Hey Mom! :)
I really like your quote idea! They're super cool! :) I want to check out those talks and scriptures now. It's really good to get them because this past week was really hard... No success and we lost an investigator. Elder Petersen even said it was a really hard week and he hadn't had one like it for a long time so yeah... It's been rough but I have some good stuff to tell about this week! I'll explain later though.
That's awesome people are leaving on their missions! I thought they already left though! Well sounds fun. :) Sounds like the talks were really good and fun to see some people go to those. It feels really weird not to be going to school. People are starting college today but California’s other school stuff like high school and elementary school doesn't start till September. Makes it seem weird to me because I don't have to be stressing about school this year or next year!
I wondered when Cross Country started! I hope they have a good season! No falling off stages and stuff!
So food is good. I bought a whole bunch last week so I'm good. I don't mind cooking my own stuff. It's usually the same every day so it gets kinda old but its all good. When we eat at member's houses that's kind of an off and on good experience. Sometimes it's really not so good but the past couple times have been incredible! It was the first day I didn't get chicken rice and beans! Instead we got chicken, mashed potatoes, and coleslaw. Kinda funny story with that is we were all pretty full and not feeling like eating a whole lot before dinner so when we sat down she brings out this bowl of lentil soup which we all thought was just going to be what it was for that meal. It was kinda filling and not too bad. But then she brings out these plates piled with breaded chicken then mashed potatoes and coleslaw and we all went into panic mode. Then she gives all of us a biscuit thing and I actually got an extra one because one of the elders we were with forced his on me. So we were stuffed by the time that was over. Then she brings out this huge pretty beautiful cake. It was pretty much the saddest experience of our lives because any other day like Fast Sunday and that meal would have been perfect but we were just forcing it down. The cake was alright not as good as it looked but yeah... Fun stuff. :)
I'm studying in Alma right now. I read out loud from the Book of Mormon (Spanish) every day so that's good. Work on pronunciation and stuff. It's hard to understand but I can usually understand it all. Liahonas are much easier to understand because it uses modern day stuff.
So with the language it's all coming along pretty good. I am almost to the point where I understand everything people say and can say pretty much whatever I want. Not to the point quite yet but I can feel that I'm so close... Hopefully only a couple more weeks and I'll be passable and able to communicate better. Then I can actually start doing stuff instead of being basically useless! Yay!
Well the investigators were duds... We lost one yesterday. The other I still haven't met. We were on exchanges when they found the other one. So no luck with that. No new ones and we have been working really hard but it’s just not the time I guess. We have a couple potentials we could go by too but it's just discouraging right now. It's all good though. It's not supposed to be easy!
I did meet Uncle Van. It was interesting! I didn't recognize him at first but we talked a little bit! I'm just outside of their area but I might be able to visit them sometime! I'll have to try before I leave the area. So that would be fun but we will see!
Sleeping isn't so great. I usually wake up once or twice during the night. Tired all the time but that's normal. It's really good to go running in the mornings because I can feel it make a difference in the energy I get every day.
I'm not as big of a fan of city life as I thought. Though I don't count this as like big city life because there are only a billion houses here and like no big buildings. I prefer Utah I've decided but it's still nice!
I found out I do need my temple clothes... So maybe if you could send those sometime? No rush because we go to the temple once every 3 months and we have at least another month before the next one so no rush but it would be nice not to have to rent the stuff if possible... Thanks! Also I found out last week that the memory card for my camera doesn't work on my camera! So as soon as you could send that that would be great. My address is 16208 Eucalyptus. But it would be best to send the package to the mission home I think because I think it would probably get stolen or something if it was delivered to my apartment. Letters are fine though!
Alright so stories. This week I had the bright idea to start running barefoot! I'm turning into a hippie! It was actually kinda fun to do that. :) I can only do it for like a mile every other day or so because it bruises my feet and doesn't feel good at all but it's cool to actually like feel the pavement and grass and yeah! It's supposed to help form and strengthen the muscles too but we'll see. :)
I made a dragon out of my lego x wing. The lego movie inspired me and made me feel guilty for just following the directions and i'm actually pretty proud of it. :) It's pretty cool I feel like to make it out of the 90 or so pieces I had to work with. Fun stuff!
So we are starting this recycling thing since California gives money for recycling bottles. We are cashing in today because it is way too much work to store all the bottles in our apartment because we have so many... I don't drink out of the tap anymore because California water is crap so I buy a packet of water every week and it's pretty crazy to see how many bottles we have stored up. Something like 300. Hopefully we will get good lego money from it! :)
This week we as a ward, except for two, all ate habanero peppers straight. :) It was so much fun. Not the hottest thing i've ever had though! It was pretty hot still! Only me and this other Elder did it without drinking or eating anything. We stuck out the pain. Now I'm supposed to be fluent or something so it's taking its time to work but I have faith it will work eventually! The peppers were about an inch around and two inches long. Tasted alright and burned like crazy but I didn't cry or anything! Pretty proud of that! They're way overrated though. Not near as bad as I thought they would be.
So the thing that cracks me up the most about this place is the singing every Sunday. :) The director adds pauses and makes some notes longer or shorter according to what she wants and she sings about the volume of a jet engine so the poor piano guy just does what she wants. It's so funny... yesterday I actually started laughing so hard because no one can sing in tune here and we had two Elders doing the top and bottom parts because the normal guy wasn't there quite yet then they stopped for that guy to get on and everyone just kept going and I just laughed so hard at it all. :) So awesome. It hurts a lot but it's so funny.
Alright well that's all I have this week! We are having lots of fun still and it's way fun to see improvement every day. :) Even though it gets discouraging I know this is the Lord's work and it's important to just keep pushing through it! Loving it all even though it gets really hard. Also I bought a Brazil jersey. :) Couldn't resist. It's from the World Cup and it cost 10 bucks. Pretty cheap but it's fun. :)
Anyway love you guys! Have fun this week!
Elder Passey
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