Thursday, July 25, 2013

hey everyone!!



hey everone!!
holly cow this week went fast!!! the week has been good!! we have just been doing a lot of practice teaching and we started our trc teaching yesterday!! i love it here!! you are constantly feeling the spirit!! its that feeling that you have that when you take a deep breath you cant help but smile!! ahh its great!! soo more about this week. first off im going to telll you guys about some pretty funny things that have happened!! first, idk if any of you have ever eperienced a chili cerrado but they are more spicy than habaneros!! they are nuts! some of the natives here gave us few and told us to only eat tiny tiny peices!! so i tried them... yeah they are soo hot!! soo i had a great idea haha... i took it over to my friend elder rowberry, he told everyone a feww days before that he loved hot things. i dared him to eat it, but i told him only to take a really small bite.. he bit off about half an inch haha at first he was like ohh yeah this isnt that bad then all of the sudden his face flushed red and he started panting and was telling everyone to get him water we brought over a pitcher of water and he downed the whole thing!!!! and because of that he threw up!! hahaha yeah they are pretty hot!! just the look on his face was sooo funny!!! his nose was running his eyes were watering yeah it was really funny!! ok next thing... this happpened yesterday. we got new missionaries in our dorm and i had a wheelchair in our dorm (i,ll explain why later;) haha so Elder brown gets in it before the new elders walk in and he folds his leg beind him and im just pushing him around, they elders walk in and look at him and are trying soo hard not to look down at what looks like a missing leg haha so we play that the whole day!! we were talking to them after all our classes and they were asking how he is going to be able to go down to el salvador and he just says that he has faith haha soo right before bed they new elders our our ironing their shirts and elder brown just walks out with the wheel chair and leaves it by them and says good night... they both take a double look.. then just start busting up laughing haha it was pretty funny!!
ok more about why i had a wheelchair... haha sooo remember how i have been playing soccer everyday... well me companero me golpeo, my companion kicked me and i sprained my ankle pretty bad haha im sending a picture!! haha soo i had a wheel chair but for the most part ive been able to walk on it... the plus side is that i can now play soccer with my left foot!! hahaha kinda.. not really.
after that happened the lations in our dorm took care of me and did all that stuff that dad use to do!! it was really cool!! they are way cool i,m sad they left on monday!!
more about the CCM. i never realized untill about a ffew days ago how much all the people who speak and all of the videos reference marriage... its like ever meeting they say something like "a few months to a year from when you guys get home i imagamine that most if not all of you will be getting married", or they will talk about hi how awesome their wedding day was or stuff like that... lotttttsss of subliminal messinging here haha i asked my teacher about that and she said they do it on purpose because so many missionaries go home and dont want to get married haha .
the language is still improving, im getting to the point where i can hardly remember words in english i,ll be speaking and then all of the sudden i wont be able to rememeber a word but i,ll know it in spanish so i say it in spanish and everyone laughs haha oh well i guys thats cool.
now to my spiritual experiences... this week has been great!! after the first big others dont have as big of an ipact but they are still cool!! with teaching our new investigators this week one (they are fake) but her name is rammona and the other is miriam... we got one of the hardest investigators ever!!! miriam is lesbian and has a partner.... super awkward... wasnt really sure how to start out with that one. i have been praying soo hard to know what to teach her and how to confront her with this... i know the spirit will guide, it always does as long as you are intune. the spirit here is amazing!! i cant bare my testimony with out just breaking down. being district leader i have to conduct discusions and stuff and tuesday night after our devotional i was telling my district how i know that all of us have been called to the places we have been for a reason. there are missionaries in our missions right now but we were called to find the people that have been prepared specifically for us. they are our investigators. we are called to bring them back to christ, and noo other missionary will be able to help our investigators, i know that is true. i cant wait to get down there. i loved our trc teaching because we taught real people not fake investigators, i was able to talk to them about there lives and about what was really going on and just get to know them and share a message with them!! thank you all for your prayers i have definitly been able to feel them!!
love Elder Josh
i have been reading the book of Mosiah this week!! holy cow!! i get so much more out of the scriptures now!! i went from reading like 10 minutes to reading 1-2 hours a day!! i love it!! your understanding of things is soo incredible!! sorry i dont have a specific scripturre right now!! next time!! thanks for all the thoughts and scriptures!!













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