September 9, 2014
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| New Haircuts - CCM style |
I must admit that I was a little disappointed to not be able
to connect with any of my family members this p-day. I sent things for them to read early in the
morning and didn’t have any responses by the time that I checked in later that
day. I was also a disappointed to find
out that my mission president changed our p-day to Wednesday so that we could
experience all the stuff that is normally closed on Mondays. I think that it is going to be great to do
interesting things on Wednesday, but this means that I will never be able to
communicate live on email with Garrison and Taylor until they complete their
missions. That is pretty sad to me, but
I will just have to get over it.
The fireside tonight was a missionary video of Elder Holland
and for the first time, he wasn’t so serious/scary to me. I did not know he was as funny as he is! My 2 favorite parts were: 1) when he said
that everything he cherishes in this life comes from the gospel and 2) the
mission is MORE like real/eternal life that “real life” is. I agree with both of those statements. Everything I love most (my Savior, my
testimony, my family) comes from the gospel and the reason that this is more
like real is because this life is the time for us to prepare to meet God which
is what we concentrate 100% on while serving a mission.
I have already developed a great love for the people of Latin
America. I saw a latino playing on the
piano that I wanted to practice on. I
went in and tried my best to talk to him.
It worked okay and I just sat quietly and listened to him try his best
to play some hymns. It was a very
spiritual experience for me and it made me think that if I try my very hardest
to do what I can on my mission, then I will be able to have the spirit with me
like this brother had even with such a simple skill and message.
September 10, 2014
Okay…..the next 12 days here are going to be called
“operation hasta el fin” Things are
getting pretty monotonous and I find myself living for gym time.
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| Saying goodbye to a district in my zone...I will miss them! |
September 11, 2014
Today I had no issues other than sheer boredom. Hour after monotonous hour of reviewing and
drilling is getting to me, combined with the overwhelming quantity of
Gringo-ness, is really getting to me. I
am sad to say goodbye to one of the other districts in our zone. Elder Bolingbroke is the funniest guy. We have had some fun times playing volleyball
together. We only got to see them in gym
time, which means that I probably won’t get to see them again before Chile!
September 12, 2014
Today was an off day for espanol y las reglas con tanto.
There’s a rule that we can’t spend personal study time in our casas and I
understand that is so that people don’t sleep through personal study time. But let me tell you, plenty of sleep is
happening in the classrooms. I really
wish that I could have more space and less people around me all of the time.
September 13, 2014
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| Uhh---his mother does not approve..fyi |
I must admit that I am hating being cooped up with 11 other
people ALL of the time. It is
overwhelming. I practically live for the teaching moments where it is just my
companion, the investigator, and me. I
honestly do not know how I am going to get through the last week here. The other ridiculous thing is that I am
ridiculously jealous of the packages that other missionaries are getting. They have dear elder here (something which my
family did not know about until just now) and some people get letters and
packages weekly. The new Hermana just
flaunts her many packages and annoys everyone.
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| Any diversion is a welcome diversion! |
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| Pooring rain in Mexico |
September 14, 2014
Sunday, JOY! Seriously, it is the best day of the week
because it is different from the other days.
I talked to our gringo branch president about some of my frustrations
and he really helped me.
September 15, 2014
Today was actually fun.
It was Mexican Independence Day (technically that is tomorrow) and we
were able to celebrate wth “Mexican night”. It was awesome. They had a dance group come in and perform
forus and I loved the music and dance. I
took a ton of short little videos for my family to see. It is interesting how much I appreciate
things like this after having been kept from it for so long.
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| I think this is a fruit loop pizza?? |
September 16, 2014
We get to go to the temple today…just to the visitors center
because the actual temple is closed.
Still, I am really looking forward to that break in the routine. I found out that I will be flying to Chile on
the 22nd at 4 pm. I am not
sure how communication will work out, whether or not we will be able to email
prior to our departure, or in transit, or when we arrive. I am just really excited that the count down
is less than a week away.
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| Mexico City Temple |
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| My District at the templo |
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