It's Elder Ricks! I hope that you all haven't forgotten about me! I definitely haven't forgotten about you. Thank you all for the prayers and support you all have given me! I couldn't do it without the love and support from everyone!!
Here at the CCM we get to go to the Mexico City Temple twice!! I got to go last week and we also had the opportunity to go this week again! So I am sad that I don't get to go again but it was all super awesome! They have a super cool shop that had some cool ties and that is like the only way that I can be different than everyone so.... I had to get some haha! But I love the temple! It is always so amazing there and I can always feel the spirit so strong!
This week one of my good friends who I played soccer with for a long time, Elder Brodie Hansen, arrived at the CCM! It was so fun to see him here! We are already planning to play a game with all the Latinos here with a couple other people who used to play soccer too. There is also 3 or 4 other missionaries here that I know from High School! It's kind of crazy how small of a world it really is. At the temple today I told some of the employees from the shop that I was from Idaho and she said 'Ohhh I love papas' haha! And I say 'Si!! Mucho Papas en Idaho haha'! Everybody knows that Idaho is the potato state for some reason. But that's okay and I'm glad that that is my home! We are all so awesome haha.
This week I'm sure that you all had daylight savings haha! Well, I wasn't supposed to because I am in Mexico and they don't believe in daylight savings haha! But my companion, Elder Barnes, had his phone set up to the United States Time Zone and sure enough his phone had changed when yours did haha! He got up and started getting ready and I was just waiting for him to realize that Mexico doesn't do daylight savings but he never did... So he woke up at 5:30 and I let him get ready until about 5:50 and then told him that he should go back to bed for a while haha! Good days haha!
This last week we got another 2 Districts in our Zone which is super awesome because we barely had anyone in our zone haha! One of the Districts we got was from Haiti and they all speak like Creol (I think), French, a little Spanish, and a tiny bit of English. Their teachers that they brought with them to teach are incredible. They can both speak like 7 languages haha! That's craazy. I can barely even speak a little bit of Spanish haha! But they are also all so amazing because you can just tell how much they love the Lord and want to be like Him and it is so humbling. The second day they were here we got to play soccer with them and that was tons of fun!!
Spanish has been super difficult after the first week haha! Putting sentences together is so hard because they aren't in the same order as we have our sentences in English haha.. But it's so fun to learn and we are all trying to get better! One day we played a game where you put 5 stickers and if you speak English you have to take a sticker off and if you got all your stickers taken off than you lose haha.. I bet that you can all guess what happened! I didn't get one sticker taken off haha!! Not because I'm good at Spanish, but because I just didn't talk because I wanted to have the most stickers at the end haha! But I am getting better and it's all good! My goal this week is to try to not translate things in my head and try to think of everything in Spanish!
Everything just seems to always be perfect here at the CCM haha!
One other thing haha! One of my teachers here (He's like the coolest guy ever) told us that he is going to school right after we leave! And it turns out that he is going to go to BYUI! And I just looked at my last email and I said it there too haha, but to add onto the story, I told him that my parents and family would be happy to have him over for dinner and so when he goes there he is going to plan on getting fed and stuff from my family haha!
Oh and also.. I check the weather in Milwaukee anddd it is way cold there haha! It is normally under 15 degrees haha! But the last time I checked it was 32 degrees finally! So yeah I'm excited for that!
I am so thankful for all of your prayers for me and for all of your support! I love you all so much!
DO GOOD, BE GOOD
Love,
Elder Ricks
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