Week 2

Hey everyone! Ive made it another week in the CCM, the days are going by really fast now which is nice. I really enjoy reading all your emails so keep em coming, but I dont have Jeff, Jens, Brian or Erins email, so if one of you could send me theirs or just tell them to email me that would be great.

This past week has been awesome, I definately feel Im improving in my Spanish but it is still a little hard for me to fully understand what other people say when they speak. In one of our district devotionals this week one of the sisters was assigned to give a spiritual thought and she read a poem titled ''the Race'' I think, but it was a really cool poem, It was about a boy who was running in a race but he tripped and fell multiple times, but each time he got back up and kept going, He finished the race in last place but the crowd cheered as if he got first, this really helped me understand that even though we fall, all that matters is that we get back up and keep trying. Another real cool experience I had this week was when me and my companion were teaching the fake investigator, it was the last day we had to teach this particular investigator so we decided that we should give her the baptism invitation, so we did and she said yes, I got so happy when she agreed, and then I bore my testimony in spanish as best I could, I felt the spirit so strongly while bearing my testimony which was really weird because I didnt think I would until I was teaching actual investigators. Even though the investigator wasnt real the feelings were real and I have never felt that joy I felt when she accepted to be baptized.

     We also learned about TRC this week which is where REAL people who are nonmembers get to come into the CCM and we get to teach them. This freaked me out a little bit because I dont want to say something wrong and offend them or something like that. But I think it will be OK. 

     The past few nights, there has been a party going on right outside the CCM wall, and it goes until like 3 in the morning.

     Yesterday, we had a class about stress as a missionary and how to manage it, but I havent been very stressed out yet. It helps a lot to have fun companions that I get along with. We also had a Devotional last night and Elder Helaman Mantejo from the seventy came and spoke. He gave a really awesome talk, the devotionals have been my favorite part of the CCM so far. 

     Thats about all that I can remember that happened this week, all the days blur into one because each day is so similar.

      I love you all so much, and I hope to hear about all the things that are happening while Im gone.