This week flew by again! It´s so hard to keep track of time here. it goes sunday, to tuesday, to pday. all the rest just blends together. starting off apparently i sleep talk a lot here, and sometimes its spanish so thats cool. just in case any of you send letters here, my district is 5b, putting it might make it go faster. otherwise it takes 3+ days. my favorite phrase i learned this week is "¿usted tiene un presupuesto?´´por supuesto.´" i just thought it was funny because those two words are so similar but mean so different things. i had a super spiritual experience last saturday. for some reason i was feeling super homesick because i had a cold and couldnt focus. but then we were sitting in our room and one of the elders felt prompted to read D and C 135. its the section talking about the martyrdom of joseph smith. i felt the spirit so much, and i knew i left everything i loved behind so that i could preach something he so willingly died for. i gave my first talk here on sunday. it was 7 min 30 seconds. but it was funny because the branch president just said that elder williams would speak, but there are two of us in the zone now. and so we did a quick rock paper scissors war really quick. i lost. mexico independance day is tommorrow, so im looking forward to no sleep for the next 72 hours. they basically set off bombs and also fireworks non-stop. so hopefully i can sleep. sundays devo was Elder Ballard. it was really cool, and he didnt prepare a single thing. he just got up and gave a 50 minute talk. he taught about how we can really believe we are representatives of the lord. he also told us if we have a lazy companion, just say "you can ruin your mission, but you sure aren't going to ruin mine." he said a couple other things about that, but he made sure we knew to do it with a smile haha. last night we had another devo and it was Elder Cook this time. he talked about 4 loves that we must have. love your companion, love the people, love your president, and then love the lord. my favorite thing he said about all of them is that most of the reason we were called to our specific mission, was because we somehow needed to learn something from our specific mission president. i really cant wait to meet mine, and its only 12 days away. anyways nothing else has changed, just trying to study super hard still.
love you all
Elder Williams
P.S. it was a live broadcast from Provo. the apostles weren't here sadly
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