We have had three amazing teachers here at the CCM! Their names are
Hermana Nava, Hermana Velazquez, and Hermano Martinez! But Hermana
Velazquez isn't our teacher anymore. :( she was just training Hermana
Nava becuase she actually just started working here three weeks ago!
The same time we got here! But now Hermana Nava is good and trained so
Hermana Velazquez is teaching a different class!! It's really sad
because we absolutely loved her! We would always mess with her because
she has been dating another teacher at the CCM for 10 months now and
they want to get married but he hasn't proposed yet!! Her Birthday was
last week so we all thought he would propose that day but he didn't!! We
were all very upset and one of the Elders even "tripped" in front of
him and fell down on one knee to try to show him how it's done! It was
pretty hilarious!
One
thing that is really funny that happens all the time (usually when we
are at gym playing volleyball or something) is that we will see a couple
of missionaries walk by and think (or even say out loud sometimes)
"Hey! It's the missionaries!" Then we remember that we are all
missionaries... haha but it is just that reflex of seeing missionaries
walking down the street that we forget where we are and what we're
doing! It's really weird but funny! :)
Our
lessons with our investigators have been way too long lately! We are
only supposed to take 15 minutes for our lessons and we have been taking
about 40 minutes sometimes!! :/ The Elders have been timing us every
time we go in to give a lesson now because they noticed the pattern! We
have been better about it now though and cutting our lessons down to
about 20 minutes! It is amazing how fast the time flies when you are
teaching by the Spirit!
So
the Latino Elders here are often-times pretty crazy! We were walking to
our classroom on Sunday after breakfast for study time and a group of
Latino Elders came up to us and were asking us to take a picture so we
said yes and were going to take the camera and they said "¡No! ¡Con
Ustedes!" We were confused and asked "¿Porque?!" They just responded
with the fact that they were leaving tomorrow and looked at us as if it
was obvious. So, of course, we agreed to take a picture with them and
one of the Elders said, in Spanish so not exactly this, Not me! I have a
girlfriend! It was so confusing and weird! But they are hilarious!
There
were also a couple of Latina Hermanas who we would always sit next to
and talk to in the comador and they would help us with our Spanish
(correct us on things that we said wrong and teach us new things). I
was pretty sure we were a little annoying because we weren't all that
good at communicating with them and they would have to help us a lot but
they left yesterday and they asked to take a picture with us before
they left!! It was so cute and sweet!! It made me feel so good that I
could actually make friends here in Mexico with Hermanas who didn't
speak any English at all! It was great! :) Then they came back about 3
minutes later because they forgot to get our email addresses!! It was so
cute!! :) They were such sweet girls!! OH! And their going to the
Mexico Torreon (I don't know how to spell it) Mission which I'm pretty
sure is where Dad went? :) They were great!
One
thing that is really cool about the weather here is that there is
thunder and lightning just about every night but not always rain
accompanying it!! Don't get me wrong, it rains every single night but
not always at the same time as thunder and lightning. Sometimes the
thunder and lightning is so loud and strong that it shakes our casas at
night! We literally feel our beds shake! It is one of the most amazing
things I have ever experienced!! :) I love you guys so much!! I miss all
of my friends and family and hope everything is going well for you! I
love hearning from all of you!! As Preston said in my email today, See
you soon! :)
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