"Woohoo! So this week was wonderful! Coming to the close of our firsty week here in the CCM it has been a different week but good. We had our teaching experience this last week and it was wonderful. We were able to go back and forth very smoothly and understand the investigator much better. Having the dominicans here makes it so much easier to understand spanish. We have continued to sing with Elder Gonzales and we sang i have a family here on earth and i started crying. Man i hate crying but i just really had a wonderful feeling of confirmation that i do ahve a fmaily here on earth and i will be able to live with them forever. I am so grateful for the wonderful blessings that i can experience here. Then the second verse i realized if i serve him well and do what i need to do i will be able to have a family of my own for eternity as erika will soon understand. What a great blessing we have to be born in the dispensation of the fullness of times and have the blessings of temple work in our day and age.
Friday we got special cookies from presidents wife and they are amazing. She makes the most amazing cookies. and i don't know if i told you guys but a few weeks ago President Harris's wife Made cookies "in honor of me" for every elder and sister here. She had them all bagged and everyrthing. They were amazing! Then Saturday, saturday's are the hardest day of the week here. We don't have Gym, we have MDT Class MDT Missionary Directed Time where we study and study and study. and only breaks for Breakfast Lunch and Dinner. ALL DAY IN THE SAME CLASSROOM! AAAHHH but We started adding in some verb games to not make it so Aburrido. Then sunday was fast sunday and probably one of the most spiritual fast's i ahve ever had! I have never really taken the words to heart of Fasting from food but feasting on the words of the lord. Being that the scriptures are our way of personal revelation It is so amazing how people including all of us can be directed to a certain scripture at certain times in our lives. Monday, i don't remember much of monday morning because our whole monday is focused on gearing up for our trip to the university. We went and it was wonderful the first few people we talked to weren't interested and it didn't bother me but my companion was having a hard time with it. We remembered the alst time we talked to a big group of people and decided to try it again. So we walked up to a group of 4 people and started talking to them and it was great things went smoothly then we asked if they wanted to elarn more and by what he said i became so frustrated. He said he had written his name down three times with three other missionaries like me and has never gotten a call. I was so frustrated with missionaries here and all over the world that don't do their job. I go out and make such an effort and try and make mistakes and work up a sweat to help other missionaries do their job and it makes me sad that they aren't doing what they need to to reap the fruits of our labor. We ended up walking away without a name or number. Then We walked over to another couple and they both signed. Then again our next one got angry with us and let us finish our short message and then told us he has one problem with us missionaries. He said "i was studying and trying to learn what i needed to and then you came along and just took some precious moments of my time. She has an exam now and we were trying to use these last few minutes to study so she can pass her class. My problem is this, you come and waste our time and say it is from god. I have a hard time believing that servants of God would interrupt people from their education."
we apologized for using his time promised him that our message would be worth the short amount of time and moved on. Then we met another man who Sincerely wanted a book of mormon and wanted to attend the church. He said that he loved what our church does for people that endure natural disasters and he wanted to be part of such a church. What a wonderful experience, now i hope he doesn't turn into one of the lost names that we seem to have from our contacting. It is a big pain in the rear. Our goal was 12 but we only got 5 contacts with lots of people that weren't ready. Tuesday we had our last large group meeting with president and his wife and that was good. I was in the back of the room and had elders falling asleep left and right and just sat and tried to catch what i could since it was in spanish. Then the last few days have just kinda passed by. I will write more a little later but now i need to get get my hair cut."
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