1st Day at MTC in Mexico: July 16th 2013
i arrived in the mtc and im okay. my bags didnt make it however. they should be here tonight though. i love you all and already miss you guys. mexico is definitely different then the united states. it is insane people drive so crazy and there are slums everywhere. everyone looks pretty poor. the mtc is really huge. i met a guy in salt lake who is also going to Raleigh the same time i am and he is in the mtc with me. i havent met my companion yet. sorry this is really choppy i just don't know what to say haha. if you could tell Brittney to try to send me all my friends emails so i can talk to them that would be great. i dont have anyone's email and i have an hour to be on the computer so i think i will have enough time. its so weird down here. i cant read anything and even the keyboard is different. bishop Ponse was right, almost nobody down here speaks English it took us 15 minutes to explain to the guy who picked us up at the airport to explain that the airline lost our bags. i finally got my name tags, but i cant read them. this is going to be pretty hard trying to learn another language. im just saying random stuff now because i have no idea what to say yet. im hungry, but i guess you could have guessed that because im always hungry. so im pretty sure i left my debit card at home..... cuz i went to grab it on the plane so i could buy something but it wasnt there, so hopefully it is at home. luckily i had that gift card credit card so i could buy something to eat. don't send me any messages in Spanish because i dont understand it.2nd Week: July 25th 2013
ya i found a few people that are going to Raleigh but they are in a different zone so i never see them most my zone is going to Texas ya i have made friends with a lot of people and all the classes keep me busy so i don't have time to feel too homesick. i have become really good friends with the guys in my dorm, they are really fun and crazy but not as crazy as me haha. i got my bags the next day but it was just annoying to not have them. there is a lot of weird stuff here in mexico i have a lot of pictures that i took when i went to the temple today but i left that at the house so ill have to send them later or next week. thank you for the emails you are the best. i already miss you guys so much. its so weird here, but it still kinda feels like its just summer camp or something.
Me and my companion and our dorm mates quote nacho libre 24/7 its soooooooo funny!!!! it has rained every single day i have been here. on the dot for like 5 days strait at 5 oclock it would rain. most the questions were answered in that. something that im starting to like is the food, most of the time its weird but im getting used to it. another thing i love is how cheap everything is!!! we dont get to go outside the compound but there is a store here and everything is so cheap. the temple was amazing!! tell jamie that i love her and miss her big hugs. tell zach i miss him too. hahahaha miss you too and love you all
well i finally get my p day after this long week. i heard someone say on your mission days are weeks and weeks are days and it is so true. everyday feels like a million years but it feels like i just got here yesterday. its weird how it works because i feel like i havent been here long but i feel like i have known all of my roomates for a long time. they are all really cool and funny. my compañero is pretty cool. his name is elder steiner. we are gettting along great. it was crazy comming here because some people who work here speak english and some know a little but most dont know much at all. on the first day the teacher only said like 10 words in english. and whenever a teacher is talking to you they only speak spanish. it was definitely a big surprize to me. on the second day we had to teach an "investigator" ,who was just a teacher of another class, a lesson in complete spanish. that was so hard. i feel like i know nothing but at the same time i know so much. i can already pray and bare my testimony in spanish and can kinda told with people but for the most part its kinda hard. we have had to teach a lesson almost everyday. the teacher acts like an investigator that they had on there mission and they will only speak in spanish. its so hard teaching in a language that you dont know. my teacher said however that that is a blessing to not know much because then you cant go off on tangents all the time and most of what you can say is just what you planned. its starting to click so much however. the last lesson that me and my companion taught we had this lesson planned out and knew kinda what we were going to say and had things we wanted to talk about. then this new teacher came in while we were finnishing up and getting ready to go teach our investigator Gloria. so he comes over and says something in spanish which all i got was practice with me. so we taught him our lesson which wasnt very good because we dont know very much spanish. and then he said that it was good but asked if he could give us some advice and we said of course ya. then he leaned over and kindly flipped our papers over and just said think of a lesson like a testimony, then its not so hard. then he said teach me about the things you planned. and he made me and my companion just bare our testimonies back and forth about the things we wanted to talk about. and it felt way good. so then we go in to teach gloria and it was honestly the best lesson we have had. me and my companion said so many things that we didnt have planned and that we didnt really even know how to say, but the gift of tongues was evident in us we could understand what she was saying and what we were saying and then after we didnt know what just happened. it was so great. i am learning so fast and it is pretty fun. i got to go to the temple today. it is such a beautiful temple and it was so great. the only hard thing was that the entire thing was in spanish. the movie was the same though and it was funny because you could tell that the voices didnt match the people because it was in a different language then what they filmed it in. its going really well so far and im loving all the people i have met. its really weird being in a different country though. it smells way bad here. and there is always at least one gun shot sound in the night lol!! but dont worry we are in this place that is surrounded with this huge wall with barbed wire on top, and there is a lot of security personnel always looking out for us, and as always the lord is looking out for us. the food has definitely been taking a while to get used too. most of it is really weird and of course there is always rice and beans and tortillas to make mini tacos. it is so much different here then back home, being surrounded by missionaries and Spanish it is really good though. the spirit is always so strong here and had taught me so much. i miss you guys so much love you all
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3rd Week: August 1st 2013
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well every day we have gym time and we can play basketball or soccer and they even have a football field but the football they have is flat so we cant play which makes me sad. i would kill anyone here for an egg mcmuffin. or a cheeseburger that sounds sooooooo gooooooooooood. haha i know that look very well (deer in headlights), i experienced it again because when i went throught the temple it was in spanish and i had less of an idea what was going on that before. well talk to you guys in a week! and there is nooooooo way those are cars. they are way to loud. but a lot of the time they are fireworks, but you can tell the difference because the fireworks are really loud and the guns arent too loud. (in reference to hearing gunshots at night President Bigelow said it was cars backfiring) but police sirens are a constant. ooo i know the cars are junk lol except for this nice mustang i saw on the way to the temple
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your letter was really nice to get and thank you for sending my travel plans i was legitly looking for them the day before and it bugged me that i didn't have them and then all the sudden i got it in the mail. so every other week we go to the temple so next week i wont have so much time to email, but i will make sure that i get one to you!! . my companion has a cord that connects to the computer so i can send stuff. also i wouldn't send anything in packages down her or my credit card because the mail is sketch and ya just wait till i get to the states hahaha. but the good part is that i got your mail in 10 days so that wasn't 2 weeks like they said it was going to take so don't send anything to mexico for the last week or so, so that i can receive it. i will be sure to email you. you guys had a family reunion? how was it? so did Braken not go first? thank you i have been wanting to talk to him but i didn't have his email so i couldn't. frank emailed me but thank you anyways, idk if you guys know but he is going to Denver Colorado Spanish speaking. well i dont have my journal with me so i cant tell you a scripture that was good this week but next week i will write one down to come but i can tell you a story. yesterday we were supposed to teach real members from the city, but they never showed up so then we taught companions from our other district in our branch. and of course we get set up with the very cute hermanas. they taught there lesson and it was good then me and my companion went outside to talk about what we were going to teach because we thought we were going to teach some fresh converts and just kinda go over the first lesson again. but now we had to plan something else in like 2 minutes. and you know me and how i don't like surprises so i was just like awww crap. when we got in there i barely said anything and what i did say 90% of it was in English. so i was pretty upset about it and i just wanted to go back to my apartment and go to sleep but we had class so i couldn't. so we go to class and i just felt bad and didn't want to do anything and i was pretty upset with Spanish. so one of my teachers hermana plowman was teaching and we were going over prayer and why it is important for each of us and for our investigator. and she said that she felt earlier that she didn't really feel like teaching that lesson in Spanish for some reason. so she talked to other teachers about it and they said that they teach it in Spanish of course. but when she got into the room she just felt like she needed to do it in English. so she starts teaching in English and it made me so happy because i was done with Spanish for the night. and then she had us practice being investigators for another person in the room and then switch halfway. as my friend elder Curtis was teaching i felt the spirit so strong testifying of the truthfulness of his words. he was saying how the spirit will testify to you when you pray with real intent and how it is a comforter and it was just an amazing experience. even though we were pretending to be other people he taught me and touched my heart so much. and then we switched places and i was the teacher. it made me so happy i cant even explain to be able to teach in English again. i could say everything i thought of and have no problem saying it. and as i was teaching him i felt so great about what i was saying and the spirit was so strong. before class i just felt like crap and then after that amazing class i was so happy. the spirit truly is a comforter and will bring peace and happiness in our lives. after the lesson the teacher told us that she didn't know why she felt so strongly about teaching in English but i know why. i was having a tough time and god knew that i needed that that night. he really does know each one of us and loves each one of us. so the blogg sounds good with me. you guys can put up all the pictures i take and stuff. i love you too!!!! and miss you guys a lot. i obey most of them ahhahahaa we just usually roll out of bed a few minutes past 6:30
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