Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: An Amazing Experience in the CCM!!

Yeah the first week was the roughest but it’s going better now! Spanish is coming slowly but it is coming. I can say a basic prayer and bear my testimony in Spanish! We keep learning more and more each day though. It’s like being in school again but while being here I can feel Heavenly Father helping me not be overwhelmed by it all. It’s really an incredible feeling. I really do like the people in my district! We all get along super well. Yeah I was talking with him (the Elder that is going to Shawn's mission) about him going there and that would be cool if Shawn was his trainer.

Sundays are good but still busy. We have lots of study time, meetings and devotionals… 3 devotionals from afternoon into the evening. Fast and testimony was the same except for we have to bear our testimonies in Spanish, which I went up and did! The food is interesting to say the least. It’s like food back in high school where sometimes it’s good and sometimes it gives you serious stomach problems.

Yes I did get the package you sent, thank you so much you are the best! I shared the stuff you sent with everyone in my Casa. I was looking on that website a few days ago at everything they have and saw so many things I want like poptarts and candy and stuff haha. Also quick side note, the zip up hoodies I have aren’t technically allowed here and may not be in my mission. Occasionally there are sunny days but the weather here is weird and is cloudy, rainy and cold most of the time so I need a sweater of some kind. There are only 2 seasons here. Wet and dry and we are getting to the end of the wet season but during the dry season it gets super cold here at nights and then heats up during the day.

I have an experience I want to share with you. It was crazy that we had to teach an investigator already. I thought that was crazy until this week we had to start teaching 2! It’s hard but at the same time it’s going super good. In fact, yesterday my comp and I prepared to teach Karla (who is also our teacher Hermana Pérez); and in our lesson, we were going to start out by asking her if she has read the Book of Mormon we gave her and what she thought about it, then teach her about baptism/confirmation, eternal families, teach her how to pray and then ask her to be baptized but it didn’t go that way. Instead we spent the whole time (about 20 or so minutes) talking about the about the Book of Mormon, asking her questions, and answering the questions she had about it and bearing our testimonies too. Even though that’s all we taught about before we had to end, it went really well. After the lesson, Hermana Pérez sat us back down and told us that she has never felt the spirit so strongly during a lesson with the missionaries here in the CCM before and that it made her want to go out and serve a mission again. She also told us that during our lesson we conjugated everything we said perfectly (which I didn’t think we did because I just said what came to me) and that totally blew her mind. I seriously almost started crying because of everything she said and because of the reassuring feeling that the gift of tongues is truly possible and because of how strong the spirit was while we were teaching and then after when she told us that.

Yes I did write about that experience in my journal. I have written every day! I forgot to say before but I don’t really even know how to conjugate anything yet but that was seriously my favorite moment here in the CCM. Also everyone here calls me “abuelo”, which means grandpa and I call them my “hijos”, which means children. It’s kinda weird being with 18 year olds but it’s not bad haha.

I love you Mama