HOLA AMIGOS Y FAMILIA!!
boy is it awesome to hear from you all. it has been a LONG 10 days here in ciudad de méxico but an awesome one to say the least. ill try and include as much information as i can but pardon me if its a bit jumbled. all the words im typing are underlined in red squiggleys and its throwing me off. haha also pardon the grammar issues. like i said, long week. okay so life here is so great! we arrived around 530 to the CCM on Tuesday because traffic here is obviously a mess. but the city is gorgeous!!! the CCM is like a mini city within the city. it has giant walls of cement and barbed wire to keep us safe but then it also feels so friendly inside somehow haha its cool. we have our own casas that house about 20 misioneras each and were all such good friends. espeicialy us with the latinas. theyre so nice and even though i speak to them in terribly broken spanish they still love us hahaha but yeah theres streets and the comedor (ill talk about the food in a tish) and so much more and its basically the greatest place ever. when i first got here i found out i was in a trio! my companeras were Hermana Knudson and Hermana Frazer. I actually knew Hermana Knudson from school because she was friends with my friend Mandi back in high school and wed hung out before so it was awesome finding out were companions. hermana frazer is actually going to the alabama birmingham mission! so i told her all about how awesome her mission president is going to be. shes all too lucky! hermana kundson is going to arizona scottsdale so were all going different places. anyways, then on monday of this week we actually got another companera! so now there are four of us and only hermana frazer is my companion. but we only have hermana johnson for about two weeks because she had to stay two weeks longer for medical reasons so they threw her in with us. shes awesome too. theyre all awesome. basically everyone here is awesome. more about the CCM is there are parrots EVERYWHERE. its so weird like ive never actually interacted with parrots but theyre like the main bird and they squak all the dang time. not a huge fan. there are houses literally halfway up the mountains that surround us and i have no idea how they are built becasue theyre on like super steep parts and it doesnt make sense. ill send a picture of them sometime but theyre way cool. there are gunshots sometimes hahaha actually entertaing. but sometimes theyre fireworks. so its kinda a game of like oh was it a gun or a firework? the world may never know. its so beautiful here. ive gotten used to going to sleep to the sound of sirens blazing and its actually quite peaceful now. okay so the comedor. great place. we do eat lots of tacos. shoutout to méxico. the other day they had fresh mangoes and i almost died i kid you not. the greatest things ive ever eaten. they came short only to the mangoes i ate in the dominican but it was seriously so good. especially after eating beans and canteloupe (i seriously have canteloupe every meal) for a week straight. theres this elder in our district who enjoys complaining a lot and he was saying how all he wanted was an american burger. then we had burgers for dinner and he refused to eat it. he said it wasnt american enough. that was real annoying. i thought it was bomb. the chefs are actually quite talented. hes such a highschool boy. more on him later. the second day here after literally no lessons they had us teach our first lesson in spanish. to say it was a train wreck is quite the understatement. i cant even explain hahaha we wrote down basically a script because we didnt want to mess anything up and then they would ask a question and wed like stare at them and then go back to reading teh script. TERRIBLE IDEA. the spirit was not there and our spanish was still terrible. so after that weve gotten a lot better. except for our lesson last night where i meant to say {you guys dont need to believe us} but i forget to say creer and i also switched some words so i ended up saying {no necisitamos ustedes} basically we dont need you. they straight laughed in my face. nice fallyn. oh well, might as well get the mistakes out now am i right? the greatest part of every day is gym time. gym time is serioulsy blessed from the heavens. the very first day me and my friend hermana orton who played bball in high school decided to play knock out with all the élderes and get this I LITERALLY BEAT ALL OF THEM. it was awesome and they were all like woah ive never seen an hermana play and i was like yeah respect us. it was so great hahah today on pday a bunch of the hermanas played futbol and it was so dang fun. squad pic attached later. my district is very interesting. Elder Devereaux is going to birmingham too! hes the one that complains a lot (goodluck a melanee and u stanford) but he could be such a good missionary if he tried harder i just know it. we have this elder named elder duval and hes so funny hahaha hes like a big guy and has glasses and is kinda shy so he never talks but when he does all of us just crack up. funny story, we were playing kick ball the other day and he was like walking to the base and i didnt know that he was already out so i tried to throw the ball at him but my hand eye sucks right now and i hit him directly in the glasses and he like fell over and they fell off and it was SO FUNNY just cause it was Duval but i also felt really bad hahahah our district though literally was all on the ground cracking up hahah when you study all day evey the little things like that are funny. theres also an elder who is so short and small he looks like a deacon hahah but hes great. and this Elder named Elder Squire who we found out his real name was Carleton so we all call him Elder Lassy like from psych hahaha its so fun. i love them all. okay well thats all ive got! this week i saw Teagan from BYU and it was so good to see her. shes on her way to Chile already and shes going to do amazing. I saw Christian too on his first day and his second day and maybe hes just too cool to talk to me but he wasnt really down for a big conversation haha maybe he was tired but hell warm up to this place. i also saw my roomie ally from BYU! she cried when she saw me hahaha if any of you know her that isnt surprising. haha i lvoe this place and i love this work! yo se que el evangelio de jesucristo es verdadero. yo se que el libro de mormon es el palabra de Dios. i love you all so much!! until next week. Hermana Reed the 4th ps CONGRATS DEE ON THE BABY!!! HES BEAUTIFUL! I LOVE YOU LITTLE REX! pss mom and dee i got your letters from the mtcmexicocarepackage.com thing! those work! if you email through that they print off your email and i can get it in the middle of the week and it makes me so happy :) you can also send people food... people in my district have gotten a box of krispy creme donuts... just saying. my district is 11B! i love you all! Picturas!!! 1 this ones for you ma!! orange houses everywhere! 2 us after the most intense futbol match the CCM has ever seen. jk the score was 0-0 hehe 3 the crazy houses on the hill plus benemirito! 4 me and hermana knudsen!! i cant believe were here together!! 5 all the chicas in mi districto. the third one from the right is my compañera hermana frazer. 6 if youve been to the ccm, you know what this is 7 mi districto
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