Hermana Grace Taylor Cox

Alright, everyone shut up and sit down because I'm going to teach you about the first vision. Just kidding, but that is a direct quote from my teacher this week about what NOT to say to investigators. And I almost feel like I'm going to get so nervous in my first lesson that I will say exactly that, but whatever. As I'm sure many of you know, ya girl is kind of a shopaholic. So literally any free time I have I BEG my mom to take me to a store, any store. So this week, my mom and I went to TjMaxx to get some presents for my cute missionary cousin Olivia. While we were there, we overheard a mom yelling at her young daughter, "a spa is NOT a jungle gym. It's a place where women go to RELAX and be PAMPERED". Important life lessons at TjMaxx. This week was awesome because we learned so much about how to be a better teacher! There were so many things that I had never even thought of to do/say, but were super helpful. Preach My Gospel (a manual that helps missionarie...

Hola!! I've officially been in the CCM (that's the name of the Mexico MTC) for a week! It's kind of crazy because it feels like it went by sooooo slowly but at the same time we have learned so much Spanish and I can't believe I've actually been doing this for a week! We started Day 2 with going over the alphabet, and yesterday we had a 15 minute lesson all in Spanish with some members. It's crazy because I already could understand everything they were saying in Spanish!! We definitely relied on google translate when it was our turn to talk but still knew a lot! I've been keeping track and since last week I've already learned 272 new words. This week, we learned about a program called "Speak Your Language" where you rate yourself on how often you speak Spanish. One Elder declared in the most grammatically incorrect sentence of the week, "We are not english, latin now, english is disappear, latin only!" (in broken Spanish of course). My...