Hating Buses. Loving Ecuador. : Week One in the CCM!

Hey!

When we got here everyone told us that the first week is the longest and hardest week of our lives. They were pretty much right about that one, it's way hard! Spanish is a little bit tricky because they have a completely different grammar system than English. Therefore, Google translate can't always help you out. I'm learning Spanish, but it's going pretty slow.

Beautiufl CCM Campus

The CCM is awesome! Like I said, Mexico city in crazy but the CCM is like an oasis with a huge wall around it complete with barbed wire. My companion calls it a prison, because of the walls and barbed wire and the hour of GYM time everyday. I try to look at it with more optimism. If this is prison, I'm gonna be ok with the life of a Missionary convict.

The food is sort of hit and miss. Some mornings we wake up and look at our breakfaast and think "what the heck is that??" Other mornings it's like "dang, I don't know what this is but it's pretty dang good!" and others "oh boy they made waffles!" There is however a rule of thumb with the food, the bread is ALWAYS dry and crumbly. Oh and Tuesday night is Costco Pizza night! Yes, they have Costco in Mexico.

Sunset and a Palm Tree

The world outside the CCM bubble

Mexico City!

Most of the teachers speak both Spanish and English. Some of them however, only speak English. If there's important Gospel knowledge that we need they usually present it to us in English so that we understand.

Its not as hot as I expected, its only 85F on a normal day. Yesterday and the day before that we had some pretty awesome thunderstorms, and the rain felt SO good.

My companion is Tongan, I love him because he has incredible faith is it totally relaxed about almost everything and is a pretty cool guy.