Week Three

¡Hola mi amigos!

So another week has come and gone. The time schedule here is kinda weird. The days seem to take FOREVER to get over with but the weeks go by so fast. It honestly seems like yesterday when I wrote my last post! But, I guess it's better for time to go fast then to seem like it won't every end right? :)

We had a very busy week this past week. We taught our last lesson on the Restoration in ingles last week and started teaching lesson two yesterday at the TRC. We did pretty well but, once again, there is still room to improve. We start teaching in Spanish in another week and a half so my companion and I have started preparing for that. All in all, every lesson we teach helps us develop more and more! We had a couple of awesome firesides this past week. Last Tuesday, President Merrill J. Bateman came and spoke to us then this past Sunday, Brother Richard Heaton, the Administrative Director over the MTC, spoke to us. Both talks were phenomenal! Also this week, companion and I went to the RC (Referral Center) and started doing chat. We actually talked to someone that seemed really interested and we even set up a follow up appointment for yesterday but...it fell through. Instead, I was able to talk to a kid about the church. Rather...he wanted to talk about how we were wrong, that there is no such thing as revelation today, and how the scripture in Revelations about "Thou shalt not add anything to this book" verse will curse us when we die. But, it was interesting. I learned so much afterward when I did some research on the questions he asked. So, interesting week I guess you could say! :D

Spanish has been coming along great. I've kinda got to the point where I know enough to understand what I'm talking about when I contact people. The words actually have meaning instead of being just words! It's amazing! HAHA! My district and I actually did a half day English fast on Friday and have two more this week: one tomorrow and one on Friday. I'm pretty excited. We learned the Preterite (Past event) and the Imperfect (background, past detail) tenses this past week so, slowly our knowledge is growing. Some Elders are struggling more than others but, all in all, we are doing really well together. I took on the goal last week to memorize 20 new verbs a day. It's a lot of work but I've been pretty successful so far. Right now I'm at about 95 verbs out of the pool of 300 I'm drawing from. My companion and I also memorized the First Vision in spanish last week in prep for our first lesson in spanish. So, things are falling into place. It's just amazing how the spirit blesses you when you try your hardest!

In other news, this week has a bit of a rough week for me. Some of the elders in my district, to be honest, have probably never studied as much as they've studied here. As a result, the conversations in the classroom when it is our study times are slowly becoming more and more worldly and less focused on our Purpose. I've really been struggling with one particular elder, who happens to be going to my mission, who has a bit of an aggression problem. He likes to be belittling sometimes and has a very poor attitude about a lot of things. To be perfectly honest, he needs to re-read Elder Bednar's talk on being offended! :) But, I've been trying to help him with it the best I can and not create a situation where there will be contention between us. It may take until the mission field until he changes. If that's the case, it's going to be a lot harder for him to do it out there than it will be for him to do it here. But, the choice is his! I was able to go to the temple again today and, once again, it was FANTASTIC! I love the peace, joy, and increase of knowledge the temple brings when you attend. It really makes you realize the power of this work. It's just incredible! Speaking of temples, the MTC is going to get a direct connection to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication next month!! I'm really excited!

And lastly, an experience that I must share with you all. This past week, my whole zone, about a total of 60 Missionaries, ate 4 cereal hoppers full of cereal this past week. That is the equivalent of 12 bags of cereal. It took us 25 minutes, 239 bowls, and 2 big milk dispensers to complete the task. I myself had 6 bowls of cereal and I tell you what, I will NEVER do that again. But the memory is great nonetheless!

But, my time is almost up! I hope everyone is okay and that things are going great for them. You all are ALWAYS in my prayers!

¡Los amos mucho y hasta luego! Don't forget to write!! :D :D

Elder Klemme