Week 2: At the Mexico CCM - Mission Scriptures

NOTE FROM JACOB’s MOM: Jacob asks at the end that while he’s at the MTC, that people use this website… http://www.mtcmexicocarepackage.com to send free letters to him during the week (send by Tuesday each week) so that he has more time respond in email form on his Pdays. He only gets an hour on the computer and he keeps running out of time. If people use that service, they print out the letter and deliver it the next day and he can read them during the week and will have more time to respond on Thursdays via email (that’s his hope anyway). He still is having a hard time getting his pictures uploaded so hopefully he can figure that out by next week.

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Dear Friends and Family,

I don't have a lot of time, as usual, so bare with me if there are typos or other mistakes. The second week has simultaneously flown by and dragged on forever. We've visited the infirmary twice this week, both times for my companion. The first time he got a bug bite which swelled up from dime size to baseball size in about twenty minutes. The second time he accidentally ate a hot pepper at lunch and chugged 3{4 of a gallon of milk to cool off, which screwed up his stomach big time. We got to see a broadcast from D Todd Christofferson this week, and will get to hear from two more apostles live from Provo next week. What a time to be in the MTC. We tried to speak only Español for 24 hours twice this week as a district, but so far we're yet to make it past lunch. Everything is going well, we had a great experience this week spontaneously sharing our mission scriptures. Mine is Jacob 5:71, and my comps is Helaman 5:12. Both great scriptures. My district plays soccer every day; we're trying to train so we can handle the 6 year olds in Chile. One Elder has already broken a foot though, so we probably need to dial it back. Last PDay we had the chance to do a session in the Mexico City temple, which was awesome. Afterwards, my companion wanted to go talk to some kids outside the visitors center with their grandma. We´re a good team, because I wouldn't have thought to talk to them and he can't talk to them because his Spanish is still pretty rough. It was great practice.

I hope everything is going well back in the states, I love you all.

Hasta luego,

Elder Olson

P.S. My mom says she shared a website that allows you to send letters for free to me while im here in the ccm. That works really well for me bc i can read them during the week without using any of my email time. Gracias y les amo <3

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Jacob with his District (6C) the day they arrived at the Mexico CCM

Jacob's comp is the goofy guy in the front, Elder Musselman. They get along well.

Smiling for real now. Elder Haar is the third from the left and his mom sent me these pics since Jacob's camera wasn't uploading. Elder Haar said the Mexico CCM is a 90 acre compound surrounded by barbed wire and guards to keep them safe. They often hear gunshots from the surrounding area which is quite run down in comparison to the beautiful campus they are on.

In class at the CCM 

Jacob and his comp in class. Sometimes it's a bit boring he says, but it's all necessary and good.