Elder Teran and I had a blast this past p-day. We played catch
with the football for over an hour in front of our apartment complex. Elder Teran actually throws the ball really well. I was impressed. I ran routes and we had a
blast. As we played, a ton of people started watching us. Kind of awkward, but it
was fun! And yes, Dad, in answer to your question, I do understand him. He has a different accent being from Mexico, but it's all
the same to me. He does use some words that I don´t understand, but I´m
learning. It's interesting because some of the people here in Uruguay don´t
understand his words either, so that makes me feel better about my
Spanish.
Monday, August 26, 2013
This last week was a great week! Our zone here in
Montevideo is doing awesome! We are super happy with the efforts that we are
seeing by the missionaries and the miracles that we see and hear about each and every
day.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Well, my new companion, Elder Teran, is a stud! He´s super tall and is from
Mexico. He loves sports and actually played American football in high school as
a quarterback. Crazy stuff! We get along great and we both really miss Mexican
food, or better said "spicy things!" We´re going to make some Mexican food
here one day, and he´s going to teach me. This morning at 5 a.m. we got
up early to play against the elders in the offices in a basketball game at the church. It was loads of
fun! We were all talking trash (in English and in Spanish!) the whole
time. We had a blast and it was definitely worth getting up early. I haven´t played
basketball since the MTC days. That was like 19 months ago! I played horrible!
Monday, August 12, 2013
Well, this week I got to meet our new mission president, President Newsome, along with his
wife and son! It was a lot of fun to meet him in person and get to know him better. President Newsome is awesome and
is really chill. It will be interesting to see what happens in the following
months in the mission. As of right now, he is not making any changes with the mission.
The mission is doing AWESOME! We have had a lot of baptisms and are seeing a lot
of miracles. Vamo
arriba!
I got to talk to Elder Barlow and Elder Hicks for a
long time this past week. Every time we talk to each other
we´re always laughing and sharing stories.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Today has been a lot of fun because Elder Briones and I played
fútbol with the missionaries from our zone at the church. We had a blast! However, right now I'm super sore. I also threw the football around with Elder Lacey. He plays football at BYU and plays wide receiver. It was a lot of fun.
He's from New Mexico and is a super nice and humble kid. We get along great
and we actually will be doing an interchange tomorrow so that will be fun.
It's been a great week! Elder Briones and I have seen the
hand of the Lord everyday this last week! A cool story from three days ago is we got a referral from the Minas missionaries (Vamo arriba Minas,
it's my old area!). They gave us a referral of a man that lives in our area. He´s been going to the