Week 3: CCM- Sick, Dad, and Teaching

Questions Answered

1. What is your daily schedule like? -I sent it in a letter when I sent Tessa a letter so she'l show you. It's a lot to explain.

From a sister missionary in his district:

First, here is a general schedule of what we do throughout the day. We pretty much just sit in different classes and try and fail and try again to speak Spanish and teach lessons! 6:30 Wake up and get ready. 7:15 Daily planning, we plan what we´re going to teach and study that day. 7:30 Breakfast 8:00 Devotional with our district 8:30 TALL Lab (Technology Assisted Language Learning), this helps us learn the language that we need to teach lessons 9:15 Class, This class changes every day, but it´s usually either language study or Preach my Gospel study 10:15 Teaching! 11:15 More class! 12:30 Lunch! Lunch is the biggest meal of the day here.

1:15 Personal Study! 1:45 Language Study! 2:30 On Mondays this is when we do service around the CCM. Every other day this is gym time and we either work out by ourselves or play volleyball with our district and our friends´ district. 4:00 Class! Again! 5:00 Teaching 6:00 More class! 6:45 Dinner! I´m always starving before dinner since lunch is way before it, and so we usually go to the Tienda (store) to get snacks if we have time after changing back into missionary clothes after gym time. 7:30 More classes, or on Tuesday there is a devotional! Devotionals are so great! I´m going to try out for a solo to sing in one next week sometime. 9:00 Return home! 10:30 Go to sleep! Then it starts all over again!

2. Did you try out for Christmas Choir? How about solos? - So I was going to but funny story I got really sick and I didn't feel like singing. But I am working on something to try out with right now. 
3. Andy was jealous you only spent 3 hours at migration.-Tell him we got through quick cause we know Spanish, Homie.
4. Do you have specific language books that you study? - Yeah, we have basic, core, intermediate, and a big red one. We call them Charmander, Charmelion, Charizard then Clifford for the big red one.
5. Brother Perdue asked for a scripture to put on your missionary plaque. Can you give me one? - 1 Nefi capítulo 3 versículo 7 put it en Español
6. Do you do your laundry in actual washing machines or do you wash it by hand? - Well I scrub my collars the night before every week by hand then throw them in the washer.
 7. Have you had to pull out your big jacket? Have you been wearing your sweater some? -No to the big jacket but I have worn the sweater once.I usually wear my suit coat but I am gonna start wearing the sweater.
 8. Is it all Mexican food that you're eating in the cafeteria or is it some American food? -It's a mixture mostly Mexican but it gets old after awhile. So we make PB & Js and sometimes.
9. Are you taking pictures? You know you can remove the SD card and attach them to an email.  -I've taken some pictures and a few videos but apparently I'm not allowed to take videos.
 10. When is the Christmas choir singing? I noticed that you will be flying to Tuxtla on the 17th of December which is obviously before Christmas. - I have no idea. I'm chillin'. I'll stick with doing special musical numbers.
 11. We heard that you were playing volleyball for your exercise. We thought that you would be playing soccer.  -Who told you volleyball??? We play it cause the whole district can and it's more fun.

It was a wild week. I got put on bedrest then played dad on P-day for one of our sick guys LOL, got another baptism, and I have to lead and teach the zone meeting on Saturday.  

So let's start with the sickness thing. On Tuesday, a guy in my district and I went on splits to go to the Infurmeria and we got put on a short bedrest because we haven't been able to sleep due to so much coughing and not being able to breathe. But I got kind of better since then. But Elder Schmitz didn't. So today since it is P-day day I had to play dad for him LOL (it's funny because he is one of the zone leaders). I stayed with him in the apartment and pretty much cleaned it from top to bottom. It is so nice now. Then once he woke up from a nap I took him to the doctor to get meds. After that I took him to the store to get Gatorade and water then we went back to the apartment. Once we got there he went back to bed and I just was working on what musical number I wanted to sing next week. We made a joke out of it because he said I sang him to sleep. So apparently I am the ultimate dad LOL. 

Sooo yeah Elder Killips and I got another interested person to commit to baptism this week which was really cool. We will now have to explain baptism and the importance of covenants because we got a text after the lesson from Santiago saying his mom told him he was already baptized as a baby. So that will be another adventure but a fun one. Teaching in Spanish is so much fun-- I love it, el evangelio en español es muy bueno. It is so special too. It is so direct and to the point and certain translations for things are really cool. 

Speaking of teaching in Spanish  Elder Killips and I have been assigned (not assigned, it was more like the whole room was asked. Elder Killips said no but I said yes louder soooo yeah LOL)  to teach the zone meeting on Saturday en Español. So that should be fun. The topic is hastening the work so I will update on that next week. 

We get to go to the temple again next week. I´m so excited for it. Going through Spanish sessions are really cool.

Until next week!  

Also before I go a scripture we shared with ¨Santiago¨ the same lesson that he committed to baptism was Enos 1:12  It is a good one. I testify of the importance of faith it is an important principle as seen in the scripture. Without faith, we have nothing.