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hola!!
Another great week at the CCM! Tuesday was a nice relaxing Pday. Me and my companion got a little confused with the time to go to the temple so everyone ended up leaving without us. It turned out great though because our teacher Hermana Melgar came to go to the next session and she forgot her shoes. All she had was flipflops so she borrowed some of mine and we got to go to the next session with her and it was just us three and then two elders and a temple worker. It was great. One of the ladies working in the temple asked me how her english was and I said oh it is perfect! She started laughing and said ahh thank you bella and kissed me on the cheek haha, It was cute. We also got to meet our mission president since we were late. We saw him out in the parkinglot and Fitzgerald was say hey that looks like our mission president. So i went up to him and it was! He is so nice and he went to hug us at first when I told him he was our mission president haha then he was like ooh wait and stuck out his hand.
I have joined the bug bite club! I have like 7 mosquito bites on one leg and 3 on the other. The ledum helps but it wears off fast so I have already used one bottle and a little of the other. I may need some more of that. The other night we were at deportes (sports) and one of the hermanos challenged us to do a 3 minute plank. We were just sitting on mats talking because the balls always get hit over the fence so we only have a baskeball and the elders use it. Sooo i think he just wanted us to do something. Anyways he said if we could do it he would give us this giant hershey bar he had in his car. So of course we did it haha. And 4 out of 6 of us hermanas made it to three minutes. It was a joyous night and day after eating on that chocolate bar haha.
The next night one of our hermanas twisted her ankle and it is not looking so good. She has to stay on crutches for at least 4 days but it seems to be getting worse. It was cool though because right after it happened she was being carried upstairs but some elders stopped her and she was able to have a blessing pretty much immediately. I love that.
It has pretty much been same ol same ol with the schedule. We practice teaching with our teacher investigators every day. This week we are creating profiles for ourselves based off of nonmember family or friends and teaching one on one with our district. should be interesting. We also got to do contacting with hermano cano who teaches us on saturday. He is really helpful and always has ways for us to improve and be better missionaries.
The other day Hermana melgar promised Hermana medina and Hamblin that if they got the district to speak solo espanol for the day then she would bring them diet coke haha. So they got diet coke. They were in heaven. Yesterday was Hermana Hutchins birthday so hermana melgar brought us a card and two cupcakes with a candle saturday night to surprise her. Basically hermana melgar is the best. We have so much fun with her and she teaches us sooo much! She showed us a devotional by Elder holland on the Book of Mormon that was amazing as usual. Then after planning I got her to play the motab circle of life song. It really does sound like they are saying pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom Spencer!! haha everyone was cracking up.
We got to watch another dovotional by Elder Holland yesterday morning. It was Incredible. I highly reccommend that you guys watch it. It is an MTC devotional from 2011 i think and it is about what missionaries need to do better. I think you would really like it though Dad. It gave me a lot of motivation. Afterwards we had an hour of personal study, and it was the best personal study I have had yet!
tomorrow we get to go out again for pday. We get to go to walmart haha. I never would have thought that I would ever be so excited to go to walmart but it has happened. We get to go outside of our mtc bubble haha. All of the elders have been talking about how much food they are going to buy. They complain so much about how the food is always cold and gross and how the MTC is like a prison. It will be cool to see how much they change by the end of their mission haha.
It has been cold here the past couple days, its strange. The other day it started raining and we could see the wall of rain coming towards us it was awesome.
Well I love you all and hope you are all having a lovely summer!
love,
Hermana Bender
Another great week at the CCM! Tuesday was a nice relaxing Pday. Me and my companion got a little confused with the time to go to the temple so everyone ended up leaving without us. It turned out great though because our teacher Hermana Melgar came to go to the next session and she forgot her shoes. All she had was flipflops so she borrowed some of mine and we got to go to the next session with her and it was just us three and then two elders and a temple worker. It was great. One of the ladies working in the temple asked me how her english was and I said oh it is perfect! She started laughing and said ahh thank you bella and kissed me on the cheek haha, It was cute. We also got to meet our mission president since we were late. We saw him out in the parkinglot and Fitzgerald was say hey that looks like our mission president. So i went up to him and it was! He is so nice and he went to hug us at first when I told him he was our mission president haha then he was like ooh wait and stuck out his hand.
I have joined the bug bite club! I have like 7 mosquito bites on one leg and 3 on the other. The ledum helps but it wears off fast so I have already used one bottle and a little of the other. I may need some more of that. The other night we were at deportes (sports) and one of the hermanos challenged us to do a 3 minute plank. We were just sitting on mats talking because the balls always get hit over the fence so we only have a baskeball and the elders use it. Sooo i think he just wanted us to do something. Anyways he said if we could do it he would give us this giant hershey bar he had in his car. So of course we did it haha. And 4 out of 6 of us hermanas made it to three minutes. It was a joyous night and day after eating on that chocolate bar haha.
The next night one of our hermanas twisted her ankle and it is not looking so good. She has to stay on crutches for at least 4 days but it seems to be getting worse. It was cool though because right after it happened she was being carried upstairs but some elders stopped her and she was able to have a blessing pretty much immediately. I love that.
It has pretty much been same ol same ol with the schedule. We practice teaching with our teacher investigators every day. This week we are creating profiles for ourselves based off of nonmember family or friends and teaching one on one with our district. should be interesting. We also got to do contacting with hermano cano who teaches us on saturday. He is really helpful and always has ways for us to improve and be better missionaries.
The other day Hermana melgar promised Hermana medina and Hamblin that if they got the district to speak solo espanol for the day then she would bring them diet coke haha. So they got diet coke. They were in heaven. Yesterday was Hermana Hutchins birthday so hermana melgar brought us a card and two cupcakes with a candle saturday night to surprise her. Basically hermana melgar is the best. We have so much fun with her and she teaches us sooo much! She showed us a devotional by Elder holland on the Book of Mormon that was amazing as usual. Then after planning I got her to play the motab circle of life song. It really does sound like they are saying pink pajamas, penguins on the bottom Spencer!! haha everyone was cracking up.
We got to watch another dovotional by Elder Holland yesterday morning. It was Incredible. I highly reccommend that you guys watch it. It is an MTC devotional from 2011 i think and it is about what missionaries need to do better. I think you would really like it though Dad. It gave me a lot of motivation. Afterwards we had an hour of personal study, and it was the best personal study I have had yet!
tomorrow we get to go out again for pday. We get to go to walmart haha. I never would have thought that I would ever be so excited to go to walmart but it has happened. We get to go outside of our mtc bubble haha. All of the elders have been talking about how much food they are going to buy. They complain so much about how the food is always cold and gross and how the MTC is like a prison. It will be cool to see how much they change by the end of their mission haha.
It has been cold here the past couple days, its strange. The other day it started raining and we could see the wall of rain coming towards us it was awesome.
Well I love you all and hope you are all having a lovely summer!
love,
Hermana Bender
