Elder Adam Ray Allen's adventures in the New York, New York City Mission!!

 Our District at the Mexico Temple!  Going into my third week here at the CCM! Not gonna lie, that first week was rough. It honestly felt like 3 months not 7 days. This past week flewwww by though! The language is coming a lot quicker now, and our district is awesome so time flies. It honestly is a lot of fun right now, which is not what I expected haha. And it helps that my mom is sending me packages with American food all the time, so shout out to momma Butta for that.  the clouds here look fake they're so puffy lol it's awesome    So David A. Bednar came to the Provo Mtc on Tuesday, and we got to listen to a live broadcast of it! That was awesome, and the spirit was crazy during it. Bednar is top 5 apostles all time no doubt. He's finally starting to age though which is crazy cause he looked like a 30 year old the past 10 years. The best part of the devotional for me was actually before Bednar spoke, when we were having a pre dev...

Hola from the CCM! :) Hey everyone! Man this is crazy writing my first email! First thing though, PLEASE send me emails whenever you want! I can read emails whenever on my tablet, just can't respond til Wednesday. So basically I just gave permission to my mom to send me 8 emails a day 😅 but yeah email me people it helps keep me sane inside the mtc haha. So the mtc is crazy! It legit is nothing like I expected. First off, I'm pretty homesick I'm not gonna lie. Didn't think I would be since I went to school, but man I miss mi familia. You guys are the best and im sorry there's no humor in the home now ;) but yeah the first two days here I legit was wondering what I got myself into haha. Now I'm kinda in the flow of things and it's getting super cool, but still so hard. Just thinking about being away from everything for two years is pretty intimidating, so it's important to take it day by day and keep the focus on the people. My teachers are...

Elder Allen is serving a 2 year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  He will be serving in the New York New York North Mission and will be speaking Spanish.  He is training at the Mexico MTC or the CCM as they call it down there and then will head off to NY in July!  These are his adventures for family and friends to read and stay in touch with him.  Please email him at: adam.allen@myldsmail.net  Elder Allen left very early on Tuesday, June 13th, 2017.  It was a tough car ride to the airport and before we knew it he was going through security and getting patted down for having gummy bears in his carry on....way to go dad!!  haha!  We watched him make it through security and then it was a long day waiting to hear he made it ok! Here was his first email to us: Hey momma! Made it to Mexico fine, they just wanted us to email real quick and let you know we´re here! My pday is wednesday, but not till next...