Hermana Aliza Pollock

This week was full of emotions. Where to start. Well, this week has been a little hard for me just because I am in my fifth week here and I feel like my Spanish is not the best. It has been full of some days of anxiety and stress and sometimes feeling overwhelmed.  The weird thing to think about is that I only have about a week and a half left in the CCM until I leave for Argentina, and that is kinda scary for me, but I am a little ready to just get out there and figure everything out. By tomorrow I will be hitting my one month mark and so only 17 more to go. It sounds really long but at the same time once I actually get the language down I know it will go by a lot faster. So, before I get into the funny things this week, I just want to say that we had a Skype call with a member from Uruguay and they talk the same way they will be talking in my mission. And let me tell you... I didn´t understand a single thing he said. I think I might have gotten like two words out of everything he...

This week was good. I feel like nothing exciting happened, besides class and then eating and then teaching a "person" (that person is usually our teacher acting as an interested person). I do have to say, so many spiritual things have happened, and I learned so much about how the spirit works and what it means to actually teach by the spirit. First things first, I love my companion!! We have become like sisters and what I love about the first couple of weeks is how it has taught me to work through the hard times and what I can do when I get a companion that I really don´t get along with. She has become like a sister to me and we are constantly laughing and even when she or one of us are having a hard time we are always there for each other to help the other. Which I love!!!  My companion and I were teaching a "person" named Arturo, and we kinda planned a lesson.  We talked about what we wanted to teach him about and it was the first lesson we only talked about what ...

HOLA friends and family, We had daylight savings here in Mexico and so now we are an hour ahead of you, which is kinda weird to think about. Even though when I finally get to Argentina I will be four hours ahead of you guys. My P-day was today and not yesterday because the Elders in our district that are staying in Mexico had to go to immigration so that kinda sucks that some of their P-day is gone. This week has been a lot better, I can feel the Spanish coming, soooooo slowly, but it's coming. I can feel the Lord help me when we do these practice teachings with our teachers. Each time we do it, I am able to contribute more, even though sometimes I read the thing I say from our Spanish book, but at lest I understood what they were saying to be able to know to say that. I feel so blessed to have such a good district here. The Elders are all so awesome and fun to be around and I find it so weird that I always seem to have someone from Wyoming in my life. Because an Elder from my di...

Hello friends and family! So I finally have the chance to email and update you all.  For those who don´t know, right now I am in Mexico City for six weeks for Missionary training.  Let me start off by saying flying down there was a really fun long day. The Mexico MTC  (called the CCM) is so beautiful and it is so warm!!! I love it, I think I already have a tan. My companion is Hermana Pemberton and we also room with two other Hermanas and their names are O´Brian and Van Hak Prestinary.   They have been really helpful for me and keeping my spirits high. My branch is one of the few branches mixed with Latinos and Americans. So its pretty much Spanish Spanish Spanish all the time, which is good, but can be a little hard at times. Unlike the Provo MTC, the food here is AMAZING. I know that was like the number one question you were all thinking. Anyways, my first week was really hard, but on like my second day we were able to teach someone who was interested, and thank ...