The punctuation on this keyboard is screwy so be patient with me. This week has been pretty laid back. The older guys left to their respective missions yesterday so we are the older kids on the block for another 3 weeks. I heard a funny quote the other day from one of the area authorities:
´When I am in the airport I watch the people and the Americans and Europeans are always reading a book, but us latinos, we have two boxes of chicken.´
Our AP who just left went to George Washington University; He´s a super bright kid and way fun to talk to. It´s too bad he left. It makes me wish I had gone somewhere like that.
Today we went into the market. For a lot the missionaries, it was their first experience in a Latin American central market. Many of them were a little freaked out by the meat section. Ha. It´s funny because what you said about CA kids being generally not very prepared for the work is true. They´re much more cultured and capable of dealing with the enviromental change of a mission, but it´s also the most time consuming and most difficult work we´ve ever done. The kids from other states consider it more of a vacation. My friend from LA was asked by a kid from Colorado if he´d ever been on a ranch before. My friend replied by saying: ´´Ýeah, it had a sick spa and we played tons of tennis and then we went horseback riding a few times. It was really sick.´´
My spanish is becoming pretty decent; It´s better than most of the missionaries here, at least. It should all start to catch on pretty smoothly from here on out.
My brain is really bored. I hate memorizing grammar and nouns. I wish we were able to do something else intellectually stimulating. Oh, well. Sometimes I really enjoy being here and other times I just want to come home.
The mail sent to me that arrives here after I leave in three weeks will be forwarded to me on my mission. Also, make sure everyone knows that DearElder is still a very efficient, FREE way to contact me. The amount of mail I recieve has dramatically decreased.
Until next week,
Michael
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