Email - A Day In The Life at The CCM

I am on my 5th week here in the MTC.  I’m sorry I just throw a bunch of random little things in and there’s no order or story. I just add things I remember to talk about so don’t h8. Last Tuesday we went to the temple again and it was just as amazing! I love going to the temple. The drivers here in Mexico are crazy! I swear there are no traffic rules! Everyone just cuts each other off and does what they want! But that’s alright because we are in a bus. It takes about 45 min to get to the temple! It’s like the 5th largest temple or something like that I’m not sure. We met a couple who has spent the past 10 years trying to visit all the temples in the world and the Mexico City temple was their 109th temple! We have been practicing singing Abide With Me Tis Eve Tide in Spanish and it’s amazing. It’s one of my favorite songs! We are singing it in sacrament meeting the day before we leave. 

Well this week we found out it’s a tradition for the 5th week district in each zone to give candy to the 4th weekers... so we got a huge pile of candy on p day last week and now tonight we have to give candy to the 4th weekers. I’m pretty excited to scare them and say they are in big trouble and stuff but then dump out a huge bag of candy! 

Something I have liked doing is getting together with elders in my district and doing some tie trading! Some people will love ties you have, but you think are ugly so you can give them your ugly tie and get a super cool one from them 

 

You asked about a typical day at the MTC.  Here it is:

- Wake up at 6:30 PM

- Be in class by 7.00

-From 7 to 7:30 we do personal study

-7:30 to 8:00 AM we have breakfast

-8 to 9 we have more personal study

- 9 to 10:30 we study doctrine and fundaments.

-10:45 to 11:45 we teach investigators (but while in the MTC they are just our teachers but we teach them like they are real). This is all in Spanish FYI.

-Two companionships teach during that time so it’s usually a 30 min lesson.

-From 12 to 12:30 we study the Book of Mormon

- 12:30 we have lunch and then we go home and get changed for gym.

-We have gym from 1:35 to 2:30 and that’s probably my favorite part of the day! We play basketball pretty much every day! I’ve gotten a lot better at basketball and so now its fun lol.

-After gym we have language study from 3 to 6  

- 6 PM we have dinner.  

-6:45 to 7:45 we study the language on the computer and from 7:45 to 9 we have more language study!

The other day we actually taught a real investigator and I was way nervous but we did well! The food is pretty good here! I love when we have chicken wings or Costco chicken bakes or Costco pizza. It’s nice cause at La Tienda they sell tide pods so that’s what I have been using for laundry. It rains a lot here and we have to run to lunch or class or home in the rain but its Gucci. I have been here for almost 1 month. So, I have two teachers and the one in the morning got engaged and the teacher in the evening just told us she was pregnant. She told us before she told her husband. They have some super cool shirts and scripture cases here! We just had 60 elders leave to the field and yesterday we had 184 elders come! We watched a movie on Jesus life and it was amazing watching him heal people and knowing that we have that same priesthood! We also watched a movie called the stone cutter and it was amazing I recommend you watch it. I’m sorry my typing is terrible because I have to type superfast and the computer is in Spanish so I don’t know if I spell something wrong. I love you all and the mission has been amazing and I know it will only get better! Write me anytime you want and I’ll do my best to write you back each week! Remember who you are and keep your standards high! Talk to you guys in 1 week!