MTC week 2 Pictures

MTC week 2

well it feels like i have been here for 3 months already its hard to even think of my life before this haha! but i do all the time :) i miss all of you and I'm so grateful for you keep sending me dear elders and packages and stuff its nice to here from everyone!! so this week was crazy we taught like 3 new investigators and i still cant talk good espanol so basically everything i want to say in a lesson i have to prepare it and write it all out then translate it i cried twice this week haha its because of my teachers both times Mexican people are so nice i love my teachers and they have so much faith in me they think I'm the best missionary ever haha i don't know why ;) my teacher hermana vergera pulled me aside the other day and just basically said how can i help you i feel sad because i fell like i cant teach you good enough and so i basically started crying and just told her that its just hard for me because i have never been able to feel the need of a person and know how to help them or what to say and not be able to say it its pretty rough! but i have a good attitude that's one thing i don't lack here haha ! so basically my district runs this place now 90 missionaries left last week and only like 30 came in so there is really like no one here the teachers told us that in the summer theres about 8000 missionary's here and right now theres only about 300 so that's kinda sucky but we have the job of welcoming new missionaries and we have the job of being ushers at devotionals and stuff so i basically run this place the food isn't that good it all taste the same basically they have corn tortillas for every meal and then some sort of meat and rice and beans so that sucks and gets old but its okay it will get better I'm in a trio now and i don't know how much they like me but its okay haha theres alot of cool people here and I'm friends with most of them basically this week was a big eye opener for me its a daily struggle  but its a good struggle the kind that makes you better my main goal is just to share my testimony and how i feel about what ever I'm talking about with my investigators and try to get them to feel the spirit so we had this investigator and we taught him the whole first week we got here and after we were done he made a video and told us that he was so grateful for everything that we helped him with but then he singled me out and said elder tams thank you you touched my heart and i could feel the spirit as you taught me so basically i have just realized even though the language is hard for me i can still help people in different ways that was defiantly the highlight of my week 

so Tuesday of this week we had a devotional and we watched the Joseph smith movie and i seriously could not believe it haha if i were to sit down and watch that movie at home i would probably only last 20 minutes haha but i felt the spirit so much and i was like laughing at some parts of the movie and then i was crying in other parts basically it was just a turning point where i decided that i have only been here 2 weeks and i have already changed so much that's the hard part on missions is changing your attitude basically about everything the sooner you humble yourself and change in your heart the happier your going to be theres missionaries here that have the worst attitude and they still swear and all this stuff haha its just crazy to me its all about your attitude I'm like the happiest most friendly person here even happier then the Mexicans and there pretty happy haha basically i say hola coma esta to every single person i see 

so today we went to the Mexican consulate to do some stuff for our visas and it was crazy because first off i could understand what people were saying and that was awesome and i finally got some real street vendor tacos and they were so good the best thing i have ate since i have been here so that was sweet then we went kind of on a tour of Mexico city haha its so crazy here you guys have no idea the heart of the city is so clean and so beautiful and nice and then where the ccm is it is in the straight ghetto its still nice in the mtc grounds but everywhere around us there is just trash everywhere there's people that sleep on piles of trash as there mattress its super humbling but it is also pretty crazy i took a bunch of pictures of the city ill send them 

so basically all around i love the  missionary life its nothing what i thought its was haha the other day i was complaining about waking up everyday and going out side and smelling poop cause that's just what it smells like here haha and then later that night i was telling my companions how much i love missinos and stuff and they were like what about earlier when you were saying that you hate waking up and smelling poop everyday and i said haha well if i gotta wake up everyday and smell poop then what better place to do it then here in Mexico serving the gospel that i love haha they thought that that was pretty funny haha :) so basically I'm sorry if this e mail wasn't as good as last week I'm forgetting how to talk and write in inglesia already my teachers told me that if i just forget English and replace it with espanol than i will learn the language so that's what i have tried to do hahah 

i love this gospel and i love all of you i pray for you every night and i can feel that it is going to give blessings in your life i love Jesus Christ and i love how loving he is to all of his children my relationship with god i think is what has been strengthened most since i have been here god is loving and he listens to our prayers pray is so important i want you all to know that if you pray with a sincere heart and you love this gospel then god will answer your prayers I'm already excited to see you all again one day just like it was a dream for me coming here now that I'm here it feels like home is a dream 

keep on keeping on love you all 

Elder Tams  

ps keep writing me dear elders i got like 10 letters and 2 packages one day and so i think that's why my companions hate me but i don't care cause i loved them all 

MTC week 1 pictures

MTC week 1

well its awesome hear the only time i have cried is because i felt the spirit really strong! mi espanol is muy mal but its come in along i guess today is pday and i got my laundry done last night so today I'm just chilling basically mi companieros name is elder beagley well since 10 o clock today I'm in a trio because a kid in our district had to go home for personal reasons he lived in the same casa as me so now theres just three of us so now we have alot of room so I'm liking that my two companieros our muy smart there super nice and they make me laugh so that's good there about 4 rooms in a casa and 4 people to every room i have already made tons of new friends mi favorito is probably elder del toro and elder carter they both wrestled in southern Utah me and the older elders are pretty tight there super cool but they leave next week they told me when i got here that every day is a week and every week is a month and oh man its true!! so the first day we got off the plane and a bus picked us up it was actually a nice bus but it was muy caliente the bus driver defiantly drove crazy though haha and it was a little bit of a culture shock we drove through the heart of the city and we pull in to this drive way thing and there's big white gates and we go in and there's all this security and stuff and it is absolutely beautiful here im blessed just to be in the ccm every day there's about 80 acres of land that's 's all surrounded by big walls with fences we got off the bus and theres was a bunch of elders and hermanas that helped us with our bags and then we got our name tags and they took us to our casa and then we went to dinner and then had the rest of the night to unpack the next day was the toughest the older elders told us if we can make it to Sunday then were good so for the first day march 5th i wrote in my journal today was my first day and it was pretty long i am happy though the hardest part for me is going to be the espanol but i know that i just need to have a good attitude and i need strive to have the spirit constantly i already want too learn the language and feel the spirit all the time and its just the first day its muy loco  its crazy i barely remember the first day i just remember i didn't hear inglesia all day long and it was loco my teacher is super cool maestra i seriously love her like i think if i would have any other teacher it would be alot harder for me shes the nicest hermana ever and she really works with me because i suck at the language haha march 6th i wrote in my journal well today was mucho mal haha very bad we taught our 1st investigator and it was very hard because i didn't understand him but i could feel the spirit so strongly we talked in espanol read out of a book most the time but defiantly the hardest part for me is when I'm teaching a lesson to the investigator and I'm not going to be able to know whats hes saying back to me i had such a love for this guy i could understand what he was feeling just not what he was saying today we got 50 minutes to work out and i played volleyball with the elders and hermanas it was super fun and good to get my mind off of things  march 7th Saturday i wrote today i did a work out with two elders elder del toro and carter and there shredded haha it was so nice it was like my get away we taught fransisco for the 2nd time and my espanol is not good but i did a good job of communicating how i feel towards him this is the most humbling thing i have ever done anyone that hasn't gone on a mission has no idea the feelings you have all day its a constant battle with your mind and with the language and trying to be obiedent and follow the rules because you will not have the spirit if you are not obedient  march 8th so i made it too Sunday it was so good we had church with are district and i couldn't understand anything in sacrament cause it was all in espanol but after sacrament we had a devotional by jeffrey r holland it was just a recording of one he talked at in the provo mtc a couple years ago but man does that guy spit some fire it got me going and made me want to be the best missionary i can i think one thing that i have defiantly learned is i don't miss anything worldly like i thought i would i have so much more important stuff that i have to worry about that i don't have time my number one goal is just too be humble and not to help my self but too have the spirit so i can help other people just in one week i feel like i have already changed for the better i miss all my family but i pray for them in all mi oracions when your praying for other people your prayers are alot more heart felt the only thing that i ask for my self is that the people i teach can feel the spirit  march 9th Monday i wrote in my journal i said i love this gospel muy mas i have been here for about 5 days now! the amount of prayers oracions i have offered is unreal i honestly just want to be the most obedient missenero i can be humbling myself is the hardest part here that's why the ccm is so hard every decision you make here is either a decision that will help you grow closer to the spirit or tear you apart from it god is loving that's for sure perfection is hard in the mission but having a good attitude and loving the people I'm around is easy for me my new word is humble hahaaha if you cant tell I wrote if i can be as humble as mi familia then i will be a good missenero we taught fransisco again tonight and it was bien i wrote out my whole testimony of repentance and then i had a latino help me translate it and the spirit was so strong there i read it to him and i just prayed that he could feel something and by the time i was done he was crying but it was all through god i had nothing to do with it the hardest part for me is when i can make someone feel that way and then they ask me stuff back and i have the spirit and have something that i can share with him but i cant cause my espanol is very bad but hey its only been a week right;) marzo 10 Tuesday i wrote tonight was the best so far we had a devotional but i didn't feel the spirit as much as other times but its okay because it was still good it rained there was like 2 feet of water every wear we had to run from the class to the casa and it was hailing  it was the best though there was lightning and thunder and it reminded me of back home everywhere was flooded so all the elders went out and were playing in the rain were not supposed to but every single person here was doing it haha i was super hard on my self today because everyone else is progressing in the language and I'm not but then i got a dear elder from millie and it basically said don't worry about the language worry about learning the gospel and she gave me bunch of scriptures that really helped i felt so much better after that and it just made me realize how blessed i am i love this gospel and i know that god knows what i need in my life  marzo 11 Wednesday i wrote well tomorrow is pday hallelujah today was a service project and we lucked out because are district got chose to welcome the new misseneros every week so that was super fun and awesome so now we don't have to do any servicio besides helping the elders and taking them to dinner and showing them to their casa and stuff so basically after 1 week im already considered an older elder haha our investigator fransisco is super que padre he he said he would be baptizmo tonight haha then after we found out he was fake but its still super cool haha i wrote I'm super disappointed in myself i suck so bad at Spanish but tonight i found out how much our teacher loves us and especially me :) I'm basically the comedian of the clasa because i suck at Spanish but its okay because I'm working my hardest and mostly just trying to learn the gospel and learn to teach with the spirit because that's the most important  this is defiantly a humbling experience but i wouldn't want it any other way this is my life and i love it and i have only been here a week i have a testimony that if we can humble ourselves and be obedient and strive to have the spirit that we will be much happier people and we will have a love for not only this gospel but for our families and we will know the true reason why were here and we will be better people because of it i thought i would hate the mtc but its the best thing for me and i need it so much in my life i love everyday that I'm here and i love mi familia and my friends very much :):):):):):) Elder Tams  ps everyone write me dear elders i get them everyday and i can check the mail when ever send me packages and stuff that's the best thing hear no more donuts mom i ate like 5 of them haha :)