Hey everyone!! This week has been a little different than normal. For one, it's rained quite a bit. And we haven't been able to get out and work all that much this week. But it’s still been a pretty good one.

We spent last Monday and Tuesday in Ajijic with the Zone Leaders. Another companionship in our Zone came too. It was pretty nice. Monday night we had the chance to attend a Family Home Evening in Ajijic with a family from Canada. Only the dad speaks Spanish, and the rest were English speakers. I felt right at home haha! It was like being back in Utah for two hours. And we had ice cream, which was marvelous! 

The rest of the week was normal until early Thursday morning. I got really sick. I won't go into detail, and I hope you'll appreciate that, but it was not nice. We ended up not leaving the house that day because I couldn't stand for very long without feeling like I was going to die. So we just spent the day watching every church movie we had. We watched Meet the Mormons twice, in Spanish and English. The next day I was feeling a lot better, so we decided to go out. But around 12:30 we got a text from our Zone Leaders that we couldn't leave the house after 4 pm because there was a hurricane or something on the coast. I'm not exactly sure what the problem was, because I couldn't quite understand what my companion was saying. He has this great habit of saying things even faster when I ask him to repeat himself. It's just great.

(When we told Kaden that it was a very large hurricane that passed right over him, his response was: Oh wow.... haha well that’s nice to know haha. I have no access to any sort of news here. And the information I do get is meddled in the translation haha!)

Friday was another day without many results. So we've spent the last two days trying to do everything we can to achieve our goals for the week. We got pretty dang close too!

But overall this week has been pretty good. We watched an inning of baseball waiting for one of our investigators, we've has some pretty good food (more tacos, tacos duro, this amazing carne vegetable slosh stuff that we don't know the name of, gorditas), and some great experiences. We also had our District Conference this Sunday. It’s the equivalent of Stake Conference, but we're not a Stake. We got to meet a lot more people, and President and Hermana Egginton were there. They took pictures to put on the "Facebook Celestial" they have. But that’s about it.

I've understood Spanish a lot more, and I really noticed during the Conference when I actually could follow a few of the talks. But of course it’s easier when they are talking about the church the whole time! It's coming along and progressing, but it’s still a challenge. But it’s getting better. I can really start to see hope at the other end of the tunnel for my Spanish haha!

We’ve had some good lessons. The best was with the blind investigator, he is really awesome and receptive. Also, the son of one of the less-active members died this week. We visited them, had a great lesson about the Atonement. Hermana Rodrigues gave the prayer at the end, cried, and the Spirit was strong. They ended up coming to the Conference with a lot of their family too!

Faith has been the biggest change here for me on the mission. Faith, and the direct blessings I've received because of it. And the weakness thing, it’s so true. We are so weak. But one of my favorite chapters is when Ammon and his brothers return from their missions, and he boasts in the Strength of the Lord. It’s a truly great chapter!!

I love you all, and I love hearing from you! Thank you for all your prayers, and you're always in mine!! Have an amazing week!

Love, 

Elder Kaden Quinn

1- Elder Taveras is fascinated with the trains haha! Every time it passes we have to stop and watch for a few minutes.

2- The sun rise in Ajijic off Lake Chapala.

Found a little lizard outside our house. Pretty cool.  Apparently they are everywhere, but this is the first I've seen.

Saltines and Electrolytes for days!!

And proof that I'm still alive! This was even the day after I got sick, so yeah.

 P.S.- that day, I lost 6 pounds.... !!!!!