9/9/13 - 2nd Week of Not Knowing Where the Heck I Am

9/9/13

meow,

yo whats up! well another week in the books! 

im an expert out here with my spanish! haha not!! o man i never know what the heck is going on..... NEVER

well to be honest the days are always up and down. i absolutely love it out here because every day is a new experience... its hands down the hardest thing i have ever done... thats for sure. but i try to always stay happy and be myself. 

ill try and share some stories....

so yesterday im having a pretty good day right? i tried to have a permanent smile on my face and joke around with members with my spanish.... and im havin a good day... high spirits and im doing just great! so we´re walking along the streets at about 6pm and all the sudden this dog from hell attacks me and bites my leg!! haha satan sent his demon little dog after me to mess my day up!! haha dont you worry because satan didnt bring my spirits down... his devil little dog ripped a hole in my pants and left two nice dagger marks in my leg though... 

it was a MASSIVE DOG... a big ol pitbull.... nah just kiddin it was like a 7 pound dog from hell.... but the good news is that it was a street dog and probably has rabies :) and i dont know if i should say hell but thats where the dog was from... mean little sucker

soooooooo we clean it out and then go to this little junky hospital and i have noooo earthly clue where we are going or what im supposed to do because i cant really communicate with anybody... haha so this little demon dog has caused a lot of confusion for me in the past 24 hours... because we have gone to 3 hospitals now and ive gotten 3 different shots for rabies and i have to get like 4 more shots throughout the week...

haha so yeah 11 days in argentina and ive been bit! 

 
satan is a mean little man trying to do all he can to get me down... nope not gonna happen satan.. because im doing good and im happy!! 

ummm it rained a ton the other day!! ha my pants were absoultely soaked!!! it was awesome! haha im being serious in saying it was awesome... im not being sarcastic momma.. 

another funny story...

so we are eating at this members house and he grabs my plate and drops this weird looking food on my plate.... hahahah im my mind im like ¨AWESOME.... NOT... haha how am i going to gag this food down¨ haha it wasnt what you would consider to be weird but i think every food is weird.... i bet you all would love it.... so it didnt taste bad.. it actually tasted good but i still struggled to eat it... then right when i finish the member grabs my plate.... ¨im thinking woah man what are you gonna put back on my plate´´  and he puts twice the amount back on my plate!!! hahahaha AWESOME! ha so i ate it again :) and i didnt die so i guess things are good! every meal is a new experience for me... haha but the food really is good... and no im not being sarcastic. 

ill share something i wrote this week...

so im focusing on devolping the characters of christlike and being a more christlike person. every 6 weeks ill choose a new attribute of christ...

the first 6 weeks is hope... haha you can probably guess why i choose hope because i dont know what the heck is being said so i should probably hope in the future ill know the language :)

 ´´hope gives meaning and purpose to all that we do. when there is any reason to doubt and have anguish know that you always have hope. hope that you will get through those times of doubt and anguish. hope that you wont have to go through those hard times on your own. hope that the savior will always be by your side. hope can give us peace even though we may know we are going through times of trial. hope of a better day! 

have hope that this will happen... the savior promises us this.

´´peace i leave with you, my peace i give unto you: not as the world giveth, give i unto you. let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid´´ john 14 27

let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. have that hope. what a wonderful this it is to know that we dont need to be troubled nor do we need to be afraid of anything because of what the savior can do for us. peace he will give unto you... but do you have the hope of that sentence being true...

well thats me trying to think deep... haha 

ill try and answer some of your questions momma...

1. Hows the spanish?

      haha well i never know what the heck is going on... i can tell its getting better and i cant doubt that i have progressed in so many ways... but ill be honest in saying its really difficult because my comp cant speak any english....

     haha ive become my own best friend out here!! haha i feel like ive gone looney and im always talking to myself. ha trying to make myself laugh or havng a conversation with my own brain!!  i dont have anybody to really express true emotion to whether that is positive emotions of the spirit or if im struggling with something. its hard because i never know whats going on in lessons and after the lesson i cant get feedback on what happened... so its hard

    having said that i know its a blessing that i have a comp that cant speak any english... i know that my spanish will be that much better.

well on a side note this lady just lit a cigarette right next to me and is blowing her smoke pretty much in my face :) hahaha so thats awesome! i love me some tobaccy.... i just asked her if i could take a puff but she couldnt understand my spanish so she couldnt answer my question.... i guess no cigs for me today!! haha just kiddin missionaries cant say that stuff.... my bad

2. how is my comp

    my comp is way awesome! we try and joke around as much as we can even though we cant really talk to each other in detail! haha we work really hard though

3. quiet week talking to myself?

     haha yeah its pretty quiet because im always trying to answer my own questions... i never know what we are doing or if i do its not in detail... haha so thats an adventure of its own. but its all good! haha ive really had to have patience so its good for me.... i really do love it.. its kind of a love hate though! 

4. is the food good?

   yes the foood is delicious!! love it! a lot of meat which of course i like... yummy yummy in my tummy.... gobble that meat up

well thats all ive got for this week!!! dont be worrying about me at all because im loving it!! its hard but its awesome! 

i truly can see the savior helping me and ive seen lives changed already through this gospel. 

i hope all is well back in the 801....

ooo yeah i heard some kid cudi on the bus today.... it was soooo awesome!! haha thats rap music momma.... GANGSTA MUSICA FOR THE ARGENTINES... but its american music.

see ya in a bit

-Elder Cole Myers 

when in doubt..... kick any dog that is barking at you... thats at least what i learned :)

 

 

Mission Presidente

First Companion

9/2/13 - First Week in Argentina

9/2/13

yoooo whats good in the hood!!!

im LOVING THIS!!!! its by far the hardest thing ive ever done but i love it. its meggga awesome

o man has this week beeeeeen crayyyyy!!!! let me tell you one thing... I DONT KNOW JACK SQUAT ABOUT SPANISH!!!

These argentines are just jibber jabbering away and i have NO EARTHLY CLUE WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON... i simply smile and say ´´no entiendo´´ which means i dont understand :)

quick story.....

so we´re teaching this lesson to this really poor family.... there are like 6 kids in this tiny little cement house that is really dirty.... so were teaching them about god because they dont believe in god. all of a sudden i look over and this 15 year old girl whips out her ´´blank´´ to start breastfeeding her child!!!!! HOLY FREAK!!! i look over and she is breastfeeding her child right in front of me!!!! my eyes got about as big as the moon and i acted like i didnt see nothing!! it was nuts!!! haha so we just continued teaching the lesson like nothing had happened and she just keep doing her business... yeah since then i have seen it like 4 more times... a little different then in the states i guess :)

so ill start with a quick little story that i wrote in my journal... its a little deep i guess so dont make fun... im trying find my inner soul out here on the mission and sound smart and sophisticated with my words. hahah nahhh just kidding im the same dumby as when i left 7 weeks ago or however long its been

August 26th

im sitting on the plane right now and we are flying out of salt lake to georgia. i just realized that im actually leaving everything ive ever known for 2 years. i look out the window and were flying over draper. i started to cry a little bit realizing that this is really it. im actually doing this. not tears of sadness but tears of joy. my journey of a great mission has just begun. im realizing that this is the last time ill see home for a really long time. i know that this will be hard and at times i will feel that its unbearable. im listening to the song ´´be still my soul´´ by byu choir girl solo on my ipod. this song has really touched my heart. this mission will be hard but as i go through hard times i know the lord will be right by my side going through them with me. i feel comforted. ´´be still my soul, the lord is by my side´´. i dont feel nervous or scared because he will be with me every step of the way. i love this gospel and i feel so grateful to have the opportunity to share it for these next two years. ive left everything i have ever known. ive left the only people that i have ever loved. but i have left it for the lord. i have left all these things to serve my savior and to do the things of which he has asked me to do. argentina is my home for the next two years and i know it will become a part of me for the rest of my life. my preaching and dedicaton to the lord will change lives through this gospel. this gospel will change the people of argentinas lives as it changes my own life.

haha i bet some of you who are reading this are thinking ´´gayyyyy´´ hahah well those are some of my thoughts.... i would encourage anybody who is reading this that is having a hard day to go listen to that song and thing about what the atonement really means and what our savior is willing to do for us... and when we are going through those hard days the lord is right there by our side pressing forward with us.

ANYWAYSSSS..... this week has been cray!!!!

well what do you know i have a companion that doesnt speak any english!!!!! hahaha so i havent really talked to anybody in a week... mega awesome right????? hahah ooo man its difficult sometimes because i cant really communicate at all...

my comp is from brazil and speaks portugese and spanish and no english.. he is 23 years old and a convert to the church when he was 18.... he is incredible. an amazing missionary. some of the missionaries i talked to said hes one of the best in the mission..

so i really am grateful i got someone who doesnt speak any english because i have really been forced to learn the language and always talk in spanish obviously.

the area that we are in is called el cruce.

i have heard its a little bit less than average on the poverty scale of the areas that we will be serving in... haha i walked into our pension (apartment) and was a little bit grossed out... haha but its all good i guess i dont mind out toilet having poop stains and yellow crap everywhere :) haha seriously its all good!

so i bet that the areas that parker and taylor served in were a lot worse than mine... its really not that bad. but dont get me wrong i have never seen areas like this in my life... probably half of the streets are dirt in the neighborhoods and there is trash everywhere... its sweet!!!!

haha so for the past 6 days i just walk around with a big ol grin on my face not knowing what the heck is going on!! people start to talk to me and i dont know anything. its awesome when you know they are making fun of you but you dont know what they are saying.. haha its sweet.

we walk a lot... and i like that because we never walked or did much activity in the mtc.

I LOVE THE FOOD!!

haha ive eaten some things that anybody but me would think are weird... haha so im getting there with the food... its still real scary though.

everytime we go to a house to eat i just pray to the lord that i can do it... please please please just feed me meat!! and thats what they have done!! ive eaten meat and potatoes for every meal at the members house!

delicious :)

a member knew two words in english.... those words are ¨F you¨

hahaha so he kept saying that to me not really knowing what he was saying.... it was hilarious!!

well i can already feel the love that i have for these people that we are teaching... right now its really hard because i just want to know what is happening and be able to talk and understand... but i cant. in time it will come. its hard to have patience! haha i just want to be my dumb self and joke around with them and have fun with them but right now i cant.

i cant wait for the day when i can actually speak spanish and really be able to love these people... o man that will be sooooooo sweet!!! then the fun will really begin.. haha o man its awesome out here.

i cant really take very many pictures because... well... i might not have a camera anymore if I take it with me everywhere... DONT WORRY MOM!! Haha youve just gotta be street smart around here. its not dangerous and ill be good!!

welll let er buck right???? i hope i gave enough info and some stories.. emailing is crayyyy because i dont have a lot of time and i want to write everybody back... if i dont write you back im sorry but i really appreciated your letters!!!

hope all is well at home!

pray for my freakin head to understand this language!! haha and pray for the people that need to hear about this gospel

i hope there is a lot of dunking (baptisms) going on in the world with all the missionaries!!!

see ya in a bit!
smell ya later

-Elder Meeshers (thats how they say my name)

Boys from the Hood

8/27/13 - I'm in Argentina!!

8/27/13

THINGS JUST GOT CRAYYYYY!!!

Haha o what a day it has been! well im in argentina sitting at the mission presidents house right now.... I DO NOT KNOW SPANISH! haha its so awesome though.. i love it!

i dont have a whole lot of time to write right now because we are supposed to just send a quick email.

argentina is awesome! i love the spanish accent that they speak with its super cool.

haha im walking around like a chicken with its head cut off.... smiles all around!

the president is awesome! hes a way cool guy and has a sweet wife... well it was good weather today but ive heard that it gets reallllly cold SO THATS AWESOME!

i slept like a newborn baby on the plain SO THAT WAS AWESOME! that means that i didnt sleep at all... haha i got like 1 1/2 hours of sleep out of the 12 hour flight! ooooo man its way awesome here!

super happy and super stoked!!! its gonna get crayyyyyy tomorrow. i think i get my comp and i get my assignment of where i will be serving!

i had my first experience with food.... MEGA DELICIOUS. please pray for my pschopathic ways of not being able to eat food.......

well ive gotta go... im safe... i havent crapped my pants yet... i dont know spanish... im smiling... and things are awesome}
see ya in a bit!

love,

Elder Cole

At MTC

8/22/13 - Hola Gobbles

8/22/13

hola gobbles!!!! 

hahahaha o man do i love you!! seriously you sent me the best package yesterday!! i ABOSLUTELY LOVE THE TIES!!!  they are soooooooooo awesome!! freaking sooo sweet!!! and the jump rope is awesome and i love the bungie cords for my shoulder workouts!!!

  

i died when i opened the package and saw all of the ties... my companion and e. berger and e. pace died when they saw my ties...... haha everyone was soooo jealous!! seriously i love them!! wearing one right now :) 

 you should have seen elder pace face when i gave him those shoes... it was so awesome!!! he couldnt stop saying thank you and he said thats one of the few times somebody has actually done something nice for him.... 

i am so happy we could make that happen. it was so cool to see. i think i got more joy out of it then he did. thats what i love about service.. i  havent seen lexis companion yet to give her the camera!! im so excited for that!! well im running out of time really soon....

im not sure when ill call but i bet it will be during my layover time in georgia!!  im so excited!! my letters probably wont be as long in argentina just because of time so just kind of expect that. i hope i wrote a good one for you today...

love you momma! cant wait to talk to you and biggie on monday!!

love, 

your baby boy