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What I have learned most from this is how important setting goals are and how having a plan for that goal will make it a lot easier to achieve it. 

Now the ¡Que Lastima! Part. I definitely have an eye infection. I have no idea how I got it, one morning I just woke up and I tried putting in my contact and felt pain. So I just wore glasses, I got through most of the morning but most of my district was saying how red my right eye was so I went to the enfermeria and they gave me some eye drops right one they saw. They hand out prescribed medication like taffies during a parade. Most of the time we think they are just placebos though, we never can be sure. My eye is starting to get better so that is really good, I am just praying it gets better before I get in the field.

English fasting. Monday, Wednesday, Friday this week we are fasting from speaking English. Every word we speak in English we have to do one push up. My shoulders and chest hurt sobad because I will just say a reaction phrase in English that can be up to fifteen words. It gets really tough. And if you don’t have good form and don’t go all the way down we make each other do them again. It can be very painful but beneficial for me to only speak Spanish and my strength.

4 more days in the CCM. I leave the CCM at 5 am on Monday. I am so excited to be able to get out into the field and meet my trainer. I have been praying a lot recently that my mission president will put me with someone that I can help and that can help me. So if all of you could pray for this as well that would be great and very much appreciated. I am excited to get to know the area and the people. And super excited for the real mexicano food because here they just try to make American food. 

El Templo de Ciudad México  It was the first temple I have been to outside of Utah. Last week I had the opportunity to go to the Mexico City Temple. It is so cool how no matter what temple you are in, you can feel the spirit. It was also the first time I did it in Spanish. I understood most of it as well. The gift of tongues is a real thing. God does help us understand what we are learning and helps us know what to say. In the Celestial Room I had a wonderful experience of praying then just sitting and letting my thoughts be empty. I hear “I can hear you. I understand you.” I know that Heavenly Father hears every single prayer. He will answer if you pray with a sincere heart and contrite spirit. He knows each one of us individually, and His son Jesus Christ has gone through what we are going through and we have gone through.  

DyC 1 
37 Search these commandments, for they are true and faithful, and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled.
38 What I the Lord have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same.

General Conference - I don’t think I have ever looked forward to conference or almost anything as this general conference. Every time I listen to conference talk I feel the spirit talking to me and learn so much from it. I have a challenge for all of you to think of a question you want answered during this conference. Write it down on paper so it can be documented somewhere and pray to God that you may get an answer in this conference. The Prophets literally sharing what God is telling them to share and God does listen to prayers so it will help you.



- We got to make cookies and Hermana Garcia’s house. The first counselor in the relief society presidency



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