September 8th, 2014

Hey! :)

Yeah the raw egg was super gross.  We both weren't feeling so good for a while after that but isn't it worth it to become a man?!  Come on! :)  That's so cool about the Ogden temple!  I loved it when we went through the Brigham City one so I bet the Ogden one was super fun too. I can't wait till I can go through it.

I'll try to send some pictures next week.  I've never tried but I'll try to figure it out...  I don't really have too much to send though.  Some cool stuff though.

School sounds good! Pretty cool that Matthew is learning so quickly!  Also sorry I felt like I kind of snapped at you next week.  I was kind of stressed because we only had a short amount of time and we were in the family history library because the main place we go to was closed.  So yeah, sorry about that.  I really do like getting stuff from you guys but letters are really nice!  If you could send stamps I could send some back to you guys too!  

Alright, so transfers.  Well I'm staying with Elder Petersen!  Yay!  However Elder Petersen just got called to be district leader and this district has a long history of one and done district leaders and since I'll be done with my training by the end of this next transfer some crazy juju is going to go on there.  So my district leader is leaving and Elder Roberts is leaving.  I'll miss them both a lot!  I hang out with Elder Roberts a lot so it's going to be weird without him!  My area is alright.  It's kind of slow sometimes but there's always enough to do and people to find.  Sometimes it just takes more work than other times.  Elder Petersen is awesome though!  Pretty fun to be with him and doing stuff!  We have a lot of fun. :)  We're going to try the cinnamon challenge this week - probably on Sunday again.  If you can think of fun things we can do like that let me know! Except we're not doing the gallon challenge.  We don't want to throw up.  And milk is super expensive too.  

Pablo is pretty awesome!  We did get a couple appointments with him and we have been kind of teaching hard stuff lately and he seems to be taking it super well.  I said straight up last time that either this church is right or it's not and we have just kind of been starting to push him.  We will see how it goes though!  We have a lesson on Wednesday with a member (his name is Hmo Lozano and is a former Jehovah witness! Pretty much the coolest guy ever.) 

As far as food goes I kind of just eat whatever I feel like.  I don't really make things very often unless I feel like it.  It's too much work a lot of times to figure that stuff out.

Ok so this week update: Spanish is coming pretty good.  I've gotten some compliments from people who ask how long I've been out and when I say 3 months they say they're impressed with how well I can speak for someone who has only been learning for that short time so that feels pretty good.  I try to teach and talk a lot in Spanish.  It's really hard because it's a completely different way of thinking and it's just goofy to get used to but it's coming.  

I also got a new bag from a member and I like it a lot so that's really cool. :)  We ate at this barbeque place on Thursday and it was SO good!  I had ribs for the first time I think and it was awesome.  Really good food there!  That was probably the best thing I ate so far.  

I'm trying out this new thing where every week I work on an attribute of Christ in Preach My Gospel.  So this last week was charity week!  I worked and focused specifically on that and it's hard...  But I can see huge improvements which is really neat to see.  To start it out both Elder Petersen and I gave this homeless guy we pass every day 5 dollars so that was cool!  This next week is virtue week. That'll be interesting.  I think that every week I work on it becomes a billion times harder to do it.  I've heard of
Elders doing it and hitting patience week and having all their investigators drop them and stuff like that so that'll be fun. :)  

Guess what?  Apparently I talk in my sleep!  Like for instance Elder Petersen said this morning that he woke up around two and I was saying a prayer in Spanish!  And there have been a bunch of other times too but I never knew that!  Maybe I just started on my mission...  Weird.

It's raining today!  California people are so funny...  They're freaking out.  On the way over they were going like 30 on the freeway and stuff like that. :)  It's fun to watch but super gross at the same time because the water washes all the crap from the road and all the oil and gas and all of that stuff so that's pretty nasty to see.  The rain is pretty dirty too.  But it's still rain!  Cool stuff!

I cleaned the apartment the other day because the day before Elder Petersen said we need to deep clean.  Which to both of us meant completely different things. :)  To him it meant sweeping.  What I did was I hand mopped (he thought that was crazy.  He kept saying we don't have a mop and I was all like I don't need a mop!) I also cleaned out the bathroom which was pretty scary.  I feel brave that I did that one.  It was kinda fun to do that. But thanks for teaching me all this stuff!

Anyway I love you guys!  Have a good week!  

Elder Passey