¡HOLA! ¿Cómo están?
Wow. I can't believe it's
already been a week! Time is flying by here in el CCM. This place is pretty
awesome especially the gunshots we hear all the time lol.
Almost everyone in our
district has been sick (something is going around el CCM) but everything else
has been pretty good! We are all pretty exhausted with our 16 hour days packed
full of activities for learning the language and gospel classes but we are
trying to make the most of it and have fun with our days. Its been pretty
tiring but I am doing pretty well with Spanish. We try to speak it all
the time here which is really dificil when you don't know that much but we are
getting there.
Alright so throughout the
week we have been teaching 2 new investigators, Gaby y Alejandro. My compañero
y yo have been doing our best teaching them about families and Faith and our
Heavenly Father. Its been really cool teaching them, even though we are using
very broken spanish but it seems to get across and you can really feel the
Spirit. Oh and speaking about teaching people so next week we get another
investigator so we will be teaching 3 people all at once. But the cool thing
about this is we are going to be part of the mixed program for it! Which means
we get a new latino compañero which is going to be awesome. Hopefully he will
be able to understand me tho lol. 
On Tuesdays we have a weekly
devotional and they are always amazing! Last week we heard from Elder Oaks from
a broadcast from Provo. (I saw Alex in the audience for like a brief second).
One thing that he said that really stuck out to me was "We all have the
challenge to become. This is more than achieving or becoming better." This
is actually such an awesome quote. We must not nearly just be better than
before we must change. This doesn't just apply to us missionaries. We must
challenge ourselves to become the best people that we can be. This week Elder
Valenzula from the Mexico Mission area came and talked to us. He gave a really
great talk about the Holy Ghost. He talked a bit about the earthquake that had
just hit a few miles south of us. It was really really destructive and many
families were displaced. (Luckily we we safe in the CCM just rocking in our beds). He
told the story of a young woman who was right in the middle of it all. Right as
their house was about to collapse she felt an overwhelming feeling of peace
telling her that everything would be ok. I know that the spirit can comfort us
in times of need and distress which has helped me so much these few weeks.
So the days here are starting
to blur together. Everyday we study the scriptures, learn spanish, share the
gospel, learn more spanish, go to bed, wake up and repeat. I have found two
things that I have relied on since I have been here; scripture study and
prayer. Even though we've had a really busy schedule I love finding time to
read the scriptures. Guys let me tell you, the scriptures are awesome. They
bring me so much knowledge, comfort and joy whenever I read them. I don't know
if y'all have read the Book of Mormon or not but it is such a great book of
scripture and I invite y'all to read it. It has brought me so much closer to
God than I could've thought was possible. And prayer. Oh what a great thing
prayer is. I don't think i have prayed harder in my life than since I have been
here at el CCM. Like it says in Matthew chapter 7 "Ask, and it shall be
given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto
you". Through praying and reading the scriptures we can feel joy and
happiness, find answers to questions, and can feel the love that God has for
us.
Love and miss y'all mucho
elder mcclellan
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