April 23rd letter

Familia,
> Thank you for the letter. I was so happy to receive it (last night). I get so excited over the little things now, it´s a litte ridiculous. One of the elders in my district finally decided to share some of the peanut butter, that he got in one of his packages, with us this (the other members in our district) and I was so, so happy. (who would have thought that something like peanut butter would make me so excited).
> The english fast that we had last Friday was a failure. Some of the elders in our district forgot about it and eventually lost all interest in fasting from english that day. The teachers were a little dissapionted (and we were a little dissapionted too... kind of). BUT, me and my companion decided to have an english fast yesterday without the elders, and it was a success. I feel so much better when I try to speak spanish even though it is agonizing not to be able to communicate much during the fast. I think I understand why babies cry so much now. They have so much they want to say, but they can´t form the words to do it.
> On Monday, Elder Aidukaitis (who spoke in conference a while back) came and spoke to us... in spanish. I could understand almost everything he said (much to my surprise) and it was wonderful. We had a translater, but after the first few minutes he (the translater) realized we didn´t need him and stopped talking. Elder Aidukaitis gave us N. Americans some advice about learning a language that I thought was very applicable to me in my situation. he told us (in spanish) that we we need to make at least 5,000 mistakes while talking beforewe will speak the language well. Since almost every single sentence I try to speak is grammatically incorrect in about 5 different ways, I believe I am well on my way to achieving that 5,000.
> On Saturday we went tracting all day again. It is always nice to get to leave the MTC and it always makes for some good experiences. I´ll be sure to write about a few of them in my next letter.
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> hmm, there is one fruit that they have here that I´ve never seen before. I don´t remember what it´s called, but it´s not all that wonderful... so it´s not a big deal.
> The weather here is pretty good right now. It´s definitely fall. The leaves are falling off the trees and everything.
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> I love you all, Thanks for the letters and the prayers.
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> hna, Grindstaff