Ok so this week has had so much stuff go on, it has been
nuts. First off I think I should start with some background about the CCM,
which is where I am at right now to learn Spanish. This place is very big, over
90 acres, and it used to be an old high school, so there is a gym, auditorium,
classrooms, cafeteria, track, basketball courts and there are about 50 houses
on the campus as well as two dormitories. All together this place can house
about 1300 people, so it is huge and very green and pretty. Every day my
Spanish keeps improving and my compañero and I speak to each other in Spanish
all the time, and we talk and sit with the Latino missionaries at meals, which
helps us to learn. The only times we speak English is when we have to talk to
our district, because they cannot understand us, and I am started to have a
little trouble talking in English, because I will say the Spanish word hahahah.
This week Elder Aurich left early on Monday morning, so I had to say goodbye to
him Sunday night and it was hard, he is such a good friend and role model. I
will miss seeing him for two years, because it is hard to let one of your best
friends go, but I know he will be doing great things out in his mission in New
York. Before Elder Aurich left on Sunday I gave a talk in our church meeting
that morning about the Book of Mormon and how it is another testimony of
Christ, and I think I did well, and I spoke Spanish during the entire time.
Someone who I respect alot and really look up to told me this week that I need
to start maturing if I want to learn and grow some more, and my district and I
have really taken it to heart. This week as we go about our studies and
lessons, we have an accountability system where people can start knowing when
they are being mature, and it has been great and I have learned to be better.
This week during our gym time, after we work out we have been playing
basketball, ping pong or soccer, and our district is good at everyone of these
games. Whenever we are having a bad day we go and play ball and we all feel
alot better, and I am becoming pretty good at basketball and ping pong. And I
do not know if all the other elders here are just bad at soccer, but when we
play with them it is so fun because I can mop the floor with all of them. Elder
Langston and I have been playing ping pong alot also, and he is very good, but
my skills are definitely getting better, and I finally beat him in a game this
morning. On Monday our sheets in our room get washed by the staff that is here,
but apparently they forgot to do it, they took all of our sheets, but never
brought them back to our rooms, so we all had to sleep on the dirty Mexican
mattresses in our rooms, and I hope the stains on them were from old age and
not something else. Anyway, it made me appreciate the fact of all of the
blessings that we have in America, and it made me humble myself and recognize
all the blessings we have in our lives that we take for granted. So I found out
what the noise was at nights, the Mexicans here love to worship the Virgin
Mary, so whenever they are really feeling that they are worshipping well, they
light off fireworks, and apparently they love to worship her at 3 in the
morning. If you want to see all my cool pictures, go check out my blog, I think
I put the right address at the top. Anyway this week has been great, and I can
feel myself learning and growing everyday, and I know I am not usually the most
spiritual guy, but I am going to put a short little verse of what I have been
studying in the end of my emails. Love all of you!
éxodo 19:5
Ahora pues, si dais oído a mi voz y guardáis mi convenio,
vosotros seréis mi especial tesoro sobre todos los pueblos, porque mía es toda
la tierra.
Love,
Elder Tilghman
We are the new Beatles
Me and el jefe
This is our dormitory, and yes my bed is on the left, I am clean now, those are my shirts that I have to iron later today.
Our intense ping pong match
THE basketball squad at the CCM
Yeah no biggie, I can almost dunk
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