It’s going great here the spirit is very strong. Everyone is always happy here because of it. Class is going great, I learned a lot of Spanish but I’ve still got a long way to go. I can really tell that the gift of tongues is working. Me and my new companion Elder Dotson are getting a long well. We’ve taught the first lesson which is the Restoration about six times and we are doing pretty good. But there’s always room for improvement. Now we just started working on the Plan of Salvation lesson. The second lesson. After we teach this lesson for a couple weeks then we’ll have to teach the first lesson in Spanish.
I’m the District Leader now Elder Pilj, and our old District Leader Elder Tanner left yesterday to go to the Guatemala MTC. They are pretty excited. He was a good DL. But I didn’t think I would qualify for the DL because I’m not a scriptorian or anything of that matter really. But I know it will help me grow and become a better disciple of Jesus Christ. On the 15th we had Brother Pearson of the 70 or something speak to us at the devotional. He was a good speaker. He spoke very boldly, and put us all in our place. He told us we needed to forget ourselves and become a disciple of Christ. He encouraged us to be and extraordinary missionary, not an ordinary missionary. He said people won’t remember ordinary missionaries. He also told us to not act like a missionary, not to do missionary things if that makes sense. He told us to do stuff that a disciple of Christ would do. We needed to be the message. One of the other things he said was that if you have a problem, to look in the mirror and you’ll see the problem. He was a great speaker one of the best I heard by far. It showed me I have a lot of stuff to work on.
On our first week here our Branch Pres, Pres. Nelson told us what is the greatest gift that we have. And it was charity. He challenged us to pray for charity. I have prayed for it every night, and day. Because if you have charity towards others they will see that and want to listen to you. Charity also encompasses lots of other things like love, compassion, meekness, long suffering, kindness. I am really working hard to bring this into my life as being a disciple of Jesus Christ. It may take a while but I know that it is something we must all have. Pres Eyring said that it took him 2 years to accomplish this, I sure hope it doesn’t take that long but I know it will come through faith.
I’ve been playing basketball at gym time then I’ll go run a mile and lift weights or something. They have like a little track up above that takes 10 laps to equal a mile but usually I just play basketball. Our whole zone is pretty good. We have one guy that can shoot 3’s from downtown and make them all the time and there’s another guy who has good ball handling skills, and crosses you up then drives to the hoop every time. He’s really good. And he can dunk pretty much and he’s like 5’ 10”.
The food is pretty good. A lot of the times I’ll eat a salad that they make. They are pretty good but they make all kinds of stuff. On Sunday’s and Wednesday’s are ice cream days. Wednesday is the day they bring out the good ice cream when all the new missionaries come. They have this one kind called graham canyon. It tastes like graham crackers and it has some chocolate candy in it. They I put a big scoop of hot fudge on it. But on Sunday they only have vanilla, chocolate and strawberry but they have a bunch of m&m’s, oreos, brownies and hot fudge and marshmallow you can put on it it’s pretty good. My roommates give me a hard time when I wear my Kobe shirt but it’s all out of fun.
It’s kind of weird weather one day it’s snowing and cold and the next couple of days its like low 50’s high 40’s. One time we got done planning at 9:30 pm and me and Elder Dotson walked outside and it was like a crazy blizzard. So we ran to our dorms. It was cool I’ve never seen it snow before.
Every Sunday after sacrament at 2:45 we do a Temple walk I have some pictures and we just hang out for like an hour or so it’s pretty cool. Our dorm is right next to the cafeteria so that’s pretty cool but our classroom is kinda far and the gym.
On Tuesdays in the morning we have service. Sometimes we vacuum a couple of floors, but one time me and Elder Cooper had to do bathrooms. It was alright but it was cramped and we had to spray some stainless steel cleaner and we got kinda of light headed. On that day and on Friday we have gym in the morning we go to the side place and get breakfast. We get to choose 4 items they have all kinds of soda, chocolate milk, milk, cereal, bagels, donuts, and fruit. I usually get a lemonade, apple & banana & bagel. But if I’m feelin it I’ll get a milk and cereal or chocolate milk and cereal.
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