Week Three

Hola Everyone!

This week was awesome! The Spanish study is coming along pretty well and the classes are all really cool! The CCM is pretty great. It´s crazy to think that I´m already halfway done with it! All the older guys and the 3 week latinos left last night or early this morning and I was really sad to see them go. We sang God be with you till we meet again and it was awesome because the spirit was so strong. I know all those guys will be awesome missionaries! My comp and I got our rooms switched so we had to pack all our stuff up and move down to a smaller room today but it´s all good because we get to be in a room with all latinos! The latino´s here are awesome. We got to watch a live devotional by Elder Ballard Sunday night which was really cool because we usually only get to watch re-runs becuase of the time difference. We also got to watch a devotional by Elder Holland and he told all missionaries to come back better than they were before and to do it for the Brown kids(The MTC PROVO presidents grandkids) so now the big CCM joke is to do it for the brown kids. My district keeps count of how many times we eat rice here and now at the halfway mark we´re at 32 meals of rice in 21 days haha.

Today was definitely the best P-day by far. We got up in the morning to go get our visas and we got to talk to this super cool Colombian dude about Bogota and his life for like 2 hours while we waited in the line. We ended up giving him a pass along card. Then we went to the Monserrate church in the mountains in Bogota, It was absolutely gorgeous. We went to get on the tram and we found a cardboard cutout of Pope Francis so we all took pictures with it and said we met the Pope!  The view at the top was absolutely stunning, Bogota is absolutely huge and beautiful. I love the view of the city and the green mountains. The church was super pretty too, we got to walk inside and on the outside is a garden that depicts the crusificado of Jesus and it was really powerful. At the top past the church they have all these little stores and at the top they have a bunch of little food carts so a bunch of other missionaries and I ate fried intestine. It wasn´t bad at all it just tasted like really chewy bad turkey bacon. Then we went and got cheeseburgers at this place called Del Rodeo and they were amazing, they also had awesome milkshakes. After that we went and got some soccer jerseys. I got a sweet PGM(Paris jersey) because it came with shorts and I needed another pair of workout shorts. Also one of the kids in my district is really short and our classroom has a little window over the door that is supposed to have glass in it but there isn´t any so earlier this week he crawled through it and it was hilarious, our whole district was on the floor laughing. I´m excited to meet the new Missionaries coming in and hope that My comp and I can be as good as examples to them that the older missionaries were to us. Oh and they have In Our Lovely Deseret in Spanish so my district and I sing it all the time in honor of Brother Tingey. 

Miss all you guys and thank you for your prayers!! The church is true!!

Love,

Elder McBride.
 
                              Pictures from Elder McBride & Missionary Mom Site