Oct 3, 2013...last P-day in CCM..

Hola Hola! This is my last P-day in the CCM(which stands for Centro de Capacitación Misonal Mexicó) and it is crazy how fast it has gone by. Am I ready? Of course not, but I´m excited to face the struggles and the fun times that will be coming soon! So my week has been really good, a few days have been hard to study because our district is so excited to leave but other than that it has been really good. I haven´t felt too sick this week except for eating way too much dairy which has caused my stomach to die really bad this week but oh well that´s life haha My week started off really good with a letter in the mail from Megan :) It made me happy and then we had an amazing lesson and the elder that has been struggling shared one of the most sincere and powerful testimonies I have ever heard. He talked about how he used to feel like he had nothing to offer because he was bullied and tons of terrible things have happened in his life but because of a small feeling of love that he felt from his Heavenly Father he was able to get through it and wants to help others. We all felt the Spirit and as a class we talked about teaching from the heart and if we will open up like he did we will probably be able to get our investigators to open up too. Friday we had a lesson on our goals and without goals we will not reach our full potential and so I have been trying to come up with some good long-term and short-term goals. That night we got to order leather scripture cases that are hand made and I am way excited to get it when it´s done. I will send pictures when I get it. Saturday our teacher asked my companion and I to teach our investigator Cristina in front of the entire class for about an hour, her lesson was on unity and having the Spirit, and I am honored that she picked us. We have a really strong companionship and so it helps us to have pretty good lessons even though we are probably the worst in our class actually speaking español, the Spirit is a universal language. That is why I try so hard to have the Spirit with me, and I have a lot of work to do with that because a lot of the time it is hard to but I know I´m getting better at it and so I just need to keep working on it. We also got to teach our other investigator Guadelupe and it was a powerful lesson, the first one the I have full out cried in. We talked to her about trials and showed her ¨Mountains to Climb¨ which is a Mormon message and I recommend watching it. She is getting married soon and so we also talked to her about marriage and love and showed her ¨Enduring Love¨ which is also a Mormon message. Those two are definitely some of my favorite and be ready to cry if you watch them, but I recommend to watch both of them. It was great we knew exactly what we needed to say and since all three of us were crying I think it was exactly what she needed too. After we went to this grove of trees that we love to pray in and wow I what an amazing experience. That same night we talked about faith and read over Alma 32 which really helped my faith. The hermanas needed blessing that night and I feel like I am getting a lot better at listening to the Spirit during blessings and really saying what our Heavenly Fathers wants for them and I love being able to be an instrument in His hands. Sunday was my last sacrament meeting here and someone tried to play a prank and set out grape juice for all of the branches to pick up instead of water for all of the sacrament meetings but our branch president said we needed to get water which I felt like was appropriate because the only time not to use water is when you don´t have water with you but it was pretty funny that someone switched it. Anyways Sunday was great and we had a really young devotional speaker that talked to us about Lots wife and how she turned into salt not just because she looked back but because she longed to go back and wished she wouldn´t have left in the first place. Right then half of the audience turned into salt!! Haha Just kidding but I think a lot of people needed that talk, and I realized I need to let go of home more and be looking ahead not behind. Monday was kind of a blurr but I remember that our night teacher Hermana Castillo gave us an amazing lesson about how we can be really creative with our lessons and I feel like I need to change all of my lesson plans haha After the lesson though she talked to us about how she loves us a ton but she is kind of disapointed because we haven´t been progressing with our español as much as we should be and in other things and she knows that we can be so much better. Even though she said it with love it hit one of the hermanas kind of hard and so I gave her a blessing after and she seemed a lot better. My teachers Hermana Bair and Castillo are amazing and I wish I could have them in the field to help me but I can have the Spirit which is the best teacher so I´m not too worried. On Tuesday my companion and I went out during out language study and talked with some native workers and I was suprized with how well we could understand them and communicated back with them. The first guy was a member but we still talked to him and gave him a mini lesson and then we talked to this guy named José Gonzalez and he wasn´t a member but he was really interested when we talked to him about prophets and then we talked to him about general conference this weekend and he was excited that the prophet and apostles in our day would be speaking to us. We gave him tons of info and got his information to the missionaries in the area and so I hope that things go well with him but I will probably never find out :/ but at least we got to talk to him. We also tried to give him a L.D.M. but I guess some other missionaries gave him one the day before or something haha We had a devotional that night and the speaking was way cool. In our DDR(District Devotional Review not Dance Dance Revolution) we took some time by ourselves to pary about and write down questions we have going into conference and so I should challenge all of you to write down ANY questions that you have about ANYTHING and if you listen to the Spirit and ponder those questions they WILL be answered. Wednesday we got to teach some first week missionaries and it was fun except for they couldn´t really understand anything we were saying it was frustrating haha I got to go to the temple this morning and I could understand most of it and I was really happy with that. Also thanks mom for the letter and card that will help me a lot thanks! Well hope you all have a wonderful week and have a great conference experience. I love you all mucho! I´m not sure when my P-day will be out in the field so I´m not sure when I will be able to email again and how much time I will have but I will email as soon as I can and thank you for all of the emails they make me really happy :) Love, Elder Hyde