Semana Quatro!

 

Hola mi amigos! This week in the CCM has been quite the rollercoaster, we started the week with all of our latino friends leaving for their missions Sunday and Monday, because they were all in the 3 week program it was hard to say goodbye. A lot of them were serving stateside, in places like southside Chicago, and Baton Rouge Louisiana, both very different from Mexico.

We have had a couple of downright amazing lessons! We had two lessons this week that were only in spanish, and they were completely improvised, we had to throw our prepared lessons out the window and just go for it. because of that we were only teaching by the spirit and the spirit was so palpable. It was so cool and It made me very excited for when I can speak the language a lot better and have more time to teach lol! We also started doing TRC where you speak to 3 NATIVES from the ciudad and you have to share a 15 min message which is pretty scary, but it went well, and they were actually really helpful with my spanish which was very comforting.

Then on Wednesday, we had to say goodbye to one of the elders in our district, he had to leave for medical reasons, and it was hard to say goodbye. Because he left I am in a trio now with Elder Marine and the last Elder in our district Elder Beck who is from pocatello Idaho. We had to move into a new, pink casas, which sucked at the beginning because we had to say goodbye to our old house and roommates, but there are some positives. We actually have water pressure, there is no black mold, and we don't have 10 year old blankets! Plus our house is pink, it doesn't get much better than that.

We had a broadcast from Elder Holland which was so cool! That man knows how to deliver a talk. The things that stuck out to me the most was that he said that the mission is an opportunity, and the blessings we receive will be with us the rest of our lives. He also said ¨"the stars don't have the same brightness" and I took that as, eventually, our time will come to shine, we will hit our prime, the spotlight will be on us, and we have to take full advantage of that. Being 18-21, that is the time where we are shining the most, and because of that, that is the time to share our light with others who have never seen or felt that light before.

Anyways, that is what has happened this week, We are going to the temple today! so there are no pictures right now but I may be able to send some later today!