January 13, 2014 - Letter to Dad - Week 19

Hey Dad!

Woah crazy weather everywhere it feels like!!  I couldn´t even imagine negative 60 that just sounds terrible!  I don´t even like the weather here so I would die in that!  But ya I guess in the summer here it gets like unbearably hot too!!  Soo lets pray I´m in the islands or in the north when that happens!  Yep it´s kind of weird I´m the elder with the most time here in my area.  People keep caling me like hey where is this and that and half the time I just fake my way through it haha  But I am really surprised with how much of my area I have memorized!  Every big street and in certain metro stops like the majority of the streets in general.  

It has been a pretty rough week teaching wise.  Lots of cold weather made it so people didn´t want to talk to us outside, and now that our best people were baptized we are trying to find a lot!  But it´s all good.  My spanish is like being forced to skyrocket up because I like talking to people but I have to talk to Elder Alvarez in spanish.  But it´s fun.  And every night we do planning for the next day in english, which makes it soo much harder but it´s fun.  

I taught my first english class this week!  Since we have two natives now in the ward and the other elders were busy me and the Hermanas taught, which was interesting haha I realized that english really makes no sense whatsoever and anyone learning it as a second langauage is really impressive!  Even though spanish is hard, english would be like a billion times harder to just learn... But it was fun still!  

Where is that river you are going rafting on?  That is one thing I´ve realized lately how grateful I am for how awesome of a young men´s program we have in our ward.  Like everyone else did some decently cool stuff, but our high adventures and stuff are just sososo much cooler than everyone elses!  Not to put them down but I´m way happy with all the cool adventures we had.  

Well not too much else to share I don´t think, the family who sent the pictures I´m guessing was the Bonifaz family, they are so awesome!  They feed us like every week and they have two sons sort of my age. One is 21 and the other is 19 i think, but they are two of my best buds here in barrio dos.  

Well have a great week!  Love you!!

Nathan