Heya!!
¿Como le va? Todas las
cosas son bien aquí en el CCM. (Spanish speakers don't judge my grammar. I'm
trying!!)
I hope everyone had a
great fourth of July! Here it was mostly just another normal day. Except at
lunch the workers put red, white, and blue tableclothes on all the tables and
served pork sandwiches with corn on the cob and apple pie. SO AMERICAN. We all
stood up at one point and sang the national anthem. #patriotism
Also. funny story. You
know how everyone says: 'Merica! now? ya. well. On our whiteboard next to our
flag, we had that written. One of the teachers from another class was in our
room talking to Hermano Cruz, and he asked: Where's the A?? We all laughed real
hard and one elder said, "It's in our hearts!" GOLDEN.
The rest of the week
was pretty typical. On Sunday we watched an old MTC devo by Elder Holland. It
was incredible. Basically I felt like I had been shot in the heart. in a good
way. He talked a lot about how we need to do better, and then he told the story
of Peter and the whole "Do you love me?" X3 thing. I'm pretty sure
Elder Holland gave a talk about that story not too long ago, so you should all
look it up. Maybe even send me a copy. thanks. Anyway, he talked about how when
we say that we love Christ, we are in it forever. We cannot go back to our
nets. I promise everyone right here and right now, I will never go back to my "nets."
There is too much at stake for me to forsake the truth, EVER. I cannot do that.
and I will not do that. This is Christ's gospel, and I have the opportunity to
represent Him and teach it. What a privilege!! This is a life-long calling,
guys. I will wear my missionary badge in my heart para siempre.
On Tuesday night
we watched a live broadcast devo from Provo MTC. Elder Anderson was the
speaker. Way awesome! He talked about the gift of the Holy Ghost. Guys. the
Spirit is SO IMPORTANT. strive to have it in your lives. As Elder Anderson
said, it's not about having specific spiritual skills, it's about cleaning our
lives so that the spirit can enter and dwell with us. I think we all can do a
little better at that, don't you? :)
Our lessons have been
going well. We're definitely improving. Victor is super hard to teach. He's
super Catholic and has a lot of questions. We're doing better with him now but
we had a few lessons where he was like: when's the second coming? Why can't we
remember the pre-earth life? etc. we were like. woah. slow down there, bud. The
next lesson we talked only about faith. haha.
So, naturally, there
is a very real thing which I call the summer-blitz of missionaries. The CCM is
so much more crowded now than it was when I got here. When I got here, there
were about 300 ish missionaries. When I leave, there will be 1,000!! it's
insane. But way cool cause we're all missionaries and are all in it
together.
Anyway, I gotta go
now. But I love everyone very much and hope you all are doing well! I pray for
you all everyday! Missionaries pray a lot, so, know that you're being prayed
for a whole bunch. Cause I love you. And guess what. SO DOES GOD. how cool is
that? :)
Can't wait to hear
about the family reunion! tell all the cousins I miss them and hug them all for
me. Thanks. :)
Loves!
Hermama Lance
PS...We snuck up onto
the roof of the biggest building here. That's what the picture is of me
with the hill behind me. The other pic is just me on the treacherous path
we walk a thousand times a day. The stones are eht grass and the grass in between
sink sin if you step on it. You gotta watch your feet. ha ha I love it
here.
Pss...I took a pic of
the model of the CCM they have here. If you want proof, look up the
Mexico CCM on Google Earth. We are seriously just plopped in the middle
of a giant city. it's so cool.
The other pic is just
of a little courtyardish area between all the buildings with the classrooms.
It is so gorgeous here.
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