Week 2 in the MTC

It's 41 degrees and raining and this desert air is freezing. It's times like this when I'm actually thankful I'm not in Logan right now. I'm so thankful to be going to California. The Lord knows me well.

Anyway, this week was pretty much ordinary but still crazy busy. It's weird how usual the days get when still so many things are happening! I forgot to tell you about our service projects last time. We do service one day a week for a couple hours here on campus. Last week we were in the comedor and did dishes and cleaned the kitchen. Yesterday was our service for this week and we washed and folded sheets for the whole CCM!

I told you a little about my teacher Hermano Muñoz right? Well I found out this week that he is only 22! He has worked at the CCM for almost a year and he went to school here when it was a high school. Our other teacher is Hermano Gilesia who acted as Marcos, our first investigator. He is 26. It's like kids teaching kids here but it works and it's so awesome. Something funny about Hermano Muñoz is he apparently loves beef jerkey (he pronounces it beef yer-key) but I guess they don't have it here or it's not as good... anyway, one of the hermanas in my district brought some with her so the next day she walked into class holding the bag out to him and his face went from super serious let's get started to a kid on Christmas morning. I wish so badly I could've captured it on camera but it was priceless. He is such a cool guy.

We've finished teaching Marcos, we only got 5 lessons with him. In his last lesson I committed him to baptism and it was really cool because when he accepted he said he liked talking to us because I know how he feels, I was able to empathize with a lot of questions and concerns he had. Now we're teaching Benjamin and Reinaldo.

We just got done with lunch and there was a camera crew from Salt Lake following the missionaries around for some reason... I'm not really sure if it's just a little documentary on the new Mexico MTC, but I've heard rumors of a "change" happening for missionaries so I'll keep you posted.

My Spanish is getting better but I feel like I've plateued a little bit. Hermana Baird and I need to get back to working at it like we were. Oh! during language study the other day our teacher was studying French and learned "Je suis enfant de Dieu" so I wrote that down to share with Frank and Beth :)

Every Sunday we have to prepare a 5 minute talk in Spanish, then when we get into Sacrament meeting they announce who will be speaking. So you really never know when it'll be you until right before. This past Sunday I could've sworn it was going to be me, but nope! So probably this week. There are only about 25 people in our branch that meet together and 6-8 of them speak so the odds are pretty good I'll get called up, Wish me luck!

Okay, funny story. Remember how I said the food was good? I kinda jinxed it. Because after that it got kinda sketchy. They are super creative though! A couple days ago we had hot dogs for dinner. I'm guessing we didn't eat them all because the next day we had potatoes and hot dogs for breakfast. Then hot dogs showed up in the salad at lunch, and pasta with hot dogs for dinner. At least they don't waste! All day we were playing I spy the hot dogs.

I can't think of much else that happened this week so I will send pictures. I love you all so much and pray for you everyday. And talk about you all the time!

Con amor,

Hermana Granado