|  12:25 PM (11 hours ago) | | ||
| 16 Feb 2015 | ||||
Thank you for your email!! I actually received it before Colter's and it was wonderful to know he was given a good companion to train with. It definitely makes a mom feel more at ease. I loved being able to read Bryce's also. I felt like I received two letters that day. What a treat! They sound like they are going to do great things together.
Here is what Colter wrote:
"My companion is great!! He is really good! We are having a lot of success here. My trainer/companion is Elder Whitaker. He is from Spanish Fork. I live with 2 other American Elders but my companion and another one have perfect Spanish!! Elder Hill, not my companion, but in the same pench (apartment) as me is like a walking dictionary he helps the Argentines with their Spanish haha. The president was really nice. The toads here are huge, huge cockroaches, huge ants and other bugs, million cats, if I had a penny for every dog I saw I’d be a millionaire haha they are everywhere. I’m in San Cristóbal a little tiny town at the top of my mission, very top!! Everyone is very poor here and we teach outside so I don’t have dog allergy problems. We don’t eat with the members because they have no money so I eat oatmeal, rice and pasta. Only a little breakfast and a big lunch is what we have. It’s good because I can lose the weight I gained in the MTC. The picture I’ll send you was my first asado we made today and it was good! I get a little meat here too but I can’t say I’ve had good food yet. Alfajores are pretty good actually the oreo ones are really good!!! I can’t wait to try them with peanut butter. I’m baptizing a lady in a few days, but I’m having major problems... Spanish... oh it’s just terrible for me. I can’t understand anything people are saying, castellano is terrible, all the "y" make a shhh sound. For ayer they say asher and they call gringos yankees but it’s pronouced shankees Dad will show you how to say those, but it’s bad. My companion has to do everything because I have no clue what’s going on. Branch council meeting (we just have a little branch here in this town and Elder Hill is the president) was horrible!! I couldn’t understand anything that was going on. Spanish is really hard for me to learn and it’s not good because I have to learn so I can actually teach! but the kids here are cute! cute little kids talking in their Spanish voices. We have a nice little town and there’s not that much bad stuff but everything is just filthy here! The people are way lazy too. The siesta is from like noon to 6 pm and we can’t do anything then because everyone is sleeping and the ones that are not are late and going to sleep and if there is a rare one not taking the siesta they get really mad if we bug them during the siesta. All of our lessons push to like 12:30 or start at 5:30 so we can get effective time. Yeah the culture here is a lot different! We walk like 5 miles a day. Have some big blisters that are callusing up though and I’ll have some tough feet here pretty soon!! Soda is way better here. There are no good vegetables here though like cold cucumbers and that stuff! Good quality vegetables are what I’m going to start missing real soon! Yeah there’s a good chance I could train one of my friends. They’re going to be sending a lot of people to my mission…like 200 in the next year because it’s splitting. I hope everything is okay and it rains soon at home. It hasn’t even rained here yet and it doesn’t rain here as much as I thought, but it’s pretty humid all day! I love you all!! I can’t say I’m doing good because no entiendo nada pero, I better start learning faster because it’s horrible not being able to understand what people are saying and they don’t even speak that fast here haha."
I'm excited to hear more next week.
Thanks again!! :)
