Elder Todd Grilliot's Mission Blog

Elder Meade (newest Companion)  My Old Zone in Nazas,  Love these Guys!! Elder Grilliot, october 30th. 2017 oh woow tomorrow is halloween. I just realized. Here in mexico they celebrate two holidays around this time of year. the first is halloween, but it´s not as big as american halloween, the stores give out candy to the kids but nothing else.  the day of the daed is coming the other holiday that i think is a lot bigger is the day of the dead. On the day of the dead all the people in mexico pay respect to their dead. They go visit the graves and build them a little shrine to pay their respects, they do things that they remember the dead person liked, they cook their favorite foods, and things like that.  Something really cool about this holiday, we have a cemetary in our area, it´s a huge cemetary, it´s probably nicer than most that i have seen in the u.s. and everybody goes to the cemetary on the day of the dead. So i´m excit...

This week i got to know elder meade and we did some great work together. We taught with the spirit and have a lot of progression in our area. I feel like the best missionary that i´ve ever been with elder meade. The members in our area are really wonderful.  Elder Grilliot

This was my first week in my new area, centenario, elder gomez is my comp for another week and then he is going home to guatamala.  Our area is really big, which for me is cool, i like the change, because my last area nazas, was really small and i knew it all really well. It feels really refreshing to have a new area, i have a buch of new friends to make and people who don´t know me but are excited to know me. There is a great big hill in the middle of our area, and we climbed it one night as we were walking home and we could see all of gomez and it was really beautiful. It gave me perspective on how big the city really is. Also it`s starting to cool off a bit, it`s still hot all the time, but it`s not like painfully hot, i`m excited for january. haha Elder Gomez is really wonderful, he is spontaneous and excited and  likes to talk. He plays the uke and treats everyone like family. the boiler This week Elder Gomez showed me how to light the boiler, we have hot wat...