I had to give my first talk completely in Spanish this Sunday! It was only 5 minutes but i thought it went pretty well for my first talk in spanish.
On another note, for P-day last week we played soccer, volleyball, and basketball with a bunch of guys after we emailed our families. One thing that was really funny is me and my companion joined a soccer game that was 8vs8, and it was gringos (Americans) on one team and Mexicans(Latinos) on the other team. Apparently the mexicans always win by a lot, and that´s why they always want to play against the Americans. The game lasted for like 45 minutes and i scored 3 goals and we ended up winning 4-1, which was the first win the Americans have had in a while haha. They all asked me if i played for a university but i told them i just played in Highschool. They are all really good at ball handling and juggling, but they don´t know much about strategy and playing smart, probably because they never played on organized teams like me. The mexicans all called me ¨Manchester¨ because I was wearing a Manchester United soccer jersey and now everytime they see me at lunch they come over and they still call me Manchester.
There isn´t much wildlife here but there are TONS of birds. When we were sitting outside the classroom there were like 20 birds going crazy in a short palm tree. They were pretty annoying after a while so we went over to scare them, and all but one bird flew away. It was flapping its wings and trying to get away but it was stuck. We got on a chair and looked at it, and somehow it skewered itself on a palm tree branch-leaf thing! We slid it off the branch and it flew away, but we still have no idea how it managed to skewer itself on a branch haha. Too bad we didn´t get a picture, we can only have our cameras at our houses or on P-day, so we don´t get to use our cameras often.
Today for P-day we went to the temple! The most exciting part of that was driving through Mexico City for about 2 hours. You don´t know bad traffic until you´ve been in Mexico City. There are people using wheelbarrows in the middle of the street, there are people just walking in the middle of traffic for whatever reason, dogs are everywhere just roaming the streets, one was even laying down right in the center lane just chilling there. Almost every car we saw had dents or paint chipping off because they drive pretty crazy down here. There are soooo many people in the city, if there was any sort of zombie apocalypse or something Mexico City would be the worst place to be for sure.
One last note about Mexico, it rains A LOT this time of year. A couple nights ago it rained so hard we had a lake in the street in front of our house. If you all want to see pictures, i´m going to be sending pictures to my parents and they will put it on my blog since it´s kind of hard to send pictures over email. My blog link should be on my facebook, if not it will be soon!
I miss back home but this is where i´m supposed to be!
See you all in like 102 weeks!
Elder Jordan Pollock
