Ok so I realized today that I am actually very exhausted. I feel like
i'm gettng a sore throat but I was able to go to the temple today and
that was fantastic!!
So I guess I should mention that
my companion is Élder Lund and we get along pretty good! All six of
the missionaries in my dorm are way funny! Oh and before I forget, all
of you need to look up granadillas (at least I think they are spelled
that way.. But anyway they are now my favorite fruit. You have to peel
off their shell type thing and then pull back the skin and it looks like
an anenome and a bunch of fish eggs but its delicious. You have to eat
it by pretty much drinking the seeds and immediately swallowing. So its
pretty much the greates!!!
Oh and I am
learning Spanish so quickly! We have already taught at least 3 lessons
in Spanish! It's amazing how much the gift of tongues and being immersed
in Spanish culture helps with learning! like seriously it feels like at
least half of the people here don't speak English and I sort of love
it. I have decided to keep Spanish after my mission because it is
seriously at least 20 times more beautiful than English. I can't wait
until I can speak it fluently. When I went to the Temple today it was
in Spanish and I kind of could understand it a bit!
On
Sunday it was an extremely great day. Maybe its because half of the
meetings were in English.. Oh and i have decided that the shift keys are
really hard to hit on these keyboards so i will not be capitalizing
anything unless it is really necessary... But back to Sunday iIwas able
to listen to some fantastic talks and discussions and the one that stood
out the most was when President Dyer talked to us about the plan of
salvation and we got super deep into it. We talked about the purpose
of life and we found out that it is to become like Heavenly Father. I
was thinking during this that being here has quite the risk, I mean if
we fail we won't be able to live with our Heavenly Father again! but
that made me think, what could be so worth it that we would risk living
with our Father? the blessings are real! oh and I think someone stole
my toothpaste. But I have a backup but yeah, or i just misplaced it
haha. but other than elder stolen stuff's mishap at the airport there
hasn't been anything too crazy happen.
And I had
fried fat!! talk about great!! and the food is so delicious here! we
have a steak about every day for lunch because lunches are the best and
I've gotten a lot better at eating stuff I don't want to after eating
the granadilla! I have found out that its a lot easier to eat stuff if
you just swallow it! Because if you chew a granadilla it is truly
nasty.. But also really the only cultury food that we eat is like soups
and plantains.
We have really had a lot of help
with learning the language and our lessons with our "investigator" have
gotten tons better!! in 6 days of learning in the CCM I have learned
about 5 tenses of verbs which is pretty impressive!! and that's not
including the present tense. Yeah Spanish is just beautiful! Everything just rolls out of the mouth unlike English where it all gets
stuffed up by my clumsy tongue.
And on the
27th we were able to give Élder Páz a blessing and that was pretty
awesome! Sorry about the crazy way my writing is, I cant remember
things well so once they click I have to write them down.
I
feel like this is actually a lot of stuff so if next week you want more
let me know! Or if you want less I guess you can read less so ha!
Oh
and one last thing, because I tend to laugh a lot its Élder Skinner's
goal to get me to pee my pants because I'm laughing so hard but so far
it hasn't happened!
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