Tuesday, December 26, 2017 This week we finally began to have some success. Since about the time I have arrived in my area, we had been averaging about 10 contacts per day, which really sucked because it was with people that really didn´t want to talk with us. But now things have started to change, we have been contacting a lot more and I have been speaking a lot more spanish and people can understand me!!!!!! We have now doubled and tripled the number of contacts that we now have and I can place a book of mormon almost all by myself. My story telling has gotten a lot better in spanish but I still have the problem of when I get really happy I begin to thik i English and talking in spanish becomes pretty hard. Man I thought that my area was crazy but last night we were allowed to spend the night with another companionship, and man that area is insane (but pretty awesome) the have areas that they can´t enter becasue it is muy peligroso pero cosas aquí couldn´t be better. Ca...
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December 18, 2017 dang man this week was tough, currently I am sitting in a cyber cafe using a 1988 samsung computer, I never thought that I would have this experience. I finally bought an adaptar so that I can send photos home but I no longer have a charger for my camera so that sucks. But we did have a lot of success this week. We met this lady named Olga and she is freasking fantastic, she is a person that really wants to hear what we have to say to her. I can understand and hold a decent conversation now in spanish, I still have the problem of understanding more than I know, but things are pretty cool. I saw a couple of my old ccm companions this week which was pretty awesome!!! I have been confusing the word for body and short this week, so I said at one option that I had a body companion iunstead of a short companion. I am able to have better contacts this week with people, and handing out cards are actually great motivators for us to talk more with people. Next week I can h...
December 11, 2017 Okay this week has been really really tough. Homesickness hit really hard this week, we weren´t having any success in our area and I felt that everything that we were doing wasn´t helping us. On top of all that each night I would have this terrifying dream that you all were in trouble but there was nothing that I could do about it, I had broken me. I would go to be feeling sad and I would wake up feeling even worse, during prayers I would just cry all of the time. BUT I have found my solution, whenever I am missing home or feeling really down I take five minutes to close my eyes and think about skiing (specifically the John Paul Run) and I feel 100x better. Our area right now is very hard we haven´t had much success in teaching people, we lost three investigators in 1 day (that was really tough). But we did have a new contact that shows a lot of promise. We were tracting in an area and my companion told me to pick a house. I wasn´t feeling anythi...
Monday, December 4, 2017 So they have Peanut butter here in the hood so that is good. I'm sorry for no photos this week again the computers here don't allow my camera to upload photos. Okay so this week has been intense to say the least, my companion is from Equador and he speaks some english so with my spanish and his english we are able to communicate clearly. We live in a NYC style appartment (in size only) and we are the only elders there. We go tracting in what is basically a complex but on steririods, and is a lot worse, they are called Mono Blocks. I actually really like the area oddly enough. Imagine a post apocolyptic city and that is basically where I am. Most people are very nice and very religous, it has become very difficult to teach some people when all they say is I am Cathlolic I don't need you. I can understand and have certain conversations now, I had a conversation with a lady about the different parts of the mouth you use when talking Engli...