First week in the ccm is done and its been pretty crazy. First off the keyboards in mexico are way weird so thats the reason for any spelling and grammar mistakes.
Everyone who goes to the ccm says that the pizza you get the first night you get in is the best costco pizza ever. I want to put that rumor to rest. What I ate the night of october 10th was literal cardboard masquerading as costco pizza. however, the rest of the food here has been pretty good and there hastnt been anything too weird.
My companions name is Elder Mackey and we get along really well (the best out of anyone in our district). Hes almost as funny and guapo as me so its a really good fit. The district we are in is only elders, no hermanas. Our district has gotten super close (probably because we use a lot of our study time messing around).
Elder Mackey and I are rooming with two other guys from our district, elder Bradford and elder Wilcox and two spanish speaking elders, one from Argentina and one from Mexico. The Spanish speaking elders are so much fun to talk to and they are way funny. One of them really likes the "Gringas" at the ccm and the other loves Queen so we usually sing a couple of songs before we go to bed. Elder Bradford is pretty crazy and I have some weird stories that im going to be able to tell after the mission, ill just leave it at that.
We got to the ccm Tuesday night, had classes on Wednesday and then on Thursday we had to teach our first investigator. We hardly knew any spanish (i still dont know any) and we had to teach a full 15 minute lesson. Elder Mackey and I suspected he was fake, but he was such a good actor it was hard to tell, but after our first lesson they told us he was fake, so that was kind of a relief, but we have been teaching him every day since.
Learning Spanish is pretty hard. It is harder than I thought it would be, but at the same time im not stressed about learning it because I know I wont be the first missionary to not learn spanish on his mission. Its a lot of memorization though so that is the hardest part.
After last night though, we were no longer the new missionaries. When we got here on the 10th, all the older missionaries were so full of themselves telling us how "you just have to make it to Sunday and then it gets better" they acted like they knew everything. so, last night (17th) I was finally able to be the cocky missionary who knew everything /s
The spirit is so strong here in the ccm. When i slow down during any part of the day I can really feel the spirit. We had a fireside about the atonement and watched the easter mormon messages and it just confirmed to me again that Jesus Christ really is our savior and he died for us and his spirit left his body, but on the third day his spirit returned and he rose and now he lives to bless our lives.
Later today we are going to the Mexico City temple, so thats really exciting.
My Pday is on wednesdays, so if you email me thats when I can read and respond to them for one hour.
Thats all for this week adios.
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