Halfway Done with the CCM!

Hola,

This week was pretty good, nothing too amazing and nothing too terrible. I am halfway through the MTC or the CCM and it seems like its gone by super fast. The best part about the food here is that like half the time it is american food. We had corn dogs! That was the best food i've had yet. The other half is mexican food obviously, and it isn't bad. It's all chicken, some sauce, rice, beans, and corn tortillas. Mexicanos love chicken. 

I like it here but I want to get out into the field. Lessons with fake investigators are really cool for me because I can gauge how my spanish is coming along. Sometimes I can just speak with minimal thought before hand and it's way cool to see the Spirit help me. Btw, last week at the temple I did get a working translator thing, so I could actually understand everything. 

We just got back from Immigration, I guess it was to process our visas as residents of mexico. We drive way out into the city, wait in line for like an hour, sign our names twice and get our fingerprints scanned, then drive home. It took like 5 hours, but it was fun. I got to talk to a local as we waited and she said my spanish is very good.

I've had a cough for about the past two weeks and its about to go away but at the same time it still wants to hang around. Im just grateful that I didnt get the stomach flu from my companion. He was debilitated for a day or two and I just got to study and read the scriptures instead of going to language class, so that was an experience. I'm learning a lot and I think that is causing me to forget english. I had bad grammar to begin with, I dont even want to think what its going to be like when I get home. But that'll be a future problem. I just have to worry about getting to that point. Sometimes I will speak spanish without intentionally speaking spanish, I am just speaking. When I listen to others speak sometimes I dont even notice it is in spanish, I just understand it. 

Also the workers at the comedor, cafe, are really mean, or at least appear to be, but one guy came up to us and was super nice. He told us that he served in Mexico City and that he got to serve in Queretaro for a few weeks. He said that the people in Queretaro are ready to hear the gospel. That was good to hear because it can get discouraging being in classes and learning for 16 hours a day. But anyway, I'm doing well. I hope all of you are doing well as well. I'll send more pics and my journal entries as a reply to this email, so dont worry. 

From Mexico City with love,

Elder Rasmussen