The land that was flat

So México really is beautiful, in its own special way. I know there are areas that are more tropical, and areas along the shore. There are mountains and trees and crawling creatures. But my part, is very much so a desert. We had a lot of wonderful rain and monsoons last week, but they have not made it any more green! It isn´t bad, its just different. Basically its rather brown. And we do have mountains, but really they aren´t any bigger then Blue mountain back home. (Collingwood) So really, we have some big hills. But aside from our randomly potruding big hills, it is very flat. I mean, I don´t mind, it means we don´t have to go hiking up and down hills all the time! But I am so used to having the shape of the land back home, that here I never know where we are. All of the streets run north-south and east-west, and are as straight as can be! 

We managed to mostly stay out of the rain this past week. Although, not going to lie, sometimes it was completely intentional that we got wet! And at some points, the humidity this week almost made me feel as though I was at home. At other points it was just, well, humid. The rain really didnt affect the wildlife too much, but it did some pretty good damage to some of the streets. Most are paved, but we dont have any sort of drainage, so it just turns into rivers. And then when the rivers come across unpaved parts, it washes away a lot of the sand. Theres some areas that can only be driven on by trucks right now, but half of the people here seem to have trucks anways.

It isnt a problem for us though, because this is a walking mission.  Honestly though, cars would be too much trouble. They would get way too hot and we wouldn't be able to meet so many people! Oh, and whenever we have to travel any distance, we have the busses. They are pretty decent, and some of them even have air! But the best part is, ALL of the busses are standard.

We got to go in to the offices this week for the 6 week meeting thing. Honestly, Im not exactly sure why we had it, I believe it is part of the first 12 week program that all missionaries do. But I got to me my whole generation- all 11 sisters and 2 elders! I finally got to meet the Hermana who I found with the same call before my mission. She and other Americans were sent to the Mexico MTC because they got their visas earlier. Anways, I was actually able to understand fairly well what was going on, and the missionaries gave a lot of good talks... or presentations. (English is getting harder all the time. Good and bad!) 

My favourite was a demonstration an Hermana gave about the Book of Mormon. She was speaking about how its so very important in our lessons, and for the investigators. Her example, was 2 book of Mormons. First she grabbed two books and put some chunks of pages into the other book. It took almost no effort to seperate. She had taken them and interwoven every single page. (She brought it pre.woven) Kind of how Myth Busters did with two phone books once. Then, a few people try to pull them apart, and werent able to. 

This is how we need to treat the Book of Mormon. If we simply read a peice here, or a verse there, we arent really doing anything with it. But as we take the time every day to read and ponder and pray about every verse and every story, every parable and every piece of doctrine and apply it to our lives, we can have that bond. I know that it really is the word of God and can help us even in the hardest of times. Remember to not just hold the Iron Rod, but to cling to it. As we interweave our lives with the Book of Mormon, we can have great strength.

Hermana Crawford