Wednesday, August 22, 2012

15 August 2012


Hello!!

Well, I still don´t know if I am staying or leaving. Though we did get a surprise today, and now we are in a trio. We had an activity at the mission home and there we played some soccer, some basketball, and some tennis (I am really terrible at playing anything, though I was better at tennis this time than I was the last time). So after that we were going to leave because we had an eating appointment with an investigator at 5 and it takes an hour and a half to get to or from the mission home. However, they hadn´t started cooking the food yet, so we waited another hour and a half ( and i played some volleyball with a ball that was flat every 10 hits, it took a fall on a cactus during a serve and wasn´t quite the same afterwards). So then we ate, and were about to leave when we were told that an Elder Rodriguez will be accompanying us. (he was in the north and came down for his papers and the president said that it wasn´t worth sending him back up with transfers next week)(so maybe he will be staying in b3). We actually forgot a little after that and started walking to the bus station when i remembered, and then we had to go back to pick him up. So then we ended up taking 2 hours to travel and wait, and then we changed, ran to our appointment, got cancelled on by our other one, and now i am here, so the letter is kind of late. Sorry about that.

So i bought a new memory card, however, my camera is a little too old to use the new memory card. So now i am going to buy a new camera so that i can remember everything. Hopefully i can do it really soon.

Well ¡Feliz Cumpleaños! espero que es uno que no olvidará. Por lo menos creo que no olvidará a dar comida a noventa misioneros. Sé que los misioneros la encantará esa comida y actividad. Yo también me gusta mucho para tener actividades así. Esta muy bien su servicio.

Well, hopefully having 4 at home isn´t too bad. It will actually be the norm in about 5 years or so. Hopefully the kids don´t miss me too much because i still have about 17 months, a little less. I´ll try to get send something to them ... one day. By the way, would i need to buy boxes or can i use the ones you sent me?

Pues Padre, cómo va el español. ¿Ya sabe muchas palabras o todavía esta en los básicos? espero que puede preguntar por el baño sin ofender a nadie. No es tan difícil, el más difícil sería que tiene que hablar con un acento que ellos entienden. Porque muchas personas aquí no han escuchado la acento americano. Y también el acento americano es tan raro que casi nadie entiende nada de lo que digamos. Tenemos una converso reciente que dijo que en el principio ella no me entendió para nada. No obstante hay algunas personas que hablan el ingles o podrían entenderle. Espero que puede aprender muy rapido el castellano. La unica cosa que diría que le ayudará mucho sería que debe leer en voz alta un poco español cada día; debe aprender nuevas palabra; y tambien debe conjugar verbos cada día. Son reglas que nos fue dado en el mtc de Madrid. También tengo un libro que estudio pero en esta momento no recuerdo cómo se llama. los siento. Si habla solo en español com mamá le ayudará también y para que la gente pueden entenderle mejor, ser seguro que pronuncia sus vocales bien y también que hace el "r" correctamente, porque no son igual en español cómo en ingles. Mamá debe poder ayudarle con eso. Creo que estas cosas le ayudará más que cualquier otra cosa. También recibí avisas de un ex-misionero en el mtc que debo aprender los verbos antes de los nouns. Quizas eso le ayudará mucho también.

Well, we have some pretty good investigators right now that are progressing pretty well. Unfortunately they are all working in the place of the people that are on vacations. So they won´t be able to get baptized until next month/transfer because they can´t come to church. However, in just a few more weeks some of our other investigators will be coming back and hopefully we will be able to resume teaching them when they return.

Well, martha is still in the hospital with the baby, at first the baby was trembling so they kept her there to figure out what was the problem. But they have no idea. But now Martha is having a reaction to the anesthetic, so the have to stay there for a little bit longer. She actually might be coming home tonight though...

Well, Melissa, one of our recent converts is going to move to bolivia with her family. Its kind of sad. But at the same time it is really good that she can do it, because it would really help her to leave some things/people behind. It will be a good change for her, but its bitter sweet.

Well, I don´t know what else to write right now. The week has been pretty normal, other than the fact that you could fry an egg on the road outside, it has been really hot this past week. But other than that, it has been pretty good/normal. I am kind of excited for these transfers, i really like changes, so i think that this could be pretty good for me, that, and the fact that i have heard that there are going to be a lot of changes, so it will be really interesting to see everything that happens.

Well, that´s all that i have for today, enjoy the evening and make sure that those rebelious missionaries behave themselves.

Well. tell the kids i´ll be home when i can.

os amo

Hasta luego,

Elder Talon Johnson

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