Hi family
Oh my gosh! I can’t believe Brady’s team took state! That blows my mind! Tell him to write me about it!
Well, I got to Pittsburgh Monday night with all my luggage and we went to Golden Corral which was good. Then we went to a look out where you can see the city very well and it was awesome. The city was great and it got me way excited! After that we went back to the mission home where we had interviews with the mission president and ate cookies. Sister Topham was way nice.
In my interview president Topham he told me that I would be serving in the Harrisburg area and I started to get a little sad inside because I wanted to be in the city and then he said that I wouldn't be teaching very much in Spanish and if I want to learn Spanish that I would have to study every day. After he told me this I was pretty sure that I want to just go straight home. Learning the Spanish language is what makes me excited to come to Pittsburgh.
Well I am giving it a try. The next day we had transfers which lasted all day and I met my new companion Elder Stewart from Orem Utah. He has been out for about nine months and is a Spanish speaking missionary but doesn't speak too well, better than me but not fluent. He had been her for nine months and he had only taught one lesson in Spanish until I got here but, yesterday we taught a Spanish lady. That was pretty cool. Anyway, we got to our apartment at about 11 o’clock and it is a DISGUSTING APARTMENT! I want to leave and never come back. I immediately started throwing stuff away and started vacuuming my area. I didn't even want to hang up my clothes and I did not want my feet to ever touch the ground. It was a shocking first night and I am still in shock but I have cleaned my apartment up enough to where I can feel a little better but it is still very sketchy.
I would explain the town I am in as Logan, UT, probably smaller and with more rednecks haha. Hopefully I can learn to love his place. There are a lot of farms and it is way green. The farm houses are nice and I like going to them more than houses that are in the town area. Some of them are gross and I can’t believe some people live like this in complete filth! I love our house and am so grateful for your cleanliness mom because I would hate to live like this.
I can’t believe I am a missionary though. It is pretty awesome. We can talk to anyone we want and they will either listen or just shut us down. My favorite part has been street contacting and going to members houses for dinner and sharing a message. I am pretty sure I have lost all my MTC weight already and am starting to get my six-pack back. We went shopping the second day I got here at the one Wal-Mart in town and I bought a bag of chicken, brown rice, eggs, miniwheats and milk. I need to go and buy a rice cooker though to cook my rice and maybe some chicken scissors because the knife in the apartment is like cutting with a butter knife (impossible). My companion is super healthy. He doesn't eat sugar and gets up at five thirty to workout. All the missionaries here are big into working out and have a ton of protein and stuff. It’s kind of out of control I think but I just do my pushups, sit ups, and pull-ups (thanks for sending my pull-up bar by the way. It is awesome. I missed it).
My companion has been a trainer his entire mission so that probably means he's the best trainer in the mission so I feel pretty lucky to have him as a trainer but I miss Elder Nelson. We got along better and he and I got each other’s personalities better. Hopefully I can become great friends with this companion though.
So much has happened this week. I could write you guys for hours but my P-day is on Mondays now and I will be writing at 10 to 11 or maybe 12 depending so I still don’t have that long to write but hopefully longer than in the MTC.
This week I was able to use my Spanish about three times but I got so excited to really be able to use my Spanish that I forgot everything I needed to say. I hope I can receive the gift of tongues soon. The Spanish people are so much nicer than the Americans though. The Spanish people always listen even though they probably can’t understand anything and the Americans just keep walking or let their kids be super loud. I don’t really like kid’s haha. I need to learn to but it is hard.
Well I love you guys so much and I miss you!!! I will try and write more in a little bit or a hand written letter if I have time.
My new address is:
811 Meadowbrook Lane
Chambersburg PA 17201
So write me letters as much as you want:) and send packages.
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