8/26/13

these photos are from when me and Elder marin had little ceasers for lunch today

hey everyone,

I'm feeling much better today but i'm still a little under the weather. thank you all for the emails. it's so nice to come here and read everyones email and see that everyone is doing well. I cant believe how fast time is flying by. ive been in mexico for 4 weeks now and ive been on my mission for 2 months now!!! can you believe it! my spanish is getting better and better everyday. i'm speaking more in our lessons and i'm starting to understand just a little bit more in our lessons as well. when i first got to mexico i was really hoping for a trainer that spoke fulent english so that when i needed help i could ask him. looking back i'm so glad that it didn't happen. and this is the reason why. the whole zone went on splits this past thursday and friday, and we are doing them again in a week. with the same elders. and the elder that i was put on splits with spoke fluent english. he's name is elder manzano (which in spanish is apple, i thought that was pretty fun and he made a few jokes about it that i couldn't stop laughing about.) well anyway i noticed that having a comapion that spoke fluent spanish isn't a good idea. because i relied on him to translate everything. even the few things in spanish i did know. i thank the lord for the experince but i thank Him even more that elder manzano is not my comapion because i know if he was my compaion i wouldn't know half the spanish i do now. it's sometimes very hard to comunicate with elder Marin becasue he doens't speak very much english and i don't speak very spanish but we can usally get the message a cross. and i know that we can because the lord helps in all that he can. we found 3 new investigators and i can't wait to teach them again. one of them prayed to heavenly father to prove us wrong and when he couldnt he decided to listen to our lesson and we teach him againtomorrow. i can't wait to see the gospel take effect in his life it's going to be amazing watching the turn he will have. i love you all and i love reading your emails see you next week.