You Kinda Just Have To Forget Yourself On A Mission

Hola all, this week was an adventure hahaha. Not being able to understand a language is actually the worst hahaha. So many barriers impeding everything, I can't really share how I really feel about everything. But it is progressing . . .  slowly, but surely.  My companion tells me all the time how much I'm progressing and all that good stuff. 

This week I gave many blessings in spanish, and let's just say they were awful.  My vocabulary and the words that I used were soooooo simple and so random.  But I hope they could feel the Spirit. We also had a family home evening the other night with a family who is really really struggling, and they asked me to dedicate their home in spanish and english, so that was fun.

We had a Zone Conference this week. That's what the majority of the pictures are from.  Elder Ginerllai is ridiculous and loves photos hahah. We learned a lot, I'm truly grateful for the Elders and Sisters that we have in our mission. They're pretty dope to say the least. This week my comp also got shipped to Iquitos for a day, so I stayed the night with the ZLs. Their casa has 2 companionships, I enjoyed talking with Elder Walker. I found out he pretty much ditched a full ride scholarship to play baseball at some school in Washington to go on a mission. He is one of the ZLs. He really helped me a lot during my  stay with them.  Just with advice and council, he has 11 months so he really knows his stuff. At first I was just gonna learn the bear necessities, and have awful spanish for now and always improve throughout my mission. He told me how much Presidente Li always compliments his Spanish, and the members as well and that really inspired me to be the best me that I can.

YES, I recieved the packages. 

I have never been so happy to see an Oakley T shirt in my life and the cinnamon Oreos, too!!!!!!!!!!! LO MAXIMO. I throughly enjoyed all the cards as well, especially Ryan's. Thanks for the picture of trump! hahahahahh hilarious!

This week was a struggle when it came tot he work. We didn't have a lot of time in our area and you could tell. We only had three of our 8 investigators come to church and that sucked hahah. I'm hoping this week we can get back on track with everything. I'm learning that you kinda just have to forget about yourself on a mission. I've learned that I need to not care how bad my spanish is, I just need to talk, and act like I can understand, that way we can build trust with out investigators. It's honestly the worst when we get caught in the rain, everything gets wet and you're soaked the rest of the day.

My comp said we will have 5 minutes to call later today and organize when we're gonna Skype on Christmas! So I'll probably call mom or dad haha. I think we will be with our Bishop. I know for sure we will be able to, we just don't know what time yet.  Probably in the afternoon, through SKYPE.

But yeah, that's all for this week!

Also, I HIT 2 MONTHS TODAY

Elder Roper!