Life here has been great. It's going by a lot faster now, and I honestly can't wait to get out in the mission field. I've been at the CCM for the past five weeks or so (we all say it's been three years), and so we've been training and learning as much as we can about how to teach and how to speak Spanish. But now it's starting to feel like we've learned most of what we can here and we need to just get out there and start learning from experience. I just want to help the people in this country, and I have less than a week before I get to! Next Tuesday morning we're all going out into the field. I'm definitely not ready, but I'm super excited and I think that I'm as ready as I'll ever be from the CCM.
So someone ran into our classroom one day and told us all that Stan Lee is dead, and then ran out...is this TRUE? We all got pretty shocked. We don't really hear stuff down here, but that sounded kinda legit. I didn't know that man really could die...shucks.
The quote from the description came from a really funny moment in class this week. Every day...like literally every single day, our evening teacher Hermano Godinez tries to scare the Hermanas, or the girl missionaries in our district. He has all these elaborate plans that usually involve turning off the lights and hiding. And he has this infinite motivation and belief that it's going to work every single time. And without fail, every single time it fails. Something goes wrong, and it just never works out. It's so funny how excited he gets though. So this one day, we decided to scare HIM. We had Elder Grover hide behind the curtains for the window, and when Godinez came in he started freaking out that Elder Grover was gone, especially since he hadn't noticed for about fifteen minutes, and you're never supposed to let your companion out of your sight and sound. So he went over to the window, and Elder Grover just burst out laughing. Hermano Godinez pretended to be extremely offended and mad, and told us all that Latinos never forgive you for playing jokes on them. But we were all just laughing the whole time. He's such a cool teacher.
Elder Kirkman made this huge ball out of literally just dozens of sheets of paper compacted really really tightly together. It's bigger than a softball, and honestly about as compact as one. He named it "Heftyboi," and we use it to play games to learn Spanish. We also made this little toy by putting a paper cup on top of a little orange from one of the trees outside. When you push the cup, the orange rolls underneath and makes it look really weird, cause all you can see is the cup sliding across the entire room. I also bought a little Jacob's ladder at the market, and that's pretty fun to play with. Being in a place like this without so many things makes you really understand how humble the people are, being able to find joy in the most simple and mundane things. But by far, the most entertaining thing I have here is the scriptures. I'm almost done with the New Testament, and there's so much I've learned. The gospels are completely packed with the earthly ministry of Jesus, and it's really incredible to read about all of the things that Christ did when He was on the earth. He really was perfect, and there's so much that I can learn from Him. Definitely still working on that.
We are all working really hard here, and life is great.
Love you guys!
-Elder Cloward
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