5/7/09

> Hola!> Happy Mother´s Day mom! I´m so sad that I don´t get to call you. I leave for Uruguay in a week and a half, so I barely missed it. chagos!> This last week has been just so much fun. I´ve been having an english fast for most of it, but even that isn´t as bad as it usually is. next week will be the real killer though because one of my teachers (hno. Melerio) has bribed us as a district into having a weeklong english fast. I personally don´t think the bribe of cheesecake was worth the suffering, but it will be good for me. Speaking more of this crazy language is what I need to be doing. my MTC Pres. said that speaking spanish will invite the spirit to help us, so I´m going to trust his word´s. Actually, there is a worker here, who doesn´t speak english, who came into my district´s class this week and completely complemented our district on our spanish. He told us we understand more then most missionaries do after they´ve been out in the field for 2 months. That was really comforting for me because it is tough to learn a language (especially in two months). having so many natives around is one of the biggest helps because they don´t speak english and to communicate we have to speak spanish.> Last Saturday I went tracting and it was really great. me and my 2 companions (I got 2nd companion last week) sang to a few of our contacts and it was so powerfull. I´ll have to write about my experiences in a letter because I have just run out of my e-mail time. ah well...> I love you all and am so gratefull for all of you. > keep writing me letters because I love them... :)> > hna. Grindstaff> > p.s. Good luck (again) Isaac. remember to write me, or else!!! (death glare)