last week in the CCM

Hola Familia!!

 

This week has flown!! Sorry if this is a short one, but there really hasn´t been too many new things... hehe.

 

This week I´m getting over a weird cold, but I´ve been feeling fantastic recently, and that´s awesome!! My roommates have been so awesome about it! I went to bed early on night because I was feeling really bad, and they were so sweet and left me notes and were quiet so I could sleep. They´re the best and I´m really going to miss them when we leave in 5 DAYS!! EEK!!

 

Thursday, Hermana Pugmire and I were in charge of teaching the Book of Mormon lesson in class and we talked about the Stripling Warriors! We had everyone draw some pictures on the whiteboard and everyone loved it! Our teachers took a picture since we´re only allowed to take pictures on P-day, and they haven´t emailed it to me yet... but as soon as I get it, I´ll send it over! At the end of our lesson we sang "Armies of Helaman" and the spirit was so strong!! Missionary work is so cool!

 

Friday, Hermana Pugmire and I had to teach 3 large lessons and 2 small ones with our class.  WE taught this guy named Ricardo a 20 minute lesson, and for some reason, we totally had the giggles. So we weren´t surprised when we got our evaluation and it said, "control the laughing". But we just laughed-- It´s better to be too happy than to have him tell us we need to smile... Hehehe.

 

Some funny things that happened this week: While we were reading our information sheets on our investigators, Elder Williams said, "Ok, there must be a lot of typos in this or we really can´t read Spanish!" our teacher came over and looked and told him it was in Portugese! We had a good laugh about that! Then, one day while we were doing TALL (the language program here) Elder Wright, who is a super nice, polite guy just exclaimed, "My spine hurts... I think it´s because I have the Nunca´s!!!" we all were silent for a minute and then all busted out laughing...! It´s the little things here... hehe.. If you don´t know what the Nunca´s and the Siempre´s are, I´ll just say it has something to do with how often you have to go to the bathroom... haha.... ha...

 

This Sunday was really good here in the CCM. Our district was in charge of the special musical number, so we sang Praise to the Man. The last verse, however, we did in English. It was sooooo cool!! I miss English Hymns sometimes, but it´s cool to see how things are progressing with my spanish!!

Later that day, we got to watch... (Maya you´ll like this...) EPHRAIMS RESCUE!! I remember when Maya came home and wanted to watch it and she told us it was the funniest movie ever. At the time, I didn´t appreciate it, but this time.. I laughed a lot!! Everyone should watch it! It made my companion cry and I thought it was really sweet!!

 

On P-Day Adam (That´s what we call Monday here... P-DAy Eve... P-Day Adam.. hehe) we got to sit by President Gonzalez and his wife at dinner!! Presidente is this really cute little old man who seems quite and a little scary... but they told us how they met and how he proposed and he was so cute and funny!! Haha... It´s weird thinking that I won´t see them after a few days... EEK!!

 

Last night (P-day Eve) we had an AWESOME fireside by Elder Goloy... (I think that´s how it spelled...) He is a member of the 70 and apparently he talked in conference a few years ago. He talked about how we can be better missionaries, and it was so good!!!

 

Today was P-Day and WE GOT TO GO TO THE TEMPLE!!! The temple has been closed these past weeks we´ve been here for repair and so it was awesome that on our last p-day we got to go!-- We got to go our first too, so it was cool how it progressed! We wear headphones with the English translation playing in our ears, but one of the new girls´headphones weren´t working, so i gave her mine and I listened to the whole session in SPANISH!!! It was so cool!!! I felt like I could totally understand, and I gelt great about it!! And I got to meet a couple of sisters who are serving in my mission right now while we were out!

 

Besides that, my dear family, I am anxiously awaiting next week when I´ll be in the field, but I am also scared to death!! I think I´m ready to go, but I will definitely miss the CCM!!

 

I´m not sure how it will go email wise next week, so if you don´t hear from me, know that I´m well and IN THE FIELD!!!

 

Love you guys lots and think and pray of you everyday!!!

 

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

 

P.S. Sorry there´s no pictures... there´s hardly enough time on P-DAy for me to take any!! I´ll defnitely have some next time!!

 

Love, 

Hermana Andrus