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Esteban.. Best Chef in the Land

My first week at the CCM is complete. It has been so great. The district I joined added me to their family right when I got here. It has been so great to get to know everyone so quickly and become such good friends with all of them. The schedule here is a lot similar to the one in Provo.

6:30 - I go run 1.5-2 miles with Elder Enclewski and Elder York
7:30 - Breakfast
8:15-11:00 - Class with Hermana Canneles
11:00-12:30 - Teaching/study time
12:30-1:15 - Lunch
1:15-1:45 - Study time
2:00-2:50 - Exercise Time
3:20-4:00 - Language Study
4:00-6:45 - Class with Hermana Saucedo
6:45-7:30 - Dinner

7:30-9:00 - Grammar/Teaching/Study

It is still a packed day but I enjoy it more everyday that I am here. I am starting to get in the groove of things. This last Monday we had a ¨senioritis¨ meeting on how missionaries tend to not excel as much in the last two weeks. So I am trying to make sure that I wake up with the right mindset every morning to improve. That is one of the reasons I started running every morning is to get that blood flowing and getting my mind ready to learn. My brain usually ends up hurting by the end of the day, which means that I am over working myself which is great. I can start to understand Spanish but it is still hard to keep it flowing when I speak. Sunday´s are a lot more chill here than at Provo. Sometimes the food is good and sometimes you just eat a piece of toast. 

Esteban - He is such an amazing soul. He has worked here for a while now and has such a great Attitude about everything he does. He gave me a gift for my birthday and told me that it was his birthday on the 24th the coming Tuesday.  So I went back and sat down by my district and told them we had to do something for him. We all became friends with him so we were all so excited to be able to do something for him. And we really did go all out. We had our teacher Hermana Canneles get some balloons from outside the gates and smuggle them in so we could decorate his whole stand. He took a video of us as we sang happy birthday and took a group picture with us for his instagram @estebannavas (I Think) He loved it so much, he started to tear up, we loved to see his emotion and how much he appreciated it.




This next picture is my district and I will explain them right to left.
(sorry if I spell their names wrong)
Elder Foutz - He is from Mesa Arizona, He is going to the Baltimore,
Maryland
Elder Jaggi - He is from Syracuse, and is going to Mesa Arizona
Elder Flores - He is from Wisconsin and is going to the Mesa Arizona Mission
Elder Petersen (tall one behind them) - is from Hurricane Utah and is going
to Baltimore
Elder Encelewski (w is silent) - is from Alaska and is going to Little Rock
Arkansas
Elder Petterson (pett-erson) - He is from Portland and is going to Colorado
Springs
Hermana Hirschi- She is from Michigan/Boise and is going to Arkansas
Hermana Wilson - She went to Lone Peak (Alpine) and is going to Arkansas
Elder Reusch is behind them (mi compañero) - He is from Tuscon and is going
to Baltimore
Elder York - He is from Boulder, Colorado and is going to Hotlanta, Georgia
(as Brother Eldridge would say)
Elder Clark - He is from Iowa and is going to Pocatello Idaho


 Elder Reusch

-Elder Stokes


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