Sunday, August 7, 2011

August 5, 2011

Well another week has gone by in the MTC. I'm still having a great time and learning a ton. You remember that 'investigator' I told you about? Well last Friday, we were all surprised to see a clean shaven "Cristian" walk into our class in a white shirt and tie and reintroduce himself as Bro. Welch. He ended up being our teacher for a couple days. It was really cool to get some much needed feedback on our teaching. I think I our district has had the the toughest out of any other stateside Spanish speaking districts here. I say that because we have had 6 different teachers in the last 2 weeks. We just got new teachers this week and hopefully they will remain to be our teachers for the rest of our MTC stay. One of our new teachers is Bro. Larson, from Kaysville,(yes, he is a Dart) and he served in Columbia. Our other teacher is Bro. Frischknecht, from Provo, who served in Argentina. They seem like cool dudes and they love to help us learn the language. Now we have to teach a lesson to our teachers everyday in Spanish as a companionship. Teaching them is pretty tough. Our first time teaching Bro. Larson was super tough. Me and Elder T. didn't even make it through the door on our first attempt. But I'm getting better at Spanish everyday. I kinda like learning Spanish. Oh I had a very exciting day on Tuesday. I had heard rumors that there were multiple Elder Facers here and one Sister Facer, so I have been keeping an eye out for them. I finally ran into Elder Facer, from southern Idaho, serving in Houston, Spanish speaking, who was cleaning our bathroom in the morning, and Sister Facer, from Willard, serving in Ft. Worth, Spanish speaking who was in the bookstore. I took pictures with both of them and I'll send them later. It was pretty funny to have two Facer sighting in the same day. Last night was pretty interesting. Elder B. and Elder O were both extremely homesick, especially Elder B. Our Zone Leaders gave Elder B. a blessing. When it was time for District Prayer, I gave the prayer and asked Heavenly Father for a blessing of peace and comfort. When I finished the prayer and opened my eyes, I was shocked to see tears in the eyes of everyone in my district. We ended up staying up late, talking about how happy we were to be here and to be in the same district together. So that was neat experience with prayer. Well anyways, life is good here. Everything is going great. Love you guys so much. Hasta llego.

Love,
Elder Facer