Final Letter from Mexico!

Dear family and friends,

I don´t have as much time this week because we´re going to the temple again today, but I´ll try to fill you in as much as I can! Aside from sickness that tore through the entire CCM, I had a pretty good week.

Friday - Normal day except our service project was to help clean the kitchen! I´m not sure how much we helped, but it was a good time. They´ve got the biggest pots and pans I have ever seen. Miriam and Amy could probably fit into some of them, maybe even sophie too. 

Saturday - Generaly conference! We had a few classes in the morning before conference, and then all the english speaking missionaries went to one building and all the spanish speakers went to another. I really loved elder Holland´s talk on Sunday. All of the talks were really good and I felt like I learned a lot about what I need to do personally to come closer  to Christ and also about what I can do to help others do so. We spent almost all day in one building because of conference, which was unusual, but we had the comfy theatre chairs, so I wasn´t complaining :)

Sunday - Sunday was pretty much the same deal as Saturday. We spent most of the day in the auditorium. After the last session of conference though I was feeling really sick, so we got permission to go back to our dorm to rest.

Monday - Monday I woke up feeling terrible. We found out that around half of the MTC had come down with either a stomach virus or food poisoning. I don´t think they were ever able to figure it out, but either way, we went to the enfermería to see the doc that morning. We spent an hour and a half in the waiting room becuase there were so many missionaries waiting to see him. He gave me some pepto bismol and I went on splits with another elder in my district who was also sick so that our companions could go to class while we stayed in bed. It was a rough day. Luckily though, It only lasted for that day and I was able to go to class the next day without a problem. I ended up getting to go on splits with both of the other elders in my district though because of people getting sick at different times. It was fun to spend a day with each of them.

Tuesday and Wednesday were both normal days, except that my companion (who didn´t get the first sickness) came down with something different and so we had to spend a lot of time in our casa so that he could rest. I got some good stuff done, but I was still sad because we had to miss some class and also we had to miss our last TRC last night. We also had to go to the main office here so that they could check our travel documents and give us info for our departure. My companion and I are leaving on Monday at around noon. I am really excited, but also really sad to be leaving mexico and all the awesome people here. 

Hope you all have a great week this week! Next time I write you I´ll be in Utah. Thanks for all your prayers.

Love,

Elder Baxter