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| At the Mexico City Temple |
Last Wednesday we had a
worldwide broadcast just for missionaries. I dunno if you heard about that but
it was all on how to use to Spirit as we are teaching. They broadcasted it from
Provo and I tried to look for friends in the audience but couldn´t see any. It
was such an awesome and powerful broadcast. At one point I got an impression
from the spirit that basically said "A missionary is measured by how
diligent he is at doing all he can to bring the Spirit unto the hearts of the
investigators, he is not measured in baptisms." It went something like
that. I don´t have my notes with me right now so I don't really remember
exactly what I wrote but it has the same idea. Then Wednesday just picked up
with craziness. Shortly after the broadcast we ran into our Branch President on
campus, his name is Presidente Machado, he´s a great guy, but anyways, he tells
us he wants to meet with us and takes us into a classroom and boom - he makes
Elder Allsop and I the new Zone Leaders. Completely unexpected. We´d been there
for just over a week and we hardly know the language, yet he calls us as Zone
Leaders. It was crazy, and ever since we´ve been doing our best to help the Zone
progress and become unified. I really love the Zone - the people in it are
awesome.
On Thursday we taught
Louis our last lesson. It was kinda sad, even though it was just our teacher
pretending. I learned a lot about how when the Spirit prompts you to say
something you better say it. I really enjoy teaching people and I can't wait to
be out in the field. Then that night we had our first service project and it
turns out that we get to welcome all the new missionaries. It was super cool
and I recognized several kids from Lone Peak, hopefully Thursday I´ll get the
chance to see Jake (Elder Clements).
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| Elder Miles' Zone |
Friday was a little bit
of a rough patch. I got kinda frustrated with the language and the pace I was
learning at. I think to be honest I was expecting too much out of myself. The
worst part was they about quadrupled the amount of stuff they wanted us to learn.
It was insane but I keep praying for strength and support in learning the
language and it has certainly helped.
I found a really awesome
scripture in Alma on Saturday. It´s Alma 36 verse 3. It´s an amazing scripture
and I highly recommend that everyone go read it. Kind of a funny moment
happened Saturday night. Each Saturday the city around us goes crazy, and last
Saturday night they were playing the Macarena, so we kinda had our own little
party. The funny part was both Elder Allsop and I had the thought to email
about it, but we had no idea how to spell Macarena, so I hope it´s right. The
spell checker line isn't there so I hope its right.
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| At the Temple |
Sunday was another super
powerful day in the Spirit. We had the chance to take the Comedor (Cafeteria) the
sacrament. It was really neat and I got the chance to say the prayer in Spanish
for the first time. I had to go a little slow but it was really neat and
definitely had a cool Spirit to it.
Monday we got two new
investigators. The first is Alejandro and the other is Patricia. Both are our
teachers - Hermano Vargas and Hermana (sorry it's something weird I'll figure
it out and report next week). The lessons went great and the spirit was really
neat. In the first lesson I got this huge prompting to ask Alejandro what he
was hoping to gain from our lessons and I think this really helped to build
trust.
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| Playing cards |
Today we got the chance
to go to the Mexico Temple. It was incredible!!! The temple looks like an
ancient Aztec or Mayan temple and it's extremely beautiful. Might just be my
favorite temple. It took us about 30 minutes to get there. The city was crazy,
we saw all sorts of weird things. There was someone driving a construction
backhoe on the freeway, there were dudes selling stuff in the roads, and last
was three guys playing cards in the back of a dump truck. It was all super
funny, Elder Allsop and I were getting a kick out of it. Anyway the temple was
awesome. We had to use headphones so we could listen in English but it was
really neat to get the chance to speak Spanish at the end.
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| View of the city |
Let´s see a few other
random things. We´ve now had three fires on the mountains surrounding the
campus. Not sure how they got started and they don't ever last long but it´s
been weird. The CCM sits in a bowl like valley that's completely surrounded by
mountains. It's super cool but honestly not very pretty. Everything is pretty
dry and lifeless. I guess that´s just because of the winter. Let´s see - there
are 4 Hermanas and 3 Elders in my District, and in my Zone we have 9 Elders and
12 Hermanas, but we get a fourth district on Thursday so we'll see how many
more we get.
Our days are basically
wake up, do personal study, go to breakfast and then gym. At 9:45 we start a
three hour block of class, have lunch and then two more hours of language
study. Then starting at 3:15 we have three more hours of class. Then dinner,
after dinner we do another two hours of language study. Everything is
completely packed in there. We barely have time to eat meals. I´m really
getting to know my companions well. Elder Allsop and I get along super well. We
seem to like just about all of the same things, and Elder Klossner is hilarious
- I´m always laughing around him.
Well I believe that´s
everything.
Love you all!
Hasta luego!!
--
Elder Miles
Washington Yakima
Mission
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