How was the shopping trip?
The one to the market was pretty good I didn’t buy anything; it wasn’t
as big of a market as I wished it would be. I just bought stuff from the people
who come to the CCM every other week and sell things, which happens to be cheaper
than in the market. I have matching scripture cases and I also
spent the rest of my quetzals on stuff at the Centro de Distribucion.
I feel pretty safe in Guatemala, although it was kind of weird going
to Wendy’s and having a gate to get to the parking lot. They had a foosball
table at Wendy’s. It was good, I had a
baconator and a large fry and a medium frosty and a large Fanta. My comp
spilled his Fanta all over his shirt and dropped his frosty because he was
trying to tuck in his tie. They have the BEST LAW EVER; they have to have
your order to you in less than three minutes at all chain fast food
restaurants. Even with 100 of us at Wendy’s still fewer than 3 minutes. I even
ordered all by my self in Spanish, that’s a different experience. You have a lot more like that coming real
soon. Yes its not that bad, it’s easy in
present and future tenses but I am terrible at past tense imperfect and
preterite.
How is the weather this week?
It has been nice, one day while we were playing volleyball; it laid down
a couple inches of water my shoes were soaking. But it was fun
Did you watch General Conference in English or Spanish? In English it was very long because the
chairs we have aren’t very confortable.
I sat on the front row because if you sit any farther back you don’t
have any legroom. What was your
favorite talk about? I don’t remember
like usual, but I took over 30 pages of notes and unlike many I didn’t fall
asleep. I liked a talk from someone with a really weird name but I don’t have my
notes with me to tell you.
When you switched companions did you have to move bunks? I moved, if I let him move he would have
taken days. I moved in all of seven minutes. Elder H. looks cool. Usually, there was one day that we were
running a little late in the morning and he put his pants on over his exercise
shorts and wore them for the day until we went to the bathroom and he realized
he was still wearing the shorts, that was the funniest thing this week. He
likes to snowmobile and motorbike so I can do that with him when we get back. We were
just messing around in those pictures; my companion always makes a funny
face.
There are 5 elders going to my mission, 4 Latinos and me. They are cool but none of them speak any English.
Are you the tallest one going to Honduras?
Ooh by far. Most of the Latino elders that are going there are way
short. I probably fly out at like 5 in the morning, I think or earlier. I can
call you, but I don’t know if I want to, that morning in the airport. On Saturday and Sunday I will pack. I
unpacked about half of my stuff but it will be really easy to pack the rest I have
to be packed by 8 o’clock on Monday morning to weigh my suitcases. Of
course I will sing on Sunday night. (This coming from the person who hates to
sing)
You’re going to learn to speak Spanish really well. Sure, I understand most of it but I can’t
speak that much, more like I choose not to, but I won’t have a choice in a week. I’m sure I will be fine; I will probably even
be speaking perfect Spanish by then. Who knows where I will be at though we will
see next Wednesday! All I can say about
how Spanish is going, I have it a lot easier than Korbin and Ryan who are
speaking it in the states where most people speak English. I love to talk with
the Latinos at lunch and dinner. I usually sit with the guys going to my
mission. When I talk, its good, but
sometimes I don’t even want to. I understand
what they’re saying if they talk loud and a hair slower. It seems like the
Spanish spoken from people from South America such as Peru and Ecuador is the
easiest to understand.
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What did you have to wear? We
could wear whatever we wanted. The
district chose sweaters. I wasn’t
excited, one of the guys brought several of them so he loaned me one. Yeah that’s the first and last time I will
have to wear a sweater.
I don’t have that much to say about the ccm maybe after a while in
the field I will have some amazing stories. I know that I will be able to
get through anything and I am excited to have the new challenges of the
field.
Love you all
Audios
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