First P-day and it was packed! We went on a temple trip, did 13 days worth of laundry, wrote to our families, and studied more Spanish. I am hoping to ge the language train rolling again tomorrow. It was awesome get to email my family and relax a little bit. But when you take time off, it just makes you want it more. I am already looking forward to next week’s p-day.
I am finding it hard to focus on just one thing all the time. I have my first lesson with a “new investigator” tomorrow. That will really test my abilities with the language. Its gonna be rough.
I am still pretty ticked that someone (a missionary/representative of Christ) stole my umbrella from the gym today.
September 3, 2016
Really a pretty good day for me overall. I feel like everyone in the district is bonding. Elder Cluff, the district leader, has been very reserved for the most part, but today he was way more open. It is our first Fast Sunday in the mission tomorrow so that will be weird for me. I am making a commitment to bear my testimony in Spanish tomorrow. Also our teacher’s birthday is this Thursday, Hermano Trejo, and our whole district is going to the store to buy out the whole place for him. Each missionary is going to give him a tie to remember us by. The sisters are decorating and we are getting our night teacher, Hermana Salazar, to help us buy a soccer ball and jersey from his favorite team. Everyone knows that our teachers are dating so that is kind of an interesting romance.
September 4, 2016 - SUNDAY
So my first true 24 hour fast from lunch yesterday until lunch today. I pretty much gorged myself at lunch today! I was so full that I couldn’t eat dinner. Fasting is an interesting and more meaningful experience here. There were three different devotionals today in addition to our meetings.
We have been told that starting tomorrow, there will be no more English spoken. It will be a quiet day for sure.
So something weird happened and I am not even sure how it started. My companion told people that I did martial arts and so they wanted me to fake spar with them. They loved it and I don’t have any idea why.
September 5, 2016
Well not much to say about today. We taught and studied. I have a few hundred words from basic core but that is about it. I can’t really put anything together. They are giving us progressively less time to teach our lessons. It was pretty uneventful except our whole dorm stayed up way too late.
September 6, 2015
LOOONG day! We taught our “investigators” again, and again they did not want to be baptized. It’s fine, they are fake anyway. But we have to teach real people every weekend now so that will be more challenging.
Some issues are developing in our district which are frustrating to me. They get into ridiculous discussions about controversial topics that don’t invite the spirit. There was this one moment in a discussion about same gender attraction when I had to step in just because I knew that my sister Maddie would be mad if I let them win the argument. Mostly, I just stay out of their immature rantings. It gets tiresome and it is not how missionaries should be acting.
It was pizza and pasta night which is always a blessing in my books. The best part of the day was when Elder D. Todd Christofferson gave a devotional to the missionaries tonight. He taught some really cool things and I felt for the first time like I really am a missionary. I mean, of course I knew it, but I felt different when an apostle of called me his companion in the work of the Lord. Like he said that the 12 view the missionaries as their companions!
September 7, 2016
Pretty good day today, except for tamales which were served for all three meals today. They were not nearly as good as the Spanish branch makes at home. Lessons were all right overall. I felt like I could speak a little better today…gift of tongues?
I think that my district has stopped regressing maturity wise, but it is not progressing either. Everyone started talking about how many people they have kissed… really? So, yeah the fact that I never went to High School did not prepare me for this level of communication. So grateful to have missed that opportunity, cuz 6 weeks will be enough. I have been trying to find a little time to play piano and that makes a ton of difference in how I feel and cope. Birthday party is today! Can’t wait.
September 8, 2016
I regret talking to my companion about martial arts. He won’t stop asking me about it, but it is kind of an innocent preoccupation that he has. He is kind of proud about it in a weird way.
The birthday celebration went very well. He was so grateful and everything turned out exactly as planned. Tomorrow we get to go to the embassy and get our passports. It seems amazing that I am at the half way point in my MTC experience. The days are just blurring together now. I also find myself thinking about things that I wished I would have done before I left just as I drift off to sleep. Biggest thing is that I wished that I would have had the time, or taken the time, to say goodbye to Mr. Lynn and thank him for everything.
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