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Trevor has been transferred from Tampico to Poza Rica in Veracruz, which was part of his older brother's mission. His new companion is Elder Mendez. He is enjoying being with him. Here is what he has to say from last week.

Everything is going well. This has been a pretty good week. There is never too much excitement, but things have been well. The weather is not bad here. It hasn´t been so sunny, so that´s a plus, but its been rainy in the morning and at night so its pretty humid and I sweat a lot. I´m getting to know a lot more missionaries, but its weird, all of the sudden I´m one of the oldest missionaries in the 2 zones here in poza rica. A lot of elders have left and many are going to leave in these next 2 or 3 months. By the time I have 12 or 13 months I´m going to be one of the oldest in the mission. During Zone Conference President said that there are going to be a lot of changes going on, some pretty drastic. The mission is really pretty young right now.

For the Fourth of July we had permission to go to Burger King in the morning to eat. It is about the only American Restaurant here in Poza Rica, so we went. There were quite a few missionaries there, about 14, almost our whole zone and some from the other zone. It was pretty fun. We worked a bit during the day, then played uno with the zone leaders at night and got to sing the national anthem. It was fun, i carried around the little flag you sent pretty much all day. The pin was cool too. It was funny I asked our ward mission leader Paco if most of the mexicans here knew that July 4th was our independence day, and he said yes- because will smith came out with a movie called independence day and on the fourth of july saved the world from aliens. ha ha ha. but Paco also got his mission call. I´m lucky for that, when i get to an area, the guys that were waiting for their calls finally get them. I saw two leave from Cañada and now paco is going to leave aug 27 to the mission mexico torreon. It is pretty funny that is the mission where Elder Mendez, my comp, is from. He is pretty excited.

We have a baptism this saturday. Her name is Odette- she is about 20 years old. Its pretty exciting, she has been waiting for baptism for a while. we are also making progress with her brother prisco. Before, the missionaries couldn´t talk with odette in her house because prisco would make them leave. but when we were talking about tithing and fasting, he came in and listened and then even showed up at church on sunday. We´ll see how he progresses. We also had some other investigators go to church on sunday. Three were there in all. Ana showed up on her own and told us later that her husband wants to listen to us too. She is a young mother and we thought she was losing interest so it was cool when she showed up. There is a dad from a part member family that has finally decided that he wants to be baptised, the only problem is that he´s practically deaf right now so we can´t teach him anything. There are also three kids that have been taught and want to be baptized but their dad won´t give permission.

My volleyball hunger has been appeased. We play sports every wednesday and we play volleyball because there is going to be a tournament in the stake. I just wish they knew how to play volleyball though. What can i expect though, its ward volleyball. Maybe i´ll be abel to teach them how to play this wednesday. We are going to be attending church in the stake center from now on. They are rennovating the chapel until march i think. So we are going to have to walk a bit farther to get to church. That means the members will have to as well which probably means less attendance. Our attendance is good right now, i think we are one of the strongest wards in the stake.