January 16, 2017

bon dias (good day)

Im doing ok. If i just smother myself with my work i wont have time to be sad.... Thats my Standing right now 

Ive been out of school for almost a year, and a month after leaving for my mission, i really started to miss getting an education. So im so stoked that i get to take one of the coolest classes ever! I knew it was going to be hard... but man is it hard! by far one of the hardest classes ive ever taken in my life!!! The questions aren't hard. But nothing is english. NOTHING IS ENGLISH. So i dont know how to respond to anything! Good thing my companion can speak spanish, so we kinda get by?

If you were wondering if they kinda let up on you after the first day? THEY DO NOT! NO ENGLISH EVER!!!!!! its bassically just a big game of guessing what hes doing with his hands.....I kinda regret not taking a language in high school. Everyone has taken one or 2 languages, and they still have trouble. Then there is me. I suck.

My compainion is just like Aj. kinda dorkey but is smart and acts just like him. so i know how to deal with him. I told him to figure out how many seconds are in my mission without using paper to write on.... this will typically give me 15 min to take a nap. but we both have no idea whats going on half the time. so we kinda get by, by speaking the language we do know to people, so they dont talk to us.

My group is small. we all arrived the same day. Theres 6 of us. 2 boys and 4 girls. girls are crazy good at this language and totally crush me when talking. but i just call them abacxy! haha i told them! But the only spot that i do better then anyone else is in teaching. Thanks dad! i kinda have this rule of thumb, if the girls start to cry its ok, if the boys start to cry. Im totally doing good then!

the hard part is giving lessions in the language. we already have to teach "investigators" in our language... its bad. im actually having a follow up with them tomorrow and i cant have notes. but ive yet to memorize much of anything that would help me.

in about 3 days we will be the the oldest in our branch cuz everone is being shipped out.... so were the big bad dogs now... i think?

Ive never been home sick. not like this. normally i can still talk to people. so its kinda hard. im so use to having 3 missed phone calls from dad. 15 snapchats from mom. and a group chat that i muted. 

its funny cuz now im not only missing everything but i miss all the things that i use to hate!

i kinda understand why we cant talk to people or do much. we have to focus on the work were doing and leave behind all worldly things behind....But family i feel like i should be aloud to miss?

The Dear johns were great! cuz we can check our mailboxes but not so much email cuz were not a tech mission? so i think dear john gets to me the day off if you send it in the morning?

I miss and love all of you.

p.s. i walk around in my leather jacket cuz it smells like home, and chicken nugget in my pocket

Send everyones emails and phone numbers so i can right them down;.

send me pictures and videos and everything!