Hola Todos,

Esta semana fue muy rápido. I love personal and language study so fun to do what I want and learn so much. Classes are fun as well I just prefer studying different topics. My Spanish has definitely improved, I can understand a lot more and can talk much better although conjugation while talking will take time to learn. 


It was a great week, last Friday we introduced a new district of 12 sisters to our zone/branch, super chill people. Although every Friday and Wednesday we have to miss a good chunk of class as being zone leaders it's been great to meet all these people. That day on Friday we also taught a spanish lesson over zoom, the lady we taught was so nice and she even seemed like she had tears at the end.


Not much happened on Saturday until Saturday night when about half of our casa got buzz cuts. So on sunday we had church and our meetings then after that I decided I would get one, shout out Elder Rasmussen he got me right. Unreal experience, so grateful to have each and every experience here at the CCM it really is a spiritual place. Then we had a devotional later that night and it was beautiful as it always is, gives a lot of spiritual impressions and thoughts. 👨‍🦲


The one other thing I'd like to talk about is as a casa of 17 elders we randomly decided to audition a song, Nearer My God To Thee, we left during class for about an hour and with 1, 5 minute practice we went up and the two ladies evaluating us were speechless, almost in tears at how good we were playing, they said we were like a professional men's choir, all these compliments were just crazy to us. I know that sticking with good people that all can rise to occasion and we did that. Now we are preparing to sing at the devotional on Sunday, what a blessing. 👨‍🎤

Phillippians 4:13-  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.


As I said above we as a group of good young men were able to sing so well even though many of us aren't great. If we have christ beside us leading us we can do the same thing, we can rise to the occasion and continue growing and becoming like him.I invite you to involve him in all you do.  In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


This is my email if you'd like to email me. I would love to hear from all of you! Blake 

madsen.blake@missionary.org

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