This week has been a ton of fun! I feel like the days are starting to get easier! Here at the CCM the days are long and the weeks feel short. General Conference was so awesome! It was so cool to be a missionary and watch General Conference in the CCM. My favorite talk was by Elder M. Russell Ballard! I just loved it and how he talked about remembering those moments throughout your life when you've felt the Spirit the strongest!
My district is now the oldest district in our zone and its kinda weird cause we just got here Haha! But its fun to see the new guys come in every week and remember what my first day was like! This week has definitely been easier than the ones before and I´m really starting to feel the Spirit and love being here!
This week we had to eat Serrano chilies as a penalty for speaking too many English words during our English fast. I got the biggest one and it was pretty hot, but I survived and the Mexican guys say that if you eat chilies you´ll speak better Spanish! Haha! I´m so lucky to be here! I´ve never been more sure that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith was a prophet! I love talking about the gospel and I'm starting to feel more comfortable in using my broken Spanish haha! I started enjoying it so much more after I just decided that my Spanish was going to be bad and I was gunna talk anyway! Haha!
Anyways I hope y´all´s week has been great! Miss y´all but there's nowhere I´d rather be right now than here! I also met an Hermana from Royal! Hermana Noftle! She said she was supposed to find me and say hi from Curtis and Lue! Haha! That was pretty cool to see someone from home!
Love,
Elder Cole
A few tidbits from the family email:
Hey Ma! This week has been great! General conference was a blast here at the CCM. We got to watch it in English so that was nice and I´ve never enjoyed General Conference more. Its kinda funny though cause all of us missionaries are dead tired all the time and so whenever we aren't actively doing something, we crash and it was so hard to stay awake for conference! Missionaries were asleep everywhere haha!
Our lessons are going well, but its still hard sometimes.... I'm just glad I´m not teaching real people yet. The weather has been pretty nice, it rains in short bursts every so often. We ate our chili's this week from last weeks English fast and it was really hot! I ended up with the biggest pepper! But it was good, I survived and feel more prepared for the food in the field now Haha! But they say that people in South America don't like spicy foods so we´ll see.
We practice taught with another district yesterday that has been here the same amount of time and it was great because I realized that I actually have a pretty good handle on Spanish and the gospel, I´m not cocky, just excited that I´m doing a little better than others haha! Most of that district is going to my mission too so I might see them there. I looked at a better map of my mission and it isn't as big as I thought! My mission is almost exactly half of the country.... the south eastern half. So my mission has all the coast and the other is all inland.
Love,
Elder Cole
Us at the auditorium for General Conference.
I got the biggest pepper.
This is the case I got for you Ma.
This is mine since I will be baptizing hopefully.
The temple
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