Last week in da CCM!

What is up! It is my last week here in the CCM and it has been both very awesome and very sad. At the start of the week had to say goodbye to more missionaries, which is always hard. But they're all gonna kill it. We've had some great experiences here this last week, teaching more and more people in only spanish, talking to members in Peru and in other parts of Mexico. We have gotten both of our "investigators" to baptism which has been such a cool experience. This whole time here at the CCM, I have been trying to learn to love teaching, because it never really was a want of mine. That was until we finally had that last lesson when we went over the baptismal questions with "Rodolfo" that my soul lit up. Even though it wasn't a real person, and I was stumbling through literally every word I said, the joy in his heart was real, the joy in my heart was real. It made me so excited to get to that point with real people, with real drinking problems.

Well big news outta da CCM, I gotta head back home for a transfer to receive a much needed surgery. Don't worry I'm not dying and I will head back out lol. But I gotta spend about 6 weeks back in muy frio Utah. I sadly have to go back to clean water, slang, snow, and a serious lack of cucarachas. It's all good, don't worry about me, I will still be learning spanish (I can improve a lot) and I'll be in Juarez soon. I'm excited to see all of you again, but I have to let you know, I can only speak in spanish with you, so you have roughly 3 days to practice.

I feel the need to share my testimony here real quick. I have really only felt the spirit and the love of God for a short time in my life. But It has been so strong that I can't deny it. I have seen so many marvelous and wondrous things in this gospel. At times in my life I feel like I am seeing the hand of God. So many times in my life, God has delivered me. When I was seeking for it or not, he still delivers. Even when I walk through the driest and loneliest of valleys, he walks with me. There were a lot of hard times here both in life and the MTC, but through miraculous ways, he still delivered me. and I know that it is the same for everyone reading this. It doesn't matter what trial it is, what your past is, and how you are feeling. Things happen for a reason. I know that God has a plan for each and everyone of us, and although it is very hard at times, we have to learn to be content with it, and in fact celebrate it. There were times here in the CCM when I wanted to go home, and then I learned that I wanted to stay. and now I actually have to go home lol. It is so important to adapt and be okay with whatever is in store. We should only worry about what we can control, and because of that, why worry about Gods plan for us. It is a necessity in life to roll with the punches and endure to the end.

Yo se que El libro de Mormón es verdad, y estoy muy agradecido por la muchas bendiciones recibo en mi vida porque a el Libro de Mormón. Estoy muy agradecido por la expiación de Jesucristo y por la ama Jesucristo tiene por me. Y estoy muy agradecido por el espíritu santo y por la muchas repuestas recibo. Y estoy agradecido por mi familia y por mis amigos, y estoy agradecido por la oportunidad a servir un misión y por el Evangelio de Jesucristo.

(Pictures from the Ciudad today)