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| Selfie from this morning |
As Grandma would say, my days here in the MTC are numbered. We finally got our flight plans on Friday. And we went to Vegas yesterday to get visa stuff figured out, so we are for sure going to be in Mexico on Monday! Crazy huh? I can't believe that time has gone by so fast! So here's the quick weekly update:
Friday: Happy Monthiversary to me! If that's not a real thing, I just made it one. Also, we got our travel plans this day, so that was great and a good way to end the day. We have to meet the shuttle at 6:30 am, which is so much better than 2:30am like a lot of people. We stayed home from class the first half of the day because Hermana Muir was sick. It was nice to just lay on the couch and study scriptures and not be stuck in a desk for hours on end. But we went to class in the afternoon and taught our investigator, so it wasn't a full day off. haha We tried 4 square in gym instead of volleyball like usual. 4 square is pretty intense. The elders take it so seriously; it's hilarious.
Saturday: We had another teacher from our zone help teach Brother Humbert and I think all the Hermanas fell in love with him. He was super nice and pretty attractive. I think I'm gonna ask him to wait for me. Haha just kidding. I got to practice the piano this day. Lori would be so proud. The Elders from the departing district asked me to accompany them when they sang in church. So that was fun. It was so nice to play a real piano. I play the piano in sacrament meeting, but it's a keyboard and it doesn't count as a real piano.
Sunday: Saw Hermana Costello at breakfast. Then we studied until Music and the Spoken Word and Relief Society. I was called on to give the talk in Sacrament meeting. So I was up in front of the ward most of the time either playing the piano or speaking. Good times. Sat by DeeAnn at the Christmas Devotional, which was super good by the way! We said goodbye to our favorite district. There were tears. :(
Monday: The district that left had their flight cancelled so they had to come back for a few days! They were so mad, and it was hard to say goodbye again when they left for real, but it was so great to have a little more time with them. We got our travel plans to go to Vegas. We started getting to know the new district of elders better. They are so funny. And the play volleyball with us during gym, so we have full teams again.
Tuesday: Tuesday was hard. Way hard. I felt like I was doing really well with the language and with teaching and Hermana Pullan (our teacher) told us again that we aren't where we should be with Spanish. She pretty much told us she was disappointed and really stressed us out. Plus the stress of everything just caught up with me. The devotional was good though. Elder Cook came! That's 3 apostles since I've been here. And we were scheduled to have 4. But Elder Ballard couldn't make it last week.
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| On the plane to Vegas |
Wednesday: Longest day of my life. We woke up at 3:30 am and got ready. We had to meet the shuttle to the airport at 4:30. We left the MTC at 5. Got to the airport by 6. Ate and hung out until our flight boarded at 8:15. Then they said the plane had to "de-ice" or something, so we didn't even take off until 9:15. We were supposed to leave at 8:35. We got to Vegas, met with the guy who was chauffeuring us and got some lunch at Del Taco. Then we hung out in the Institute Building listening to him give all his "knowledge" about Mexico. I'm not sure I should actually listen to him though. He told us the water in Mexico isn't actually bad. It's just tradition to not drink it. Also he told us the most important thing was to work on our accents. Apparently, even if we don't know much Spanish, if we don't have American accents, the people will be more willing to listen and they will understand us better. Around 1, we went to the Consulate, got our fingerprints and pictures taken. That's the entire reason for the trip and it took us each about 2 1/2 minutes to get that done. Then we went back to the airport and ate and hung out until our flight boarded at 5:45 (6:45 our time). We got to the Salt Lake airport and as we were coming down the escalators, there were huge crowds of people welcoming missionaries home. They got excited when they saw us coming and we felt kinda bad when their missionaries weren't with us. haha. We got back to the MTC around 9 that night.
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| Guess where we are? |
Today is pday and it's been great but we are so so so so so tired. It was great to get Dearelders from Tai and Derick. I miss you guys! Love you all. Can't wait to talk to you at the airport and again on Christmas.
Yo sé que el Evangelio de Jesucristo está en la tierra ahora. Yo sé que el Libro de Mormón es verdadero. Jesucristo sufrió por nuestros pecados. Podemos ser feliz y recibir perdón! Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y Él tiene una grande plan por nosotros. El Evangelio nos ayuda vivir con feliz y paz. Nos muestra el camino a volver a Dios y ser feliz para siempre! Le amo la Iglesia de Jesucristo con todo my corazón.
Love you all!
Talk to you soon!
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