El templo

Ayeeee! Familia y Amigos,

Life in the CCM is still  great! Were considered 4th weekers now, so WOOT! we'll  be outta here hopefully sooner than it feels like!

Soooooo This week was like a spirtual bomb!

I basically start my weeks on wednesday cause pday is the weekend for us, Saturday is exactly like any other day (awww) buuuuut it started out pretty rough. I was frustrated with alot of things on wednesday. We do basically the same thing erry day so it feels super repetitive and sometimes it kinda just feels like im stuck.

Soooo there are a ton of things that helped me. Ether 12:6 being a huge one. Cause it says youll recieve a witness AFTER a trial of your faith and i wanna emphasize that youre not gonna recieve it BEFORE OR DURING. itll come After. Youre not gonna know why youre going through some of the things youre going through til you put it into perspective. So ayyyye everybodayy, keep the faith!

Then Friday i got really sick. This food is killeeerrr. Ive never had a problem with food being able to settle til i got to Mexico annnnd on friday i kept having to leave class to go puke. sooooo no bueno. It was a rough few days, but it got better pretty quick :)

Saturday was the cultural celebration! YOOOO IT WAS CRAZY. the girls were wearing gorgeous, colorful  dresses and they did a ton of crazy hispanic dances, It was incredible. One of the teachers in our zone was in it! His name is Hermano Vargas and hes like the happiest little latino ever, 

Sunday was the Mexico City Temple Dedication AHHHHH! they havent had a termple for two years! and the closest one is in Veracruz which is a 6 hour drive from here. The dedication was cool :)

Elder Holland spoke in Spanish! It was super simple spanish, (Kinda like the broken up Spanish we've got goin on here) but it was way powerful! We also got to here from President Iring. Both talks were great :)

and todayyyyyy *DRUMROLL* we got to go to the temple! We left at 7 am for an hour long busride, and we got to pass some really sad, broken down places.. People were walking their kids to school and i just thought back to when i was a kid, i walked to school with my sister all the time, and It was okay, cause our neighborhood was safe. buuuut its different here, there are dangerous, sketchy places that little kids have to walk past every day! :(

Oh! Buuuuuut We were the one of the first sessions in TWO YEARS, such a neat experience. It was cool to see people FINALLY getting to go and we got to talk to the cutest little niña named Rosalina. She was precious. And i understood maybe half of what she said, cause she talked so fast but I Loved getting the opportunity to talk to a kid. There are only adults here at the CCM

The Mexico City Temple is one of the largest temples outside of the US

Its one of five (?) that has angel moroni holding the gold plates! 

Today has been awesome! And Its Mexican Independence day tomorrow so we get "real" mexican food.... (It wasnt real before!?!?) (what have I been eating for the past three weeks!!!!!!!!)

Oh yeah! The latino missionaries left on sunday and they all asked if we could take a picture with them hahah we didnt really know them though, but we always say Hola to them!

Literally 10 latinos ive never talked to asked for our email addresses. It was the weirdest thing. and we can barely understand them cause they talk so fast hahah,

That pretty much sums up my week! I hope things at home are great! and I hope my friends in the field are having tons of success! Les amo!!!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Brittany Johnson

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