Week 2 at el CCM

Hey Everyone!

I hope you all had a good week, its crazy how fast this week went by. Every day feels like a week but the weeks feel like a day. It´s weird. Nothing too crazy happened this week. I´ve just been working really hard with the language and teaching and everything. My Spanish has improved a ton which is awesome. The work is definitely hard and I am exhausted every day but it is so worth it. 

I fall asleep every night to dog fights and sirens outside my apartment.  It's nice because if I close my eyes I feel like I'm in the Palisades.  Haha!  Really though, it's nice inside the 10 foot walls and electric fence.  The food is good, I'm starting to love tacos for breakfast... and lunch... and dinner.  The water is safe too so life is good. 

Ok, I had my first language mess up this week. It was pretty bad. I was teaching a lesson to this girl who was about 22 or 23 and she was telling us how she was doing really well with praying and reading the Book of Mormon. I wanted to tell her I am excited for her (Estoy emocional) but I had already used that word a couple times already so I tried to think of another word that means excited, so I said "estoy exitado." So I basically told my investigator that her progress with reading the Book of Mormon and praying made me sexually aroused. Man let me tell you the gift of tongues is real. Long story short I fixed it and I´m not getting sent home so we are good! 

Mexico City Temple

Other highlights this week were going to the Mexico City Temple and getting to hear from Elder David Bednar. Both were super cool and really spiritual experiences. I have never felt the spirit so strongly before and my faith and testimony and so solid. I am definitely anxious to get out of the CCM and into the field and start this work (especially now that Elder Joseph Carroll left.)

I was talking to my friend/roommate from Mexico and he told me a story about how he got baptized.  He was riding his motorcycle to the store and was hit by a car that ran a red light.  He wound up in a coma for 20 days and when he woke up he didn't know his name.  He couldn't remember anything, but he kept asking his mom for a Book of Mormon.  Neither of them knew what it was or had ever heard of it before.  They asked the doctor to help.  They finally found a book and he read it in his hospital bed.  He and his mom were baptized and now he's on his mission. 

My dorm room

I want you all to know how much I love you. I am so thankful for the love and support I receive from you guys. I know it is an answer to prayer. You are all my family and I cannot imagine where I would be in my life without all of your examples to me.

I also want to let you all know of the love I have for Heavenly Father and his gospel. There is nothing that has blessed my life more. It has changed my life and I can't wait for it to change the lives of those I teach.  I know that Jesus Christ lived and he loves us all. I cannot imagine my life without this gospel.

Since I´m a missionary now I have to say this: read the Book of Mormon! Pray to know its truth. I promise you that if you give it a chance you will feel it and it will bring you happiness that you cannot get from anything else. If it wasn't true, I would not be in Mexico City right now preparing to share it with the world.  I know with my entire heart that it is true and that this is what I'm supposed to be doing with the next two years of my life. 

I hope life is good back at home. I´m looking forward to hearing from you all and I´m praying for you all every day (and praying Lebron doesn't go to the Lakers). 

"What you do each day shapes who you will become in the future"

      -Craig Christensen

All my love,

Elder Vincent

Me and my companion Elder Roundy