Serving in San Antonio Texas: Week 4 at the MTC...

Hola todos!!! Como están?? Yo estoy muy feliz y emocionada ir a Texas en 12 dias!!!

I ALSO HIT ONE MONTH THIS WEEK AND THAT WAS CRAZY!! Time has flown, but also crawled by at the same time! This means next week is my last week in the CCM, and as excited as I am to go to Texas, I am not excited at all to say goodbye to my district. We have become so close and saying goodbye to them is going to be so heartbreaking..

This week was great! Since we started our 5th week, we have little stickers on our name tags, and its because week 5 and 6 are supposed to be as much Spanish as possible, and so our district is doing a game that we start every day with 4 lives, and when someone talks English and someone hears them and calls them out, they give one of their lives to them! It's been a fun game and has really helped my Spanish! It has brought a little contention to our district because people are really protective of their lives! My Spanish is getting so much better and I can have conversations and teach the first three lessons in Spanish!

We said goodbye to our amazing sister training leaders that we had the opportunity to have the first 4 weeks of the CCM, and that was super sad and it's honestly so weird to not see them around anymore! It's going to be just like leaving home again and I'm not excited to do that again, but it'll be okay!

My companion and I have been teaching "Elaine" and "Angela" and have them both agreed to being baptized! At the beginning we were always super nervous for every lesson and trying to write out our whole script before we go in to teach, but lately we literally just talk about what we want to talk about, and don't plan very much and go in hoping the Spirit will help guide us where we need to go, and He always does!

We had another awesome devotional this Tuesday and it was amazing! My spiritual thoughts this week are quotes that stuck with me from the devotional, the first one is "Because of Him" and it literally applies to everything that we do! Because of Christ we get the opportunity to have our wonderful lives, to make choices and to be able to repent and change our lives. The second quote is one that hit me hard when I heard it because I have been stressed my Spanish won't be good enough by the time I get to the field, and it is the quote I will keep with me on my whole mission, and is "I never called you to master the language, I simply called you to serve with all your heart, might, mind and strength." I loved it so much that I took so many hours to draw the little paper that I will attach!

Yesterday we had a service activity and it was the best thing I've done here at the CCM! We did laundry, and I know mom will be surprised by this because every time I had to do laundry at home I would complain, but I was SO EXCITED for laundry because I've heard it's so fun and it seriously was! I had the best job of everyone, which was when an hermana didn't have a sheet to fold, she'd raise her hand and I'd throw another one to her to fold, it was the best!! Then the man that was over laundry turned on some music and I'm not going to lie, I was SO EXCITED. HE TURNED ON "GOD'S PLAN" BY DRAKE and everyone got so pumped hahah, at the CCM, any music that isn't "church music" people call heathen music, but everybody got so excited and I think 5 weeks without my music has been hard but I didn't realize how much I missed music until that song turned on! Then the next song was one by Enrique Iglesias and it was seriously just a party! After we put all the sheets in bags we got to throw them at the elders and pretty much play dodgeball and it was seriously the most fun ever!!

I'm sorry these are all so long!! But thank you to everybody that reads these and also to everyone who emails me!! I love and miss you all, and CAN'T WAIT TO BE A TEXAN SOON!!

Love Hermana Griffin ♡