This week seriously flew by so stinking fast! I'm not really sure if I like that or not... but anyway, lots to report!
First of all, I wanted to describe a typical Sunday here in the CCM
but I totally forgot to last time! It honestly doesn't really feel any
different than any other day around here. We wake up and get ready just
like any other morning, and we have an early morning leadership meeting
that we have to attend. Then we have relief society and priesthood,
mixed in with lots of study time, followed by a make shift Sunday school
in our classroom (pretty much a discussion between the 7 of us) and
finally we get to sacrament meeting. Before each Sunday we have to
prepare a 5 minute talk, and during the meeting the branch presidency
chooses 6 people at random to give the talks they have prepared. I was
not chosen on the first Sunday, but I was chosen on the second Sunday to
give a talk on diligence. For the rest of the day, we have three
things, study time, devotionals, and a video! The videos are so awesome,
because it is always a very uplifting church movie, but it is super
nice to be able to watch a movie actually! (you know how much I love
watching movies!!) So basically it doesn't feel super different, because
we are still studying just like every day, and the meetings that we
have just take the place of the time we would spend in class.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that Elder Campbell and I were
asked to be Zone leaders for our branch. And since Elder Gates is the
district leader, we all kind of have all of the responsibilities in a
way, because we always have to be with each other! haha. The callings
have not been super difficult yet, so it has not really added much to
the enormous amount of things that we have to do to prepare for the
field.
This last Sunday, we were also chosen to be the district that
conducted sacrament meeting for the comedor (cafeteria) staff! Elder
Gates had the opportunity to conduct his first sacrament meeting ever
and it happened to be in Spanish! It was a very simple meeting with just
the sacrament, and two small spiritual thoughts, but it was a pretty
neat experience!
Learning Spanish is definitely a task, but I am totally willing to
take it head on! I have moments where my confidence is boosted about how
much Spanish I know, and I have other moments were I am humbled greatly
and feel like I need to lock myself in my room and study the entire 6
weeks in order to even be slightly proficient. But realistically I am
progressing a lot and it is totally becoming easier and easier every
day! I love learning the language, but it can be frustrating at times!
When we come upon simple topics that are just difficult for me, such as
determining between ser and estar or por y para, it can be very
discouraging! But I'm pushing through!
We had our first service activity on Wednesday and it was actually
quite humorous! We got there and Elder Gates, Campbell and I were tasked
with wiping down the walls of the comedor with water. Then they take
the hermanas into the bathrooms and have them actually do the dirty work
(literally; girls and guys bathrooms...) Our job was really quite
pointless, so I really felt bad that the hermanas got stuck with the
dirty work...
We finished teaching our first investigator, Hugo, and his progress
was super amazing! But now we have the pleasure of teaching two
investigators every day (both named Daniel)! It is much more difficult,
because we are limited to 20 minute lessons so we really have to cut out
all of the foam and get to the point on everything. In fact, on our
first lesson with one of the investigators, the hermanas taught before
us and they took so long that we ended up only having 5 minutes with
this investigator (Daniel Montez), so we had to teach a porch lesson
really quickly, but we ended up doing rather well for that unexpected
obstacle in our lesson.
We had our first two letters in the mail last week for our district
(we all share a mailbox)! Before we opened it, we all guessed who they
were for, and because other people were expecting letters, I didn't
think any would be for me, but we looked to see and what do you
know...they were both for me! Everyone in the district was not happy
with that. Not to mention the third one that we got today was also for
me... so, so far I'm the only one that has gotten physical mail!! haha I
love it, but my district? well lets just say they don't.
I just want to add as kind of a morbid statement that I had my
first case of the squirts last week... yes only 2 weeks gone and I'm
already having problems.... this is going to be an eventful two years.
Luckily I wasn't sick with anything else though, I guess there is a
bright side to everything.
Love
Elder Moser
PS
we had french toast for breakfast one day. Let me just say AMAZING!!
And also one night we had chicken bake, literally from Costco itself!
Some days they love to surprise us at the comedor!
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