Adios Mexico City ~ ¡Hola! Oklahoma

This week was our last week in the CMM. It was so fun here and i will miss seeing all my friends here everyday. Our district was very close, is very close. I cant wait to here their stories in their missions. Elder Hl left this morning and I feel rather strange. It is really weird not having him constantly with me. Now I am with Elder T. He is awesome and we leave tonight at 2 in the morning. Ouch. But it should be an adventure.

Thank you for the letters i have received, they were all very kind and one of them smelled nice for some weird reason, so thank you, it made our casa smell better. However, there was an occurance this week that did not smell very nice. During TALL, our online practice of Spanish, there arose a smell so foul that Elder T and i used his medical tape to find a better smell. So we put medical tape underneath our noses and hoped for the best. The smell came again. It was so strong that i think my eyebrows were curling. the source was never found but the TALL room was assumed to be haunted by this smell. It was awful, but the medical tape helped.

We taught our teachers some American slang. They were awesome and they really got us excited about our missions, so to return the favor, we taught them, "Yall feel?" and gonna and other notable american exclamations. They were very pleased and they took notes. Hermana Faces promised us she would use Are you picking up what Im laying down, in her next lesson with American missionaries. 

Yesterday, we went and taught alongside some Latino missionaries. This experience is what i would like to refer to as The Confidence Destroyer. My Spanish is ok, i can talk to the janitors and other native speakers, but man, these kids speak fast. It was difficult to keep up but it was a really great learning experience and it taught me i have a lot to learn. Hahaha

Now for a spiritual thought. every week is spiritual, every day every moment every second is spiritual here if we allow it to be. I have noticed in the way i speak think and act i can invite the spirit. I would ask anyone who wants to, to do the same, think about how you can invite the spirit and i promise you will feel the spirit and receive more answers and help.

Murdoch family, thank you for the pictures of the puppies, i havent seen anything like that in six weeks! 

Gavin, things are going well. I just found an ingles LIbro de Mormón, entonces things are great. i have been looking for one for ages, so i could do as Elder Bednar suggested and read the whole thing with just one question, you should try it. Go find one unused paperback Libro de Mormón and look thru it with just one question, i so excited to start reading it again, im more excited about this than anything, any question will do and you will find the answer.     

Isaac, i must see these by next week. I have never laughed that hard before. the image of the cherubim, oh it sounds lovely, please send this to me as soon as possible, and Will, you too, i gotta see this twilight zone poster.  

Mom, I ran into Elder Gronman? he said you know his mom. Also can you make sure Greg is receiving these emails. He might have sent me his email in my Facebook. And i did not get the letter you spoke from the people but i did get the ones from you guys, and im really sorry but i cant call you from the airport. We asked our Mission President about it and he said im permitted to let you call on Christmas and Mothers Day, if i hear otherwise i will call but im really sorry, but i need to be exactly obedient, that is what i have been trying to do lately. Its not like before i was ordering pizzas over the fence or smuggling in anything, but i just im trying to follow everything. I will call you if i can. 

Dad, there are four people joining me to Oklahoma, so the rest must be Ingles speakers. thank you for the bike stuff and for taking care of that for me, it really means a lot. 

thank you for the prays, letters and help, i love you all and pray for you all. read the scriptures feast upon the words of Christ and thus saith the Father you shall have eternal life, or in whatever case you are in help, support, love, anything, just read pray and go to church. 

Elder Thomas