Jan 18, 2010

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We made a schedule for the members to have us over for dinner, and they are just super nice. There´s one lady here who is awesome, we ate at her house yesterday, she made us an Andalucia stew. It was really good, and then we had flan, this kind of flan with pine apple. Today for p-day we went to San Fernando and played futból on a field with artificial grass, the whole zone was there and it was super fun, the British elders brought a rugby ball, and we played that too. By the end of my mission I`m gonna be super good at soccer I think, haha. We don´t have too many really solid investigators right now, we have one lady from Romania who has come to church for the last month and a half, so with her it only seems like a matter of time. We have an 18 year old who is really interested in God and understanding it all, so we hope he will put the Book of Mormon to the test. We do a lot of contacts in the street, and get rejected a lot! But this past week we had two different contacts with two different guys who really stopped and listened, and it´s made me realize that I gotta look at every person the same, and I shouldn´t get discouraged, because the chosen are out there.

Jan 11 2010

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We got the ensigns with the general conference talks so we´re reading them, my tongue is getting better and better at speaking in spanish, reading out loud has helped a lot, after reading for a long time my tongue is seriously tired. It´s crazy, I´m always listening, and trying to imitate them, when they talk a lot of times I´ll watch their mouths to see how it´s done. The tongue is really active, you kind of have to relax it to talk as fast as they do.
This week I learned that if I have a thought I need to express it, becuase if my companion has the same thought, then chances are that it´s the spirit. We both had the thought to go see this lady who lost her brother 2 weeks ago in a jail in peru from some crazy disease, and we went there, and her cousins 22 year old son died the day before in an accident, so we were able to talk to her and try and help her understand the plan of salvation a little better. So I´m learning little by little how to trust in the spirit. So everything is great, I bought some really strong cheeze someone told me was good, and it was amazing. I´m just so happy I can be out here, the mission is honestly like a time machine, I get two years to take a break from the world and just grow and grow, thanks for everything, this is awesome.

The New Year

~ We had interviews with the president on saturday and he said that we would all most likely be staying in Jerez. They do transfers by phone the Saturday night before people have to move which is usually on a Wednesday. If my comp stays this will be his last transfer, and I´ll have the privilege of killing "The General", that´s what everyone calls him cause he was a zone leader for a long time and and A.P. for six transfers. He´s such a good example, I´ve heard that two transfers before a missionary goes home a lot of times missionaries don´t work as hard, but he´s not like that at all, if anything he´s more motivated because he knows his time here is short.
So I got a christmas letters from Aunt Debbie, Aunt Nancy, and Aunt Lynn, so tell them thanks! and a christmas card from the Perrys in our ward so tell them thanks too. I also got a package from the Laurels in our ward, with cards from the Evans, Sister Adamsen, and the Holleys, give them all a lot of thanks please too! They gave me some candy bars, some awesome toiletrys from Bath and Body Works, a super cool tie, SUPER cool socks that i can´t wait to wear when we play soccer, and a sweet christmas C.D. it was a pleasant surprise.
We had interviews on Saturday, the President and Sister Mellor are awesome, they are really nice. Well 2010 is going to be amazing! I´m learning every day and it´s awesome, when I read (the Scriptures) I can understand spanish really good, and with listening to them too. Today I was reading the story of Ammon, and I want to be like him, cause the first time the flocks were scattered instead of wasting time complaining he saw what needed to be done, and simply did it. I want to be automatically righteous, automatically productive and efficient, automatically helpful, when I have the good thought that I should do something i´m just going to do it. thanks for every thing!!!