"E" Takes On Mexico: Final Week in the CCM!!!

This will be my last email coming from the CCM! Next time you hear from me I will be in Queretaro! It´s been a great 6 weeks here and I have learned so much but I am so excited to get out of here and actually help people!

Nothing really happened this week since Friday but I´ll try to give a good recap.

Saturday we had a service project and we cleaned the gymnasium because there is supposed to be a big celebration kind of thing in there so we had to clean everything and now no one is allowed to go in and play basketball. That is suppose to take place tomorrow I think so hopefully that will be pretty cool. Except that night there is allegedly going to be fireworks all night long so I´m not too stoked for that because we probably won´t get any sleep.

Sunday was great. One of the districts in our zone sang in church and it was amazing. They sang "Gethsemane" I think is was it was and it was super good. We have to sing this week on Sunday so we have to practice this week. Then that night we got to listen to M. Russel Ballard for our evening devotional and it was great. He talked about remembering who we are representing and how we should act and it was a real gut check for a lot of people and I think since then people have been nicer and more Christ-like. Then we took pictures with district 13 C because they were leaving the next day. Those guys were great and I´m going to miss them but I know they´ll do great.

Monday was pretty uneventful, mostly just the same old classes and nothing exciting happened.

Yesterday was pretty good. for our gym time we played some soccer and it was pretty fun. I was playing really well until Elder Bettilyon kicked and missed and nailed me in the shin. It hurt but i tried to walk it off. Then like 3 minutes later Elder Seaman did the same thing! I could barely walk for the next 10 minutes and I just stood in goal because walking hurt too much. Super fun though despite getting shin blasted twice. Then that night we got to listen to another apostle! Quinton L. Cook spoke last night and it was awesome! He talked about loving the people and if we do we will have so much more success and we´ll enjoy it so much more.

Overall it was a great week. I´m excited to be leaving soon though and actually start serving in the field. We should get our travel plans today so I´m so stoked for that. Thank you everyone for your prayers! I´ll talk to you all next week... from Queretaro!