MI GENTE
How are you all doing?! Well we just got back from the Immigration Center. No car accidents so far but we got pretty close a few times. Also everything went well so I´m officially a legal resident in Mexico now! I´m so glad to have P-day again, honestly this week has gone by pretty fast. Thank you to everyone who sent packages, letters, and emails this week! You guys are awesome and everything helps so much! And no dad, you guys aren´t overdoing it. Feel free to send me a package whenever you want ;)
Well I´ve finally gotten into a routine (sort of) here at the CCM. We´re pretty much in class all day when we´re not teaching, eating, or exercising. But it´s really fun. I´m always laughing and having a good time with the people in my district and the Latinos are so nice. A bunch of them are my homies now and they teach me all the Spanish slang. They´re so cool.
They´re still feeding us really well here. We actually helped make cheeseburgers for everyone this week as part of a service activity. If you want to see a video of me making some burgers with my dawgs go check out the Facebook page that I told you about! I´m pretty sure Esteban put it on there. If you don´t remember it´s Mexico City Southeast Mission I think for the Facebook page. Also the MTC presidency is awesome they´re really nice and they always come in and talk to us.
Some funny things that happened this week is that we started calling my companion (Elder White) Elder GOAT cause he ate the biggest piece of chocolate cake this week. It was ridiculous. He´s awesome and we teach really well together. Also the people in my room are me and the GOAT, as well as Elder Plummer and Elder Morris. Elder Morris is the funniest guy I´ve ever met and he´s the one that´s holding the Book of Mormon with me in the pics in this email. He fell alseep twice this week while we were studying language which was hilarious. Also, last night Elder Plummer was snoring really loud so Elder Morris actually took his blanket and pillow outside and slept in the hall on the tile because he couldn´t handle it. Elder Plummer snore all the time haha. Elder Meyer from our district is also super funny. He´s 21 so we call him Elder Elder (cause he´s old). He´s the blonde guy and we always do stuff together too. They started calling me Elder Boss this week cause apparently I´m the boss, I don´t really know where that came from.
Our district is still super tight and we´re just getting closer. I love these guys. This week on Tuesday we got some frescas cortas (fresh cuts, even though that really isn´t the correct translation) and that´s why my hair is super short in the pictures. We were so excited for frescas cortas. We told all our teachers about it. Also every night we get a good bomba in. Bomba means pump. Really we just do tons of pushups and situps to get that good bomba. I´ll prolly be pretty jacked after six weeks here so stay tuned.
Some cool things that happened this week is that we had TRC yesterday. TRC is when people from the city come in and you teach them a lesson. Elder Craner and I were on splits and we taught this 7 year old boy who was preparing to be baptized in December. I could not believe this kid was only 7. We taught him about baptism and he was so excited to be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. He had a testimony unlike any other kid I´ve seen. He even offered an amazing prayer for us at the end of the lesson and we sang his favorite hymn with him: Loor el Profeta (Praise to the Man). That was the best lesson ever.
Also these past two and a half weeks have been super humbling for me, which is good because I haven´t been 100% humble in my life. But being out here on a mission is tough. You´re away from you´re family, with a bunch of new people, working pretty much 24/7, while also trying to learn a foreign language. It hit me during the first week that it´s literally impossible for me to do this on my own. I need the help of my Heavenly Father and the Spirit. It´s been so humbling for me to be able to just completely submit myself to His will and to just try my best to be an instrument in His hands.
To end I´d just like to share something from the Hymn book that was really awesome to me. It comes from the last verse of the hymn Yo Sé Que Vive Mi Señor (I know that my redeemer lives). It says, "Él vive, y yo lo honraré. A Cristo siempre alabaré. Gozoso, canto con fervor: Yo sé que vive mi Señor." Yo sé que vive mi Señor y lo amo mucho. Estoy muy agradecido por este evangelio y por mi Salvador. También lo amo el Libro de Mormón y el Espíritu, y necesito estas cosas en mi vida.
I love you all so much and hope everything is going well! I´ll talk to you all next Wednesday!
Elder Warren
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