3: Sunday of Savannah

Today was THE BEST DAY YET!!!!!!! We went to the temple at 6:20 AM, then came back, had breakfast, went to the ZOO, then a street market, then to Wendys, and the day isn't even over! Wow! Everyone but our district and the Queqchi district left yesterday, we are on 3 week rotations here. So lots of sad goodbyes and empty halls today but it has been really fun.

Another Norteamericana Hna Madison is a runner as well and the other day we were both so tired of not being able to run, so we ran 20 laps around the courts - a whole mile! Gotta mix up deportes somehow.

The days here are getting better and better and funnier and funnier. The other day we were craving pizza because they make it here every couple weeks and it is so good. Me and my companions literally stopped and prayed for pizza AND IT WORKED. Hay muchos milagros aquí en el CCM. And our teachers are a riot - our afternoon teacher Hermano Colindres was teaching and then he looked out the window and I guess he saw something funny so he started laughing. So we asked him what was funny and he just said "The Spirit just whispered to me a joke!"

"Oooookay Hno what was it???"
"Why do the lamanites always have bruises on their knees"
"Because of the Nephites"

Seriously any chance of him controlling the class the rest of the night was gone we were dying.

And about Sunday. A day in the life of a missionary in the CCM: I had to prepare a lesson for our Sunday school, then play piano for Relief Society, then teach Relief Society, then play piano in Sacrament meeting, then sing a musical number in Sacrament, then have a talk prepared for sacrament and wait to see if I'm one of the lucky ones whose names gets called to give a talk. Then continue to play piano in 2 more meetings throughout the day. Day of rest????????

The highlight of my week was just the other night, we were having district study reading el Libro de Mormon in Moroni 6. We only read the one chapter in 45 minutes but we talked and shared our thoughts for a long time. We all loved how Moroni explains repentance. His people could be evil and terrible and commit awful sins, and their names be blotted out, but if they came unto the Lord with a sincere heart, "they were forgiven". God wants nothing more than for us to return to Him, that we can overcome everything. I invite you all to read this chapter, it really helped our district and myself to understand how much God really loves us.

Hope all is well! Hasta luego!