August 11, 2014

Dear Family,

So, I love the studying!  I can't remember if I said but there is 2 hours for companion studying which is way too much but one hour for everything else almost seems like not enough time.  I am starting to read out loud from the spanish Book of Mormon and it's really helping me.  I have heard from this promise from President Hinckley about if we read the Book of Mormon in our mission language once out loud we will be fluent and twice to remember it forever.  I sure need that but it takes a long time because I'm circling the words I don't know and looking them up.  I can see improvements every day though.  

I email my mission president once a week but I don't really hear anything from him.  It seems like I get training from him with the zone once every two transfers but I don't really know yet...

We actually got 2 new investigators this week!  One of them I don't really know because I was on exchanges (my first one) with another companion in my district named Elder Creasey who is really cool. :)  It was a really fun and good experience to do that.  And the other is called Jose and he's into old cars and reminds me kinda of Grandpa Zimmerman. :)  He's a fun guy and fixes up old cars and makes them look REALLY nice.  He also has a tattoo of Grumpy the Dwarf so that just makes him so much cooler.

We are in a kinda motel apartment thing.  It's only us here.  I fix whatever I have, usually sandwiches though.  That jam you sent was pretty great. :)  I go to a spanish branch and there are 10 total spanish missionaries including me who work in the ward.  It's a lot and we cover a lot of ground each.  I wear short sleeved shirt while tracting and teaching.  Only suits on Sundays during church.  I speak english all the time except for when teaching or talking to members or something.

Love you!

Elder Passey