Monterrey Mac: Que Paso? (Semana 10)

Group activity today. Someone thought this was a good idea.
(Me, Allred, Diaz, De la Cruz)

Hola!!!! Well its has been such an amazing month here!! So much has gone on and it is so crazy to think I have been here that long. At times it can feel slow but for the most part it has been flying.
Ok so this week has flown by and it was pretty busy but sadly I can't remember all the details but it was such an awesome week.
This week was a week full of Holidays...well two. So Tuesday was Halloween and that was a great day to experience in Mexico. All the kids were dressed up and went trick-o-treating and so it was pretty hard to go out and do stuff so we ended up going to the familia de Roman and eating some muy muy bien rico pollo y hot dogs. They are such good people and we ended up helping them out a bit, cleaned up, did a little bit of cooking, ate, shared a scripture, then left. It was a pretty good Halloween if you ask me. On Thursday it was Día de Muerte. It was a pretty awesome day but we really didn't get to do much. The best part though was the Pan Muerte. It was so rico and was so amazing. They only eat it on Nov 2nd so I am really glad I was here to experience that.

So we have been teaching an hermana that has recently lost her husband and this dia was a little difficult for her. But her faith and courage and trust in God is so so strong. When we had visited her the next day she told us that it had been really rough but that she felt so much comfort reading from the Book of Mormon in Alma captitulo 7 in verses 11-13. It talks about the sacrifice Jesus has made for all of us that we might return and live with him again. This gave her so much peace and when she shared that with us my testimony was strengthened so much. She also has a goal to be baptized next week!!
The last short story from this week that I would like to compartir about a man named Manuel. So the beginning of this is pretty funny and really cool. SO we had planned on visiting a reference for someone that lived in these apartments in our area. So we went to visit and knocked the door. We had been told that it was a young woman with a new baby. But the man who opened the door did not fit that description. First of all it was a man. He was single and in his late 50s. He opened the door and started talking to us for a bit. We found out he has a son that is Mormon but he never really was interested. Well that is until now. He told us about some stuff that had recently happened and that he is pretty sad and that this is a message from God that he should follow Christ and change his ways so that he can find the peace and joy that his son has. That was such a cool thing to hear from him and we are planning to meet with him later this week.
Oh!! We had intercambios with the Zone Leaders this week and the elder that I was with (Elder Tirrell) was sick and was losing his voice so we had one more lesson to go and his voice was totally gone so I ended up having to teach most of it. Which was a pretty scary experience because mi español isn't the best.

So yeah that has been my life this week!!
Les extraño y les amo muchisimo!!!!
Con Amor
elder mcallen....(Lol, no one here can say my name so they all say mcallen, gringo, guerro, mcdonalds, MC, mac and trump...these are the names I get and it's pretty entertaining if you ask me)