This Week in Mexico

Hola Familia!

Wow, so much stuff is going on! That's crazy that Alex and Coleman are moving in together, I hope they do well up there. 

That's awesome that Leanne was baptized! That must have been tough for her without her parents there, but I got a chance to chat with her a little at a YSA activity and she seems super nice. And Antoinette bore her testimony, I love that, I've mentioned here at the MTC that she is one of the people that helped me on a mission. Actually this last Sunday was fast Sunday, and what happens is we have sacrament meeting with our zone, and I got up and bore my testimony about the Atonement in Spanish, it was a really cool and good experience, my Spanish is not very good so my testimony was very simple but I think there is power in that - you can tell Will that I bore my testimony too.

We're staying in dorms here, there are three companionships to a room, we each have our own bedroom with two single beds, its pretty cozy. We do spend a lot of our time teaching and studying inside classrooms and outside. Rainy season is starting in Mexico City so I carry my umbrella like everywhere. But during the day it can get pretty hot and sweaty.

Also this week my companion Elder Calhoon was really missing his Texas burgers, so I told him that tonight I bet we were going to have burgers for dinner - and we did! It was so funny.

Yesterday we had our weekly devotional, it was a broadcast from Provo and Elder Oaks was the speaker, the opening hymn was actually Lead Kindly Light (which in Spanish is Divina Luz) and Elder Oaks talked about becoming missionaries and what importance our testimony of the Resurrection bears. The knowledge that we are able to be resurrected and live again after we die give me a comfort and a perspective on life that I can't imagine going through life without that knowledge.

We also listened to an old devotional on Sunday from Elder Bednar, it was titled "The Character of Christ" In it he talks about the natural man, and how the natural man is to want everything now and to turn inwards. He mentions how conversion is turning away from the natural man and becoming like Christ. Like it says in Mosiah 3 verse 19 that the natural man must "[yield] to the enticings of the Holy Spirit". The Character of Christ is that whenever the natural man would turn inward, he would turn outward.

Yo sé que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador, somos aquí a segueir su ejemplo. Al seguir el ejemplo de Jesucristo sentira el amor de Dios.

Love you!

I saw this photo on one of the walls at the CCM and thought the temple looked familiar

The view from our room.  The CCM is surrounded by favelas -- its kind of like a sneak peak at Peru

The Mexico City Temple -- its beautiful and one of the largest I've been in