Hey!
So
I´ve been having another great week! It´s getting harder to do 17 hour days but
I´m glad I´m doing something all the time. Learning here is like drinking out
of a fire hydrant, you get some water, but mostly your face just hurts.
It was
hard to talk to people for the first week here because all anyone wanted to
talk about was the first thing they´re going to do when they get home and what
restaurants they miss the most. Their hearts were still at home, but now
everyone's gotten over that, so that's good. The Spanish is going really well, and
my lessons are getting a lot better. I finished the online language work that
was supposed to take us 6 weeks so. I´m doing different language study during
that time. Every Sunday we´re supposed to prepare a 5 to 10 minute talk about a
specific topic and members of the branch presidency choose who will be giving
their talks that week. This week it was on faith, and the speakers didn´t
take the whole time, so they asked for a volunteer. I had my talk memorized, so I volunteered and gave a 10 minute talk on faith and that inflated my ego
quite a bit because no one memorizes their talks in our branch. I think one
thing I need to work on while being here is being humble.
This week the people
in Mexico City were shooting some sort of explosive in the air and it sounded
like the cannons in the Hunger Games movie whenever a tribute died. So whenever one
would go off, we would make some sort of joke related to the Hunger Games. Also
I forgot to mention last week that I´m in district 12. Elder Baker, Elder Bean,
and Elder Labrum and I have decided that we´re going to do 40 pushups every
night until we leave the MTC, and then go up one every day while we´re in the
field.
Every day here is great, and I´m learning so much. On Sunday we watched
this really good MTC Christmas devotional from a couple years ago by David A.
Bednar. I don´t know what it was called but it was the best talk I have ever
heard and if you can somehow watch it it would be worth your time. My companion
and I are getting really close and we can´t wait to go out in the field. Honestly, I feel like I´m ready to leave now. I just really want to serve the
people in Peru.
Everyone in our district got really sick on Friday from
something that we ate or drank -- I don´t know, but no one was complaining
about it during class or felt entitled to slacking off because they were sick.
It was really hard for me to focus while I was sick but I prayed for
strength and I got it. There are some days when I feel like I just really need
a hug from Dan but President Pratt says that if you miss your family you aren´t
working hard enough.
In our lessons we aren´t teaching volunteer members
anymore, we´re teaching actual investigators or inactive members. We started
teaching José yesterday and I think it went really well. His wife, Esperanza,
has cancer and he has 3 little kids. I stopped using notes for my lessons so I
can just prepare what I want to say beforehand and then teach by the Spirit if
there´s anything else I feel like I need to say. I´m just really happy here and
I know I´m going to be even happier in 4 weeks.
Every morning Elder Baker and I
talk to this custodian here named Marco and he´s trying to learn English, so
whenever he asks us how to say something in English he´ll write it down in a
notebook he carries with him and he´s always so grateful and happy to see us.
We found out today that he served a mission and he gave us some advice. We
decided we´re going to get him some English scriptures from the store before
we leave. also everything is really really cheap at the store so I have a lot
of pesos that I haven´t used yet.
I´m really glad Allison had a good time at
camp. I remember when I was her age and I was covered in mosquito bites after
scout camp. Hope you guys have a great week!
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