Hello family and friends!

Wow, these last changes were huge! So my dreams have come true. Everything I ever wanted to do I am basically doing now. I once again came back to the Tezontepec zone, this time in one of the biggest areas in the mission, its called Ixmiquilpan. It was actually part of my district when I was in the area Tezontepec. We have about 4 or 5 municipios, which are like counties I think. We can go hours in one direction by transport and we are still in our area. One of the members told us, I don't know if it was an exaggeration or not, but he said that we can go 6 hours from the church and we are still our area. That's what I'm talking about:) It is country again, really similar to Tezontepec and Santiago. 

So my companion is Elder Garcia, he is a new guy, straight from the MTC in Provo. He is from California, but his parents are Mexican, so he already knows Spanish. We are getting along really well:) 

Also I am a district leader again:) We are just a little unit of 4 elders here in Ixmiquilpan:) Oh and obviously my companion and I are opening area...a lot harder than I thought. This week has actually been pretty hard, but through the exercise of a lot of faith, I feel like we have a foothold on everything. The area wasn't in a great condition when we got here, but we are getting to know the investigatores and members and it is going well. 

So we really need you guys to pray for Alvaro and Mayra. They were actually going to get baptized a few weeks ago, but for some weird stuff that happened, it didn't go through. lately they haven't even been accepting that the missionaries visit them. So the first thing we need that you do is pray that they will let us visit them:)

Esther and Vicente area another couple that are really good but have been having a lot of marital problems. They need to realize the blessings that they can get from living the gospel. They have already been to church, they just need to get back together, get married by the law, and then get baptized.

Well I thank you for all that you do for us! I love you all so mucho and hope that you have a splendid week while you study and apply your conference talk notes! I love you!

Elder Paz