Week 3

Hola mi familia y mi amigas!! Yo soy muy agradecida por ustedes y por nuestro salvador jesucristo. This week was pretty much the same hahah. I am running out of things to tell you all because in the CCM it is pretty much the same everyday... We wake up *If you are me you wake up very late* then we get ready and make our beds and say companionship prayer. Then we head to the clase por personal estudiar. This week something amazing that happened id that i FINISHED el libro de mormon. I cannot believe how precious personal study and the scriptures have become to me. Then we go to breakfast and come back and have things like coaching and language with maestra valesquez. SHE is an amazing teacher everyone in mexico is so nice!! She is an amazing teacher on how to bring the spirit. I have really been struggling with that this week and trying to pray for the holy ghost in our lessons. And i really saw a difference.. My language has really improved this week i now have memorized my objective, the baptismal invite, the first vision, and moronis promise. I am really trying to comprehend. Spanish is hard because they say everything backwards so instead of the lords house they say the house of the lord. Just little things like that. After language we have lunch then gym time. Gym time was funny this week I have been playing tennis. Which jena has been trying to teach me to play forever hahahah!! Its actually really fun even though i am really bad. One day it was pouring rain and we played volleyball in the rain which was very fun!! After gym we go back and have progressing investigator where we teach either christina or stephie who are really our teachers. Then we have TALL which is a computer program where you learn vocab and say it back to them so that you can get a accent. I have officially been voted whitest spanish missionary by my district! Pero esta bien. Then we have language study and then bed *or if you are me more studying because i get stressed out hahah* My companions think it is crazy that i study more. Basically im just trying to keep trying this week. I always remember the saying that my parents tell me. It is when the going gets tough the tough get going. I know that because i have faith in myself and faith in the lord I can be a tough missionary. This week was a lot the same but some spiritual things that happened was that it was fast Sunday so i fasted for my family that they would know that god loves them and is blessing them. And then I read my moms email and she said that on fast Sunday someone got up from mexico city and Colorado!! I know that the lord is blessing all of you and loves all of you. Then in sacrament meeting i got up and bore my testimony about the atonement. It was such a spiritual meeting!! Finally another spiritual thing is that yesterday we got a live broadcast of the apostle christofferson. It was amazing he asked a question of who called you on a mission! and then he said it was the lord and he doesn't make mistakes and we are supposed to be here. I KNOW that i am supposed to be here!! We also went to the temple again and I just felt gods love for me more that i ever have!! Some funny things that happened that might make you laugh is first off my family sent me donuts. And some hermana workers were cleaning our casa and i wanted to share so i went around saying *Yo quiero donuts* Which translates to i want donuts hahaha they were so confused and my companions laughed at me for hours. Also in my district it was pick on hermana tams week hahah! They keep on calling me country... Which i don,t understand but they think i am the biggest southern cowgirl. And then when i would get mad at them about calling me that they would make fun of my mad face like the little girls do!! They don't think i can be mean.... Also mom got me some fruit tic tacs that i thought were spicy BECAUSE THEY ARE!! And they went around laughing at me for that because i think everything is spicy! BECAUSE ALL MEXICAN FOOD IS SPICY! Anyways there are some stories. I'm sorry not much happened this week! I love you all so much! A really good chapter i read in the book of mormon this week is Alma 26! Say your prayers every day and read that chapter it applies so much to missionary work!! Recordar que su Padre Celestial amos ustedes!!! 

Love siempre, Hermana Tams!