WEEK 1 - First Week En El CCM

Hey everyone. So this computer is terrible and doesn't have stuff so this email will be very poorly punctuated and very poorly written because my ingles is muy mal. It's hard to speak English words so sorry in advance if some of my words are en español. Also it doesn't have an enter key so this will be one paragraph.

This week has been amazing. The plane ride was awful awful awful. It was so long and sooooo hot. We basically flew all through the night. But there was about 35 of us so that was really, really cool. My district is awesome. We are all so close and getting closer. Mi compañero, Elder Speth, is wonderful. We get along so well and we teach together so well. 

We basically got thrown right into everything and we are teach an 'investigador'. It's really our teacher, Hermano Morales, just pretending to be an investigador. But it feels so real and we have to teach in Spanish so that is super fun cause we basically can't speak it. jk jk. We are actually all really, really good. The older Nortes said that we are the best district at speaking Spanish. I hope that made sense. I sorta forget how to speak English..... cause EVERYONE speaks Spanish. Todo el tiempo. All the time.

The food was awful. The first day when we ate breakfast, I was thinking. Oh boy. What did I get myself into. But then, after that it got a lot a lot better. But they give you so much food and it is like impossible to eat it all, but you have to cause they don't want you to waste any of it. They have the best fruit ever. It tastes so fresh.

Ummmmm... I don't know what else to say. The days are so long and the weeks go by so fast. I've been here for a week. what. a week. what. We got back from the temple literally about 5 minutes ago. The temple is amazing. It is such a good expierience wherever you go. Not spelled right, but I don't know how to spell it... Awkward... Anyways it has been amazing here. Our P Day was supposed to be yesterday and then it got switched to hoy . que en el mundo. We have taught los latinos all these american frases that they don't say here. Like que en el mundo, which means what in the world. Santa vaca, which means holy cow. And nuncamente, which means nevermind.

Our teachers are awesome. Hermano Morales en la tarde y Hermana Cuque en la mañana. They are so spiritual. Hermana Cuque was gone for a little while cause she is going to the US so we had a substitute, Hermano Romero, and there was one time where he asked us to pay really close attention and then bore his testimony is Spanish. We all understood perfectly, it was amazing. And then when he finished he said, the gift of tongues is awesome right. I don't know how to do question marks on this keyboard so there you go.

Anyways, this email has been all over the place but my week was awesome. I miss you all so so so so much. I love you all con toda mi corazón. Yo se que la iglesia es verdadera.

OH, last things. They say that when you go on a mission, your testimony will be strengthened and I was like, yeah yeah whatever. It's true. My testimony has grown so much. I got the chance to bear it to some of you before I left, but the ones that I didn't get to, I want to now really quick. I know that this church is true. I KNOW that the BOM es la palabra de Dios. I love this gospel. I'm so excited to preach it. I cannot wait to get out en el campo. It is the coolest feeling in the world to put on that nametag every day. I am a representative of Jesucristo and that is amazing.

Much love,
Elder Baller