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CCM de Mexico


I only have a couple minutes. But today is my preparation day in the Mexico MTC. I will have to figure out how to send bigger emails because they gave me an Ipad but everything google is blocked so I do not know how I can get all of my contacts.

It was really rough leaving my district behind in Provo. I miss all of them with all of my heart. But the lord sent me here for a reason. I just do not know what that reason is yet. Shout out to Elder Baker because he would definitely not be short if he came out here. Probably 70% of the people here are under 5.7. It is kind of weird actually being tall here. 

My new district is good still. Just not the same. They are very friendly and have been letting me get involved with everything. There was a trio so now there is 5 companionships of Elders and a pair of sisters. My companion's name is Elder Reusch. He is from Arizona and is going to Maryland, Baltimore mission. I have only been here for only about a day so I do not have much to talk about. The food is A LOT worse here. Every meal has still been edible though, but my new district warns me to be careful of some of the foods. 

On the airplane I had such a great experience on the airplane. There was a 23 year old guy named Aron Nava. He was sitting in between me and an Elder Humphereys. We were just talking to him and then he asked why we were coming to Mexico. We explained who we were and that we were representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He had no idea what our church was then we said have you hear of Mormons. He then said "you should have just started with that." He knew English because he went to a catholic school in Canada for 4 years but is from Mexico City. We taught him for probably an hour and a half. That was the quickest part of the flight. It shows how prayers really can be answered because I prayed for a missionary experience, We gave him un Libro de Mormon, and he said he would read it. He gave me his email and told me to contact him when I could. I can not believe that I have already had the opportunity to teach so many people.

Spanish - Everyone I am with has had Spanish for 3 weeks. And since I was in the Pilot Program I have only had one week of Spanish. So sometimes I feel like I am behind. But with the gift of tongues I am really catching up. I can understand mostly everything but it is hard to speak it. I have taught one lesson with my new companion. And he told me it was different because before he would have to translate everything for his other companions. So he said it was way easier to teach when we both knew what she was saying. Here we only teach our teachers, so they are acting as non members. It is different than TRC's but it is still a lot of experience and they are really good at acting. 

I do not have any pictures that I can send right now. I will try to figure out a way. Remember to always read the Book of Mormon. It is important to read it every day, you will see blessings in your life when you read it every day. A promise from our wonderful prophet Russell M Nelson. 

Love you all - Elder Stokes

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