Garret's Mission Blog: July 12-July 23, 2025 Week 2 & 3 Mexico City MTC

Hola! Hope you all are doing well!

I've offical been a missionary for 24 for days and it's been awesome. I love being a missionary, every day is very tiring and busy but also fun and I learn a lot.

I'm liking my district and getting along great with my companions. Elder tanner and elder barlow. elder tanner is from colorado and elder barlow is from new york. The food is pretty good and theres a lot of food to eat.

Normal daily schedule:

The daily schedule here for my distrist is pretty much the same everyday. Wake up at 6:30, breakfast at 7. from 7:30-10 we have personal study, language study and companionship study. I love all this time to study the sciptures and the spanish language. After we have service or helping others (were you practice teaching a lessson) or some workshop (where you learn about the gift of tongues or some other topic) at 10.Service is fun, we have helped with getting ready for meals. After that we have gym time at 11. This is a lot of fun there are a lot of things at the CCM, we have played volleybally,spikeball, pickleball, soccer and gone running and gone to the gym. My companions and I play a lot of sand volleyball and its fun. After we have lunch, then first class of the day at 2. Its preach my gospel class with hermena mendez. After we have dinner then second class of the day language study with hermano cortes.(both classes are only in spanish) After that we go home, have house devo and go to bed.

Random stuff:

I have been to the temple twice and its awesome

One kid in my distract broke his finger playing volleyball.

we can hear a lot of gunshots from the CCM and our teachers are like "oh thats another firework."

Our district had our first only spanish day yesterday and we did pretty good.

The devotionals are every sunday and they are awesome, we have had ones by President Nelson and Oakes, and Elder Bednar and Elder Uchdorff.

These 2 Elders are going to my parents mission

Gingras, me, Hansen

They were in my MTC district

Garret said he was walking outside and heard someone holler “can anyone take a picture?” He went over and took the picture and of course asked the obligatory question to the girl that had asked him to take the picture “where are you serving?” She replied “Honduras San Pedro Sula East.” He told her “Say hi to my parents.” She of course thought he was joking, but he assured her he was not.

Garret and Hermana Griffiths