This letter is from a week ago, but better late than never, right?
"Hey everybody! ...[Y]esterday we had the mission wide activity near Capital. It was at the school of the presidents kids. It was a super nice area it was much different than our area. We had a mission wide soccer tournament each zone was a team and then we watched Meet the Mormons it was pretty fun!
"Anyways you know the two girls I told you about last week that we taught? So after we taught them we went back for our next appointment and they were not there. So we called them and they did not answer. That night she texted us and said we do not want to listen to you guys anymore. I was super sad, so the next day we went to the house to talk to them and when we clapped they opened up the door really quick and sent the dogs for us. The dogs ran at us and ran out of the gate and started freaking out, so we got out of there pretty quick. So I don't think they want us to come back.
"Anyways wednesday night we had a youth come with us to contact referrals. We got like 5 new great investigators that night and we were super excited. We went back for one girl the next day she was 17 and we taught here and she excepted the baptismal invitation, and said she would come to church. We went to visit her Saturday night and her brother answered the door and said she was not there. And I looked in the house and she was sitting right there so that kind of sucked. All the other people we met also fell through, so we are basically starting over this week. So we are going to find some new people to teach starting today. This area is known as being a hard area to baptize but I do not want that to get into my head so we are just going to keep on working hard and I know we will find somebody.
"So my birthday was pretty awesome! We went to lunch at a members house and they made me a cake and gave us food! Then at church the next day I had to speak in sacrament meeting and we had to teach priesthood. But the whole branch threw me a party after church with cake and food and the sang it was pretty awesome. Birthdays are a pretty big deal here.
"Anyways I will talk about the food a little. So like I said we drink a lot of soda because the water is not clean. We eat a lot of hamburgers which are really good here. We also eat a lot of fried meat called Milanesa and potatoes. I have not had anything too bad yet which is good but I am sure it will come. Everybody here drinks Mate which is the stuff that looks like weed in the cups with a straw. We are not aloud to drink it so that is good because everybody share the same straw and I do not have to. I need to weigh myself because I feel like I have gained weight because I eat like 10 pounds of bread a day. Another thing that is good is choripan, it is sausage cut in half and put on bread. It is super good! So the food is not to bad!
"Anyways I still feel like an idiot with the language. I feel like a little kid but it is good! I get better everyday but is so hard to understand these people. I am at the point where I can basically understand everything my companion says in spanish now I just need to get better at understanding what natives say-. I feel like I can speak pretty well. It just takes time to translate what I want to say in english into spanish in my head and by the time I know what I want to say it is too late. So it is a pretty good struggle!
"Anyways I love what I am doing right now, I know that without this gospel my life would so much worse. Prayer is one of the only ways that helps me feel comfortable when I feel dumb or mad at myself. This gospel is true and I just want everybody in Grand Bourg to know that."
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