Week 8 Industrial

Hello hello from Gomez Palacio. I hope you all had a great week! Lifes pretty great down here! So usually writing home i can never remember what i want to say so this past week i took notes. Hope its a little better. This past week The rains of La Laguna started. which as it turns out arent really rains at all ha. They are these giant dust storms that role through the towns and just well... They are awful ha. They happen every year from january until March or April... yay.. Also last monday I found a store called Alsuper. In this store theres tons of food from The United States! Oh I was in Heaven. Gold Fish, Oreos, Dr. Pepper! Very expensive, but worth it ha. One of My American zone leaders loved me for sharing ha. Also ive been having lots of problems with Chicken here. Usually it affects my throat but ever sense I got here it only affects my eyes. They go blood red and swell up. The Relief Society pres. has put a ban on Chicken for me. So in reality its a blessing for me that my throat is fine. Our water in our house has been really really muddy for the past week, which makes showering and washing our clothes disgusting ha. We dont really know what to do about that ha. I found out that pretty much everyone in our ward that is active is family. Some how they are all related ha. Its like a giant puzzle im just slowly putting together. This week has been crazy hot ( at least for me ) its been in the upper 80s and low 90s... Which as it turns out is nothing ha. in the summer, theyve told me it gets up to 125f!!!! Im gunna melt. On Wed. we have another baptism of a lady named Lety. Shes very funny. She loves church but hates getting taught by the missionaries. Usually people here are the opposite. This Baptism is very special for me because shes the first one that i actually taught from the beginning! Shes very excited! Cockroaches are killing ha. they are EVERYWHERE! Also i guess they arent even bad right now. In the summers theyve told me youll wake up with them in your bed and in your shoes. Weekends here are so crazy. Sense theres literally nothing to do here, everyone just throws these crazy bad parties with drugs and drinking... Things get pretty loco ha. This week i heard all the horror stories from a few years ago when the cartels were really bad. Lets just say im grateful things are some what calm right now. Hno John said he thinks things will go crazy again any day now. Im not sure... ( hes a little craazy ha ). Also they changed our agenda back. we had the new one for like 3 days and then presidente caught some Elders breaking it. We will find out what hes changing tomorrow during our zone meeting. Im guessing no 7:30 tho :/  It was a great 3 days ha! Lifes really good down here. Everydays a little better with a new challenge. The secret is just to stay happy :) Lucky for me the way to happiness is the gospel! I love bringing this happiness to others down here! make good choices this week yall! I love and miss you like always! Till next week! 

  Love Elder Richardson