Real Life

Lucky you guys! I get to email you right now since I am leaving tomorrow! I have leaving the MTC at 3:20 in the morning. My flight leaves at 7:30 in the morning and then I should get to Chicago at about 11:31 AM to be exact. I am not quite packed yet, but let´s be honest I always finish at the last second. I don´t really know what to expect, but I think it should be good. You know me I am definitely craving some Taco Bell and a Mountain Dew at the moment, so we will see how long it takes me to get there. It is weird to think that this is real life! 

A lot has actually happened since my last email just what like three days ago. Last night we had the coolest celebration ever! The Mexicans sure love their country. They had lots of singing and dancing, I took a few pictures so I hope that they will look okay. I am not quite the photographer that my father is. At the end the sang the EFY medley and it was so amazing! I don´t think I stopped smiling all night long. I have been able to experience a lot of cool things culturally in my life, and I have to say they put on a very awesome show last night. My whole district feels like it was just a send off party for us. There is something else going on tonight to celebrate Mexico Independence. I guess the President of Mexico says something and they broadcast it to the whole country, it should be pretty interesting. I think my companion and I will stay up for it, I mean who really needs sleep. 

But probably one of the best things is that I got to speak in church today. Everyone is supposed to prepare a talk every week and then after the Sacrament is passed they announce the program for the day. Usually, after you have spoken once you don´t speak again so no one prepares talks anymore. Well, I hadn´t spoken yet and it being our last Sunday everyone was sure I would be speaking, so I prepared myself a nice little talk on how God is our loving heavenly father. We head on over to Sacrament and who is seating in our Sacrament meeting? Yep, that´s right President and Hermana Pratt who at the CCM Presidents. I just knew in the moment I would be speaking. I think my talk went pretty well and I only said like one thing in English. They kind of expect our talk to be in complete Spanish by your last week. 

It is amazing how this time next week I will have already had some of my first lessons out in the field in Spanish! There is no way I could do this without the help of my Savior, Lord, and Redeemer; Jesus Crist.We are so blessed to have so many great and wonderful things in our lives. Love you all!

Hermana Peterson