Week 5: Mexico (me-hi-co)

when it rained the crazy mexico rain for the first time this last week...i had to change my clothes.

(My silly girl loves the rain!)

WOOOOO MY LAST PDAY IN THE CCM! 

can i say im sooooooo excited?

Visitors center.....at the temple....Selfie

 my spanish is....well, my pronunciacion is pretty good and i can speak pretty fast but my grammar is.......steadily progressing, so i guess thats good. I just say whatever i want to, however fast i want to. my comp thinks im super good at spanish and im just like nah, man......i just talk fast, it just seems like it. and im pretty good at understanding what theyre saying....i end up teaching most of the lessons sometimes because i can actually understand most of the questions/answers. and sometimes when we´re in a lesson he´ll say something and she doesnt understand and then the lesson starts not to make sense and i cringe...but esta bien, shes doing better than most the people here, so im a pretty lucky missionary. 

oh yeah elder bednar came on saturday! of course he talked about how we need to stop worrying about ourselves and get over ourselves, which is true. but the thing that i got the most out of, which the spirit told me, elder bednar didnt say this directly, is that we are called on our missions to love, not to baptize. I think that as long as we can be loving and show Heavenly Father´s love for them as an instrument in His hands, we can be successful missionaries. I honestly dont think being a good missionary has anything to do with baptism. but what do i know, im still stuck in the CCM,. but i am leaving on the 26th woot!

We also got to go to the temple today, which was pretty awesome, but i wish we couldve gone through it. i bought an hlj ring and a super mexican looking shirt that i probably wont wear, but hey im in mexico, ive got to do something. the thing i miss the most is being able to go to the temple every week, sometimes twice a week. It´s kind of been rough. When an apostle of the lord was speaking to us, i felt similar feelings that i feel in the temple and when he got up to leave i started to tear up a little.....i honestly didnt think it would be a problem for me, but i really miss going to the temple. Whenever i got frustrated i went to the temple, whenever i felt confused i went to the temple, whenever i felt doubtful of whatever things i went to the temple.    its been rough :) 

we´ll see if i can email next week, i have no idea :)

Love you,

Hermana Lapp

with my favorite teacher who met us at the temple.

celebrating 1 month in the mission by shoving pinguinos in our comps faces (hostess cupcakes basically)

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She will be traveling to San Diego next Tuesday and might be able to call me during her layover in Houston.  YAY!