Week 7

Hey family,

Hows it going?

This week was pretty uneventful. It was a fast week and I have about 11 days left here. We are supposed to get our flight plans tomorrow, so I can tell you that I'll be taking a thousand different planes to El Salvador next week. Well maybe 4 planes. Anyways, not much happened this week. I stopped playing soccer because I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and don't want to get hurt, and stay longer. I took up four square. Who knew it was so fun. The two times I played, I was King when we stopped, so apparently I'm kinda good at it. The conjugations are coming. I have been working at the most commonly used irregulars and its coming. We also started playing a game called El Nativo, where we draw cards with a person on it. If you are the native, you need to talk Spanish all day, but even if you aren't you want to talk as much spanish as possible so people think you are the native. We vote at the end of the day, and get points if people pick you, double points if you really are the native. Winner gets an all expenses paid trip to El Salvador or Costa Rica. Ok not really. We get some sort of surprise though.

Hmm...what else. We had a pretty good devotional. I honestly forgot the speaker. I'm a bad person. But he had a good message about instead of holding the proverbial line, we need to charge, and move the line forward. And to make sure that we make the next two years our finest hour to date. And he showed a video of Elder Holland talking about why missionary work is so hard. Its because salvation isn't supposed to be easy. And that sometimes we want to ask isn't there an easier way? When we do, we should remember that someone much greater and grander than us asked that very question in a garden more or less 2000 years ago. It was never easy for him. Why should it be easy for us? I think that applies to everyday life as well.

Yesterday I got to host some new missionaries, and I think I get to next week as well, so I will keep an eye out for Robs, and try to get him as someone to host. If not, just keep an eye out for him to see how things are going. Hosting is pretty fun. Get out of class, and just walk around helping someone. Pretty fun.

Mi español es progresando pero necesito trabajar mas todavía. Grámatica es mal en cualquier idioma. Especialmente en español. Muchas reglas a seguir y es un poco confundiendo a veces. Pero sé mi español es mas mejor ahora cuando comprado con mi primer semaña en el CCM. No sé si todas las cosas en estos oraciones es correcto pero es el mejor que puedo hacer.

Entonces...I can not get to El Salvador fast enough. I think I need more contacts, and the page protectors sound nice. I got a notebook but its only like an inch and half or so. I might need a bigger one. quizas. problamente. Anyways, one more week. I love you all and miss you all. I got a ton of food from your package yesterday so thanks for that. I think i'm good with foor. Definitely need more polyester ties. Idk. I miss kota. Give him a hug for me. The trick is to not get scratched. Lets see if you can.

Love,

Elder Gilreath