Mexico City Temple!!

Feliz Navidad! I didn’t do a lot of recordings this week. This is my last Pday in the CCM.  The next time you hear from me I will be in IOWA! Christmas was kind of like a normal day. It was Sunday so we had a special white people sacrament meeting. President Call was in charge of it. We sang songs about Christ and talked about His life. We had a devotional from Elder Piper who talked about service, I don’t remember much about it! I did get to talk to you and that was the best!! Too bad I called while dad was on the stand. I bet it was funny watching him leave in the middle of Sacrament meeting so y’all could go to his office to talk to me. Oh, and our PJs ARE SOOO CUTE!! THANK YOU GUYS! That night our zone preformed a musical number (I heard the Bells on Christmas Day). We were done singing but Hermana Harvey kept playing for like half a verse until she realized that we were done. I could not contain myself and totally started laughing. It was very memorable to say the least! I’m not going to lie. Christmas was pretty sad. Being away from the family was hard and it didn’t feel like Christmas. Then it would feel like Christmas and I would get sad. I don’t know- whatever!  Glad it’s over. The rest of the week was pretty boring.

So the CCM is cool but I don’t know if I’m ready to leave. I got my flight plans and I have a 6.30 am flight but I leave the CCM at 3:30 am, which is AWESOME!  So ya, I’ve got it all under control!! I’m just here in Mexico just living the dream. Our last Pday and we FINALLY got to go to the temple. THE TEMPLE WAS LIT, AND BY LIT, I MEAN LIT!! It seriously was so awesome! The Mexico City temple is so pretty. I encourage you to look it up! It was so, so, so awesome!!! We did a normal session with headphones. We got to go through the veil in Spanish and my worker was so cute and nice. It was just sooo awesome! It was just such a beautiful temple and I loved getting to go!  But now we are home and we have to pack for the rest of our Pday! We don’t have enough tiempo so that is kind of lame. I am feeling wickedy, wickedy weird about the fact that the CCM experience is almost over. I can’t believe that I have to say goodbye to my district soon! I am not handling it well and am just trying to close my heart and not feel anything right now! It feels like the mission is flying by. I am not looking forward to freezing in Iowa and I am really sad to be losing my awesome tan that I have going!  I love you guys super mucho!!!

Last week in the CCM…Friday was our CCM evaluation day. These were to try and prepare us for the field. We had a super long break and we played foosball and ping pong against Elder McGary and Crider. Saturday we spent most of the day packing and having meetings. Then we played sand volleyball with our district. It was so fun!  We had a huge district discussion and Book of Mormon study. Elder Wilson led it and it was super spiritual and a ton of fun and super sad all in one. It was cool to listen to the testimonies of everyone in our district and you can tell that we have become one giant family! Sunday was the worst. It was our last day in the CCM. We had a testimony meeting after Sacrament and we kind of shared what we learned. We all got split up.  Elders De la Rosa, McGary, Goody, Smith, Jones, Crider and Lloyd and the Hermanas all shared our testimonies – it was just so sad and everyone was crying! It was very spiritual and it was nice to have that last good bye. Monday and Tuesday we hung out and cried because everyone left us and we just waited for our fights!

So, I am here on my last day in the CCM and we are done with everything and today is just kind of like a Pday! Nothing has really gone on expect we said bye to our district and that was actually pretty freaking hard, ha-ha. I didn’t think I was going to care as much as I did.... but I sure did.... it’s all good though!! How are things at home? I leave tomorrow at 3:00 am and my flight leaves at 6 am. I’m sure you guys already know this. Also my bags are all packed and I am SOOO nervous to leave. I’m mostly nervous for the cold and the Spanish but also just for my mission as a whole. I just need to look at it like a grand adventure…Which it is but sometimes it gets super repetitive and weird, but i know everything is going to change when I get out in the field. So I’m not even worried about it (I’m slightly worried about it) ha-ha pero todo ESTA BIEN!!!