May 12, 2015
It was so fun to be able to talk to Scarlett on Mother's Day. She sounds really good and upbeat. I didn't cry...but she had to cut the call short so she could call her Dad really quick (since there isn't a Father's Day call) and then she called me back to say Happy Mothers Day one more time.
I sent her some Krispy Kreme Donuts last week (there are companies in Mexico that deliver them to the MTC) and she ate one and put them in her closet. By that night they were full of bugs, so she had to throw them away. This week I had a Care package delivered to her with a loaf of bread, Peanut butter, and grape jelly and some snack bars and Gingerale. She has been having tummy problems. She and everyone else I have talked to say the food is not too great there so hopefully she will feel better soon.
She didn't send anymore pics so I am posting a couple of pictures of a pre-mission photoshoot I [made her] do.....she thought it was kind of ridiculous but she humored me and they turned out great!
Here is Today's letter.
OUr investigators are our teachers and i have 3 now.....christian, raul, and jesus. They basically take on the charactar of someone they taught in their own mission or someone they know who is not a member. The sunday devotionals are almost always an old devotional. But we have tuesday ones too. Sometimes they are people that work here like the head of the mtc or the president of the mtc or the area 70...but we have 2 a week so usually they are just a video. yesterday it was so hot all day and then that night during language study where we basiclaly have free reign, it rained outside so i begged my companion to go out there with me so we could cool off and enjoy the storm in mexico. While we were out there, she wanted to scare the elders who were doing TALL in the computer lab so we knocked on the window and ran around the building where they couldnt see us. We walked all the way around and back into our building and the elders were heading to the bathroom in our building, so they caught us. Ah man, it reminded me of my pranking days where my pranks were dumb and i always got caught! Good times though. Elder parsons was like....you guys are looking a little wet....what were you doing out there. The elders in our district are cool, theyure like our big brothers. Theyre a little older than us....one is almost 22 and one is almost 21.
Because no one is here during the spring, we have a ridiculous amount of teacher too, which is awesome. theyre so cool im going to miss them a lot. We always joke around with them. One calls himself the mexican brad pitt, one i call hermano horchata because his last name reminds me of horchata. the girl is my favorite though. She took me to the doctor when i was sick (almost against my will) and got me some medicine. she is seriously the coolest . oh! one of the guys from mexico that works here said san diego mission is little mexico, so thats cool.
Sunday morning i was thinking about how i dont feel like i have the spirit with me like other missionaries do. I was reading in matt. 26:36-44 about the suffering in gethsemane. specifically the part where the apostles feel asleep. I realized that like the apostles, i was asleep. He asks me to think of him in all things, in all errors and i have not done that. in verse 41it says that if i watch and pray i will be protected and i will have the spirit wiht me because i am human and i am weak, but through him i can be made strong. I shared this in district meeting and sacrament meeting when i got called on to give a talk, which was perfectly about the atonement that sunday. I am glad i gave a talk that day.
We also watched the character of christ by elder bednar for the devo on sunday, which i have already read, but its even better at the mtc because its about missionary work and the one i read was given at byu so its a little different. I wish i could watch it everyday. but by the time movie night came around, i was so tired and we watched 3 short movies. one was the one about garments, a really cool movie about john tanner, and then a really old movie about christ that was actually pretty sad. I was so tired though i could hardly pay attention, its both good and bad when you feel the spirit so much that you literally feel like you cant move.
The mtc is pretty boring. i try not to eat very much mexican food for fear that it will make me sick....good times. our days seem longer and longer, but the weeks seem shorter and shorter, its a weird experience. i cant wait to be out in the field though. Its going to be so much more fulfilling.
Well, theres not much else to write about since i talked to you on sunday. It was great to talk to you.
Are you updating my blog too?
also, sorry i cant write alot, i only get an hour
Love,
