April 2nd letter

Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:28:11 +0000
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> Hola Everyone!
> It has been so nice to get your e-mails and hear how you are all doing. Unfortunatly I don´t have a lot of time to reply, sorry.
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> Last Saturday me and my companion were sent out tracting for two hours. Even though we could only say a tiny bit in spanish, we were so excited. We were so excited because for 2 hours we were free from our MTC confinement. It was actually a very good (eye opening) experience for me. The people we tried to talk to in our broken spanish and give folleta´s (pamphlet´s) to were pretty nice. Some of them even took the time to show us folleta´s they had already received from previous missionaries before sending us away with a nice "buen dia!"

> Me and my companion did have some success though. One of the first doors we knocked on was a young mother (named Sandra) who listened to us and seemed interested in what we were trying to say. She accepted the Book of Mormon (that we were told to be careful about who we gave it out to) and even accepted our invitation to come to church. I don´t know if anything will come of our efforts to talk to her, but it made me happy anyway.

> There was one lady that we talked to, while we were out tracting, that tried really hard to hold a conversation with me and my companion. She wasn´t interested in our message, but spent about 5 minutes talking to us... I have no idea what she said, but she was very nice and seemed to be saying good things about us. (who knows?!)
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> yesterday I embarressed myself trying to speak in spanish. I was in class and my teacher wasn´t letting us say anything in english.. anyway, I was trying to say something like "I don´t say", but instead I said " I don´t shower". I still don´t know why I got those words mixed up in my mind, but it was pretty embarressing. My companion got a kick out of it though.

> I´ve often heard the phrase that you should think before you speak. That is especially true when your trying to speak a foreign language. I have to think really hard to say something that makes since and even harder to conjegate the words correctly (which I rarely do, hence the reason one of my roommates said I sound like Tarzan when I talk).
> I´ve decided that going stateside on a mission isn´t such a bad idea. :)
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> Isaac, you are pretty lucky that you don´t have all those conjegations, but there are plenty of other things in the Swedish language that you will have to struggle through. ha ha ha (me laughing at you)
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> Aaron, I haven´t heard much from you yet. You better be writing me lot´s of letters.
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> Anita, sounds like your having trouble speeping on my nice big bed. :)
> Are you still enjoying band?
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> Mom, thank you again for that e-mail. I wanted to hear from you so bad...
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> dad, the branch sounds like it is keeping you guys really busy. don´t forget to tell me all about what´s going on.
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> I love you all, I have to go now (Thur. is temple day)
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> -hermana Grindstaff