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Well
hello to every one! I hope everything is going swell in everything you do! This week has been a
doozy!
Well Tuesday was
quite a shock but I guess the Lord thought us ready! I went on splits with my
(also two weeks into his mission with me) friend Elder G*. We were both
surprised that they did that. For those of who you don't know, a split is when
the two minor companions go to an area (my area this time) for 24 hours and the
two senior companions (also our trainers) go to the other for 24 hours. How
crazy! Two minor, fresh off the press gringos. Teaching by themselves. I prayed
so so so so hard. We had four lessons that day by ourselves....And... it went
great!! The first 5 minutes of each lesson were the hardest but very quickly I
found myself able to speak, limited in my vocabulary, but it flowed and some of
the members that we brought along recognized that we spoke more and more like Spanish
speakers as the lessons went on. It was amazing. After the lesson when we were
walking to the next we were so grateful and many prayers of gratitude were
given. I definitely have a testimony about the gift of tongues. It was a great
day. It was also ironically a great break from Spanish when we got to the
apartment. We could talk and discuss things without pauses, dictionary
searches. and we never just gave up on our sentences. It was awesome.
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Kyle and his MTC companion reunited for "splits"
On the other side of
the spectrum. Thursday we had weekly planning. Very hard and long
stuff. All in Spanish. With my original companion. It was only my second time
and he made me go through it and lead it as though I was the senior companion.
It was rough. And I got frustrated with myself. Some of the goal setting and
how numbers add up in the daily planner just didn't make sense to me.
Especially since I came from 2 plus year background in accounting (which I
thought would make it easy but no). Anyway It was a great opportunity and even
though I didn´t really know what I was doing and it was hard I learned a
lot.
The language is
difficult. I feel like outside of lessons I am learning nothing. I can
definitely speak my part in the lessons, but if they ask questions or say anything
back. FORGET IT. It's lost on me. Meetings we have every week are incredibly
boring and difficult and frustrating because I have no idea what is going on.
One time is district meeting. We were talking and then someone asked me. "What
did you learn from Elder Holland's talk?" I totally spaced because the
whole time I was thinking to myself that we are talking about scripture study
and Nephi´s commitment to the Lord! I eventually uttered a somewhat
intelligible sentence in Spanish and they all accepted it and moved on. I was
so embarrassed.
Moving on, the food is
good. I eat an Alfajor a day. It's kind of like this mini candy bar thing that
can be soft or hard. I am collecting the wrappers. And don't any of you say
that I will get fat because I won´t. I walk so much and sweat so much that I am
sure there is a deficit of calories every day. I haven´t had much pasta.
But I have had rice a lot. I LOVE IT. There is something different. I can eat
the rice just plain, it is SO good. The meat is good too. Haven´t had much of
it, but the parts we have had are good. Had pig yesterday. REALLY good. Don´t
know what part of it but I don´t care. I figure if you don´t tell me what part
of the animal it is, I will eat it. WHICH, brings me to my next little fiasco. On
Saturday, I get the WONDERFUL opportunity to partake of the delicacy of sopa de
ojos. FISH EYE SOUP. And these aren't little salmon trout eyes, these are
massive, size of a 50 cent piece eyes. Yeah, my companion loves it but I don´t
know. I will for sure try it.
Today was dia del
trabajador or something like that. It is basically Labor Day so everything was
closed until later in the day.
Anyways, things are
going good. The work is true! The harder it gets the closer I get to my
Savior.
Love you all,
I pray for you all!
Elder Moore
HAVE A GREAT
THANKSGIVING. THANK THE LORD! PRAY A WEE BIT LONGER TO EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE EN
SU LIFE!
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