1-30- 2013

                   


               Time here is flying by.  This week has to be one of the fastest of my
life!  Its crazy to think that I only have three more weeks here.  At
this point I feel like Im ready language wise, but I need to be better
at teaching.  My language going great!  I can easily hold my own in a
conversation.  Especially if it is about the gospel.  Speaking of
teaching,  I have my first baptism tomorrow!! Well kind of. While in
the MTC we have fake investigators that we teach every day.  One of
mine is getting baptized tomorrow.  I guess thats kind of Cool.  It is
kind of funny when that is basically the most exciting thing of my
week.
              Other than that, I finished the Book of Mormon yesterday.  It
took me 38 days.  Its kind of funny reading it on a mission, because
every scripture has to do with missionary work.  In the last 2 days I
have read 42 chapters so I could utilize Moroni's promise in the temple
today... Yup its still true haha.  I got 7 dearelders on monday it was
awesome!! I got more than the rest of my district combined.  It is soo
good to hear from everyone :)  Thanks for sending Austins letter, im
glad he's doing great.  It seems like he left right before me, but I
guess its been like 8 months.  One of the dearelders took 2 weeks to
get here.  I guess that's just how it will be now.  I was spoiled in
 Provo.  If you could send me Austins, Kelsies, and Ryans Adresses
through dearelder that would be great! I want to write them but I don't
have their addresses.  I also wrote Nathan and Abbie last wednesday,
so well see how long those take.  Something else that Id love whenever
you send another package is a family photo.  I love all the ones I
have, but I don't have any with the 6 of us.  The Latinos love to look
at pictures of our families.
             This week we also got a bunch of new
Nortes ( United statesians). Four of them came from the MTC in Provo
and joined our district which made it so it had to split.  We lost two
of the four of us that were in the other MTC together.  It was a
little sad, but now it is a lot easier to speak more spanish.  Before
we had like 12 people that were together that could speak english
better now we only have 8.  Something else that has helped my spanish
was Sunday when we had a latino companion for the day.  It was pretty
cool.  My spanish has never been better.  I was able to speak pretty
close to full speed. I can't wait until I am fluent and can do it
without thinking.  As it is right now sometimes I catch myself writing
in my journal in Spanish.

 Anyways things here are going well.  It
sounds like things at home are great.  I love and miss you all!!