Well another p-day is gone. We went to immigration today to get our passports/visas which took forever. This city is HUGE! We played so much later ball today it was ridiculous. I am exhausted.
I have so many questions about how the heck I am supposed to do a mission. Its already hard and I am not even doing the real thing yet. You know that if this is the kind of stuff that I think about on a p-day, it is just a fraction of what I am thinking about during the rest of the week.
I was so tired today. Gator ball sucks, especially at the 7,000 ft of elevation here. You get winded with very little activity. More Spanish and more teaching happened today. We are going to be teaching two lessons every day next week. My district is goofing off again. I honestly wish they would just stop and focus on learning the language/gospel. It can get pretty out of hand. Whenever anyone is telling sorties, my comp’s favorite thing to do is to tell his now similar story that always ends with a super depressing twist. He has a hard life and some tough stuff to deal with. It is so hard to stay focused throughout the entire day. Regardless of all that, I love being out her and I already love the people of Mexico.
Happy Sunday! It is 9/11 today which is kind of weird since no one mentioned it here. I was thinking about 9/11 and how that date has always been important in my lifetime, but people from other countries don’t even think about it.
So I have also been thinking about patience, mine in particular. I have discovered that my patience is like a battery. If I recharge it before I run it completely out, then I am fine. Unfortunately, it is out, completely out, deader than dead, nothing left. I don[’t really know what to do about it. I have decided that no matter how impatient that I feel, I will not say anything bad about anyone. I hate focusing on myself and I feel like my comp was the Lord’s way of showing me how selfish and self-centered I really am. I have so much to change. so much! tanto, tanto, tanto. Learning the language is easy compared to this. I will just keep praying for help and work as hard as I can.
September 12, 2016
Long long day, but it was good. I am starting to get over my really bad cold that I have had for the past few days. Our district was a lot more reorient today which helped. We actually got told off by our Branch President when we got too loud during our language study. It made a difference that I am grateful for. I am trying to finish tabbing my scriptures during personal study but that always puts me behind on planning for my lessons. Language just keeps getting harder and harder. I bought some flash cards today, but words are not hard for me. It is the grammar rules that kill me. Literally, subjunctive should just not exist. Honestly, I am pretty sure that I will never figure it out. It kind of makes me feel badly that the intermediate class is almost fluent compared to us. But then I remember that I took Spanish a long time ago and never really worked that hard.
So today was interesting. Our investigator promised to stop drinking and the live the Word of Wisdom. The newest batch of missionaries arrived so I got to see Brayden Frost! It made me so happy to see a familiar face. They held the cultural festival today and that was cool with dancing and native celebrations.
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