Letter #8 September 16,2013

Holy vaca! i cant believe that it has already been another week. and that i have been in mexico for 2 weeks already!! 

So it rains..pretty much every day. usually in the afternoon, for 2 or 3 hours, sometimes more. a lot of times its just a cold drizzle, and others its realllly hard. haha my first week i think there were rivers in the callas, it was raining that hard. thats when we went and bought sweaters! (like you can see in the pictures!! :) wow i am shocked that it didn{t say in my packet to bring more warm ropas (sorry, i try to write a word, and i cant spell to save my life anymore!!) because it is cold!! the mornings are pretty brisk when we are studying, and my knee caps always get freezing cold. haha i am going to look for another blanket, and another pillow. i only have the one that you sent me, and i love it! but i think i just need another one so my head is higher up, because i always wake up and my shoulders hurt. Elder Reiley says its because i have broad shoulders. i hope so! haha OH!

Mom, yes my pdays are on mondays! :) and Elder Reiley is from Hawaii, he has been on his mission 3 months, he just finished being trained, and now is training me. haha we get lost a lot. especially because he was in las vegas for 6 weeks waiting to get his visa, and then here for 6 when i got here, but thats okay! we are learning together! there is this thing that we do called the first 12 weeks, where the new missionaries get trained, so elder reiley and i do it every morning for companionship study, and we have two hours every day instead of one. its been hard, because its a lot of just practicing. and its hard because i just either want to be learning and studying doctrine, or spanish! i practiced a ton in the MTC and what better practice than teaching right? but yesterday i tried to be more positive and i learned a lot about how to teach things and say things, and its in spanish, so thats good practice right?? yeah, the language is still killer hard. its so frustrating. i can understand enough to know where the conversations are going, or get the jist of things for pretty much every situation, but talking is sooo much harder. and everyone here just expects that i know everything they are saying, and even when i do, i dont want them to know that because i dont know how to respond!!! haha but i think that i know a lot of spanish. words, tenses and such, i just need to practice them, because they are in there, they just are slow coming out, and correctly because i havent used them enough. I definetely want to learn more grammar, that is so hard. i think im figuring out how its opposite in a lot of cases, like we told him is le dicimos. weird. the first week i was reallly good at only speaking spanish, but this past week was a lot harder, 

Pear