OIIIIIYYYY Shay ya eres super
cuchita ehh;) haha happy birthday Shay. Hope you have a great day this Thursday,
you`ll have to tell me what you got next Monday and what you did. But BE HAPPY
haha life is just so much better when we are happy people full of energy and
funness! It also makes the lives of the people around us better when we are
like that. Haha I just wanted to talk to you a bit and tell you congratulations
on your track meet and lifetime pr. I`m sure the fact of not really having any
competition made it kind of hard to beat the meet record, but it`s awesome you
pr’d! Don`t get senioritis though!!!! or in mission talk it would be ¨Don`t get
trunky on me now.¨ Haha Dads words always come to mind when I think about
trunkiness ¨Time will always pass at the same rate and the end will always
come, but it`s what you do with the time that really counts.¨ When I think back
on my senior year, I really wished I would have been a little bit smarter and
enjoyed my sports more, especially pole vault. I didn`t even have a plan or
anything to go off of I just went out there and jumped and jumped and jumped
until I was exhausted and frustrated. So don`t get senioritis, especially with
your sports. I promise you that I won`t get trunky if you don`t get
senioritis!! Lets finish strong:) there are still a TON of things to do:)
So this week we went to a service
project and cleaned up a park in the center of the city here in Bucaramanga.
It`s always really fun to go do service because it`s just something out of the
ordinary. So that was pretty fun, I`ll send you the pics, they pretty much
speak for themselves:) Well mom said it right, things are pretty easy between
my comp and I. I would have to say that out of all of my companions he and
Elder Da Silva have liked to talk the most. So it`s been actually really fun
with him. However it seems like when you have a good companionship, the work is
harder. Things have just kind of slowed down a bit. But this last Sunday a new
Elder’s Quorum president was called and they finally called a ward mission
leader so we were pretty excited about that.
We met with him right away, so hopefully we can get to work better with
the ward:)
So we had Easter this week, here
it`s called Semana Santa or the holy week and Sunday is not the principal day,
it`s Good Friday or viernes santo, the day when Christ was Crucified. When we
left to work last Friday it seemed like Christmas day in Bogota. Haha the
streets were empty and no one was working either. I heard that for the
Catholics this Friday is the most holy day of the year. Other than that I`m not
really sure about the other traditions that they have during this week. I`m
pretty sure they don`t eat meat on Thursday or Friday which is called lent.
haha so it was a different week from all of the rest of them.
So I got an e-mail from Elder
Castrejon that is now in Bogota, and I just wanted to share a little piece with
you guys because when I read it, it made me really excited. He said that he is
now with a gringo that has 16 months in his mission but I talk better spanish
than the other Gringo because he still has a gringo accent. Haha that was good
to hear. At the end of our companionship he told me that my accent had actually
really gotten better over the time we spent together and that I just sometimes
need to speak more fluidly stringing all of the words together to have a better
accent. So that made me feel good!
Oh Shay I wanted to ask you about
the girl from California that signed with Utah as well. Is she a member? Is she
your roommate now? You have to room with a girl from the track team right? haha
just curious.
Also I just wanted to share a cool
experience that I had this last Saturday. I don`t really know what happened but
after lunch I felt really sick and weak. But we kept on working like normal, it
started to rain, and I felt even worse. So we went to a less active family and
shared a short message with them. But we all felt the spirit really strongly
because we were able to talk about the happiness and support that the gospel
brings to our families. But afterwards it was just like my whole body felt warm
and healthy. I walked out into the rain and felt a little better haha. It was
the first time I had recognized that the Holy Ghost can make us feel better
physically as well as mentally and emotionally.
Well I will finish my letter now, I
have to go early because we have a cita at 5:30 so I have to cut my time short
a bit, but from what I understand about my travel information is that I
actually will not be home Friday june 27th, I just will be getting on the plane in the night
time and be getting home Saturday morning. I don`t know anything other than
that though. I`m sure you guys can talk to my mission president’s wife or
something like that and she will get you info. The mission secretaries I`m sure
don`t have anything done yet on that. They are always seem to be behind or
forget about things. .. LOVE YOU ALLLL:):)
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