September 2, 2014
Last Week in the CCM
Hello
Family and Friends,
I
can´t believe that in less than 11 hours I will be leaving the CCM in Mexico
City for the airport to fly to Virginia!
On
Thursday, Elder McCall and I taught the new district how to make a language
plan and how to prepare a lesson. I think it went pretty well.
On
Friday, we had meetings all day to prepare us to go into the field. There were
a lot of interesting things to learn in the meetings, but the day was so, so
long because we had so many different meetings to attend.
On Saturday, Elder McCall and I taught an actual
member of the church from Mexico City in the CCM. We gave her a lesson and we
were able to get some referrals to pass on to the missionaries here in Mexico
City. Here are her comments.
The questions were:
How did
you feel during the lesson?
She responded "Very happy that the
missionaries can radiate with the special spirit of peace and
happiness"
What more
did you learn in the lesson?
She said, "To know that agency is a gift but
that if we have been bad, the Christ’s atonement can have an effect on our
lives.
What
changes will you make in you life after being in the lesson?
She said, "Help the missionaries receive
references from people I know."
After
the lesson, we asked her for any referrals and she actually gave us one!!! Elder McCall and I gave the name to the CCM,
who will give it to the missionaries in Mexico City. Once again, I want to
stress how important member missionary work is. I have never realized its
importance until I arrived here at the CCM. A missionary’s success really
depends on the members in the area and their willingness to help the
missionaries.
I will miss my morning teacher, Hermano
Castellano, because he has really changed my life. He has taught me so
much, and I have never met a person besides my family that has cared about me
and has wanted to help me so much. He helped everyone in our class become more
like the Savior and therefore better missionaries.
On
Sunday, our district sung the “Army of Helaman”
in our sacrament meeting in Spanish. But since none of the people in our
district are vocally inclined, we brought a few more people in from other
districts in to help us so that we wouldn’t sound really bad. I think it went
really well.
These
past two days haven’t been very fun. I have had to say goodbye to most of the
people in our district as some left on Monday morning and others left this
morning. It’s been really hard to see them all go because our district has
grown really close. For the whole day today, only Elder McCall and I are left
out of our district here in the CCM, which has been a little depressing when
its meal time or gym time.
I
get to wakeup at 1:00 a.m. tomorrow (Central time) to be able to leave the CCM
at 2 to be able to get onto my flight which boards at around 5:30. I will
arrive in Atlanta Georgia around 11:30 and then arrive in Norfolk Virginia
around 4:00 pm Eastern time. I´m really excited to get out into the field and
begin to teach people!!! Nos Vemos!!
Elder
Cannon
Note:
On September 3rd,
7:30 p.m. Eastern time, Jared arrived safely in Chesapeake, Virginia. He will find out where he will be assigned on
September 4th. He will let us
know what his new address will be on Monday, his new Pday.
Here is a picture with me and my morning teacher Hermano Castellano.
