Wow what an experience it has been here in the
CCM (Spanish for MTC) so far! They gave us somewhat of a little teaser
on the day we arrived, because there was really nothing to do so we had
all night to just hang out and unpack and get settled in our rooms and
stuff. As I mentioned, Elder Gates is one of my companions and that is
pretty cool how we were pretty good friends back at BYU. Elder Campbell
is also great! He was at BYU as well last year but he lived in Wyview so
I didn't know him. He is from Alabama, and he is also going to be
serving in Nicaragua with me. I had the hardest time falling asleep the
first night, because my mind was so jam packed and I had so many
concerns and curiosities about how I would do learning the language, and
how I would compare to the others in my classes, but after what I would
guess was over an hour, I finally fell asleep.
Every day has been so busy, and sometimes I feel like the
transition time between classes and meetings is not nearly enough, but
we do the best we can to be early to all of the meetings like they
request here at the CCM.
The rooms are pretty small here, but we got really
lucky. Because we have a companionship of three people, we only have
three people in our room. The rooms sleep four, and there are four tiny
closets to put all of our stuff in. Luckily, only having three people,
we have an extra bed to put all of our stuff on. Only having a half hour
in the morning to get ready is pretty tough considering we only have
one shower between the three of us, but again if we had four it would be
a lot harder.
The food has been surprisingly good! I haven't gotten sick... yet
and I hope that I wont get sick. haha Every meal is Mexican food though,
and I don't think I have ever had beef tacos for breakfast, so that is
something new! Basically every meal has required the use of tortillas,
including breakfast, which kind of gives you an idea of all of the
things we eat!
The classes have been so great! We definitely landed the best
teacher at the CCM. Hermano Silva and Hermano Contreras are so great!
Hermano Silva is so outgoing and he is so easy to get along with as
students, but he is also a very effective teacher! Aside from class time
though, we have hours of study time every day for the language. It is
seriously unreal how much I have already learned in just 6 days! I am in
no means anywhere close to being fluent yet, but there is definitely
hope for me yet! I am so excited to be able to know Spanish well,
because then I will be able to say what I want to say in my lessons
without worrying if I actually know how to say it!
We have had three lessons now with our investigator, Hugo. Our
first lesson was decent, but because of our limited abilities in
Spanish, I was honestly a little disappointed about my abilities. But
when the second lesson came around, it was such a good experience. We
were able to correct a few of our mistakes from the first lesson. I also
was able to contribute to so much of the lesson, but I don't even know
how I did it half of the time! I know that the spirit was there helping
me remember the words in Spanish that I wanted to say to Hugo. He has so
much interest in the church and he loves reading the book of Mormon.
Elder Gates shared the story of Aaron and King Lamoni in Alma 22 with
him and he absolutely loved it! He was able to relate to king Lamoni so
well! He accepted our invitation to be baptized as well! In the third
lesson, we taught about the entire restoration to explain to him the
importance of the Book of Mormon and the truth that it contains. I was
able to share with him that if he prays to God, asking if the Book of
Mormon is true, he will be able to receive an answer. He gave a
beautiful prayer at the end of the lesson and the spirit was so strong!
So about the watch, I guess I don't really remember where I left it,
but I though it was just somewhere in my room. Anyway it was a sad to
pass on the Cars 2 watch, but luckily there is no need to worry. We
finally had time to go to the store here at the CCM today and they have
watches!! woohoo! It is a great day here in Mexico City knowing that!
Unfortunately, because of the mix up with which MTC I would be going to,
my money card won't work until tomorrow, so they gave me 100 pesos for
the first week, but all of the watches cost 160 pesos, so I can't buy a
watch until tomorrow. But on the bright side I was able to buy a Spanish
hymnal, so now I will know all of the words to the songs when we sing
them!
I love all of you so much and miss you!
Love,
Elder Moser
My District
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