Elder Tyler Maxwell Jones Week 5

Sounds like you guys are having a good time. That´s crazy that Dan´s going into middle school. I remember how it took me forever how to figure out how to use my locker in middle school. It sounds like you have a really awesome job. That´s a sad situation but it´s cool that you get to help people like that. That´s awesome that the garden is going so well.

 I got my flight itinerary yesterday. I´m leaving next Wednesday. at about 3 in the morning. It´s kind of funny, My companion will leave Monday with the a few people in my district, then Tuesday the rest of my district will leave, then I leave Wednesday. So that´ll be exciting. I´m not sure what they´re going to have me do on Tuesday. They have a sheet that lists everyone that´s leaving this week. About half leave Monday, the other half Tuesday and then I´m the only one leaving Wednesday. But yeah. this time next week I´ll be on my way to San Jose. 

Been spending more time talking to native speakers this week. It´s been surprising that if they know that you´re not a native speaker they won´t talk super fast and so I´ve been generally able to hold a conversation with them in Spanish. So that´s been fun.

 It seems weird here seeing everyone we´ve known since we got here leave. Last week the district that we had a nearly identical schedule to left so it´s kind of strange having them gone. But I suppose that´s quenched by the excitement of us leaving so soon.

We finished our lessons with one of  our practice investigators and we have one left with the other, they´ve been going along a lot better, It´s a lot easier to teach lessons when you kind of understand Spanish. I feel like I am at the point where just talking Spanish all the time with people that really know Spanish is the main way that i´m going to get much better from here. I think I learn a lot whenever I talk with native speakers. 

I taught my roommates the "when you wake up in the morning and its a quarter to three, ya brush your teeth" song, So now Elder Pippert has been singing it all day.

I´ve been reading a lot In Mathew and Mosiah this week which I´ve really enjoyed reading. 

I guess not much changes at the MTC from week to week, but It feels like more things change from week to week since we´re just constantly learning new things. Anyway my daily schedule is pretty much:

5:30 I get up, shower, Get ready. 6:00 read scriptures until 6:50. Go to class, Get there about 7:00. Read scriptures until 7:30, go to breakfast, get back to class about 8:00, read scriptures until 9:00. Have language learning class until about 11:30, practice teaching until 12:30. Go to lunch, Go to Gymn, get back to class around 3:00 Have language learning class until about 5:00, practice teaching until 6:00. Go to dinner, Go to language learning in computer lab, at about 6:45. Go back to class around 8:00 practice teaching until about 8:20, Personal language study until 9:00, plan until 9:20. Get back to the house at 9:30, Then write in my journal, get ready for bed and read scriptures until 10:30. 

Huh, when I write that all out it seems repetitive but it´s really pretty fun and exciting every day. 

I´ve played a lot of ping pong this week during gym, I´m getting pretty alright at it. 

I´m getting my haircut today and weighing all my luggage to make sure its within the weight limits. I´ll probably also just read scriptures today.

Anyway, Love you guys,

Elder Jones