The pictures are of a lizard we caught that is the size of a pinky finger haha and the other is of a city we traveled to called Tzimol (see-mole) haha. It's really really green over there because it rains a lot. The elevation is a little higher as you can see it's touching the clouds! The people were really nice and we entered into a lot of houses and barely contacted. The only problem is that there isn't a branch or church there so it's hard if not close to impossible to try and pay the travel to attend church. We found a family that a guy lives with his wife and two brothers that both have cancer in the head. One of them is named Julio Guadalupe and is 57 years old and acts like he is 7 and the other is 55 and is named Roberto Josè Domingo. Roberto doesn't have a left ear nor the top left part of his scull...it was really sad to see. His brother took off his bandage to show us...not sure why but he did and it doesn't have words to describe how it looked. I know Kay Bragg would have thrown up for sure haha. But we said a prayer and were going to visit him this Wednesday again.  The other place we tried contacting...is a Mexican military base haha. We tried going in the main area but 5 guys with rifles stopped us haha. We tried another part and there wasn't anyone so we just started to contact and they found us haha but we knocked 7 doors before we got kicked out. Apparently two white guys can't just walk into a Mexican military base and start talking about Christ haha. It was fun though. We went to this orphanage place where there are tons of kids and talked with the director there. We set up an activity there for the 22nd de October. It should be pretty fun.  There was a war thing in our city between two gangs and it was pretty intense. We didn't see much, just a lot of people with poles and machetes. I think its over haha. But yeah that was our week, pretty fun. Everything is going well. Hope everything is going well in the states. Smile! Oren!


Elder Braden M. Spence