Second letter at CCM....

Hola! Well thank you all for your wonderful emails, it really makes me happy to hear everything that is going on! Congrats mom and alan! :) I can´t believe that I´m going to have another lil bro/sis when I get home and I´m really excited for you guys. Well my week was really good and it went by so much faster than my first week :) It has been kind of a crazy week and I guess I better start with last friday becasue so many great things happened that day. It started off with some service, which means of course it´s going to be a good day, and then I got to go on a run :) it was only a little over a mile and it was on the worst pebble track I have ever run on in my life but it felt way good to run a little bit and I ran it in 6:15 and it didn´t even feel too hard but the elevation pretty much killed me haha it started raining like crazy so we had to go inside but I got to do core and a biking workout so that made me really happy too. We got a new teacher so now we have one in the mornings and a different one at night and I really like how they teach so different and it´s really helping me with the language. But I did find out this week that I´m not here in Mexico to learn español, there is a way bigger reason and I´m just starting to figure it all out. Anyways back to friday, so my companion (Elder Golding) and I had been feeling all day that someone really needed a blessing in our district but we couldn´t figure out who it was. So at the end of our evening study we reminded everyone that if they needed a blessing we would be more than happy to give them one, but nobody would say they needed one. We waited for the elders to leave our class and then we asked one hermana if she needed a blessing and she told us she really did need one and so it was really cool that we knew she needed one. But what we found out is that all of the hermanas in our district needed a blessing and so we gave all 4 of them a blessing. Wow, blessing are such an amazing thing. It was the first time I have given a blessing and I wasn´t sure what I was gonna say and when I started the blessing my mind went so clear and I thought I wasn´t going to have anything to say but the Spirit was so strong and my mind was filled with exactly what I needed to say. One of the coolest experiences of my life and I doubt I will ever be able to forget it. When my companion and I got back to our dorm we were asked by 2 elders for a blessing and man I am so glad to have the preisthood in my life and be able to give these blessings and do so much more. I then knew our promptings had been right because we gave 6 blessings on friday night and I loved it! Saturday was a really interesting day. Two elders in our district have not been getting along with each other and anytime we are with them you can feel the bad feelings they have for each other and it´s impossible to have the Spirit around them. We tried to talk with them and then we had our zone leaders talk to them and then the president of the CCM, president Prat, but nothing would help them. I also got to play some volleyball with elder kimball and his district one last time and that was great! Sunday was an amazing day! The Holy Ghost is way more present on the sabath. Started the day off right with breakfast with elder kimball and then right to a leadership meeting which was really good. Elder golding and I taught a 40min lesson to our district about the restoration. We really needed the Spirit because we hadn´t prepared very much but the lesson went really good. President Prat talked to us about the gift of the Holy Ghost and then we had our Sunday devotional. Which was Elder Holland and I wish I could write his entire talk because it was so amazing but if you wanna look it up it was his jan. or feb. address to missionaries and he talks about how we must convert ourselves before we can ever hope of converting others. He said whatever we want for our investigators we must first do ourselves. He told us ¨Convert yourself, obey the rules, adn teach with the Spirit and you will know you have had a successful mission¨. After that I got to go to elder kimballs casa and talk with him while he kind of packed and we had to say goodbye which was kind of hard but I´m so excited for him and I´m glad I´m really close with my companion or else it probably would have been a lot harder. The rest of my week was a lot of study and prayer and just trying to focus of preparing for those people I will need to teach once I get to Cali. In my personal study I went through chapter 4 of preach my gospel and it is really amazing and has helped make my prayers a lot better and helped me to know how to bring the spirit into my life more. The past two days I have been reading a lot. I read ¨Our search for Happiness¨ and started ¨Jesus the Christ¨. I love our search for happiness so much and I wish all my investigators could read it becasue it really is so good and teaches the basic doctrines and beliefs of our church. Jesus the Chirst is a little hard to understand sometimes but so far it has made me think a lot about Christ and how much there is to know about Him. We get new Zone leaders this week and since our district will be the oldest in our branch our district leaders are thinking my comp and I will be the next zone leaders but we will have to wait until Sunday to find out. I love you all so much and love hearing from you all :) and I´m really sorry this email is so long! Love, Elder Hyde