Hola, April 2, 2015

¡Hola! So after a month here at the CCM, we have to keep things interesting somehow. This week, our topics of conversation and most thrilling moments included a key in a tree, a monster spider, and the sad ending to the life of a bird. Also, we went to the Mexico City temple visitor´s center today. That was pretty rad.

Story number one:

Elder Jarrett was throwing his key high into the air to see just how high he could throw it without dropping it. We were walking under one of the palm trees and Hermana Mortensen warned: "Don´t throw your key or it will get stuck in the tree". And that´s exactly what happened. We finally got it out after 30 minutes of throwing rocks into the tree. I then made an entire children´s book about the incident entitled, "The Key to Obedience". Pretty sure that book is worthy of publishing. And then the next day Elder Jarrett broke the key. We no longer trust him to keep the mailbox key.

Story number two:

We were getting ready for bed. I opened the door to put some stuff in the hallway closet and this massive spider crawled across my foot. I screamed, backed into the wall and thus accidentally turned off the lights. This set the other girls screaming, thinking we had a serial killer in our room. Once they understood it was just a spider, they all screamed louder and climbed on top of the chairs and bunk beds. Luckily, Hermana Hale was brave enough to hunt down the giant spider and kill it. That´s all.

Story number three:

The CCM is basically a bird sanctuary, and none of the birds are afraid of us. Unfortunately, this proved fatal for one friendly bird. We were walking and Hermana Hale suddenly screamed. I turned around to see the victim of Hermana Hale´s foot. One of the elders apparently buried it for us. 

As you can see from story two and three, Hermana Hale is a cold-hearted murderer. Just kidding. She´s honestly one of the sweetest people I´ve ever met. 

Last one:

Today we left the Happiest Prison on Earth to visit the TEMPLE! I cannot tell you how much I miss the temple. The Mexico City Temple is under renovation, so we were only able to go through the vistor´s center, but it was still amazing. They showed us this video on families and how the gospel and the temple blesses families...needless to say, I was a mess through the entire thing. AND THEN they made me and my companion stand in front of everyone and teach a short lesson on families...in Spanish. It´s really a good thing the gift of tongues is real. But honestly, I´m so grateful for the temple. It blesses not only our families here on Earth, but our ancestors who have passed on before, as well as those to come. Please, please, please do not take the temple for granted. 

While in the Visitor´s Center, we watched the Church´s Easter video. If you have not seen it, go watch it right now. I testify that He truly is here, He lives, and we must find Him. I´m so grateful for this Easter season and the opportunity we have to reflect on all that the Savior has done for us. He has overcome our sins and physical death. He knows us perfectly. He loves us unconditionally. We also have the amazing opportunity this Easter weekend to listen to CONFERENCE! We are so blessed to have a living prophet that is the literal mouthpiece of the Lord. As we prepare to listen to our living prophet and apostles, I would encourage all of you to write down a few questions you might have, pray to recognize and receive an answer, and then diligently watch and listen to the words of the prophet and apostles. I promise you will receive an answer. 

Have a wonderful week! 

Yours truly,

Hermana Kirsten Anderson

If you want...there´s the dearelder.com thing where you can send me letter things... and that would maybe make our mail time a little more exciting. The only person in our district that gets letters is Elder Tams...that one missionary we first met in the parking garage when you were dropping me off?  haha 

So here´s a picture of us in the post office to guilt trip you into sending us letters ;)