Happy May!

Holla!

Things here are pretty awesome, Spanish is still going really slowly for me but I`m doing alright just the same.  I lost my voice and had a nasty cough for about a week and a half when I got here but now I´m just stuck with a lingering cough as coughs often linger.  Otherwise I'm staying well.

I haven't gotten Madeline's little letter yet, as far as I've been able to understand the mail here to and from the states can be very very slow.  The way packages work around here is that the district leader and whoever else is around goes to check the mail.  Every day everyone eagerly waits to see if the got something, the missionaries who DO get a package are usually the envy of the district and the joking response from all the other Missionaries is usually "you´re so lucky that you have people back home who love you!" and so on and so forth.

So yes, I would actually really enjoy a package of some sort.  I believe it´s MyDearMissionary.net or something like that.  CCM food gets sort of dull sometimes so I've seen elders receive rootbeer and candy in the past.  Elder Povar´s mom sent us all two dozen doughnuts a few days back and told us that she loves and supports CCM district A6.  Not to hint too hard but, Sister Povar is currently everyone's favorite mother.

I have been noticing a few things that I wish I had brought, here´s a short list.

1. Pictures of people!  I somehow got it in my head that I wouldn´t want pictures of people back home but it turns out that I've been sort of jealous of the Elders y Hermanas that have little picture books to show people their families and friends

2. TIDE TO GO. Aka bleach pens. Probably one of the most important and looked over tools for missionaries.  When you`re eating food with different red salsas everyday in dressy clothes and white shirts everyday, THINGS HAPPEN.  Tide to Go is like gold. I wish I had packed a full case because they can`t be acquired in the CCM Tienda.

3. More watches. Hermana Dodge is a Sister in my district who is going to the same mission as I am.  She was told in her mission packet that she should bring at least EIGHT watches because of muggings being so common in Ecuador. I only brought one watch which actually broke three days after I got here.  Luckily only the anolague function broke and I can still read the digital numbers.  I wish that if I was to be mugged I could explain to the thief that they watch is broken and it would be better for both of us if I was to keep it.
If I got another watch I would want it to have a time and date function.  I don`t care too much about whether it has an alarm but knowing what day it is is VERY useful.

Oh and a...I left my water bottle in the auditorium by mistake one night a couple weeks ago and it hasn`t shown  up in lost and found yet. I can only assume that it got pocketed but one of the CCM workers.  I{m super bummed! Sorry that I may have spent and largish sum of money over this last week. I had to buy a spanish set of scriptures and with it I got a scripture case.  and I got myself an awesome Tshirt for Pdays. I`m gonna try to be better about managing my money better.

Today we went to the Mexico City Temple. It was super awesome but unfortunately we only got to go to the visitor center because the Temple is close for renovations for the entire time I`ll be at the CCM.  Sort of a bummer, but we still got to get out of the walls of the CCM, which is an awesome change.  This place is big, but a change of scenery is nice sometimes. Even when I`m in one of the most beautiful places in Mexico City.

I`ll attempt to send you all pictures that I took. Talk to you next week!

~Cameron

That Bird.

 Elder Povar and I had matching shirts last P-day, we told everyone that we didn't plan it.  The Hermanas said we were adorable and insisted to take a picture for us.

District A6 at the Mexico City Temple

Mexico City Visitors Center

Christus Statue