Dang Im good! I got a whole bunch of letters done already, and the mail hasnt come yet!
well this past week was the best yet. My spanish is really starting to improve a lot now. I can speak about a lot of stuff without having to think about it, but there is still a lot to learn.... for instance, 96% more of the language. The TRC (teaching resource center) was also the best yet. We got our first commitment to "baptism". of course its fake but the lesson still went really well. The contact in spanish however didnt go so great...
I was feeling very confident going into because i knew the topic pretty well. We had to pick up a new investigator and take the bus with them on the way to church. of course this is all role play but the investigators are all return missionaries who are fluent. So we greeted her and went to the bus and sat down and started talking. i asked about her keeping her commitments to read and pray about the book of mormon, and everything went as planned. but then about 10 minutes in there was a lull in the conversasion and she decided to ask us about baptism, and why her catholic baptism wasnt good enough. I must remind you this is all in spanish. My freaking companion thought she said something completely different and said something that made him sound dumb, bless his heart. he could tell he messed up and just looked at me. this was a question i could barely answer in english, now i have to figure out how to answer it in a language im started learning three weeks ago. I somehow managed to choke out a rough explanation. I remeber saying something about the priesthood and 8 years old. Who knows...
Other than that everything went well. We said goodbye to another district this morning. This was the very rowdy district in our zone. Things form now on will probably be a lot quieter which is cool i guess. One of the elders, Elder Poyfair, who is the exact equivelent to the VanWilder of the mtc, loved elder moser and i so he gave us his "inheritance". Its literally a small mountain of little toys and candy and other random junk. so needless to say i will be able to keep myself entertained for while now. Our district is now the second oldest in our zone. thats crazy. after next week i think, we will be the oldest. It feels like we just got here. But seeing the new elders come in and how bad they are at spanish only encourages me. is that bad? probably but i dont care, i had to go throught it.
So i finally read dahlins email for last week i think. that totally blows about his companion not letting him email home. if my companion told me that i would probably break his arm, and then i still wouldnt get to email cause i would be on a plane home. but it sounds like this transfer he is in is shaping up to be sweet. My companion for some reason always wants to go to the book store to get random crap, so i just look at all the book of mormons in all the diferent languages. Japanese is the coolest to look at i think cause it looks like the matrix writing to me... also cambodian is pretty sweet.
Mom, my letter this week to you is a little bit...eh...more than a letter. so if it doesnt come on the day everyone elses comes dont freak out, it should be there the next day. Thank you to everyone who wrote me this week. it looked like my plea for more letters worked! ;) Its a good thing kyle finally worte me because i was about ready to sick the plauges of egypt on that guy...like boils and frogs status.
To all the girls, how was Disneyland? let me know.
Sorry to kim for forgetting to give her a b-day shout out in last weeks emails. Michaela too! Happy Birthday!
Elder Willis left this morning. We saw eachother sat. night and said we would say goodbye the next time we saw eachother, but we never did. sad day. bueno suerte to him.
dad, check my account, im out of cash. dont ask questions, just check it
Nothing really super profound happened this week. pretty quiet. As a missionary we are told to teach simply and powerfully. things for me are getting really simple. i would encourage all of you to do the same. its easier in life when things are simply. The gospel is amazing and serving a mission is the best decision i have ever made.
Until next week, adios.
Elder Kitterman
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