como esta everybody! what an awesome awesome week. im just going to start of with this experience i had a few days ago. so the hardest thing the past 4 weeks have definitely been the language. but 2 days ago while teaching an investigator i didnt look at a paper or a not once. not one single time. and i pretty much talked the entire lesson. i know my spanish wasnt perfect but i really feel like i could say most of what i wanted. and the spirit was awesome. so that was a huge confidence booster. then yesterday my spanish was horrible haha. its just a bunch of ups and downs. umm oh last sunday i gave a talk in sacrament meeting on faith. i also kind of had the same experience there. things just kept coming to my mind and i just kept talking. i talked for 5 minutes and the only thing that i read was a scripture. i cant remember if i have told you about my awesome teacher. but he is so awesome. his name is luis hernandez. and guess what. he is coming to provo in a few months/ he is honestly one of my favorite people ever. his english is super awesome compared to most of the mexicans here. i showed him a picture of all of you and he wants to meet all of you. what he really wants is a wife and i told him you guys would help him out. im totally not kidding haha. ill give you more details later but mom you should really have him over for dinner one night. everyone would love him! Brandon i told him you served in argentina and he talked to me for 5 minutes about how bad your spanish is haha. so i guess ive learned the real truth here. mexican spanish is the pure spanish of the world. ive heard that from people that have been to tons of spanish speaking countries and argentina is the second worst behind spain. im really sorry you had to learn the argentine spanish but dont worry i still love you and god will still forgive you. my branch president here is soooooo awesome. he is the one white branch president. he works for the US embassy here/ every sunday he gives us what he calls the news from babylon haha. its super awesome though i love it. he gives us all the sports updates. i hope OKC and the pacers can pull it off. just kidding i dont care about that stuff anymore;) this week i really really really struggled with my companion. like really bad. i dont like talking bad about him but everything was just so hard. it got to the point where he would blink and i would want to kill him haha. there was one instance imparticular where it would have been very easy for me to get angry at him and i had to complete right to. but i just walked away and started praying harder then ive ever prayed. i just prayed for the holy ghost to stay with me and help me calm down and it honestly worked. 10 minutes later i forgot why i was even mad at him. i have been blessed over and over in little ways. and its your prayers that are keeping me going. thank you. i know there is more i just cant think of anything! we got to play sand volleyball again today. so fun. brandon i still hope you are planning on playing doubles sand volley ball in the olympics. start your training. i love you all so much.. i couldnt ask for a better family. i pray for you everyday. at least i think i do. who knows what im really saying haha. i love you. tell steele and cal i love them too:)
ps- heres some cool scriptures
isaiah 12:2
D&C 122:7-10
me and my comp puttin in work
some more volley ball :)
I love this blog and Love you. Keep up the good work.
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