Monday, March 13, 2017

Forgetting English

K so I'm at the point now where I think and dream in Spanish and it's actually not good, this lady asked me to give her a blessing but she wanted it in English and that was like the hardest thing I've done so far. I hope my next companion is a North American cause I'm legit scared to lose my English, I just don't use it at all. 

This week flew by, nothing spectacular happened but I'm learning a lot. Not having a phone is probably the best thing ever, so many people are just looking down and not looking up at the world, like how are you supposed to meet awesome people if you have your head down. What if your future wife just walked by and you didn't even see her like cmon talk to people. Recently I've been frustrated because the people in Ttio are not friendly at all. You just say good morning to someone and they give you a dirty look, but we're staying positive, the bishop is the coolest dude ever, this last Sunday in the ward counsel meeting some people got upset and mad at us only because there aren't as many baptisms as there used to be, but the bishop told us not to ever ever worry, we are instruments in the Lord's work, we don't determine the amount of baptisms, the people have free agency, all we can do is work hard and invite people to come to Christ. I will never ever care about the amount of baptisms I have, you could work your butt off for 2 years and not have a single one, it just depends on the people.  I hope to get called to every single area throughout my mission, transfers are this Monday! Our mission has Macchu Picchu, the jungles of Puerto Maldonaldo, tropical paradise of Quillabamba, the highest lake in the world Lago Titticaca and Puno, and the mountains of Cusco. Pretty sweet.

 We found a guy named Gabriel Acunya while we were contacting, that day was insanely frustrating and I was just not loving the people of Ttio that day, but Gabriel is a very close friend now, we wants to learn more about the gospel and just wants to talk with us all the time, he's like 22 years old and probably the nicest guy in all of Cusco. Nobody ever just accepts us like he did, he doesn't hide anything and is super honest with us and told us he wants to change his life for good. We brought him to church this Sunday and he loved it, so we'll be visiting with him a lot this week.

 I hope you all are doing well, just heard a bunch of people got called on missions so congrats!!! And if you're thinking about going just go!!!  I doubt there is any program or university or anything that teaches what the mission teaches. For me, it's been insanely humbling, washing my clothes by hand every week, eating rice and chicken every dang meal, it's the best. I've met so many awesome people and learned so much its ridiculous, there's no words for it. Have a good week everyone!!!


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