I Love It Here!

I am halfway done with my time in Mexico! I really love it here. It is seriously so beautiful. It rains all the time so everything is so lush and so green. All the Mexican people who work here (cafeteria workers, janitors, etc.) are super sweet. 

 

My Spanish is going well. I can pray and bear my testimony pretty much fluently now because I've said those phrases so many times since getting here. Teaching lessons is not fluent yet because the investigator will ask questions and sometimes I can't think of the right Spanish word for what I'm trying to say. But I am definitely improving constantly and I know that I will be even better 3 weeks from now when I get to Jersey. 

 

Hermana Maddi Baugh got here last week! And out of all the 20-something branches here she got put into mine! She isn't in my same class because only the people in my district are in my class. But she has the same meal schedule and gym time and Pday as me and we go to the same sacrament meeting so I've gotten to see her a lot! It's so great having a familiar face around. Hermana Ellen Logan should be getting here today and I am SO EXCITED.

 

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My favorite day of the week (besides Pday) is Sunday because we don't have any classes and we don't have to study Spanish. We go to church and then for the rest of the day we have a couple different devotionals and usually an area seventy will come speak to us. Then on Sunday nights we get to watch a church movie. This week we watched a movie called Mountain of the Lord about the construction of the Salt Lake City Temple. I always knew that it took 40 years to build, but I never really thought about it I guess. This movie really made me appreciate how much time and sacrifice went into building it. 

 

My district is so great. In my room there is me and Hermana Ivie, and then Hermana Cordell and Hermana Egbert who are going to Scottsdale Arizona. Hermana Cordell is one of the funniest people I've ever met. She has us all laughing constantly. The other two sisters in our district live across the hall from us. Hermana Wade and Hermana Magalei are going to Louisville Kentucky. We all get along super well and have so many laughs together. Then the six elders in my district are Elders Palmer, Timothy, Fairbanks, Jones, and Christensen (all going to Jersey with me) and then Elder Sims who is going to Vegas. I am so sad that Elder Sims is the only one not coming to Jersey with us  because he is so amazing in everything he does and we are all really going to miss  him. 

 

It rains pretty much every afternoon. In the morning when I leave the casa, it looks like it's gonna be a nice sunny day so I don't end up bringing my raincoat. But then every afternoon it POURS and I wish I did bring my raincoat. So I've learned by now that it's always a good idea to just take my raincoat with me. 

 

I LOVE THE CCM
 xoxo Hermana Harris

Here is a picture of Me and mi compañera, and some of the Hermanas in my branch.

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