Week Two

It is crazy how time flies here! I really feel like I got here yesterday, but when I think about writing you that email a week ago, it seems like an eternity. I guess that is just one of the blessings of God: He allows us passage through time in His way so that we can accomplish His work. My heart is smiling. It seems to be doing that all the time here, there are just so many things to be happy about. At any moment that I dwell on something that has the potential to put me down....ALL the amazing things in my life overcome that moment of unhappiness.

So Mom wanted to know about the food. It is fine. Nothing to complain about. There are usually three choices of meals. Salads. Grill. Entree. Salads are where I'm always at....but they dont even begin to compare with yours Mom. OH!! It hurts to think about your cooking! ...Eternal perspective, eternal perspective, eternal perspective.......okay I'm good. They feed us so much though, I always feel like im full. Yep. not once have I been hungry since I have been here.

Dear Elder works great. I get your letters and I love it!! I can read my letters everyday but I just cant respond until Tues.

So I was walking through the cafeteria on Wed and all of a sudden I hear this Elder Jensen!! Ian Spendlove runs over and gives me this huge hug. "Thats from your Daddy!" I have seen him and Josh around. They are great guys.

This whole week we have been practicing Lesson 1: The Restoration. In english. So we do all the lessons in English, 4 weeks. Then we do them all in spanish, 4 weeks. But we are learning and practicing in spanish the whole time. It is really great, we practice contacting people in Spanish and make fools of ourselves with the native speakers and it is just fun. It is kind of hard though because you want to do all you can in spanish for the sake of learning, but as of right now the spirit still talks in english for us. So we have to work on english teaching and learning, and slowly adjust to doing the same in spanish, because the Spirit is what it is all about. He is the deciding factor. Joseph Smith said that it would be the same to baptize a bag of sand than to baptize a man by water and not fire. That is how crucial the Spirit is. He opens the hearts of those we teach so that our testimonies can touch them through his promptings. He does this to ME everyday.

Se amo todos!!!!