I haven't gotten any letters yet and the apprehension is killing me, but it's ok. :) You probably shouldn't send letters coming up pretty soon because I might leave before I get them. There are some people who have to wait for 4 weeks until they get theirs.
I'm sleeping great! Everything is fine! We went to the temple visitors center today. :) It was so awesome and sweet. I got some legit mexican stuff for birthdays or just whenever. I've decided my companion is just like that one elder something we had who talked about books and video games all day. His name started with a W I think. Anyway he's so much like him so that gives you some idea. He picks his nose and eats it. The other people in my district have told me to talk to him about it but I don't know if I can. might have to though if it gets worse.
Spanish is good. So the language is tough. I can kinda talk with natives though very slowly and with bad grammar and everything. The whole experience is just really intense. The investigator thing is so complicated. We teach two pretend ones who are actually our teachers and then we do this weird thing with volunteers.
My teachers are very different. My morning teacher Hermano Hernandez is really nice and knows a lot of english, which is good. He's not married and 26. He's going to LDS Business College soonish I think. My other one is Hermano Sanchez and he's like 21 and married. He is probably rich, we think, and doesn't know as much english so he really pushes us to learn the stuff.
Ask Mike about KD. :) And we added some hashtags DFD BRB. DFD stands for diarrhea for days and then be right back. It's so funny. :) Go inside jokes! I have not suffered from KD though. :) Just to let you know.
Sundays are the days to live for though. Best day of the week by far! We have to prepare a talk every Sunday and they randomly pick the speakers. I haven't had to give a talk yet but it'll come soon I think. :) I'm ready! There are lots of meetings but at the end of the day we have a devotional by apostles which are so good! They aren't giving any more because it's July or something, but they're playing recorded ones. Then we watch a movie after that and I love it all so much!
We've decided this place is like spiritual prison. 12 foot walls with barbed wire and it just kinda drains you. Then when we get out of here we'll be in spiritual paradise! Yay! Everything is so hard and intense but we have fun still as much as we can. It's hard to keep from getting discouraged but its important to be patient! I'm so ready and excited to get out of here though.
Yeah the food is fine! I'm getting used to it but there's a stomach virus going on here. We can't even shake hands or anything anymore.
It's fun to workout in the morning by myself. Nice peaceful time to myself. Pretty much the only time I have so I enjoy it the best I can. I went running with some people in my district and that was so much fun! I raced them in a sprint and destroyed them. :) Kinda fun. Elder Cahoon is about as fast as I am with Cross Country and Elder Gardner is a little slower, but still really close. Elder Gardner is part of the team who won state for Cross Country so that's kinda fun to talk running with those two. :)
I hope you have fun with Trek! It's going to be so awesome! I loved it.
That sounds like so much fun with the park and the reservoir. :) Too bad you didn't catch anything. Crawdads aren't very good or fun anyway though.
Have fun with the reunion stuff! Yeah I know service is really great to help feel better and everything.
I'm way excited to send some pesos to you guys. :) Especially Dad. I'll save my letters and send them one at a time so it's kinda like I sent them all when I wanted to. :)
I am way over homesickness now,
just to let you know. I still think about you guys but it's not sad anymore. I'm just happy we are a family and that I can help bring others to this gospel so they can be as happy as we are! :) I'm writing in my journal every night so maybe when I fill it up I'll send it to you guys. That would be fun. Anyway, bye! Talk to you guys next week! :) Stay happy and eat lots of ice cream! (the ice cream here by the way I've named celestial ice cream. It's so good...)
Love you! I'll email next week! :)
(I think this is at the Mexico temple visitors center)
(The missionary in the center is wearing Brandon's glasses so he looks like Brandon, but Brandon must be taking the picture.)
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