Hola mi familia y
amigos!!!!! *sorry this email is going to be all over the place, my thoughts
are eeverywhere!*
Wow where do I even begin! I don't think there[s anywhere else in the
world where people work as hard as they work here. The Mexico MTC is the BEST!
I seriously love this place!!!!!!! *and sorry for any typos this keyboard
is made for espanol* I guess I can just start by saying that I KNOW that this
is where I am supposed to be. I swear the Mexico MTC was made just for me!!!
like really, I feel so at home here- it's just like Ecuador!!! I see colorful
houses on the hills everyday! And I can hear the dogs bark at night! It feels
like I'm in Ecuador again. The entire MTC is like outside and there's tons of
trees and we are surrounded by the mountains!!! I LOVE IT! There are paintings everywhere you turn so it feels like an art museum, seriously the Lord made
this place just for me!!!! Ecuador prepared me like no other, and that's really
apparent now that I'm here-for instance, spanish, I can understand! I can speak
some! not fluently, but I can! And working all day really isn't very hard for
me at all, and I know it''s because the Lord prepared me to be here. Ecuador
has truly lightened my load here.
My district is so
amazing and we have all really bonded. It's weird because most of the boys here
are 18 and the sisters barely 19, I'm one of the older ones! It's really kinda
funny because we're district 13, so everyone kind of has this joke about the
hunger games because in Mexico you kind of hear gun shots/cannon sounding
noises frequently, so we pretend we're in the Hunger games. I hear that little
mocking bird whistle tune from the movie randomly throughout my building like 10 times a day. Also the Mexico MTC is funny because it seems like everyone
here has this common inside joke about quoting Nacho Libre. like really I think
I hear a quote every hour. This week we got locked in our classroom because our
door handle broke and our elders had to climb out the window to get help. It
was hilarious. Now we don't have a handle but that';s okay. My zone is
hilarious and I love it when I have activities with them because we all get along really well. And as usual, the Lord has blessed me with an amazing
bishop who just knows what to say. The food here is...edible...I think. haha.
Six weeks might kill me, the good thing is no matter what meal there is there's
always a nutella bar to turn to if you can't eat the other stuff. ha. My
companion is wonderful. Shes from texas and has 3 passions in life- tennis,
texas, and well prepared meat haha. We are learning how to work well together
and becoming good friends. She-s been through a lot and is such an amazing
example.
A normal day here goes
like this- wake up, get ready as fast as possible, study, breakfast,
study, language class, class, gym, lunch, study, language, comp study, practice
teaching investigators, study more, dinner, study, language, planning, go to
bed as fast as possible. I even dream about trying to speak spanish. It's crazy
haha. For me, I love the scriptures and I love spanish, so the days here are
perfect in my opinion. And I get to do yoga outside during gym! I'm happy.
Sundays are like Christmas because we just have devotionals all day. It's
wonderful. I dont know hwy, but devotionals are like Christmas for
missionairies. seriously. Sundays are the bomb.com. Oh also, it's
a good thing I brought an umbrella because it pours EVERYDAY here. I think my
shoes might get ruined. But everynight I love seeing all the dozens of
missioniries walking to their houses with their umbrellas. I don't know why, I
just love it.
Spanish is going
really well and I truly love this language. It's amazing how much you can learn
at the MTC. truly amazing. I can pray, teach a lesson, recite scriptures, bear
my testimony, lots!
Okay that's enough of
the basics. I'm learning a lot here. |'m learning that none of this is my own.
This isn't my time, it's the Lord's. I can't teach my lessons, I have to teach
the Lord's, even my name isn't my own because Jesus Christ is on my name tag.
It's a cool feeling. I am learning to turn outward instead of inward. And I'm
learning how to teach people about the gospel. Our second day here they had us
teach an investigator and obviously it was really difficult. We don't know spanish and we didn't really know what to do, but if you pray and prepare
you'll be blessed. The Mexico MTC has a really cool system for teaching-each
day for five days we taught our investigator, Melisa. We recently learned that
she is going to become our teacher *so obviously she wasn't a real investigator, and we knew that , but you treat it like the real thing-and it
really works( We figured our her real name isn't Melissa, and Melisa was someone
she taught on her mission, who she acted out for. I don't know how to explain
it. It's just really neat, feels like your being taught by the masters.Also
funny story- make sure if your ever teaching a spanish church lesson, don't mix
up leccion and like lacion, because one of them means laceration, and you don''
want to tell your investigator that you have a good 'laceratuiion 'prepared for
them today. ha. I know from experience.
Anyways, I really love it here, I 'm learning lots, and I'm really having
an awesome time! Here is a spiritual though to end my update- In 1 nephi 1 in
Leh's vision, it says that the angles were in the "attiude of singing
and praising their god\ I thought that was peculiar because they didnt say they
were singing, they were in the attitude of singing, so it made me think, we can
live our lives like a song of praise towards God- every good choice a heavenly
melody and every word a lyric of praise. That's my thought!
And thank you so so
much Grandma and grandpa and nana for your letters! I love you!
I love YOU ALL!!
thanks you so so so so so much for the support and prayers, I've really felt
it!!!!
Con amor,
Hermana Clawson
ps-here is a poem that
has been in my head the past couple days from Lord of the Rings, and I know
parts of it will be wrong because I can't remember the whole thing, but I'll share
it anyways.
all that is gold does
not glitter
not all who wander are
lost
the old that is strong
does not whither
deep roots are not
reached by the frost
from the ashes a fire
shall be woken
a light from the
shadow shall spring
renewed shall be blade
that was broken
the crownless again
shall be king
-Jrr Tolkien
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