Seth left his athletic shoes at home so he had to buy these Nikes down there. Having bought shoes in Mexico may have contributed to his picking up the game of soccer (aka futbol) Here is a related comment form his last letter. "I have been blessed to get better at soccer, and I enjoy it a lot now." He should be grateful, when I was in Argentina all those years ago, we weren't allowed to play any sports. (Should I be over that by now?)
Seth said he took this picture of Elder Zimmerman because he didn't have a close up of him. This is the room where they go to send their emails on P-day. Seeing the look on his face and the logo on his T-shirt, my guess is that he just read a report from his family about the BYU offense.
Seth was pleased to buy these covers for his scriptures. About them he said, "I bought these as a good visual aid during lessons and to have something from the mission."
Immersing missionaries in the culture of their country of service is an important part of missionary preparation. In reference to Thursday and Friday, Seth said, ". [Thursday and Friday} are Mexico's Independence Day. They were very decorated everywhere in the CCM and they had a lot of good food for the meals, including Pazole (I think) which is a lot hotter than I expected it to be. I wish I had taken pictures this day because it was cool. That night we had a cultural celebration in the gym. There was some nuts dancers and a mariachi band. They had a tribal dance where they had a lot of cool fire tricks and what not." Since he didn't provide pictures of the celebration, I picked up a couple from the Internet.
I will finish with his report of Sunday:
"Then we had our 2nd Apostle Devotional in a week from Elder Ballard who spoke on rule keeping and being a light to cut through the confusion of the world. He quoted Pres. David O Mckay and said, 'It's better to be trusted than to be loved.' And I like that a lot, because I know the purest love will come from being trusted, just maybe not a first."
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