Week 3 Mexico City MTC

So this week was interesting... We played soccer on wed. ball BOM! smashed into the face, nose looked like longest yard. ( You Brokded my nose) yes sideways. Went to the docotor, went to the hospital, Well turns out surgery the next morning. Surgery in mexico on the nose. Yup scary. But it was actually one of the nicest hospitals ever. Got home friday night, bed rest for a whole week. Black eyes, black face. pretty rad. 

oh p.s. this wasnt me but elder harris in my district ;) haha sorry ma....

But ya that happened, um after i emailed you last week, hna. Moberly recived 2 dozen donuts (ciculo de dulces is what I like to call them but iin spanish really just donua) and yes there were 4 of us. we each at 6.... in one night. I wanted to puke but it was delicious... haha crazy enough my pants just get more loose every pday... its those burpiees ;) haha

um my comp got the flu, its been going around the ccm, but im pretty sure its salmanila poisoning.Cause how can 150 people get sick with the flu in 2 days? that does not happen... 

it was kinda a hard learning week. For sure semana 3 in la ccm starts to take a toll, your expected to hablar solo español, and thats pretty hard. I should have tried in high school... (well maybe not haha I still passed so im good right?) but im for sure trying to learn good ways to study and im strugglin with that! but we taught Daniel, and I asked him to be bautizaro and he said yes!!! The was for sure the MOST Spiritual leccion hna. Gubler and I have had! so awesome!

GO FIND ELDER BEDNARS TALK i dont know what it is called but it is the Cookie Monster talk! it changed my whole life. he said it at the provo MTC at christmas a few years ago so i dont know how easy it will be to find... but It was incredible. Talked about the charecter of Cristo, and how the natural man turns in, and cristo siempre turns out. an amazing talk, go find it. 

I was an idiot before my mission. Why didnt I read the scriptures better. That is the biggest thing ive learned so far how much I LOVE the scriptures. I read 100 pages when I was in the Casa con mi compañera, porque ella son enferma.  (español is still a struggle but sorry i always speak spañglish now) I just love it and how much FAITH they all have. 

no temple yet, hopefully next week we will escape the 20ft wall that I still am grateful for cada noche with i hear police all night haha, thanks for the pkg. momma! I shared it with the districto and the were muy feliz! 

Para siempre Dios este con vos!

p.s. im the dumb one not the camera.. finally figured it out! 

2nd week in the MTC

 Elder Hickman and Sidney met in the temple the week before she left for the Mexico City MTC. They did proxy dealings together and now here they are together again in Mexico City!

Sidney's view from the MTC in Mexico City

Be good, and if you cant be good, be good at it.

thats some daily advice and things i learn from hna. moberly, shes my room mate, not my comp. but we get along like penutbutter and oreos. So ya we LAUGH A LOT!! we quote nocho libre all day and hopefully that helps our spanish.. also Lord Of The Rubgs so thats not helping the spanish but the elvish... haha

Anyways, tueday is pizza day so thats good! everyone can eat on tueday nights! other wise, bland pollo, or cereal, or PB toast.

For pday we play kick ball with our zone! SO FUN! AND THE PAST 3 DAYS FOR GYMNASIO  the hermanas made me teach ballet!! happiest day of my life! but then they hate me again cause i make them burpiee before ballet class.. haha I love it!

We are teaching a new inv. dainel, He is so awesome to teach! much better than the first few lessons in spansih! and I said the whole primero vision en español with out messing it up! spirit in the room was so incredible and I just love being a misionera!

It still rains everynight, but its really nice and we love it, the other night at 3 am (our casa is right next to the fence) we heard about 12 sirens going off for 20 minutes. at 3 am. thats how most the nights are actually, makes me very greatful for the 20 ft. barbed wire fence!

It seems every devotional is about marriage. No wonder misionaros  are crazy spouse hungry when they get home... Elder ballard (in my district) lectures me every day that I need to go home and get married. NOPE. haha maybe my mind will change.. .but i dont know its pretty funny. Elder ballard and I get along well, we talk about music alot, he said he would take me to rage against the machine when he got home. (dont worry momma he has a girl friend who he gave a promise ring too. i gave him crap for that so its okay!) haha

Español is comin, its hard but its coming. poco a poco. Im sure buy month 17 ill have a conversation with someone! i try to talk to the natives but they speak way to fast and i only know church words haha!

para siempre Dios este con vos! Te AMO!

p.s. I now know why misionaros emails are so poor of  grammer we try to type so fast! haha

everyone is still emailing so I guess im just too fast.. um funny story our teacher is actually the head of the native classes, and we are his primero clase from USA so he does not know any english. But every morning he has reunions and is 25 minutes late to class,
well we were supossed to teach *****  from 9-10 saturday but no one tells us where to go or what time we teach you just kinda show up to the clase and hope your in the right spot. he came to clase at 10:30 because of reunions. so we had to teach him later, but he told us the wrong room. so we taught him in 7 minutes when we finally found the room, but it was still really spiritual. cool story.

Also our day teacher and night teacher tell us COMPLETELY different things to study so that is hard because there are 5 bigillion things to learn and we never have a set learning schedule. thats okay all part of the experience right?

Well this is really good bye until next semana! Adios!

haha they actual have really goods taqitos, and the pizza is like the HUGE vegas pizza! i eat apples everyday mom be proud. haha

Oh dang... haha well I guess its a good thing! Im getting off, love you! love the fam! keep misiti alive! go get that Master craft! Love my nice little shrine haha! have a good week! and read any elder holland talk, especially the confidence one. I love that one! Adios!

First Week of Mexico City MTC LIFE!

Family and Friends!!   Write to me at sidney.snowden@myldsmail.net

So i dont really want to take the time to write everyones email in the little box.. so mom forward it haha!

MTC life is kinda crazy, you are way too busy to feel any kind of homesickness, and you are way too busy to miss anything really! wake up, study, eat,study , then class for 4 hrs. study some more, lunch, teach (IN SPANISH!) study, lanugaue class, language study, comp. study, prayer, bed. ZERO TIME!!!

BUT it has been really great! there are four of us in a bed room, all american unfortunatly... but we are all learning together. I sadly have the best español, so that is mal. But hopefully we can do it! I pray ALOT! but I have to pray in spanish, the are very simple but meaningful prayers and thats okay cause thats all they really need to be im learning!

My comp. is hna. Goubler, I went to timp with her! (girl from airport) we get along really well! But I am a person who likes to get things done in as little tiempo possible, and she likes to.... take her tiempo. So i am learning to be patient, and she is learning to hurry up :) 

The food here is... Disgusting haha! We were all SO GLAD you sent that package mom, we were hungry haha even if it was just full of chocolate! But i eat cereal and PB sandwiches everyday, all meals. Sometimes they have good pollo, but todays was extra dry and bland. so that was awesome!

sPIRIRTUAL MOMENT: last night I was trying to memorize the Primero Vision, in spanish. I got really frustated, so my district decided to sing spanish hymnos instead. HYMNOS are much better in español, I swear on my viva. (my spanish still sucks you can see)  but the 12 of us in our district just started singing and all the elders had tears. IT WAS AWESOME! 

TEACHING: Ana is our investiagtor, our first lesson was okay, we didnt know any spanish so that was hard, but it was good. 2 lesson, just mal. muy muy mal. Nothing went right, everything was bad. it was horrid. 3 lesson after praying and praying and praying, it was FANTASTIC! spirit was awesome, and she said she would " think" about being bautismo on sept. 2 (day I leave!) haha but that was good!

wow such a long email so sorry! but te amo, y para siempre Dios este con vos.

Herman Nieve-Den. (no spanish person can say my last name very funny!)

p.s. it rains every night´from 5-midnight, i love this weather, also there is mexican music all around the CCM from out side the 12 ft. wall haha, and gun shot noises that are actually fireworks. 
hey go off every day. Even at 5 am. its really annoying! but its been funny to actually see Mexican culture. 

My compañera also hates me, I made her do "Dreanch work out" today for PDAY 100 burpiees 100 push ups 100 situps. We cant move.. haha i think ive lost 5 pound already not even kidding! so good or bad depending how you look at it ;) but Ive gotta go now,for reals  so te amo

Sidney arrives at the Mexico City MTC

Sidney arrived safely in Mexico City.....Here we go!!!!

So my flight was good, the first one I sat next to a baby... but the baby was pretty good haha, Then I got to dallas, us missionaries filled the plane about 3/4 of the way! it was so dang cool! Im pretty dang tired now haha! But it is beautiful here! its been raining all day and will probably rain everyday (thats what the tell me) food weird... But not bad. THE CRAZIEST THING HAPPEND! Driving from the Airport to the CCM a guy was hanging on the back of the car infornt of us with a HUGE gun<1 I asked an elder what gun it was, a 42 something... BUT IT WAS BIG! I will have an Hermana send me a picture sometime so I can send it too you, I found Hermana Bradly, She is awesome. So Far I love it! Ive met lots of poeple going to my mission 3 Hermanas, 1 Elder. But so far all is good! My camera was dead, so I didnt get to take any pictures, but Hermana Gubler (Sister in the airport) is my companera and she has taken many pictures so become amigos with her momma! The barbed wire fence is real, and it is 12 feet tall, not ocho.  Te AMO FAMILIA!

 

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS PAPA!

 

P.S. www.missionarypackagemx.com is a website that one of the Hermanas husband and her run, if you want to send me packages..

 

TE AMO FAMILIA viva a mexico!

 

P.S. I hope you blogg my stuff so others can get these, cause they all have been askin.. yikes. 

Farewells, Goodbyes and EXCITEMENT

Sid left for the MTC in Mexico City today!  We had to have her at the airport by 4:00 am.  Her goodbye went alright!  We are all just so excited for her to finally be off on this adventure.

She met her travel buddy Valerie Gubler through social media.  Valerie was sweet enough to come to her farewell.

Sidney did a great job on her Farewell talk.  Her topic was on keeping the Sabbath day Holy.  She talked about traveling with LADM and how she set a goal to talk to people about the gospel every Sunday.  This really inspired her to become a missionary.

She was set apart around 10:00 pm. All her newly returned missionary brothers came over and helped set her apart.  It was a very special night.  They all gave her advice and told her one thing they learned from their mission.  Her blessing was awesome.  It seemed 10 minutes long and she was blessed with everything I could have thought of.  I'm so thankful for the spirit that was in our home that night!