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  Para siempre Dios este con vos..." Hymns in a different language, definitely hit different. Todos Domingos y Martes, we have a devotional at 7 en punto. You take as many notes as you can, hope you've written everything you want (because you can't go back and rewatch them), and then council about what you learned with your distrito despues. The distrito counsils are some of my favorites. You often times see missionaries out who are only out to make mom and dad happy, who don't want to be there, who don't really care about the mission anyways and only want to fit the standard. Not my distrito. I feel our district counsils are some of the most spiritual gatherings we do here in the CCM. Last nights devo was on fe en Jesucristo. Mi padre's historia favorita es el parable of the mustard seed and I was able to share that as one of my takeaways of the night.  After the devotional and district counsil, we gather outside of the classroom buildings and sing hymns in sp...

Oh Mexico

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  "Sounds so sweet but I'm going there alone..."       I made it to Ciudad de México! This week has been... crazy, stressful, amazing, beautiful, and EXTREMELY hard. Flying out to México, I was able to meet 3 of my 11 other district members. Two of us four actually had our tickets bumped up to first class... I unfortunately was not one of them... They are teenage boys but boy are they so fun to be around.       Our first day here, we met our Mission Presidency and their wives, got our phones set up and had a little devotional with our Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders (STLs and ZLs) and branch presidency.       Our second day here, my companion and I got stopped on our way back to our apartment by our branch president and were asked to be the new STLs since Sunday was the last Sunday our STLs would be here... Yikes       In our branch, we have some of the sweetest sister companionships! I have be...