The Barron Family!

Solidaridad Zone

Here's a few shots of my last zone, Solidaridad. 

Ok, im going to ask you not to scroll down just yet!!!!!!

I remember an e-mail that my dad received that showed some "redneck car designs" and they just cracked me up (some examples: a motorcycle tied to a lawnmower so he could have one of those drivable lawn mowers, or the guy that put the large bull horns on front of his car...) Well, i found one this week that should be added to that list...
















Yes, thats a hairbrush...

ans yes, that`s his side-view mirror!

enjoy!

The typical mission pick (Elder Manriquez and I)
For an activity we went bowling

from left to right: Elder Campbell, Elder Manriquez, Elder Silva, Hermana Meneses, Elder Cobian (one of my old comps), Hermana Fernandez, Hermana Juarez, and Hermana Candia.

Only one left!!!!!!!

A little late!

So i knw that ive been really slacking off in putting up photos, but i hope to put up like 30 right now!

All these are from my last house in El Ajusco.

My bed is the one that`s made. :)


I love the tile job here!

A great friend and Elder, Elder De la Rosa.

Thes two familes helped us a ton in our tough area.

The Baptism of Itzel

From left to right: Perla (her sister), Elder Farley, Itzel, Carlos, Elder Zuniga, Me.

So as my comp and I were heading to an appointment, we found a small little canyon.  So we headed up and found an amazing 20 foot waterfall (well, it would be a 20 foot waterfall, but there was no water at the time.)

Getting tubed in El Ajusco

and yes, that is smog.

all these cables are from people that are stealing their electricity
some of the locals are pretty hard hearted :)

Weather!

Some of the many weather picutes from here!

little visitors

These little creatures somehow found their way into our house!

Today some of the young men challanged me to a soccer game. So i invited my last comp, Elder Zuniga, and another elder, Elder Ewell, to come and play. We won 3-1!

An awesome family!

Here is the Sandoval family (actually, its like 1/10 of the whole extended family, this family is huge!) But they are awesome!!!!

Changes

Elder Jacobs and I. He was an awesome missionary!!
Elder Payne - My best friend in the mission.
Our district: Elder Morales, Elder Lucero, Elder Ewell, Hermana Maneses, Hermana Fernandez, Hermana Martinez, Hermana Andrade, my comp Elder Cervantes, and I.

BBQ Party!

So the day before changes we had a huge BBQ, we cooked up 5 Kilos of meat, and played a ton of soccer. It was a blast.



This is Hugo, who completely turned his life around and is leaving on the mission in a few months.

Then we left the ball out in the sun, and it kinda exploded.

So last monday we had a huge trip! We decided to tackle the highest peak in the City of Mexico, the Pico de Aguila. It stands at a little over 13000 ft.

Here´s elder Morales, looking at the peak that we are about to tackle.

the first half was very heavily wooded, and the air was soooooo fresh!!!!

Here you have a better view of the peak. We rolled a few boulders off the top, and they would end up a little below where the picture ends.

Once we had made it to the tree line, we decided to stop and had breakfast. We had Longanisa, onions, Jalepeno chiles, steak, chicken and homemade tortillas! It was delicious!!!!

Once we had finished breakfast, the clouds moved in, and it became foggy, wet and cold.

So after 3 more hours of hiking, we finally reach the peak!!

There´s nothing for about 1000 ft. below my feet!