Lexie - June 1, 2014

It was a rough week. Started off with some lessons on monday that did not go well. One of the elders in our district bought all the hermanas ice cream that night, i think he could sense some irritation lol. I got a new teacher on Monday who is the person who was our first "investigator" so he knows all the stupid things we've said in lessons and that's super emberassing. Tuesday Russell M. Nelson came and talked and focused a lot on the missionary purpose. His wife gave a short talk that was really good about desperation, she said desperation can be a good thing on a mission. be desperate to contact people and desperate to share the gospel because when we're desperate for some reason we figure out how to get stuff done. it was an interesting concept. Also on Tuesday we taught our first TRC lesson which is teaching members so it's kind of like home teaching. We of course were not told this was happening so we were not prepared at all and totally flopped the first lesson. The one right after it went a lot better. The second lesson we just talked about the BOM and shared our favorite scriptures. It was a lot better than trying to teach a member like an investigator. Wednesday went a lot better and we gave a really good lesson. We were prepared and had some good examples and scriptures to use. I think I could almost do the whole first lesson in entirely spanish and that blows my mind. We started learning future tense this week which isn't bad but I fee llike past tense will probably destroy me. Thursday I went to Salt Lake to the Mexican Consulate to take pictures and finger print for our Visas. So they should be arriving here to us pretty soon. I drank a real mountain dew and had the most delicious food at Maverick on the way back to Provo. I don't even know what I ate but it's sad that it tasted that good. The MTC food keeps me alive but I wouldn't say I enjoy it most days. OH! And at the consulate we met our new mission president and his wife! They will arrive in Mexico just after us and are really nice. They are Dairy farmers from Cody Wyoming. They seem really cool. Other than that everything has been pretty much the same. The days are so long and I'm always tired so thank goodness for mints to help keep me awake!

Watch this...

https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/mountains-to-climb?lang=eng