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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 spanish from 8:45-9. Listening to 300+ missionaries singing hymns, sharing their testimonies through these beautiful songs, is so amazing. I wish I could share the spirit I feel when I am singing with the 300+ missionaries through email, but i'm not quite sure how to do that yet 🤪 (join my google photos because I can't attatch videos to my emails cuz its too big of a file for it only being 10 seconds 🙃) 

The reason for the song this week, not only is it the song we end our after devotional choir practice with, but also because mi hermosas latinas left this morning ): Hermana Bravo y Hemana Botello. They both get to be wonderful missionaries in Guadalajara but I am truly going to miss them! Hna Bravo got to spend her last day, her birthday, as her P-Day. They didnt have class or anything! I wish I could have spent the day with her, but I had other things I needed to do. Almost todos los meals, my companion and I were able to join the sweet sisters and their district to practice our spanish, but it ended up with me and their district leader, speaking mainly spanglishese (spanish, english, portugese), trying to understand what the other was saying. Most of our meals consisted of me grabbing my head and saying "Ay no! Hay es no palabras en mi cabeza" which always made the hnas laugh or "wait...*pulls out google translate for a word I already knew* oh yeahhh..." and hna Bravos favorite, "wait....what?" Hna Bravo and I learned last night that our dads served in the same mission, Monterrey Sur, but her dad started the year after my dad started his. We've already made plans to go visit Monterrey and see where our dads served their missions after ours. And a little flex... I'm already the favorite gringo... 

I wish I was a 3 week missionary so I could be back up in the states, teaching and serving God's children but I am not ready to leave the weather Mexico has been having. Supposedly Mexico has monsoon season from april-october... which means rain almost EVERY afternoon, cooler temps, and beautiful clouds. I checked Riversides temperature around 6:40 last night before the devotional... 91 degrees with 20% humidity... it has been a comfortable 75 degrees with cloud cover almost every day and 80-85% humidity all the time here... 

I quite enjoy the majority of the week here in the CCM. The only day that I find is really hard, is Sunday. Confusing! I know! But I find, Sundays are the only day my schedule is not packed and I dont get to talk to family so I find myself missing them all so much. I dont get to get ready for church listening to the youth albums because dad decided to have alexa play them. I dont get to spend the day at work with mom or go to church and then find whoever was working at work. I dont get any Sunday naps with my Sophie Bear. I dont get to play and games with the family after dinner. Le extraña. 

Highlights of the week: 
•Welcomed in our first new newcomers! They already love me and try to say hi to me everytime they see me
•I get to be an STL over the sweetest branch! 
•I have been able to sit in on 3 priesthood blessings this week
•I have most of the PME principals en capitulo 3 memorized in spanish. (Up until leccion 4) 
•I got to "teach" Anna a lesson for my Helping Others Acticity
•I got a picture with Elder Welch to show people that my cousin really is here
•And I got a picture with my 6th cousin whos boarding pass i stole 

Songs I've had stuck in my head ALL WEEK: 
If I were a boy - beyonce
Big girls dont cry - fergie
Come and get your love - Redbone
Hooked on a feeling - no se
Life is a highway - Cars
That one song that goes "party in Ipenina baby" from Rio
I'm already there - Lonestar
Sunday Morning - Marron 5 
Te lo prometo - Humbe
Turning page - Sleeping at last
Baiana - that one portugués song i like
When i was your man - Bruno Mars
Malbec - Humbe (everyday)
Be thou my vision - Elenyi

Y NUEVO... favorite quotes of the week: 
"Siii... there are tarantulas, jaguars, and dinosaurs!... they're called old people" Hno Ontiveros
"They can come in big and small..." E. Roylance
"Oh no! Your dr pepper is spilling into my mouth" E. Coleman
E. Allen goes to grab my tictacs but i pull them away before he can take them, but I still give him 2... As hes rolling away, "gracias, te amo..." y despues his companion looks at me and goes "what did he just say to you?"
"Your humor is broken" Hno Ontiveros
"Wait...what?" Hna Bravo
"...siiii y hablamos con el... gringas *points at me* ella es mi favorita gringa" hna Bravo
"Que es SOCKS?" Hna Botello

También NUEVO... escritura de la semana: 
Mosiah 16:9-10
"9 He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened; yea, and also a life which is endless, that there can be no more death. 10 Even this mortal shall put on immortality, and this corruption shall put on incorruption, and shall be brought to stand before the bar of God, to be judged of him according to their works whether they be good or whether they be evil"

Te amo! Te extraña mucho! 
Elder and Sister Guymon- But, neither knew each other before this meeting.







Elder Kayson Welch and Sister Guymon.  These two cousins were at the CCM at the same time.



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