I'm Pretty Much a Mexican

Hola!

The MTC is good. There are about a thousand missionaries here right now but within the next couple weeks we will be getting way more. The majority of the missionaries here are going stateside for their missions but there are a few people going to Chile or Panama or Nicaragua. 

The food is sometimes good and sometimes weird. Most of it is Mexican food of course. Sometimes we will get really good enchiladas and tacos and stuff like that. But sometimes they will serve us some strange meats and we're not brave enough to try it so we just eat from the salad bar instead. But they also have an area where you can get toast and put peanut butter and Nutella on it so that's always safe for when the rest of the food is questionable haha. 

I am getting more used to the schedule here. I wake up at 6:30 am Mexico City time, which is 4:30 California time. But I am used to it by now. 

The Spanish is coming along well. We spend a total of about 6 hours a day studying Spanish and we have been teaching lessons to fake investigators completely in Spanish since like the third day here. Since I took it for four years in high school I am the most experienced at Spanish in my district. During language study time everyone is asking me for help because they all know me now as "the girl who's good at Spanish." So yeah I'm pretty much a full-blown Mexican now. I'm sure that will make my friends happy.

So that intestinal virus from last week? Everyone had it even worse this week. My stomach hurt SO BAD all the time up until like Saturday. And I didn't even have it that bad. Hermana Cordell (one of my roommates) and Hermana Ivie (my companion) had it so bad that they had to take a day where they literally just lied in bed all day while the rest of us were in classes. They were in so much pain and we all felt so bad because there was nothing we could do to help. But now it's been like 3 days since any of us has had any stomach pain so we think the virus is pretty much gone!

Friday was Independence Day and it really made me miss America. Everyone wore red white and blue. And at lunch, all the Mexican people who work in the cafeteria set up red white and blue decorations and gave us a good classic American meal- burgers, waffle fries, corn on the cob, and apple pie with vanilla ice cream. All the Mexicans were wishing all the Americans a happy Fourth of July. It was so cute. And then at lunch we all sang the Star Spangled Banner and it was just such a great patriotic moment for us. It made me really glad I get to go back to the states for my mission because I love the USA!!

Last night we had a devotional broadcasted live from the Provo MTC of Elder Anderson speaking to the missionaries there. There was a choir of Provo missionaries in the broadcast and I saw David (now known as Elder Sandstrom) in the choir!

I love you all!