Wow I can't believe that I've already been here for four weeks, it feels like I left yesterday! So I safely avoided the CCM plague of last week thank goodness!
Ok highlights from this week, our morning teacher, Hermana Garcia, told us this past week that she's pregnant! She got married I think two months ago and her husband works here at the CCM too and we see them eating lunch together and they're just really cute.
Oh and for TRC (I think I've mentioned it before, it's when we teach actual real people on saturday mornings) Hermana Moss and I taught Hermana Garcia's mother-in-law which luckily we didn't know until after because we would have been freaking out. She's an amazing woman and was such a joy to teach so we had a really great TRC this past week.
Our night teacher, Hermano Beltrán, lost a bet we made like the first week he became our teacher and so this past week he brought us in churros! Real Mexican street churros! Holy wow they were so good.
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| as the sun started setting behind the mountain last week (that B was from when this used to be a high school) |
And the other major highlights from this week was that on Tuesdays we do service around the CCM for an hour or so and this week we helped fold all of the sheets and stuff in the laundry room and I learned how to fold a fitted sheet! Which normally is impossible but now I feel really skilled. And then in our Tuesday night devotional they broadcast it last night from the Provo MTC because the apostle Russel M Nelson was speaking and the MTC choir sang and as they were showing all of those missionaries I saw my roommate Keri! It was so nice to see someone I love and miss so much, even if it was just on a screen and she had no idea. I'm so grateful for those little tender mercies of the Lord!
Oh and something I don't think I've mentioned yet about the CCM, there are mosquitoes everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE. (I've actually gotten really good at catching them in the air and throwing them to the ground to kill them because there are a lot of opportunities to practice) but they hardly ever bite us. I think I've gotten a grand total of 6 bites while I've been here which is impossible with my track record with mosquitoes. Blessings man.
Spiritual thought of the week, so lately I've been focusing a lot about Jesus Christ (I mean He is the center of the entire message that I'm here to learn to teach) and what it means to have my name right there next to His on my missionary name tag. There's a scripture in the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 21:16, that has been one of my favorites since I've been out here serving. It's Christ talking and it says "Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands". I love this scripture so much because it's a perfect reminder of Christ's perfect love for us. He payed the ultimate price in order to help us with every hard thing in our lives from sins so sorrow to guilt and without Him we wouldn't be able to return to live with our Father in Heaven and our families again after this life. I'm so grateful for Him and for the opportunity I have to be His representative for the next 17 months. I can't imagine anything else I would rather be doing right now.
Love you guys so much and I hope you all have an amazing week!
Hermana Martin
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