The First of Many!!

After checking my email NON STOP for one week and thinking I was going to have a breakdown, I FINALLY got his letter... I'm still not sure what day he'll email on.  I'm guessing Tuesday's ;) I guess we will see!! Anyway... I LOVE how happy he sounds!  It's contagious!  And he's obviously still the same ol' Al :).  Enjoy...

 

 

 

Que paso Familia!! (What´s up family)

 

I love it down here!! It is amazing here in mexico, if only everyone could see where I am staying it's beautiful. I'm really enjoying my time here, but I am staying really busy!! Everyday is a full schedule filled with nothing but investigators, language study, and just getting to know everyone.

The language is tough! I only have so much time to learn it before I go out into the field, but I've learned more then I could ever imagine.

 

When we first arrived here it was 11:30 at night because we had a 5 hour overlay in L.A. We didn´t get to go to phoenix because there was a delay there. (There is something about me and problems with airports I guess). But thankfully we got here safely. I was a little worried we wouldn't make it. So all is well!

 

So my companion's name is Elder Nye and he got called to be district leader in our district the first 2 days we were here, and I am the senior companion so we really don't know who is in control over the other, haha. Elder Nye is hilarious!! He is such a goof! But we get along really well. I help him with the language a lot because he took japanese in highschool, and luckily i took spanish in highschool. He works really hard though, and does the best he can to help our district. He does exactly what a district leader does, and leads by example. I look up to him a lot.

 

The hardest thing here is the language, our teacher is awesome though. And being able to prepare our lessons for investigators IN SPANISH is hard too. Right now we are teaching a guy named Ulisses. Our first lesson with him was a total failure!! Hahahaha but it only got better. Our second lesson with him went well, we taught him only half of the restoration, because we ran out of time before we could finish our lesson because we had to go to our next class. Our third lesson was awesome! We taught him the rest of the restoration, and how it's important that we read and pray about the book of mormon with a sincere heart and real intent. Then we told him it's important to have a testimony of the restoration, and to ask and pray to know if Joseph Smith was a true prophet. He asked what baptism was and we told him. Then FINALLY he asked what he had to do to be baptized. Elder Nye and I felt such relief to here that. So of course we are going to teach him what he can do to be baptized.

 

We got the chance to go to the mexico city temple today!!! It is awesome there, one of the coolest temples I´ve ever seen. I'll have to send you pictures of it as soon as i can

 

Well I got to go, I have to go to another class to be to. Love you all!! Tell everyone Hi for me. Love your main Elder, Big Al

 

P.S. If you could all do me a kind favor and send me some american food, that would be very generous haha ;) The mexican food is already getting old, and one of the elders in our house had diaherra for about 3 or 4 days haha.