Letter #3

To the Family:

Sorry things have been so crazy busy... but i will get better at writing you i promise!! i just get so easily distracted here and then forget what i need to be doing like writing you letters. But this week went by super fast! I cant believe how time works here... Your up at 6:30 and its go go go for 16 hours straight and then you get about 30 min of time right before bed and then lights out at 1030. Then you do it all again. But the strange thing about it is that when i go to write in my journal i think to myself... Dang the days are just flying bye... and then i look at the date and think... are you kidding? i have only been here 2 weeks?!?! Everyone says thats how they feel. But we went to the TRC yesterday.. Which is the teaching center where they have volunteer investigators (that are members) come and we get to teach them the lessons. So first we start with a task and this week we had 2 door contacts and had to talk to them in spanish for 7 full minutes... We went well over on both doors. Then we went back to our first investigator and taught him the 1st lesson the restortation in english. It went really really good! My companion said that i blew him away with the way i taught and that my testimony at the end was amazingly spiritual, he felt taught himself!! :) so i felt good about our lesson we prepared. My companion is named elder larsen, and we get along really good!! we have lots of fun but keep each other in line and get the work done when we need too! He knows alot about the BOM and Bible, which i really dont and so he helps me with that, but his spanish is really strugglin so i help him with that! so its kind of a great yin/yang thing if you know what i mean! We are finally being able to hold pretty good conversations in spanish and we try to speak it as much as possible... its called SYL. Speak your language. So you say as much as you can and then when you dont know the word you say it in english and write it down then look it up later and practice it a few times. Hows everything goin? I loved your packages!! i sent bishop a letter.. did he read it in church at all? well my time is already up and so i will finish writing you more today!! I love you... thanks for everything!! i am great at laundry so dont worry about that! ttyl

To Kelsey:

Well thanks so much for the email babY!!! :) and yes its nice to see smiley faces! sometimes i wonder if your happy or just miserable all the time?!?! :/ i am sorry that i am putting you through all this. I just know that its gonna strengthen US so much for the better babe!! And when you serve yours i will be doing the exact some thing for you for ten months!! writing you as much as possible and trying to help you with any problems or things that you are struggling with! just like you do for me!! But sorry i emailed you back so early... we have a weird schedule for our P day today. It sucks because since we cant go to the temple we basically just have an extra 4 hours of study time... and thats the last thing that you wanna do on your p day is study more... you do that all week for at least 4-5 days or more... But sorry about the mail thing... The post office here closed for the whole weekend and monday and thats why my letter took so long but you should be getting another one soon and should be back on track next week!! i cant wait to here from you again honey!! ILOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) and will forever!!