Okay!!! So where to begin??? so i hope that you got my letter in the mail that was like 22 pages long from when i was in vegas!! haha so thursday night we got back from vegas about 11:30 that night, and so i didn't get to sleep until after 12, and then still getting up at 6:30 was soooo hard!!! that was a major rough day. I fell asleep two separate times during our additional study times. One of them was okay though, because elder neddo was just reading a letter from his girlfriend anyway, im glad it was super long, because i was tired. haha anyway, so friday and saturday were realllllly rough days, probably some of the roughest that i have had here. I was still feeling the spirit and learning and we taught some really good lessons, i just felt soo...off. looking back on it, i'm sure part of it was that i got 10 hours of sleep..in two nights. probably not good. haha and i think that a huge part of it was because after going to vegas (which was so cool being out in the world as a representative of the lord) it was kind of like...wait i'm back here?? I woke up every morning, either expecting to be in the field or kind of confused where i was and why i wasnt home. Kind of interesting. Yeah, it was soooo hard to stay motivated and keep trying to learn and study. (oh interesting thing about home, when i got back from Vegas, that was the first time that i said "i just want to be home" and talked about the MTC. en espanol, there are two different words, casa, which is house, and hogar which is home, and they arent synonimis like they kind of are in english. you couldnt say, yeah lets go to your casa, you would only ever say lets go to your home. Interesting how the emphasis is placed on home being where your family is and where the people you love are. a casa is nothing more than a structure. So pretty cool, because you guys are my home, no matter where you are or i am!!) anyway, not saying that i think that the MTC is more of a home than there, because it's not. But i am growing to really like it here!! it is so hard, and with 2 weeks from today left, i am getting ready to just go and get out there, but at the same time, i am so scared and dont feel ready in the least, i hope that i will feel more prepared when it gets closer...probably not, but thats okay! haha its funny because now that i am in the routine and way of life here, i don't really want to leave...but i guess that is the one thing that is feared the most in the world, is the unknown, and change and not knowing what is going to happen. I guess that is how most of the world feels about this life. I will go through any frightening and scary change in this life to bring the comfort and assurance that i have, that i know what will happen after this life (not specifically everything) but i know the plan, and i know that we don't need to be scared, and that through Jesus Christ, his atonement, and following the plan of our Father, we don't ever have to be afraid of any change, in this life or the next. Kind of cool!!
So today we went to the temple early, we are suppose to be there at 8:30 because our session starts at 9, so we got there at 8 today because our zone wanted to eat in the cafeteria for a change from here (not that it isn't good...but it defintely gets old. and its so boring trying to eat healthy with 0 variety!) haha except that the cafeteria is closed on mondays. haha i was fine, because i was just hoping they would have smoothies or something like that (i still don't eat much breakfast these days, definetely more than the nothing i use to!! the other day i had granola with my fruit instead of just fruit, and it was SOOO good! and super filling to!! but i can say that since my second week i am filling soooo much better, and i know its because i am really trying to take care of my body! thanks again for your example mom! i always think of you whenever people are like "youre only eating fruit, shouldn't you balance that out with some protein or something?" someone said that the other day, sheesh how much meat do you think we should eat!!!?? haha anyway, so we were just standing there, and some of the elders were getting stuff from the vending machines, and a temple worker asked us if we had somewhere we were suppose to be right then, and we said not really, we didn't need to get ready for our session until 8:30, and he said that they were WAYY behind in the laundry room, so if we wanted to help in there for a while. so we did! haha it was way cool!!! the whole time i was just thinking "this isn't the type of service that i have usually given in the temple, but this is awesome!!" i have never really thought about that aspect of the temple, but i suppose that magical harry potter elves don't clean the clothes. haha so we did that until like 8:40 and then were hurrying to get to our 9 oclock session, except we didn't count on there being 75 missionaries and other people waiting to get names in front of us. haha needless to say we didn't make it on time, so we didn't get out of the temple till almost 12, but its okay! im really glad that we helped the people in the temple, i mean what better thing to do right?? and it just meant more time being in the temple! even though now our p day is super short and rushed! and i need to sew my pants because i ripped them! don't worry mom, i had to sew a few other things, and i did a great job!!!
Elder PEAR!!!!
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