Week Two

Its great to hear where Reagan, Ike and Nate are going. its going to be awesome for them! the MTC is starting to go faster which is a good thing and a bad. its good because classes were so long before and it took forever for the day to go by. its bad because i need to learn a lot more Spanish before i go. its crazy how much my Spanish has grown. i was asked to give a prayer in one of our devotionals on Sunday in front of all the guy missionaries here. which we only had about 100 missionaries. but still it was still a little scary. i thought i was going to mess up or forget some words but i did just fine. it wasn't super long but it wasn't a short little prayer. it is awesome watching devotionals every Sunday and seeing these old devotionals from like 2008 at the Provo MTC but they still are super powerful and the apostles are amazing speakers. i will be in here for the next general conference and i cant wait to see how much more i will get out of this general conference then what i usually get out of them. i just know the longer i am on my mission the hotter my wife will be! haha 

     like i told dad, our roommates just left but we will get new ones tomorrow. and i know i am emailing on Tuesday today and no i'm not sneaking on the computer to email you today but today is our p-day this week. and that means it will feel like forever until our next email because we go back to Wednesday p-days.

     i cant believe its already been two weeks though! its crazy how fast time flies. i cant wait to be in the mission field and just be able to speak Spanish and really see the difference i can make in peoples lives. the Latinos that just left had names for some of the white people here and the names they called some of the people in my district was, elder buzz lightyear, elder woody, elder john cena, elder dawson was estruden which i guess is the catepillar off of bugs life and then i was called elder dumbo. haha its funny to see how that the Latino elders have no sense of their words being mean. it just comes to them and they say it like its no big deal.

     also, this week we have two new investigators; which is Mario Lopez and Ana. they are fake of course but its cool trying to use every Spanish word i know to testify and share a lesson with them. 

and i don't know if i told you guys last week but we had an elder get sent home for punching his companion in the face. ya.. just punched him in the face because he was annoyed of him and because i guess he got him mad about him needing to try harder to learn the Spanish.

     i am sending  two letters tomorrow morning and i hope it doesn't take forever for them to get to you guys and i guess when we are in the MTC we cant send items home. which sucks because i have this wallet for Chace that i wanted to send home which is pretty sick because it looks like a 100 quetzal bill, but i will send that when i get out into the mission. 

     its awesome that Blake is taking off so much time! just tell him to keep working hard and work on technique and he will drop even more time in his events. hows the Gerken family doing?

     And i forgot to respond to the question about goals last week. so my goals are to be able to speak and give a talk in sacrament meeting here before i leave with out reading it straight from my paper and also to learn 10 new Spanish words a day which is going pretty good. and i would like you guys to learn Spanish so when i call you guys for Christmas we can speak a little Spanish. the best way to learn Spanish is using flash cards. i learned 25 new words in 20 minutes using flashcards. just make sure to review them like 5 times the first day and it will just stick in your head. 

     Tell grandpa how much i love him and to keep trying hard to lose the weight so he can get put back on the priority heart transplant list. 

      it rains almost a total of 16 hours here a day and it almost always rains when we are outside playing basketball or volleyball. one second it could not be raining then the next you are drenched. but on the bright side, my shoe drier works! it dries my shoes in like 3 hours and my shoes are soaking wet.

well i got to go! love you guys and i want to let you know that you are in my prayers every day. and ask Chace why he didn't email me this week! i want to know if my bed is comfortable! haha well bye and talk to you next week! love you guys!!! only 102 more weeks!