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From: Megan Teri Addington
Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:40 PM
Subject: Im awake IM ALIVE and im feelin good yall.
To: Abby Addington , Addie Austin , Alicen Bateman , Amy Addington , Austyn McCombs , Brittan Pinard , Claire Acker , Delainey Murray , Elizabeth Ostler , Emily Garland , Garrett Peters , Gladys Addington , Hannah Addington , Joe Prado , Kelsie Heydorn , Kimberly Whitten , Maria Garcia , McCalle Tobler , Megan Rudd , Philip Addington , Rachel Cochran , Sarah Addington , Shamra Jones , Sierra Brann , Taya Williams , Taylor Prado , Tori Sego
HEYOOOOOOO. Viva la MExico. I am not the same mujer as i was over a week ago. today is our first pday and i have been itchin to email all yall! I have already been sunburned twice, sorry mom. our whole district is muy blanco except one girl is hispanic. We all burned bad. but esta bien, porque nosotros love to be outside. the weather here is so cool and airy and warm. its a perfecto 65 to 75 degrees. ok so ill put all of my info about my 1.5 weeks here in bullet points. Also speaking of bullets, we hear gunshots all day and especially at night. Its scary but we kind of dont think about it now. its super safe here the wall around the CCM ~ MTC is really tall and has barbed wire and there are so many cameras and security gards all day and night. ok here i go to write now.
-every hermana wears flowery dresses shirts and skirts
-we are nto allowed to speak english unless we dont know a word, so i have had to learn a lot of espanol. it throws us into the cutlure here so we are learning fast. i still dont really know how to talk in past and present tense so i just make everything seem like its happening here and now.
-mi companera is named Hermana Beatty and she is super sporty, tall, curly wild hair, and from arizona. if she were a perfume she would be called Wild and Free. She is 2 legit 2 quit pretty much. we get along great. She is from snowflake arizona and has 11 brothers and sisters. OMG.
-we have already taught 5 lessons! another maestra instructioria pretends to be an investigator and we go in a room with a couch like a living room and teach ONLY EN ESPANOL. its awesome and really hard. at fisrt we made it like a script, but it was super hard to feel the spirit and keep her attention when we were just looking at our notes. so with practice we now use bullet points and she throws us off by asking us questions and honestly the Spirit helps us teach with words we kind of know but then they pop back in my head. I think we are staring to receive the gift of tonuges, don de lenguas. Its so special and takes a lot of practice. I feel like my spanish is not as good as others but they just say little by little, poco a poco. so i follow that.
-i got SUPER SICK for 4 days. im still getting better today. I got a flu virus or something and i had, sorry yall but i hold nothing back when i write, but explosive diahhrea lol. i refer to it as a 5 part firework show with a grand finale. it was terrible and then the next day i went to the infermaria and i was vomiting so much. my district was really worried and i didnt have anything but jugo agua and sprite for 2 or 3 days. I ate lunch today so thats good. Our elders gave me a blessing and it was so cool to see them exercise their priesthood. but yeah everyone here like mi hermanas in our distrito are my best friends and they laugh at my jokes and stories about yall.
-Hannah, btw i talk about you and your mision so much!! they are getting sick of it i think. hermana duke is the super tall blonde model and she is so jumble and shy and she has an ipod so we are gonna put my music from my flash drive onto it and finally have some music. she pretty much only has primary songs and its annoying all of us now. LOL.
-the food is good. we have melon fruit every meal and salads and pretty much pollo and enchiladas and tacos every day. im so sick of it honestly and a lot of elders are too so they eat cereal nutella pbj like every meal. the pollo is bien and then they try to make strange americana comida like this weird potato ham cheese lasagna it was pretty nasty. but i am grateful to be fed all food groups here. and the pastries they have are alright. the pina and the pomegrante juice is so good.
-we have these little yogurts that look like a plastic shot glass and i dont like yogurt but hermana beatty takes a shot daily and it is so funny.
-president nelson came and spoke on tuesday! it was AWESOME! he is 92 and adorbs. i got to shake his hand!!!! it was muy soft. his talk inspired us.
-today we went to the temple and we just got back!! it was so cool. we got to have english headphones so that was easier to understand the endowment session. but we went through the veil in espanol and it was so hard to repeat what the hermana said. so i pretty much know no espanol cuz i hardly understood some of it. we took a lot of pictures.
- i love the CCM but it feels like a weird prison slash utopia. cant figure out how to use the slash on this foreign keyboard. so its funny cuz we ALL say hola elderes or hola hermanas to everyone, its like a little community, we dont pay for anything, we dress the same, and there are little streets. its funny. and it feels like a prision so when we got to go to the temple today, it was a 1 hour drive and we all just stared out the window the whole time to see real people and real stray perros which were still adorable. I miss dogs. The CCM needs a service doggo that just goes around and makes sure we are all happy and not about to burst into tears.
-I cry a lot. I think because i am afread to be a missionary. But i get lots of encouragent from reading in DnC and 3rd nephi. I have come closer to christ as we have planned our lessons. I read about him a lot lately. He suffered everything so i can not suffer the penalty of death. im so grateful to be here and have this little tiny blip in my life to serve the mexicans here.
- i laugh a lot!! the girls are SO FUNNY. we stay up later than we should just having girl talk and talking about boys and the boys back home and the elders here. ITs fun lol.
-Oh , MOMMA! Hermana Schwartz got a rash and i was like I GOT THE STUFF. i gave her my horse salve and they all laughed at how southern and country i am and then she used it and then was like ok that healed me. and i was like i know its the best stuff ever. so thanks momma.
-ok so the taxis here are hot pink, people do not use blinkers, there are usually no lane lines. and there is never a second when a horn is not honking.
-i thought i brought too many clothes but now im like ok i brought enough. i do need to buy a pair of flats and exercise pants though when i leave the CCM in 4.5 weeks. we are gonna be here a long time it feels like.
SEND ME LETTERS please i miss yall. There is a service that is free called MissionaryPackageMX. look it up on google. you email it then they drop the email in our boxes. we can read them any time! its so cool. i can only email on thursday here or send letters which im about to send one out.
I love yall so much and i am having a great time here! espanol is hard to remember but we are all struggling together here! there is no where else id rather be! plus i got more freckles so im satisfied.
Yo se que JesuCristo vive. Yo se que Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial. Yo prometo que cuando ora su siente el ama. Dios ama nos mucho. El Evangelio bendice nuestro vidas, y ayuda nos aprender y progresar. Yo estoy tan agradecido por la Expiacion y que podemos regresamos a El Padre Celestial cuando estamos fiel.
Please pray for us. We need it. We are working as hard as we can to bring forth Zion to all those who are willing to hear nuestro mensaje. I know we are all looked out for. I miss yall. We live in a wonderful time!!
Love,
Hermana Addington
ps my debit card us bank hasnt arrived yet. im getting worried. i think someone may have stolen it because it probably had a bank logo on it then my american name. i cant receive packages here in ccm but when you do if you send something use a mexican name like Maria Villanueva instead of Sabrina Addington. they wont steal if its a mexican name. you can put hermana addington for me dont put meg or i will get robbed or something. also put pictures of JesuCristo. I kinda wanna order new glasses maybe sometime from ZenniOptical they have cheap frames for like $30 americana dollars. its cool. but later for sure.
pss the papaya here tastes like butt or feet. it is nasty.
oh and the white boy elders cannot handle even the slightest salsa here and they down a glass of leche dupues. its funny. the salsa is hot but i like it, but not every meal or you need tums.
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Hermana Addington