Alex Eaton's Mission: Querétaro, Mexico: April 2015

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Queretaro Mexico Week 28: 7 Months Baby!

Elder Eaton mailing address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email: Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

Blog: alexeatonmission.blogspot.com

Hola familia!!!

So this week has been pretty chill to say, the least, nothing crazy has happened and everything is going good. It turns out nothing has happened to us in the past 3 weeks because our investigator Victor (who knows all of Cortazar) got us a bunch of protection, and a lot of people looking out for us on all the street corners, so that is pretty cool. We have been a lot of weird contacts lately. We have stopped trying to make an effort to contact people because every single street someone will stop us and want to talk to us. There are some that we feel kind of iffy about, so when someone comes up to us we each make a personal prayer if we should stay and talk to them or end the conversation. More than once the spirit has told us that we should just leave, so we give them a card with the address of the capilla on it and tell them to attend the church at 10:00.

Then some other contacts have been just weird. One guy stopped us on the street completely drunk and began to cry about how he wanted to have my blond hair and eyes and Elder May´s tallness. I felt really bad for him but we cant teach him anything at all. Overall, this week is just straight up normal and we have found a new family with a less active that lives with them. The dad doesn't want anything to do with us but he said he would love for his family to have religion in their life. Their house is super dirty and we always see cockroaches and mice running around but they are pretty awesome people and super poor. They want more than anything to have a change in their life. And I can't wait for that day :) Love you guys tons and miss you too!!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Photos

1)Elder May was tired and decided to play his guitar while lying on the floor

2)More Weird Graffiti, thats a tele tubby

3)We found American Eagles in a mall. I felt American

4) It is the biggest flag I have ever seen in my life

Monday, April 20, 2015

Queretaro Mexico Mission Week 27

Elder Eaton mailing address:

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Mexico Queretaro Mission

Avenida Pis De La Cuestra No. 102

Esq. Boulevard Desarrollo San Pablo

Colonia Colinas De San Pablo, Querétaro

Querétaro, C.P. 76125 Mexico

Email: Alex.eaton@myldsmail.net

Blog: alexeatonmission.blogspot.com

Well, the good news is that I have not had transfers, thats in 2 weeks! hahaha but I want to stay here so bad with Elder May as my companion. Not only do we get along great, we also work insanely hard! We just had a baptism Saturday of a lady named Virginia. She started bawling as soon as she came up out of the water and me (being me) quickly joined her in sobbing. It was amazing. We all felt the spirit insanely strong and that joy that I felt is at least a fraction of what God feels when we take a huge step towards him. I am sure he cried out of joy too :)

No more muggings. We had a zone conference with the president in which Elder May volunteered us to be the examples on how to contact people. We got torn to shreds of course and my self esteem was at an all time low but I learned a lot!!! We also FINALLY saw Meet the Mormons and I think every missionary was crying at the end when the mom (whos story is so sad but has an awesome ending) says goodbye to her son when he leaves on the mission and just refuses to let him go. That really made me think of mom, which was good, but also super sad too. But I am all good now.

Lots of new investigators and we have also left behind a ton of people. We find a bunch of people, which is actually insanely easy here seeing as how Elder May is 6'3 and I am blond, so we stick out pretty easily. We have a lot of people just coming up to us at the streets and asking us why there are 2 gringos here, so contacting is pretty good now.

Love,

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Photos

1)THey got some fine graffiti here

2)I have officially destroyed my first pair of pants on the mission!!

3)Baptism of Virginia!!

4)We spent a half hour trying to figure out how to fill up the font

5)After we baptized Virginia, We baptized the area too. At least thats how it felt like. All parts were completely submerged so we dont have to do it again

6) We ran out of food, so I improvised and made a cheese sandwich. It was made of Manchester Cheese subsituting the bread,spread with mayonaise, turkey inbetween, with a delicate spread of ketchup in the center. It tasted awful but it was food

Monday, April 13, 2015

Queretaro Mexico Week 26

Hola familia!!

Well, first off, It looks like Cole is officially taller than me, almost glad I am in Mexico for this moment. But he does look insanely ripped to shreds. Easter here was super weird. They had a "Holy Week" so everyone was on vacation all week. It honestly didn't hit me that it was Easter unitl the second session of Sunday conference!! Halfway through, it just hit me and I just thought Wow. I am in Mexico.

But As for conference, my favorite one, as you might have guessed, was Boyd K Packers, when he said "A kiss and a cookie. That sounded pretty good to me". Now that I am on a mission, I am understanding way more what marriage will be like. I am super grateful for your guys example of really how a marriage should be, supporting each other even when you are kind of angry and frustrated with your bratty kids, but just loving us a bunch, so thanks for that. I know I have a year and a half to go, but that talk kind of mentally slapped me in the face, seeing as how I am that kind of guy. But, also it helped me to really have a direction in mind to lead our investigators who aren't married or who are struggling. It is very rare that people here in Mexico are married, so it kind of gives me a base to go for.

I watched Saturday general conference in english, and then watched Sunday in spanish. Sunday general conference was awesome when the Members of the Quoroum of the Seventy talked in Spanish! And then Uchtdorf got up and went German on everyone! The spanish translators that were translating everything to spanish didn't know what to say and started laughing when he realized he was talking in German, so that was awesome! That has been my week and also I forgot my camera, so no photos, sorry!! But i love you guys and miss you tons!!

Love

Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Star child

PS can you tell Brother Robbins we also listened to the Portuguese speaker in Portuguese in an attempt to see if we could understand it. We got the gist of it, but really Portuguese is just really bad Spanish

Monday, April 6, 2015

Queretaro Mexico Week 25

Leon is pretty awesome!! It is also known as the city where everything is made out of leather and it is all super cheap! To put it to the test, I went and bought dress shoes from a Flexi Factory and a nice belt. It was about $50, so yeah, not too shabby. We have two for sure baptisms this month, possibly another one, but that one we are not too sure about. Ill be sure to take pictures with them to send to you. The people here are generally nice and a lot of people here know english, so out of nowhere, a bunch of people start coming up to us and talking in broken english, so that is pretty fun.
Something weird that happened is that we are teaching a pastor of another church. He is not of any religion, he just decided to start his own church and yeah. The entire time I was just thinking of how fast he would be shut down if he was in the USA. We will probably be dropping him this week but we are finding a bunch of people too. We contacted a guy on the street and he asked if he could be baptized BUT stay a catholic. We explained why he couldn't and invited him to church. We honestly didnt expect him to come, but there he was, at the sacrament meeting and the first two hours!! In gospel principles we quickly realized how confused this guy was, because everytime he had a question he ranted for about 5 minutes and we are pretty sure he was a bit drugged, so we have work to do.
Elder May and I are still getting along great, just as you would expect. It was his birthday saturday so we ate a crap ton of costco chocolate cake and watched church movies, so it was pretty fun. We still have a bunch of food and I think we would be alright in the zombie appocalypse right now!! But I did get Grandma's package, so that was legit, we used all the party decorations for Elder May, so that was so awesome!! It was a great week. I bought a camera too! Love you guys, peace out

Love,
Elder Alex Chadwick Eaton

Photos
1)Sister Green from Gilbert is in my zone!!
2)Zone photo
3)Elder May got swoll
4)Elder May is DL, So while he went to Queretaro, I stayed in Leon with the other Elders
5)Elder Mays birthday, we Partied hard. His firefighter friend gave him that apron
6) We got Dairy Queen and we felt American