Tuesday, October 8, 2013

9/23/13 - 4th Week

9/23/13
wellll hello hello to all of you who are at home living in nice heated homes..... while my bunns are FREEZING in my apartment! oooo baby girl it can be bitterly cold... kinda nice though right??

ive been here a month now and man is that weird to say!! holy freak thats weird to say! 

at times i feel like ive been gone my entire life and at other times it feels like i just got here yesterday. 
 
i still dont feel like i know anyyyyyything about spanish but then i realize how much ive learned in such a little amount of time! 

 i wish i could give more details in my letters but i myself am trying to figure out what is going on! 

haha its been a really different experience trying to figure out all details for myself and not receiving any information... at times i hate that my companion doesnt speak english but i can see its soooo much better that way because im forced to speak spanish 24/7.

 wellllll ill share some stories here

 soooo my comp tells me that we need to get our haircut right??? and im like woahhhh woahhh thats bad news.... the last time i got my haircut my precious curly locks were buzzed right off and i looked like a tard.. haircuts just arent the same when tammy ogden is cutting your hair... (your welcome for the shoutout tam)

so we start going to this ladies house where she´s gonna cut our hair... im not in the best mood because im thinking ill walk out of there with a buzzed head and no curls....

turns out the lady cuts hair for a living and she did a reallll nice job!! haha she kept my curls in check.... WHICH IS ALWAYS A MUST! 

i mean shes not as good as tammy but she did a good job!

i also found a girlfriend here...... shes about 4 years old and is the cutest little girl.... haha i cant talk with her but shes the ward missionary leaders daughter so we are at their house quite a bit... we always play and have a good time... she kissed me on the cheek like 5 times!! it was like a sneak attack kiss! i wasnt even expecting any of them and she would sneak it right on there!! i told my comp not to tell our mission president cause that would be bad news if he knew girls were kissing me.......

well last week was rough with teaching... we dont have any investigators and our baptism fell through on saturday :(

i wasssss sooooo pumped for the baptism! it was gonna be my first one! andddddd she didnt show up to the baptismal interview :( 

well whenever i see food being prepared for us i get real scared! haha you just never know what youre gonna get!! but the truth is that ive never gotten something too different for my standards and its always been DELICIOUS..... ive had to say some prayers here and there to help me try the food but it always works out! 

heres my effort at writing something good for the week

´´every day move your life forward with hope. i always hope to have more out of my life. i always hope that i can have more of something if i work for it. we always hope for something greater in our life. but nothing great can be obtained without patient perserverance of constant hard work. right now i dont think i could have more hope of wanting to be able to speak spanish. i hope so badly that i can learn this language. i hope for that because i want to be able to actually teach this gospel with everything that i have. more than anything i hope for that. i hope to have the ability to be able to talk to these people so that i can more fully show my love for them. so that in some way i might be able to uplift their lives through the teachings of jesus christ. i really do hope for that day to come. i hope for that because it is something great. and we all hope for great things in this life. but nothing great can be obtained without constant hard work. we have to act every single day. we have to set goals every single day. set goals that we can have the strength to work harder and constantly act towards the great things that we want to obtain. every day taking steps of constant work so that your future hope may actually become reachable. real hope is more than just a desire. its taking action´´

welll this week i have been working at the language...... i set constant goals for myself.... haha i look like a tard walking down the streets staring at words and spanish concepts trying to memorize and understand them... but i know that my spanish has also gotten a lot better this week.

to be honest right now its really hard... i cant explain what its like to not have anybody to really talk to... at times i feel like im completely on my own and i have to figure it all out by myself because i simply just cant get explanation

that makes me sad because i honestly dont know very much about these people.. i dont know the details of people we talk to or i dont know much about the lives of our investigators or really anything... that makes me sad because i feel like its soooo much harder to love a person when you dont really know them

although its hard right now i realize that the work i put in will make all the difference in the end.... not the difference in just my life but the difference in these peoples lives. i am sooo grateful for this experience. i cant express how amazing this has been... has it been hard?? yeah its the hardest thing ive done. but its been amazing and i feel so blessed to be able to be one of the 75,000 missionaries in the world for the one and only true church on the earth

well thats all i got! there are a lot of dogs here.... they are everywhere!!! oooooo man does it make me miss my pooch lenny sooooo much.... he is such a good little puppy... i bet hes taking a nice nap right now!

love you all and dont let any little satan dogs bite you at home.... because you might have to get rabies shots like me every monday! you all have one good week :)

smell ya´ll later
 Elder Cole Myers


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