¿Como le va?
Things down here are just plain nuts. While the hours are pretty regular, 6:30 am to 10:30 pm, we fill em to bursting. we've crunched some numbers and we do about 10 to 11 hours of in class time each day so it's a full day. Sorry about the english and grammer and all that but my language skills are already slipping and I only have a haf hour to read emails and pound out a reply. We learn so much every single day and they all blur into each other. I feel like I've been down here for a couple months already and I'm really familiar with a lot of my district.
There are 8 of us in it. Elder De hoyos is the district leader and then there is Elder Mcdaniel, Elder Crawford, Elder Wray, Elder Tyree my comp, Elder Larson and Elder Pyatt. That is all of us and we all get along really well. We spend a lot of class time together and so we all share in the ups and downs of the entire process. Elder Tyree and i get along really well. he's from West Valley and loves being down here. He's very focused on learning the languge and inspires me to be the same way.
We're currently working with a progressive investigator each day. Fortunately it's one of our instructers but we have to treat him as an absoulte stranger and he doesn't speak any ingles (English) for that entire time. It's the best though because Elder Tyree and I have been doing really well at that, which could be good or bad.
It could be good because of the confidence boost and knowledge increase but it could be bad because we're going street contacting this sabado (Saturday) for 7 hours. proselitismo. (Proselyting) I don't know how to feel about it so i just have faith that whatever happens will be what is supposed to happen.
Domingo (Sunday) has a couple of prep periods we have two full length sunday schools two other classes and sacrament meeting. Fortunately sunday dominga esté en ingles porque no hablo muchismo español. (Sunday's are in English because we can't talk much spanish).
We don't go to the temple because it's either being remodeled or built i can't tell. Either way we live in the middle of a construction zone because they are overhauling the entire complex. There 27 North Americans and there are somewhere around 40 Latinos. We speak a lot of spanish and today they asked to start speaking entirely en español todos lo tiempo. (in spanish all the time). It gets better and better each day and they strongly encourage us to hablamos en spanglish. (speak in spanglish).
Yo (pronounced sho) se el evangelio is verdad y jesucristo es el salvador de todos los gentes. (I know that gospel is true and that Jesus Christ is the savior of all people.) Yo amo jesucristo y yo se dios loves me. (I love Jesus and I know that God loves me). I'm so happy to be down here and I can't wait to get to work. vivá argentina.
Ciao,
Elder Simpson
Oh I remember those times. Learning the language with only Brazilians around me and going proselyting when I didn't know the language hardly at all. So hard but so worth it. Thank Andy for helping me relive my MTC experience!
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