Semana 5

HOLA!
      Another week's flown by, and this next week I'll be on my way to KENNEWICK!!! I have like a 4 hour layover in Seattle, and some missionaries call home during that time, but I don't know if I should.

Stuff that's happened: 

      Well let's see, just Mexico's Independence day! That was a loud night. And we had a little (big) celebration in the gym. We saw dancers and singers- it was SO COOL.
      Guess who I saw here not 1 day after writing you guys? Elder (Quinn) Kilgrow! I was so shocked and happy to see someone from home that I nearly gave him a hug! He's doing just fine here at the MTC, and he seems happy to me! He's called me by my first name on accident quite a few times. He's gotten better though.
      Not a ton happened this week. Nothing special anyways. Poor Elder McAlister made a little goof up with his investigator this week. He wanted to say ¨Jesus Christ is my brother¨( JesuCristo es mi hermano) but what he actually said was ¨Jesus Christ is my man¨ (hombre) He's still being teased about it. :)
      I bore my testimony in Spanish last Sunday, which I think I did a good job with.
      Every night after planning for about 15 minutes our district has this thing (remember how I said they're a bunch of goofballs?) called Crazy Night with Elder Ballard. Elder Ballard is like the host, and every night he has a ¨guest¨on the ¨show¨ where he asks them questions about the craziest things they've ever done. Most nights Elder Smith is on the show, just because he is a pretty crazy person. For example: one night Elder Ballard asked him: What is the craziest thing you have ever done in public? And Elder Smith's answer: The Hakka (I have no idea how to spell that) AND THEN he demonstrated it. Needless to type, but I'll type it anyways, we were all dying by the time he finished. I don't know if I've sent a picture of this elder yet...so here you go:

That's about it, sorry it's kinda short, but I don't know what else to type, I'm sure I'll have a ton more to say about going to Kennewick next week!
HASTA LUEGO!

Hermana Sarah Mohun

P.S. I taught my first non-teacher investigator. His name is Pedro. I think he's dead now. He was handicapped. He was a bird. But he sat through my whole first discussion. SO THERE.

Semana 4

Hola!
      So I learned some interesting things about my district today: Elder MaCallister is a really good team handball player. I had never heard of the sport, but apparently he's been to Olympics like 3 times for it in Switzerland. Also there is an Elder, not in my district but here at the MTC, who is apparently a really good quarterback and is most likely going to be BYU's starting quarterback once he gets home. Elder Mangum I think?
      So apparently all the MTCs send in stories every month (Idk) but they get sent to the Prophet and guess whose story they chose to write about? MINE!!!
J.K. no, but it is someone in my district! Elder Barnes, who at first wanted to go home, and there's lots of other things too, and the President had an interview with him and his Companion Elder MaCallister. Maybe they'll put in the New Era or in a General Conf. talk. (We can hope ;))
      So there was this new sister in our branch, who got here about three weeks ago, but she's going home today. She's been really sick, like there is something wrong with her stomach. Also there were some hermanas in our casa that were really sick. They were throwing up all night, but they are better now; I have been blessed that I have not been sick since that first week. :) 
      So remember how I said the elders in my district are a bunch of dorks? Well they still are and they gave each other nicknames. The hermanas too. We don't call each other by them, but it was fun coming up with them.
Elder Duuuude is Elder Beck because he talks like such a stereotypical SoCal guy.
E. Drought is Elder Phillips because he's never been kissed.
E. Han Solo is Elder HANSen.
E. Wolf is Elder Ballard (who is not related to the gen. authority) because he has wolf socks apparently.
E. King Kong is Elder Brand because he makes ape noises sometimes when we're all trying to study. He'll stand on his chair and run at people while doing it too sometimes.
E. Hairy Potter is Elder Smith because of his glasses, plus he loves Harry Potter, and according to his companions he has a super hairy chest. Yeah, they told us that. TMI? Yes.
E.Groves is Elder Barnes because he likes a hermana here named Hermana Groves.
E. Big Mac is Elder MaCallister
Hermana Porter is Hermana Jonas because she loves the Jonas Brothers. She met them through a meet and greet, and she kissed Nick on the cheek, and gave them a Book of Mormon! (In a present bag, but they didn't open it while she was there)
Annnd I am Hemana Mulan. Because apparently that's what everybody thinks of when they first hear my name ("Mohun, that sorta sounds like Mulan"). And the Huns were the bad guys in the Mulan movie. I still think it's a stretch.
      I learned on Sunday (and I had been wondering about this since I got here) that President Pratt is a descendant of Parley P. Pratt! How cool is that?!
      I hope you are all doing well. CAN YOU BELIEVE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR A MONTH? Just gotta do this 17 more times! Haha. I love you all!
      Before I end this though, I promised to give an example of my schedule:
6:30 Arise and Prepare
7:00 Personal study (classroom)
7:45 Breakfast
8:25 Gym time (prepare, gym, prepare for class)
9:45 Investigator (progress investigator if it's your turn, study)
11:00 Class (Language study, missionary fundamentals)
12:45 Lunch
1:30 Study
2:30 Progress Investigator (or study)
3:30 Class (Language Study, missionary fundamentals)
6:15 Dinner
7:00 Study
8:00 T.A.L.L. (Language study program on the computer)
9:00 Plan for tomorrow
9:30 Plan in Casa, get ready for bed, write in journal
10:30 Prayers and Lights out
So I'm pretty busy!
I love you all and I miss you all a ton! How is everyone? Spare no details!
MUCHO AMOR,

Hermana Sarah Mohun

ALSO I FORGOT: Apparently Mexico's Independence Day is coming up, so that will be a fun night. There are ALWAYS fireworks going off in the night, and loud music. It's kind of ridiculous. We'll be having a Mexican night here on Friday, not sure what that entails but I´m excited!

Semana 3

Hola Everybody!
      Wow, first half of CCM/MTC is over, and I am shocked. To say that I am starting my fourth week here just sounds wrong. They don't kid when they say the mission goes by too fast. Not that I don't miss you guys a ton, I've just been waaay busy. We have two investigators now (have I already said this?) Hermano Silva who is Daniel, and Hermano Rogers who is Mario. Lessons are going well but we have a much harder time with Mario than with Daniel. Hermano Rogers is set on teaching us how to teach doctrines, not applications, which is A LOT harder than it seems especially with this language barrier, but that's the difference between getting converts and getting baptisms (and we want converts).
      By the way, Hermano Roger's said his dad served a mission in Lancaster, California. And during HIS mission he was companions with Riley Kellogg. Pretty crazy, huh?
      Another crazy thing, a missionary in my district by the name of Elder Phillips, said he knows the guy who made that general authorities Reese's Peanut Butter Cup video. :)
      I forgot to mention how last week my district and I were invited over to the CCM President's house for brownies one night. They were soooo good, but not as good as the ones my family makes. (They didn't have any nuts; blasphemy, am I right?)
      Eating food here at the CCM can be a bit of a challenge when there's a shortage of certain utensils. Like when you have to cut your meat with a spoon, because all the forks are gone, or eat your cereal with a fork because there's no more spoons, But we get creative and it's fun. Shortages like that haven't happened for a while now though.
      One of our Elders left a couple days ago. We fasted for him, prayed, and our teachers talked to him a lot (they really care about us and are a big comfort to us all) but he just didn't want to be here. We were all sorry to see him go.

ANYWAYS...

      My blisters have finally turned into calluses. I never thought I'd be so grateful for calluses. But unfortunately, unlike blisters, the mosquitoes won't go away, and I wasn't getting bit until this last week, so I bought some OFF today. There are just so many! It's because of all this rain. I think my first week was deceiving when it comes to the weather here, because it POURS every day from about 5pm-7pm without fail. Walking to class from dinner is perilous! We literally walk in water up to our ankles. People slip/eat it every day. I've seen more than one shoe getting swept downstream. But it's just exciting to me, but I'm not going to lie, I am grateful now to be going to the dry portion of WA. My hair, because of the humidity, was just laughable. SO FRIZZY. I was like Hermione even after using my straightener.

That's pretty much it for this week!
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH. Con todo mi amor,

Hermana Sarah Mohun

Mi casa, lucky 13

Elder Beck, stereotypical SoCal Mormon.
He even says "gnarly" and "dude", and surfs.

An orthodontist office... with the Virgin Mary... holding pliers.
I pretty much died laughing.

I just loved how they spelled it.