MTC: Life in the Mexico City MTC

6 Jan 2014

Hey everyone! Greetings from Mexico city!

A Cool Picture of Mexico City

The language is coming, slowly but surely, and I am learning to love the gospel more and more every day! For all those of you who have never been to El CCM (MTC in Mexico), Let me walk you through a basic day in the life:

In the morning we wake up at 6:30 and cycle as many people through the shower as we can, as quickly as possible because by 7 we have to be dressed and in class. We then study for 45 minutes before going to eat breakfast. After breakfast we have gym time, where I have played tennis (undefeated, by the way), ping pong, lifted in a pretty nice weight room, ran, and one time sat around because everyone in my district was super tired.

After gym time we shower and go to our first actual class of the day. To start off the class two companionships teach 30 minute lessons to an investigator (actually our teacher). Afterwards Hermano Aguiñiga will come back into the class (as himself) and teach us how much we don´t know Spanish. This goes on until 12:45 when we have lunch.

Mexico City Temple Visitor Center

After lunch we go back to the classroom for an hour of personal study followed by an hour of companionship study. After study time our second teacher, Hermano Sanchez, comes in and follows the same process as Hermano Aguiñiga. We are with Hermano Sanchez until 6:15, when we eat dinner. After dinner we have an hour of language study. Usually my companion, Elder Joos, and I will go to the TALL (Technology Assisted Language Learning) building and memorize words and phrases, and learn grammar rules. After that hour we have our assigned Tall time for an hour, until 9. At nine we return to our classroom to plan for the next day and have a prayer with our district.

Some interesting things:

My companion is the district leader (which basically means I am as well)
My toe got infected the first week I was here and I got a fever and chills (it´s better now)

District 8C, Elders Dickson, Reeves, Godinet, Hermanas Bowles and Yeakey, Elders Weiss, Joos, Walker 

I love my district! We´re all very different, and it´s been such a strength to me!

This week we went to the temple! We didn´t get to go inside because it´s being remodeled but the visitors center is way cool!

Lots of kids are starting to call the CCM prison, but I don´t really mind it. I love learning the language and am super excited for when I get to apply what I´ve learned in Antofagasta, Chile!