Week 2 My Typical Day

We Miss Ammon!! We took this picture the Monday before he left>

Ammon's District eating the donuts we sent him.

This is the sweatshirt I put in Ammons bags with a note to wear it if he ever needed a hug.

Here is how Ammon describes his typical day:

My typical day is waking up by 6.30 then getting to breakfast around 7.00.Then we study for an hour.  Hermano Ortiz comes and teaches us Spanish grammar.  Then those that teach him the lessons leave while the other half of the district study.  Then there is more study then lunch at 12.00.  Then we study more until 2.10 and have gym until 3.10ish  then we have tall which is an online learning resource.  Then we study more then go to Dinner at 5.30.  Then me and Elder Jacobs teach our new investigator Lucy she is the same girl as Mellisa.  Our last lesson with her went to well, she is already committed to baptism but is pregnant and does not have a husband so that will be a fun conversation in the future.  This week was kind of scary my district leader had an incident but I will put that in the big email.   

This week has been very eventful!  The biggest event is that tomorrow Elder Christoferson is coming to speak to us!!!!!!  I am so pumped!  We study like crazy here and I love it!  First off I would like to thank you mom for all the donuts!  I was losing weight, but probably not anymore!  They were great though!  I will attach a picture of our district eating them!  Me and Elder Jacobs are having a great time!  He is honestly a great example to me!  We are doing our best!  We already have a new investigator!  Her name is Lucy, she is the same girl as Melissa from last week just a different scenario.  Yesterday we taught our first lesson with her, and it seemed way too easy!  She is pregnant and has no husband so I am nervous for when we bring up the Law of Chastity.  So scary experience  I won't use his name but my one of the missionaries in my district did not feel too good Monday night and as we were walking back to our casa he collapsed, so we elevated his feet, and ended up having to carry him to the infirmary with the help of another district.  We ran and got his twin brother.  Then his companion gave him a blessing.  We then waited in the waiting room.  He started to have spasms so I went in to help hold him down so he would not fall off the bed.  It took like four guys to hold him down!  We stayed up until 12. It was kinda of scary, but you could definitely see the hand of the Lord.  He is all better now!  We have had two devotionals this week and we watched one that Elder Holland gave and holy cow he is powerful!  It was great!  I surprisingly have not missed a day of writing in my journal yet.  The food here is alright!  The spirit is so abundant here too!  Thank you all for the love you have shown me!

Elder Mills

MEXICO MTC WEEK 1

     Well I got here!  It has definitely not been easy at all!  It´s beautiful here!  There are tiny parrots {papagayo} flying around everywhere and the are almost my favorite animal now!  The food here is great!  The other Elders here are telling us the beans here make you sick, but I think there are good and so far so good!  One of the Elders in my District puts the beans on beans on everything it´s funny!  Even on spaghetti.  Almost every night we hear explosions, and we don´t know if they are gun shots or fireworks, but i´m pretty sure they are gunshots!  Every night there are people out on the streets yelling and playing music until like 1.00 in the morning!  Elder Jacobs likes the window open so I just deal with it!  My district is pretty fun!  Elder Jacobs is really cool, he is a great example to me!  Right after I arrived here me and Elder Jacobs had to teach a lesson in Spanish!!!!!  Holy Cow was that humbling!  I just kinda sat there with my mouth open.  The next lesson was great though!  It´s a little hard to invite the Spirit in those lessons, especially with a huge language barrier, but we are doing our best!  Our {investigators} name is Mellisa.  You know she is a member, but you just have to have the mentality that's shes not so you can really teach with the spirit.  It´s cool how much you learn here.  I stink at Spanish, but spanglish is coming along quite well!  You  just have to speak the language as much as you can.  All the Elders that are leaving the MTC or CCME are like veterans to us, but when the get out there they will be in the same position we are, it´s crazy!  They say it goes really fast!  We study a lot here and the devotionals are great!  The Devotionals are usually Elder Bednar.  Yesterday they played a talk that he gave it was about Christs Character it was super humbling and a great talk!  Everything is going well!  They have a gym here so that makes me really happy!  There is a huge mountain behind us and the houses almost go all the way to the top of the mountain!  It´s really beautiful here.  Today we got to go to the open house of the Mexico City temple!  It´s beautiful!  I will try to send pictures.  Next Wednesday Elder Christoferson is coming to speak to us, and i´m pumped!  Oh and by the way mom I am writing in my journal every night!  That´s new!

-Elder Mills

I also found a picture of Teancum it´s sick!

AMMON AND NATE IN FRONT OF MEXICO MTC

TEANCUM

MEXICO TEMPLE OPEN HOUSE

AMMON AND ELDER JACOBS IN FRONT OF THE MEXICO CITY TEMPLE

MTC DISTRICT left to right Elder Neilson, Elder Gledhill, Hermana Batty, Hermana Norton, Elder Sheppard, Elder Hobbs, Ammon and Elder Jacobs.

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE!!!

This is Ammon and his companion Elder Nate Jacobs giving us a final wave as they head off through the security line. 

Ammon's was so excited to go! 

Not a tear was shed ....by him. His last words to me were Mom you will be ok! I love you. Even as I write this I pray that is true. Still crying... So he is off and with him a huge chunk of my heart! 
      The Lord knows me so well. I am amazed at all the tender Mercys He has given to me. I was able to connect with Nate's mom on Facebook. We decided to get the boys together before the security line so they would know at least someone. They laughed and joked the whole way! It made my heart so happy that he wasn't on his own. They didn't sit together on the plane but when they arrived at the MTC they found out they were companions. So blessed to have met Ammon's first companion and his family.

This is a sister serving in Ammon's mission. He was so cute he wouldn't even look her in the eye! I said buddy it's ok she is a missionary to. As a missionary you are going to meet a lot of new people. Might as well start now.

Ammon arrived at the airport Wednesday at 8am to travel directly to the Mexico MTC. Definitely an emotional day for all of us! So glad we were packed days before because I know I couldn't remember my own name that morning because I was so emotional.