So a brief summary of this week is We had our last lesson with Ricardo (our first investigator) And then this week we got bombarded with 7 new people we had to teach. One was one of our 2 teachers Brother Simonson ( AKA Carlos) 3 classmates, 2 member TRC people (like you had the missionaries over at your house for dinner if you are a member.) Those were fun. And a new investigator. Marco. He was so friendly and funny, even though he was an old man from Peru who knew hardly any English. But he was so fun and nice. We saw him at dinner and said Hi to him.
Most of the days lately have all been pretty similar. We learn about spanish, teach in spanish. Then go back to the residence halls and try to speak in spanish. All in all, I feel I'm getting much better at it. I can hold up a basic conversation in it. And teach full 30 minute lessons in Spanish. Which is amazing to me. We met Brother Simonson who is to be our second teacher along Brother cook. Both are really nice and friendly, and know what it feels like to do the same thing since they haven't been back from their missions long. So they know how to best help teach us.
So on Sunday we had church, and went on our scheduled temple walk. But since thursday- Saturday were so wet and rainy I had my umbrella in the classroom, so I took it with me on the temple walk to photobomb group photos from the background. Because I mean they'll send the pictures home, their mothers will look at them 20-30 times, then realize. Why is there a guy in the background with an umbrella on a sunny day? So yeah. The devotional talk was by a Brother Allen who is the missionary coordinator for all the missionaries, and his talk was amazing and could relate to all of us. He told some very hard truths to some of the elders. Like that one girl that a tenth of them have seen that they knew was the one. She will be married by the time they're back. So yeah. Glad I wasn't in that book. He also talked about stuff people give up to go on missions. And we all enjoyed that talk.
Monday was the hardest waking up for my room so far, we aren't sure why. And the whole day was a daze. But we taught Brother Simonson, and Tyler and Jenny ( 2 of our district and classmates)
Yesterday was probably most of our favorite day so far. So we taught the 3 TRC people I mentioned earlier, and I felt those went really well. But the reason it was so good was because of the devotional later that night, and then our district meeting about it. The devotional was by Elder Schwitzer of the 70 ( In charge of missionary health department) and he talked about commandments. It was a really good talk, like he mentioned how the 10 commandments are in 3 categories, and by severity. They have to do with our relationships with certain people. 1-4 is our relationship to God. 5 is to our parents. and 6-10 are relationship with others. And in severity. Just like Murder 6 is more severe than lying 9. Though in the district meeting. (and for those who don't know. The district is made up of around 12 people, all in the same area or in our case all learning spanish. We have one set of sisters, and 5 sets of Elders.) But in it we discussed the talk, and then went on and discussed about so many other things. Near the end while we were all discussing, Our District Leader (he is going to serve in Ecuador) went around and said what each of us needed to hear. We only had 9 out of our 12 people because some had to go to choir. But it was the most touched this group of 9 men that are only 18 and 19 year olds felt. A few of us were in tears. And I felt close to it too. It really made me feel good how he talked about me for a bit to everyone and said that I was an inspiration to him because even though I don't get the language the best, I don't give up and keep trying. And how he doesn't want to give up, and he doesn't want me to ever give up.
Anyways. A few random things.
Some people including us played a prank on others and collected cereal boxes from our breakfasts and lunches (if you get the sack breakfast and lunch compared to eating in the cafeteria.) And built up a cereal wall in front of someone's door. And today we ate in the Temple Cafeteria, and it was amazing!!!! Muy Bueno or something like that XD I don't know how to spell in spanish, just speak it.
Also to my Dad. I shared the story of you offering to help some of your employees stop smoking, by offering to kick them in the balls. Everyone got a kick out of it. And everyone likes telling stories, and they really like all my Dairy Queen Stories.
Attached below are a few pictures.
* 2 of them are the cereal prank. Very fun.
* one day I threw away some trash in the bathroom and saw something. Grabbed it, and found "The cursed sword of ya motha!" But then someone later said it was theirs, so I gave it back. Even though they threw it away. You all should send me a replacement sword of ya motha.
* One of Ryker (Elder Meyer) and I at the Temple
* One of Ryker (Elder Meyer) and I at the Temple
* And then one morning we decided to study in our residence, and like half the district fell asleep on the floor in the morning. So I have plenty of pictures of that.
* And when it rained, there was snow on the mountains. So I enjoyed that.
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