Hola mi familia y amigas! Tengo solamente dos semanas mas aqui en el CCM. Hurrah!En exactamente dos semanas estare en Anaheim! Yeah! Only two more weeks use deareleders.com for free letter delivery! Yeah yeah, get them in while you can! So I must say that the entire time I've been here I've been pretty content with being here. It seems like almost everybody else is immediately all anxious and just doesn't want to be here and wants to be out in the field. I never really felt it I guess because for one, I knew that there was so much to learn, and I also was really enjoying being here. I'd actually been wondering when most people start getting antsy and ready to go. But I think it's hitting me this week. We finally had a district leave yesterday. We've only had one district leave the entire time I've been here-and it was a week after we were here, so we didn't know them anyway. So I've been kind of used to things as they are. With this district leaving I think it all sort of came to me that this isn't it, that we are really leaving the MTC eventually...soon! And it was weird because I actually had a hard time getting to know this district because they always seemed so quiet and kind of exclusive to themselves. I think some of them initially were shy, but they seemed to finally open up about two weeks before they left. Great. And the zone leaders were in that district, and one of them in the beginning was not exactly one of my favorite people because he was pretty aware of himself and then during our first week here he was quick to point out everybody's Spanish mistakes. I didn't exactly like it when he did that and I reacted in a way that he knew I didn't like it. I learned pretty quick that I couldn't afford to try to avoid him all the time and not like him, and really, I shouldn't be so defensive, regardless of his methods. We are supposed to focus on a Christ like attribute every week and I've been pretty much focusing on humility and patience while I've been here-they're good things to work on! Point is I ended up becoming good friend with that elder, so it's funny how that works out, you finally like someone/something/someplace and then things change. Does that sound familiar to anyone else? I guess it's a lesson that constantly needs to be learned, to enjoy something/someone/someplace while you can! So I'm trying to do that with the MTC. Time is flying. We don't have our flight plans yet-probably later this week, but we did all get letters from the mission president this week. I think they said there are 6 languages in our mission. One is actually Samoan, so maybe H. Brown will have the opportunity to speak some of that (she's not exactly fluent, but pretty good). Mother, I got the package today! Everybody was jealous at the large box I was carrying around. Thank you solo much! I'm mucho excited for the clothes and ooooooohhhhh, the Cheez Its. Such glorious wonders are contained in those crispy cheese crackers. My companeras are enjoying them as well. They almost said no to having some but they changed their minds fast. And I loved the letters and the talks and "LDS Gems." Those things will be good. Sunday night Bishop Edgely talked for the fireside. It was pretty good, kind of all over the place, but he sort of talked about hope as a missionary. Perseverance. I had another friend get to the MTC today. She was a secretary in the Engineering department that I knew from work the last semester. She's also going to Alaska. I saw her early today and it was really fun. Weird to think she'll be leaving only a week after we leave. Crazy! And our Mexico missionaries have apparently just about gotten their permavisas (or whatever they're called) so in the next couple of days or week or so they'll be off to get their visas in SLC and then to Mexico. Good for them because they've already been here two and a half weeks too long! So we are pretty much the oldest district. It's weird because we still feel like the babies, even though there are three districts after us. Those districts are mostly all quiet except for one that I really like. But it also makes it easier to leave! Ha-ha! Things are going great here. We are teaching the Plan of Salvation lesson in Spanish on Friday. Antes de vivimos en la tierra, vivimos en la vida preterrenal con Dios como Sus hijos espirituales. Dios presento un plan para nosotros para llegar a ser como Dios y volver y viver con El otro vez. Si. Spanish is still coming along. I'm just hoping that I get dumped into a companionship that is actually doing some Spanish teaching in the beginning. But it will all work out whatever happens. We have a progressive investigator-have a mentioned this? It's a teacher who acts like an investigator and you teach them multiple times. A couple of times ago he was committed to being baptized, but this last time he told he just didn't know and he hadn't been reading or praying and he didn't think it was for him. Yikes, it kind of threw us because he had been pretty willing all along. But I loved it because it got us out of our old routine; we couldn't use the same scriptures or the same rote testimonies or anything. We had to honestly testify and truly ask him questions to find out the real problem and rely on the spirit to find those scriptures that would help him. We have him once more tomorrow, and it should be great. I just love when we can't do what we're used to. I had been getting into habits in our teaching. Some people can teach by the spirit that way, but I just can't. If I know what analogy my companion is going to use next or I know what scripture is coming or what they expect me to say, I just don't feel like we're following the spirit. Sure, it's good to have habits, but not everyone's the same, so it's pretty hard to teach that way. So yeah, I love those opportunities. As for p-days, well, they're not my favorite because we do usually have a bunch of little things we want to get done, but I never feel like I really got done what I wanted and all of a sudden we have to get ready to go the temple and laundry takes up so much time. And lunch. It's great to have clean clothes, but man it's a waste of time. That's why it's nice to have enough clothes to go a long time. And I could go a long time! Thanks again mom! Que mas? Ummmm, we have new roommates today. We've been by ourselves for 5 weeks. Now we have new girls so that should be fun and interesting. Hooray! Okay, times ticking off, so I've got to go! Love you all! Mucho!
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