Day: one of the ones that ends in -day
Pushup Count: 71
2 weeks ish? I'm not really sure - time is so weird here. It's true that once you get past the first Sunday time flies, but also it feels like I've been here forever. Hightlights:
- There's another Elder Page in my residence hall, also Spanish speaking - it's really funny anytime we see each other
- Elder Sutton broke his wrist trying to hurdle the hammock in his room - it was really funny and he got to go to the hospital
- Lots of volleyball
- We started immersion! It's a blast
- We're working on setting up our evening teacher with the Portuguese maestra next door
- That same teacher likes to steal our phones and take pictures of us
- Memorized the missionary purpose in Espanol
- Elder Decker is a spikeball fiend
- Met a ton of people going to a ton of places speaking a ton of languages
- We had a testimony meeting on the second day of immersion - a lot of Elders struggled but the Spirit was crazy strong
- "Que es wrong with you?!"
- Saw a Tahitian bible - the pages were bright red
- I caught Elder Decker's cold
- Elder Hill ran into a door pole
- Elder Goebel yelled at me in Spanish with his mouth full of toothpaste
- We had an amazing devotional with the President of the General Primary Presidency
- We went and did initiatories at the Provo Temple
- "Well, I'm officially Hispanic now" - Elder Richins
- Elder Richins are I came up with Spanish pickup lines that we'll never use
- Elder Sutton and I roleplayed as Christoff and Sven from Frozen during a teaching practice
For those of you who don't know the story, our district started a trend of saying, "Hola, como se dice?" (Hi, how do you say?) to literally everyone we see. It's absolutely hilarious to see people's responses. Those who speak Spanish just look confused, but those who don't always think we're asking how they're doing and they respond with a "Bien! Y tu?" and that's even funnier. At this point, we're kind of famous, and people say it to us, even when they don't know what it means.
Spiritual Thought:
At the devotional last night, we opened by singing I'm Trying to be Like Jesus. The spirit was so strong and I couldn't help but think, "Am I really trying to be like Jesus?" It's been a little tough to love everybody here at times, but I'm doing my best to see others as Christ sees them. I invite you all to try to do that, and I know that if you do, your relationships will improve. Also go read the lyrics to that song because they're so good. And remember - Jesus loves you!
¡Nos vemos!
- Élder Page
Con Elder Judd
Elder Dye eating yogurt covered raisins with a fork
Con Elder Brinkerhoff
One of my favorite signs here
The distrito en clase
Elder Dye and Elder Decker (5'6" and 6'5" respectively)
The best district at the MTC
Hermano Hunter (our evening teacher)
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