Mamá!!!!
Hola como esta?? He escrito mis ultimos dos caras en español pero creo qur tengo que cambiar para escribirte :) A menos que prefiera tranducir todo lo que digo!! Pero google translate es un poco raro con español a veces... vamos a ver!
Sounds like you guys had a great week!! Justin got to play(even though he hasn't written me for two weeks now :( and Kara got into Jamba!! How cool :)
It has been a lot of the same here, with transfers last week we got two new elders in the district so that is fun! One of them is from Orange County right up the state! How cool is that? His name is Elder Gentry, and he's never heard of Poway haha but it's ok! And then another native elder fom argentina, who I met back in Madrid and is super good at fútbol.
We met some new cool people this week, a young dominican guy and then a family of four who lives kind of far away but it's worth the walk/bus/taxi... I was attempting to explain to my companion all yesterday about what munchies are and how I was bummed cuz I thought you guys would be having them during conference, but ok guess not!! And no cinnamon rolls either how weird... I left and all happy food left with me haha Although french toast sounds good!! I stole a pancake recipe from the other elders piso so I have made those a couple times, but they just aren't as good without syrup or something. Is that homemadesyrup recipe hard?? Btw can you send me more recipes?? Stuff that I don't need cream of chicken or mushroom haha because the only place they sell those is in an american store on the northern coast of the island, which isn't exactly worth the trip just for soup aha although I have tried some new food this week! I decided when I eat out I want to actually eat spanish food, since I only have not too long to enjoy it here, even though it's a little more pricey... And I had some really good mariscos one day and chorizo y papas tambien! Mariscos is seafood, just like an overbranching name for seafood and we found this tapa near our house it's like mussels with this sauce and it's super good and only a few euros! So ya yum! haha And man you dont know how bummed I am for when I go back to the states and they don't have so much amazing chorizo! Like every kind of it, there is a whole section of stuff and we always buy it every week in lunch slices and like a log of it like peperoni or something as well! Super good! Anyways i think im just talking about food a lot because we went out running and I forgot breakfast so now im starving, other topics...
Well conference was like super great!! I can't really pick a favorite talk or anything, but I loved Hollands as well. He is one of my favorite speakers, I feel bad for all the spanish speakers who listen to a translator and not his voice, so like passionate about what he is speaking. Oh and cool fun fact! There are like two apostles who speak spanish pretty well, so before the conference they record their talk themselves in spanish so I forget who but we actually got to listen to like Richard G Scott and someone else speaking to us :) That's fun!! And then ya! We had an investigator watch Sunday morning with us (which is at 5pm btw) The said they liked it a lot and the lady like set up he own appointment after haha like hey we are meeting this Tuesday and we can talk about the conference! haha We were like uhhh OK! It was funny watching the conferencewith like 5 kids there between 7 and 15 and remember how I was super unfocused and bored at their age! But some of them were way better like taking notes and stuff! 8 year old! Craziness!
Well the rama treats us pretty well i guess.. maybe it doesn't seem like it because I went from 150 members who would have some awesome families to take care of us, and now 20-30 members with like 2 or 3 families here, but they all like us and feed us and help us when they are able to!
That's gonna be sad when Kara leaves! Hopefully she can move down to Utah soon and we can all visit each other in utah and california!!! Oh how cool she liked the video! I don't remember exactly what I wrote, but awesome! Hey random favor to ask! Idk why I have had so much free time at nights, so I have been able to write some more letters that hopefully I can send soon!! And I thought of a couple people I wanted to send notes too but I don't have their addresses... could you forward them to me this week, or maybe today I could stop by and look real quick later!! Ok I think I need these!
Sister Baird: Cuz she´s awesome and I thought she would want a letter haha
Sister Winspear: Listening to the music yesterday I thought i should send a little note to say thanks for the song she sang at my farewell!
And Grandma Poulson: Are they still in Palmyra or have they finished??
Well that would be awesome! I hope Nana gets here letter sometime this week that would be awesome!! I sent one to Aunt Kathie too cuz she wrote me a letter like forever ago and I was lame and forgot to respond, but I remembered!!!
Well hmm any other cool stories to share this week... Ping Pong!! hhaa We play ping pong! And have been using it to get a 16 year old guy here to the chapel. And we set up an acivity so the other youth are gonna come and befriend him hopefully and we´ll all play and be friends and try to weave him into the group! Hope it works out!
Elder Lopez and I woke up early so we could run and we ran to the church and played ping pong for like a half hour hah idk why its so fun! I guess the ward used to have pingpong night every Thursday for like 10 years before the table broke, but I found some epoxy which from dad I learned is like the strongest thing ever(kinda) And with a bit of that we fixed the table up all nice! haha Hmm what else... Chinese buffet for district meeting that was good, although for an island I'm not too impressed with their susi so far... I cant wait fo RB Sushi!!! One day in the distant future! ha I guess I might just be too poor to buy nice sushi here :)
Hmm what else, that's awesome that you guys are taking care of the missionaries! Between talking to Kendal and other missionary friends, everyone has like one or two families that they love because they will feed them and care for them and when you need someone to help you out you can rely on them! From a missionary perspective, I bet they are grateful more than you can imagine every time you invite them to eat or have an FHE or whatever!
Good stuff!! Well I think I definitely will pass by a bit later because I want to send some fotos! And I forgot my camera! I got a sweet new bag from my grandpapa in the mission... They have like this weird thing where they say like your trainer is your "dad" and so on with family relations, entonces the trainer of my trainer used to be in my district, and he goes home super soon, so this awesome guy gives me like a little ralph lauren polo bag that I use to carry my scriptures around now! People are so nice! Oh I thought of one of the quotes I liked in conference about family!! I dont remember who, but they said something like, When your family has the basics like scriptures and prayer and has love in their home, whatever problems come, things just tend to turn out well. And its true, problems are tempoary and part of life, but when you have the basics and an awesome family, things just tend to turn out great :) Im happy to have both! I love you!! Hope you have an amazing week!!!
Nate
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