Hola mi amigos y mi amigas!
This has been a good week! I met a guy at
Immigration named Edwardo, he's from Ecuador, I talked to him a little
and I think we both understood each other, and he's a native! Make
sure you focus on what you're supposed to be doing, one of the Elders
fell asleep during language study on the computer, and the other
Elders had headsets and started walkie talkieing back and forth to
wake him up, but then our maestro came and whipped the backs of the
chairs of the talking Elders, but it was unusual and highly hilarious.
Meant as a get back on focus joke. You should all focus on being good
and coming closer to Christ! :D
Playing soccer is fun, the Latinos are
way serious about it though, I managed to block 5 goals against a
mixed team on Saturday! And they made less than 3. Also, remember the
language you and your investigators are speaking... on our last visit
with Stalin we knocked on the door and then I heard him call out,
"come on in!" So I just walked on in, he was slightly confused, but we
taught a good lesson. Then afterwards my comanionero Elder Boelter
reminded me that he doesn't speak Ingles, and had actually said,
"quien es?" Oops...
Go study the armor of God, and then wear it! I'm
learning a little about it and it's really good stuff to have. Then on
Monday we were learning how to tell someone what to do when you pray,
I was asked to say it, (not unusual to pick someone) okay, cruzer las
brazos, bajer la cabeza y crear sus hijos. Es simple! Do not say that
when explaining prayer... Say cerrer sus ojos. That's the right one...
Yeah... But then later I ran for 30 minutes around the soccer field
with just a couple breaks, hymns are awesome and invigorate you! And
Elder Bednar gave a devo a while back that we watched, one cool point
is that large plate notes are what the speaker says exactly. Small
plate notes are what the spirit tells you. Keep that one in mind.
Fun
saying, "¿Cómo te llama, bonito llama?" But that's for Hermanas. Himno
159 is really cool sounding and amazing! And when we were first
exchanging English and Spanish at meals one Elder tried to have the
Latinos say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious... They were confused.
And sorry that these thoughts are totally random, I just type as it
comes, plus the enter key doesn't exist here apparently.
Also, last
week I locked my keys in my closet, good thing the janitors have big
key rings. Y el don de lenguas es real, pero, es necesite por usted a
hablar Espanol a tengo esta. For preparing missionaries especially,
but anyone really, it's a lot easier to memorize stuff in a foreign
language when you know it in your own before hand, i.e First Vision,
Your Purpose, Baptismal Invitation, etc... And if you want to learn a
language, read the Book of Mormon in that language, you'll have it
down by the time you finish Moroni.
That's pretty much it this week,
but keep being amazing and good, strengthen your testimony and
conversion and keep praying and reading the BOM! Hasta Luego!
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