The Adventure Begins!

 

Life is crazy!! So basically the first day was a whirlwind. Actually... basically every day feels like it's all one day. The other Hermanas in our district are Hermana Amendola, my companion, and Hermanas Glauser and Auten. They're all so awesome.  Hermana Amendola is pretty fantabulous though. She's part Italian and absolutely gorgeous. We get along really well. She has the most beautiful voice ever. I try to not be jealous. XD

We like to quote the same movies and stuff, so it's super fun. We also learn a lot from each other during companion study. She has a wonderful testimony of the gospel. The Elders in our group are Elder Tanner, Elder Sharkey, Elder Dougal, Elder Mason, Elder Bosse (The District Leader and only foreigner, an Australian), Elder Garcia, Elder Lovell, and Elder Staten. (Elder Bosse looks a bit like Thomas Cooper mixed with Paul. It's kinda weird.) We've all had varying degrees of Spanish lessons, so it's interesting that way. Hermana Amendola is completely new to Spanish, but she's doing amazingly well. She's giving prayers and bearing her testimony and everything. I'm incredibly impressed.

We've taught a few lessons so far. Three, to be specific. Our Progressing Investigator is Jason. He's from Chile and his wife is still over there. She works at a supermarket. Jason is a lawyer. In our first lesson we just basically talked to him a bit and then taught him about prayer and then closed with prayer and left. The next lesson we taught him about...something. It's escaping me for the moment. But at the end we got him to pray with us. Oh yeah! We taught him about the Apostasy and the Restoration/First Vision :) The third lesson was just yesterday, and we told him all about the Book of Mormon, and challenged him to read it and pray about it. Tomorrow is our next lesson with him, and we're planning on committing him to be baptized. :) Oh, and did I mention that these lessons are all in Spanish?!?!?!

Our District is kinda crazy. The Elders get really distracted and start talking about Batman and Superman and Star Wars and stuff. It's a little frustrating sometimes, and we have to remind them to focus a lot. I hope if we respect them more then they will step up to it. They're a lot of fun, though. We're pretty good at helping each other with Spanish and such.

So our teacher is Hermano Wald. He looked super familiar and it took me forever to figure out why, until like 2 days ago. He looks kinda like Luke Skywalker...mixed with Weslin. XD Definitely weird. It's like I died and turned into a Roman. (Ask Lang.) Anyway, he's super nice and very patient with all of us and our craziness. He actually made a rule that the Elders have to leave the room during additional study time so that they won't distract everyone so much. XD He's got a wonderful testimony and is very willing to share it with us. It's super awesome.

Food here is okay. There's a salad bar, and that usually has delicious salads, so if all else fails, I just eat that. I've been using the elliptical a bit. It's all new to me, but it's okay. I'm surviving. It's hard and exhausting but today we went to the temple and it was amazing. Oh ps in our lesson with Jason this last time I told the story about 2 Ne 1:15 and I felt the Spirit and totally almost started crying. It was super cool. :)