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Distrito 10A! |
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Welcome to Mexico. slugbugs evereywhere!
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| We are protected by big walls with chain link plus barbed wire on top. Satan is not getting in here! |
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| MTC CLASE all day everyday! |
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| We went to the Temple today and it is HUGE and in the middle of Mexico city! |
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| Our humble abode |
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| Crazy thing is that there are palm trees and pine trees like right next to each other. I am really loving the weather down here too. Soaking it in! |
Estoy Aqui!!! I am here! August 13, 2013
So
we had a crazy long day on the plane and in the airport. we ended up
switching planes and going to California and I finally made it to the
CCM/MTC! Had some costco pizza met some cool people and trying to start
learning spanish.
So im safe and sound talk to ya on Monday!! Love ya lots
Elder Allen
Today is my first PDay so I have a lot to write!
The
weather here is amazing! It is crisp air and feels like it does in the
fall in Utah. It is 70s durring the day and 50s at night i thought it
would be hot but no!
So
ended up that my flight got messed up so they sent me to LA and then to
Mexico and we were 6 hours late and got to the CCM\ MTC at about 11:30
at night! already breaking rules, i know, we arrived and got some cold
costco pizza and then finally I got my nametag! I also got mi compañero
Elder Perrine from Sacramento Cal. He is the only other elder that i
have met that is going to Eugene. So I got all settled and we had a nice
tour in the morning but then a new missionary came into our district
and said that we were to have a TRIO and that me and E Perrine had to
move houses so we did and had to move all the way accross campus. So our
new compañero is Elder Kupferer from Irvine Cal and he is going on his
mission to Washington.
The majority of the
missionaries here are going to south america, Chile, equador, paraguay,
and all kinds of cool places. My district is awesome. We have a lot of
fun together and maybe too much fun together.
We went to the
Temple today and it is HUGE and in the middle of mexico city where
everything is in shambles and then.... BOOM there it is! In the picture
from front to back....
Every day we have
to be at the clase at 7 in the morning and then we study till breakfast
at 8. Breakfast is terrible! I was hoping for some delicous jams and
jellies but we have had rock hard waffles for breakfast for the whole
time we have been here and there is no syrup just chocolate syrup stuff.
I think they are trying to cater to the americans but I am getting used
to it. Then from there we go to learn spanish for about 3 hours with
Hermano Valdez who has lived in Mexico all his life. He speaks all
spanish and it is great. Then we have gym time for 1 hour then Lunch.
Lunch is usually the best meal of the day.
Next we have been
teaching an investigator, Esmeralda. We have had 4 lessons with her
already and they had to be between 20 and 35 minutes long and all
in spanish. The first two lessons went decent but then we had a bad
lesson that did not make sense and it was just bad. So we prayed and
had read some Preach my gospel and decided we would just not plan the
next lesson so meticulously but just teach by the spirit. Our
last lesson yesterday went sooo well! I challenged Esme to be baptized
at the end and she excepted. We were stoked afterwards even though it
was not a real investigator.
Elder Pearson came
back from one lesson and said "Oh what a great lesson, she said she
would read the book of mormon and we felt the spirit sooo strong!
WAIT!!! I didnt give her a book of Mormon!" Yeah.... so when you invite
someone to church like on the movie the best two years just remember to
tell them where the church is.
Our branch
President, presidente Alvorado, is awesome he is so genuinely Happy and
loves everyone. He said two of his children died but I dont know how to
talk to him about his family in spanish without making he relive the
pain a hundred times so i can understand him so I wont ask. Our branch
is pretty cool. So our first Sacrament meeting one of the Hrmnas was
speaking about faith and we start to here Rachels favorite song, This
girl is on fire, playing on just outside the CCM and it was sooo
loud. Finally when we were all about to bust the girl speaking said "yes
this girl is on fire" it was the funniest thing ever.
In my branch I have Elder Tanner Mangum. Recognize
the name????!!! He is QB at BYU and will take Taysoms place when he gets
back. He is big and I have been playing soccer against him. He played
goalie and when I dont score on him then he picks up the ball and just
throws it accross the gym into the other goal! it is insane. He is a
really cool guy though.
So elders I have met so far that I knew previously
Alec Wooley, Brandon Smith, Elder Holt all of which I played soccer with, two for the Arizona trip.
Jordan Maw and Landon Snyder from Provo High. I also met Scott Adair and tyler something scotts friends from logan.
Hermanas
Warner, Giles, Louisa Orton from PHS, and hermana Morales from our Stake!
It
so loud here at night. I swear people are getting shot ever minute!
there are bangs and screams and barking dogs and all kinds of fun stuff.
There is also a bunch of earthquakes here too. We already experienced
one but nobody even knew it! it was just super small so it set off the
alarms and we all evacuated just in case there were bigger ones to
follow. That has happened twice now.
Today we went to the temple and it was hard to do it in
Español for sure! I needed some major help but it was a great
experience!
One
of my favorite things to do here is to sing in español! The spirit
comes so strong everytime. Sometimes it is funny to look at all these 18
year old boys and think that they are going to convert people, but then
we sing a song and the spirit is there and then we teach amazing
lessons in spanish and then I just know that it can and will happen. God
knows what he is doing and his purposes cannot be frustrated! The book
of mormon will answer all the questions you have if you read it and if
you read it everyday you will not fall away from the church ever! God
lives and I cant wait to bring the gospel to others and learn spanish at
the same time. Love you all lots,
Elder Allen
This
week was AWESOME! I just love being a missionary. It is great to have
all these people around you that are really so different but when it
comes to the gospel we can be united and have the same purpose and just
have such good experiences together. This week went by sooo quickly and I
cannot believe it is Thursday and Pday again. Our new investigators
names are Alejandro and Pamela. Pamela is a real tough case. Both our
investigators are just our teachers but they put on the character of
someone they met on their missions. Appearantly Pamela was a tough case.
Pamela
is 18 and only let us in because she didnt have anything else to do.
She does not pay attention at all in the lesson and her life seems quite
pointless to her. We are trying to give her a purpose to life but she
wont even listen. At one point in time she even started playing her IPAD
during the lesson it is hard.
Alejandro is also 18 but he is like a golden investigator. He asks
questions and pays attention and has been looking for churches he is
just great.
Hermana
Haws, acting for Pamela, is from Alpine UT and she is like a female
Holland, seriously. She teaches with power and boldness. She told us
basically that we need to stop focusing on ourselves and focus on the
investigator. She said that up until now in our lives it has been me,
me, me, me, me. We have never had to worry about some one else. She said
we are still worrying about ourselves and that we are going to mess up
while speaking Spanish. She told us to get our heads out of the box and
learn to love like christ did and have charity. So I really took that
one internally and I read a scripure in the BOM that says we need to
pray for our hearts to be filled with love. So Elder Kupferer and I
fasted a for that love on tuesday and I feel like we really did increase
our love and charity for others. It was awesome because that night that
we fasted We had a MTC devotional broad casted from Provo and Elder
Anderson focused on that very subject of Charity and it was like it was
straight for me and elder kupferer.
The
broadcast was awesome. We made history apparently because it was the
largest mtc broadcast ever to like 5 other languages and like 5,000
missionaries. It was great.
Sad
thing was the day I fasted it was supposed to be pizza night but the
ran out so all i ate that day was cold cereal! It was one of the easiest
fasts i have don though because of my intentions.
Hermana
Haws´ claim to fame is that she tutored Jimmer Fredette @ BYU and so
she believes it is because of her that he is now in the NBA.
Hermana Valdez is our other teacher acting as Alejandro and he is awesome too.
The best part of the MTC is learning soo much about the
gospel. SOOOO much study time and when you plan out that study time and
you really get into it I learn a ton.
Is the Banana melon done yet?!?!?!? let me know how it tastes.
Love,
ELder allen
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