Party in the CCM

 

 

I am on my last few days in Mexico! I can't believe how fast that went! 

 

We all love Mexico but lately we are getting really excited to go back to the states. We miss regular American food and all the first-world conveniences of living there. I'm so excited to get to Jersey and go to a Walmart and buy regular groceries and ice cream and stuff!! Also I have a ton of bug bites. I have one on my face and it looks nasty, but it's really just a bug bite. I'm happy bugs won't be as much of a problem when I get back to the US. 

 

Ever since Hermana Cordell left, her companion has been in a trio with Hermana Ivie and me. Teaching lessons with three of us instead of two of us is definitely different, but we are getting used to it. 

 

On Friday we tried to speak only Spanish all day, just to see how much we've improved. We made it until about lunchtime and then we kinda gave up haha. We can teach lessons and talk about the gospel in Spanish but we haven't learned many non-church words so it's really hard to just chat with each other in Spanish. 

 

There is a little store here and we each have been given a card with some pesos on it. So we go to the store a lot and get random stuff, usually candy. Mexico has some pretty good candy!

 

So in my branch here, they tell us all to write a 5 minute talk in Spanish on Saturday. Then in sacrament meeting on Sunday they call on about 6 or 7 of us to speak. So we never knkow if we are going to give a talk or not until just a few minutes beforehand. On Sunday I got called on to speak about Joseph Smith. It was super nerve-wracking because President and Sister Pratt (the presidents of the entire CCM) had decided to attend sacrament meeting that day in my branch, out of the 20 or so we have here. So I was pretty scared. I basically just told the Restoration Story in Spanish. After sacrament meeting President Pratt told me I did very well and that my Spanish is really good. 

 

Since this is our last week here, on Monday we took a nice picture together as a district where we were all matching. We decided to wear navy and coral, one of my favorite color combos! 

 

I get along with everyone in my district so well. It's going to be hard to say goodbye to them in a few days. We are all such good friends. 

 

Sometimes it's easy to forget that I'm on a mission. Sometimes I'm having so much fun being silly with the other girls that I feel like I'm at girls camp. I'm sure it will feel more real when I get to Jersey. 

 

I love you all!

 

xoxo Hermana Harris