So every week all of the missionaries in our branch (that's made up of three different districts) are given a topic and told to write a five minute talk in Spanish and then random missionaries will be called on each Sunday during our church services. So the first week we get here we're told on Thursday night that our topic is faith in Jesus Christ and so we only have like two days with jam packed schedules to write them, so naturally I got called to speak on Sunday.
It really wasn´t that bad though and everyone in my branch afterwords told me that my Spanish was amazing so that was nice.
In my room in my casa it's Hermana Moss and I on one bunk bed and there is another sister companionship, Hermana Brady and Hermana Zealley, and they are SO FUN. They are seriously some of the cutest girls I've ever met and the four of us can talk for hours (but we try not to because sleep is so valuable here). I'll try to get a picture with them next week.
Alright so this week has gone by SO QUICKLY!
It feels like I've been here for an eternity but I know that I still have so much to learn here. So the lesson we taught right after my last email was our fourth time teaching Ivan and we committed him to baptism! That was really cool, but then our next lesson on Thursday was the last. So Friday night we were told that we were getting a new night teacher and low and behold, Ivan walk in! It turns out that his name is actually Hermano Beltrán and he´s an absolutely amazing teacher and he was acting like an investigator that he had converted on his mission.
So Monday we started teaching a new investigator, Erika, but it´s just our morning teacher acting as one of her friends who was investigating the church.
So lately our district has been really into singing all the time. Our Elders all have amazing voices and a lot of them have some music background so when we sing hymn they all harmonize and it sounds absolutely incredible! Even though we're singing in Spanish.
We've all grown really close as a district and it's going to be really hard to leave everyone after our 6 weeks here but all of us are so excited to go out and serve! We've been doing little mini devotionals and testimony meetings together some nights and the Spirit is so strong, it's incredible!
Hermana Moss and I actually had the Elders give us blessingSunday night and it was so powerful having six worthy young elders that I have grown so close to all standing around me, I think that has been my favorite moment here so far.
So this morning we got the chance to visit the Mexico City Temple and it's so beautiful! Unfortunately it's closed for remodeling right now but we got to explore the visitors center and walk around a little bit. It's open house starts just three days before I'm supposed to leave for the field so there's a small chance that we´ll get to go, fingers crossed!
Oh and they have Nutella here so pretty much life is great.
I've actually been exercising a little bit since I've been here, crazy I know! But we all play volleyball a lot and I'm getting pretty good at it, I can hold my own with the Elders, and Hermana Moss and I have been spending some of our gym time using the exercise machines.
Well that's pretty much it for this week.
Love you guys, See you in 18!
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