My new hijo!

Hola Familia,

This was probably one of the craziest/best weeks of the misión so far. My new companion (which I will be referring to as….mi hijo) is Elder Golledge from Temecula, California. He is a stud and we are going to have so much fun. I think I was laughing all week because I had completely forgotten how bad my Spanish was when I first got here. Luckily Elder Golledge is reminding me a lot how I used to be with Elder Obregon…..always so confused and not knowing what is going on. He´ll get the hang of it though. Its just funny when he does door contacts and stuff because he says lots of funny things that doesn’t make sense and then he just looks at me so that ill start talking. He is a surfer dude and played water polo and swam in highschool. I think we will get along great.

As for our new area, it is waaaay different then my previous areas. It is neither in the city nor a pueblo. Its kinda in between. But, there are a TON of people. Like I said in my last letter; there are 4 Elders in our ward. We brought 4 people to church which was pretty good for only having like a day and a half to work this week. Mi hijo didn’t get here until Wednesday in the afternoon and we spent all Wednesday night and Thursday moving into our new apartment. Our apartment, believe it or not, is the smallest one that I´ve been in so far. (I didn’t think that was possible) The good thing is though, that we are almost never in our house, just to sleep and study.

The members in our new ward are awesome and i´ve been able to get to know a lot of them in the last week. For example, yesterday at church a family asked if we could help them move some tables and couches and stuff at their house. So we went over there that night to help them and Elder Stirland and Elder Sanchez were already there. Then I was like waiting for them to tell me what to move and stuff and they brought out a huge cake with candles. They said that they wanted me to feel special here in my first week especially since it was my birthday on Tuesday. They felt bad that I was in a new area on my birthday. Ill send pictures next week, I forgot my camera.

My birthday went well though. We bought domino´s pizza and lit off fireworks. (My area Tultepec is the firework central of Mexico….. there are fireworks going off every single night) I was lighting fireworks off and I almost lit an abandoned house on fire on accident. That would have been a great birthday present, to get put in Mexican jail and have my Mission President bail me out. Haha

So yea, everything is going great. The work moves on! Im excited for my new area and my new companion and My Mission President wrote me a really nice email today thanking me for the work that I have shown thus far in my mission.

I know this church is true. I love the work. I love Mexicans. I love my family. I love everything.
Con amor,
Elder Greg Heap