HI !!!
I don't know why but for some reason I was super super super excited that I got to write today!!! I've been missing you!! But don't worry the CCM works us so hard that I don't have time to be sad!! Dont worry I am having an amazing week this week. Everything is going so well! The food is amazing and the all the Latinos are all just so nice and inviting and HILARIOUS! Ah they kill me! But everything here at the CCM is fantastic and worderful and amazing and hard and easy and every other adjective in the book. I am having so much fun. I am learning more spanish day by day and more about the gospel hour by hour. If I'm honest, my spanish is fantasic. Just kidding. It's bad. But 100 fold of what it used to be. Everything here in the CCM is for your growth. There are a ton of rules but I understand that they are for our good and they help us become cloer to Christ and help us prepare to preach His Gospel.
This week was a week where I really grew spiritually. I feel so close to Christ and I am striving to become like him more and more each day. I finished the Book of Mormon for just the second time in my life.I know that every word in is true. It truly testifies that Jesus Chirst lives and he loves every single one of us. That is something major I learned this week. Jesus gave his all so that we could have all he has. His love for us is endless and his Atonement is endless. All of our sins are forgiven through Jesus Christ and through his ever lasting atonement. This week we had a devotional and the speaker gave a list of points to help missionaries and one of them was Be Clean. I don't why but I felt an overwhelming call to repentance. So that night I prayed so long and so hard that I kind of felt like Enos, but on a much smaller scale because that guy was a stud. But after I prayed and asked for forgivness I felt an overflow of the Spirit and of peace the next day. The Atonement is real and Jesus and our Heavenly Father loves us more than we could ever imagine. And I am so honored to be chosen to go and preach his this wonderful message to the people of Peru.
In other news this week: We went to the temple this morning and got to go out and shop around the town for a little bit which was fun. I also listened to part of the temple session in spanish and totally got what they were saying! (más o menos) I love the spanish languange and I am so happy I am learning it. I used to think it was a lazy language and wasn't really pretty but I realized if you speak it right it is a BEAUTIFUL language. Esspecially in the B.O.M.. I am learning so much and so fast too! I've only been here three weeks and I'm pretty confidiant about hold my own in the spanish world! That's the gift of tounges for ya!
One awesome thing that happened this week was our teacher Hermano Meza taught us about using the Book of Mormon while teaching and the way he taught it was completely amazing. He had us give him a scenario of an invistigator. The investigator was a single dad with two kids and he was unemployed. Right after we gave him the scenario he started teaching us as the investigator. And without any preperation or any notes or anything he whips our this incredible scripture that works perfectly for the man. It blew me away and then he shared a story of when he was in the same situation!! It blew me away. He taught with such power and spirit that I would have been baptized then and there! That experiecne really made me want to read and study the scriptures even more. So I have a goal to finish the Book of Mormon again before I leave the CCM.
I am so excited to conference too!!! Like overly excited!!!! And we get to watch it in english!!! Ah I feel like I'm going to watch football. I'm that excited!!!!
So awkward and awesome!
Awkward: I had a miserable cold ALL week!!!! But I am all better!!! :)
Awesome: I bore my testimony and gave the closing prayer on Sunday in Sacrament ALL in spanish!! (minus a few phrases)
I love you !!! I cant wait to hear more from you!!!
Poco a Poco
Love,
Elder McIff
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