It was yet another great week. My Spanish is progressing well and I can speak in quite a few tenses and I am learning a lot of words everyday. We have been practicing teaching lessons to other people within our district and I can't wait to actually be in the field.
As STLs (sister training leaders), me and my companions have the opportunity to participate as members of the CCM mission council. We talk about how to improve as missionaries. But, the funniest part is at the end of the meeting when displayed in a slideshow the amount of times an apartment has had lights on past curfew. It makes for a good competition between the missionaries.
Some other funny things that happened this week is the Elders and Hna Langkilde have been stricken with the runs...big time. We blame it on the tinga. As Hna Wilson says, "we don't know what it is, but we know what it does". Luckily, I have not been confined to the bathroom stalls as have many of my new friends. Overall, the foods good and I can't complain about having fresh pineapple three meals a day.
The Spanish language also has the best verb ever: merendar. This means to have an afternoon snack. I'm pretty upset that English doesn't have an accurate equivalent.
Sadly, next Tuesday, Hna Langkilde will switch to a latino district. It will be great for her but weird for our time as a trio to end. I know this is a great opportunity for her to learn and speak much more spanish to bless latinos of Ohio. Luckily I really love Hna Wilson and it will be a delight to continue our companionship.
One of my favorite things that was shared this week was at church. A member of my branch presidency shared how at the time of his release as bishop, he was praying thoroughly for guidance with his family and his job. God wasn't answering his prayers, though. Then, one night he had a dream of him playing with a little girl. He dismissed it and then his wife told him he had the same dream. He thought to himself, "well, i don't want another kid. I already have four and that doesn't answer the questions i've been having". Well, three months later his wife was pregnant. She went in for an ultrasound a little while after and it turns out the baby wasn't going to make it and there would be a surgery to remove the baby. He was thinking, "well why did she get pregnant only for a miscarriage to happen". Turns out, without the surgery, the doctors wouldn't have been able to find a complication that would have later gone undetected and would have killed his wife. He concluded that "if you think you're not receiving what you're asking for, open eyes, open your ears. Maybe God has been answering your prayers for a long time, just not in a way you might expect. You will be wonderfully surprised at the things He has waiting for you". I loved this. God has a perfect plan. As it says in 1 corinthians 2:9 -- "but as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." Trust in God!
Mexican fried pastries, churros, that our CCM teacher brought in for us
Hermano Valezquez, who taught us Spanish, with our district
Hermana Cervantes, who also helped teach us Spanish, with our class
(Side note: while we were in the CCM, there was a lot of teaching changes with the influx of missionaries coming into the field, so our teachers bounced around a lot and changed on a day by day basis. I would say Hermana Cervantes was one of my favorites. She got promoted while I was in the CCM to be a workshop teacher, teaching bigger classes of combined districts of missionaries).
Twins with our cute purple shirts!
Embarking in the sun! (Embark is the name of the Church's program that they use on their phones to practice Spanish)
Our trio of Sister's (herm with Hna Cervantes (their MTC teacher)
Mexico City Temple on p-day. It is located about an hour away from the CCM, including with all the crazy traffic. We would go early every morning and get home early afternoon to be able to have a few hours to do laundry, talk to our family, and enjoy some time to relax.
The pole located to our left shows how Mexico City is dramatically sinking (since it is actually built on top of a large series of lakes). This pole when the temple was constructed was completely UNDERGROUND!
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