August 19, 2013
Hey Mommy!
It's a lot of hard work out here but I love it and I'm blessed and happy to be here and I only want to come home when I'm finished!!! I am in Tampico city but on the outskirts kind of by the airport. It's all really urban where I am. There's lots of houses, hilly parts, and messed up streets but it's great! Yes I have gotten sick haha. I got a parasite like right after I sent my last letter. I had stomach pains, the worst fever and migraine I've ever had. Also diarrhea and vomiting, but it's all past now. I'm perfectly ok! It definitely hurt a lot but it's good that I got one this early because it will strengthen my immune system and make it really hard for me to get more. It was a blessing to me and it's completely normal to get a parasite here so don't worry to much. I figured that out about the filters on the water bottles the hard way because I think that's how I got sick. I don't use it anymore we have purified water now so we're ok. Oh and yes I've been taking medicine to kill the parasites in me. It's always super hot and humid here. I just might come back looking like a Mexican because I'll be so dark. Things with my companion are great! We have like 30 minutes to exercise each day but we do so much walking and sweat so much that I don't do much exercising. I'm usually really tired in the mornings and at night but I do it when I can to stay fit.
During these first 6 weeks I'm going to finish the whole Book of Mormon. I'm in 2 Nephi right now and I've really loved reading about Nephi. I feel really close to him and that I relate to him a lot! In the front of my journal I have written a saying that Nephi used when her was talking about the plates. Like Nephi of old here I write the things of my soul and the things of God. I love delving into the scriptures and seeing what I can learn!!! The August 2013 edition of Liahona was also really good. It has a great talk about revelation by Dallin H. Oaks. One of the recent converts here said I have the spirit with me really strong and that its easy to see, so that was great. Right now we mostly teach recent converts and less active members but we have a few investigators and we are hoping to pick up more! Every time we have a baptism I'll let you know, we don't do the baptizing a member does. I hope all is well mom! I love you so much! Thank you for being such a wonderful loving mother!
Love
Elder Cammack
Hey Daddy!
I'm so happy to hear the temple is even more busy! I love the temple, not being able to go as much really has shown me how much I appreciate and need it. I can go but it's like once every other month or so and that's only if you are in an area close to the temple which we are right now. I know that I have at least one trip there guaranteed. It is all in Spanish too so that's going to be way different because I don't know it in Spanish at all. But I'm excited to go in the temple! We can also go whenever our converts go through for their own endowments or to be sealed as a family, so its way cool!! My companion started in Peru and yes he is Peruvian. He has been on his mission for 9 months and 2 in Tampico. I have seen the temple and it is very beautiful. There is so much city around it that its so surprising when you see it there and it's really distinguished. We have 4 missionaries in our ward and it's not extremely big but it's a good size. We have a mix of youth and younger and older people. The area in which I live I'm not exactly sure how to describe it. I wouldn't describe it as nice by our standards but I guess it's nice to them. The houses are super close together and some are nice and others are run down but every house is concrete. None of the houses have carpet, it is all tile and concrete. There is also no AC here either but we have a small unit and fans. Something about all of this here just seems fun and exciting, so I'm fine. We do have purified water now but we have to but more when we run out. It's all in huge jugs. We have a fridge and a freezer almost exactly like the one in your laundry room. Thank goodness we don't have an outside toilet. We don't have a stove, we have a portable single electric burner and that's it. But we have a microwave so that's ok. Each month we get about 1250 pesos to live on. I also have a spare 60 American dollars with me for emergencies. I love you Dad stay safe and strong and I will too!
Love
Elder Cammack
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