Week #2 at the MTC "Thank you for letting me be a woman." What??
I am seriously so jealous of the english speaking people right now... At the mtc you are given "investigators" to teach and you have to teach them in your mission language. So far I have had to teach four lessons and it is so hard to do in spanish! I have so much id like to say, but I have no idea how to say it, and it can be really frustrating at times... but I will say that the gift of tongues is real! There have been times in my lessons where I start saying things in perfect spanish and I have no idea where they came from! The mission is pretty cool like that so far. You REALLLLY have to be in tune with the spirit when you teach lessons.
I am seriously so jealous of the english speaking people right now... At the mtc you are given "investigators" to teach and you have to teach them in your mission language. So far I have had to teach four lessons and it is so hard to do in spanish! I have so much id like to say, but I have no idea how to say it, and it can be really frustrating at times... but I will say that the gift of tongues is real! There have been times in my lessons where I start saying things in perfect spanish and I have no idea where they came from! The mission is pretty cool like that so far. You REALLLLY have to be in tune with the spirit when you teach lessons.
The CCM is pretty amazing... there
are soooo many missionaries here! It blows my mind how many people are
getting ready to serve missions right now! It can get realllllllly
exhausting here. you sit in class for at least 9 hours a day... and at
least three of those hours are completely in spanish. I am growing so
much though! My spanish is coming along really well! I have had two
spanish dreams so far.. and that is really trippy! I am starting to
forget english words already, so I cant even imagine how bad it will be
by the time I leave!
The food is the exact same as the
cannon... so i guess thats good and bad. It just gets old.. ya know? Oh
well, rice and beans for every meal in costa rica will get old too i
bet. haha
As far as funny stories........ two of the elders
that I share a room with are soooo bad at spanish. but they are both the
nicest, funniest guys! They try really hard to pray in spanish... and
usually say "I know Jesus is my Son so I am thankful" Or.... "Thank you
for letting me be a woman." I dont think we have had an apartment prayer
that we have gotten through without laughing! We all laugh so much
here! Its like we are all five year olds who dont know how to talk! We
try to only talk in spanish to eachother and it usually ends horribly...
its definitely a challenge but im enjoying every second of it!
Please
check out dear elder and send me messages from that! I like it a lot
more than email because I can hear from you all the day you send the
message and dont have to wait until wednesday to hear from you all.
The
biggest and strangest adjustment so far is calling everyone elder and
sister... The branch pres gets really annoyed when you call somebody by
something other than elder (even "you guys")
I dont know if
you will believe me, but I have woken up right at 6:30 every morning...
not that I really have a choice... but I impressed myself with that!
I
will send pictures as soon as I can! Even though today is my pday I
still have a ton to do. I am going to the temple with my district today
so ill probably be back at like 4 or 5?
OH! my companion and I
are zone leaders, so thats pretty cool. There are only 7 people in our
zone and district right now... but we should get like 8 more next week?
so thatll be a good experience to be in a position of leadership for a
little bit. Ahora hay siete personas en mi districto. Hay tres hermanas y
cuatro elders. All of the people in my district are so nice and I get
along really well with the elders that I share my room with.
ALSO tell thanks to donna warr for the cupcake! It was good! Its nice to know that somebody cares about me and send me stuff:)
one
cupcake was good... DONT send massive amounts of food. We have so much
to eat already. I told my comp that we are going to start working out
during gym time because they force so much food down our throats here.
The food you send would be much appreciated... but pleeease dont make me fat!
Ask madison about the funny story I just sent her... im too lazy to type it out again:)
I have been watching mormon messages in spanish to
help practice. This one just made a big impression on me (i found it in
english for you)
You can watch it if you want... its pretty good!
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