Hi
mom! My companions and I are currently laughing about the mayhem at our
house. Everybody is getting hurt! I guess missions really do bless
families! My companion is from Provo. We talk about our different needs and problems as
missionaries and now everything is going much better. We've been talking
solemeinte in Espanol for the past two days so sorry if my English is
weird. My English is getting worse as my Spanish is getting bettter! My
bag is great. I have flossed, brushed and used mouth washed 2 to 3
times every day. Also if you could send a copy of Yours and dads
patriarchal blessings and some stories about both of your parents by
mail and email that would great. Ive had iompressions that I need to
read them and sadly theres not a printer I can use. Sorry that Im not
putting apostrophes, theyre really hard on this spanish keyboard!
This
week has been going great. We started a new game called find Elder ......... girlfriend. We take a little picture that ........ had of his
gfriend and hide it around the casa. Whoever finds it gets to rehide it.
So far everybodys found it at least once besides him. Yesterday and
Monday were Mexican Independence days. It was super crazy! There were
fireworks and music all night. We also watched Mexican traditional
dancing for our celebration. It was the most boring thing ever. They
basically just walked around the stage in big dresses for 2 hours. I
decided to study for about the last hour. It was pretty productive!
We
got to watch a live devotional from Provo MTC yesterday with Richard G.
Scott as the speaker. We were all really excited. Unfortunately, he
gave the same talk that we watched for our first Sunday devotional.
Apparently he gives that specific talk a lot. It was kind of a bummer
but I still got some pretty good notes. Its amazing what I am excited
about now. We watched the restoration on Sunday and I dont know if I
have ever been more excited to watch a movie in my entire life.
Devotionals and church movies are more exciting for me now than I ever
thought possible. They went from being a chore to being a fiesta.
I
saw one of the most inspiring talks Ive ever seen on Sunday. It was by a
30 year old bishop named Bishop Cates. He talked about his missionary
experiences and how much he struggled at first with the language. It
made me feel a lot better about how my studying is going and at the same
time inspired me to do more. It was awesome. Also, if you could pray
for me to stay more focused during studying and have a greater desire to
study that would be great. Its really hard to study right now because
my class is really really loud and rowdy and I have to stay in that room
to study.
I
weight lifted with this other guy in my district last week and Im still
sore. Apparently hes even stronger than I thought he was. But I did
kill him when it came time to run around the track so thats good! The
other companionship moved out of our room last week. It was kind of
bitter sweet. They are super awesome, but now my companion and I have the
whole room and a shower to ourselves. So far Im liking the change! Jason ....... left this week but not before he challenged me to a game of ping
pong. I destroyed him three games in a row. He was pretty awestruck.
I love you MTTCT. Tell the fam I love them too.
September 24, 2014
I got your package! Sister ...... hand delivered it to me
while I was in class and it was probably the most exciting thing that´s
happened to me here so far! Not a ton happened this week. The letters
from Valecia's family and Austin were super cute. I have the cutest
nieces and nephews in the world!! Just a lot more studying and teaching.
Sadly we didn´t make up any new games and my districts soccer career
was really short lived! We played three games the day after we won a lot
and got destroyed in all of them (I wasn´t goally). Since then my
district hasn't wanted to play again. So it likes like that's the end of
soccer in the CCM. But on the bright side, I am getting pretty good at
volleyball.
I have been able to stay on task a lot,
lot more easily now. The class is still super noisy but a lot of the
time I don't even notice. Its amazing the blessings the Lord has
provided for me here. In our lessons, my companion and I are now able to
switch off practically perfectly in every single lesson. Even more cool
is that we now have the ability not only to teach the lesson but
explain everything we want to and bear our testimonies in the ways we
want. It's great!!! My gospel language is good but when I try to talk to
natives just about normal stuff, I'm super lost most of the time.
I
started reading the Jesus the Christ books that Anji gave to me. At
home, reading it seemed kind of boring but now its my favorite part of
study time. Talmage goes in depth on so many cool things about Christ
and backs everything he says with scriptures. It's been really cool. We
also had 2 talks this week: one from Bednar and one from Ballard. A
general authority is coming here tomorrow morning to speak live to us as
well, but we don´t know who it is.
My
companion and I had a really cool experience teaching a lady who was
actually a less active member this week. The spirit was super strong! We
were able to discuss all of her needs and committed her to going to
church again on Sunday. We also taught a lesson in the church with a
fake investigator. It's amazing the spirit that comes just from being in
the house of the Lord.
I went on my first
run yesterday. It was really slow and it was really part of service but
it was still good. We drove around in a truck and delivered 6 gallon
water jugs to the casas, Everyone else rode in the truck a lot of the
time, but I thought it was a good opportunity to get a run in so I just
ran behind it. It was surprisingly fun. The guy said it was also the
fastest the water jugs had ever been delivered, so we got a thirty
minute free time break as a reward!
P.S. If you
send me another package, I would really like a tide pen and some stain
remover. Also in the shoe polishing kit you gave me, there's only brown
shoe polish. If you could send me some black shoe polish it would be
great. Love you more and more each week!!
Elder Bell
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