ok guys,
where do i even begin? so many things. well, first off, i got really lucky. i love my campanion, and even better she is the only sister here that came from... guess where? montevideo, uruguay....so i have been asking her a lot of questions....she will be serving in the argentina resistencia mission....anyways, we have a lot of things in common, and she is way helpful with my spanish!! its been pretty hard, because they put me with all the latinos, the classes are all way condensed and every night that i go to bed, i pretty much collapse, it never seems like there is enough time to study everything i want. the mtc here is a lot smaller than i imagined,
only one other american girl that i met on my flight to slc was with us the entire trip...there are only like 20 missionaries here, not too many, so we have all gotten to know each other pretty well. and the food is amazing, we each a ton of meat (beef), and potatoes in every form imaginable, sometimes fish, its pretty good. i have the best teachers ever!! i can not even begin to describe how powerful they are, and i love going to class....it was really hard the first few days getting used to the schedule,
literally i have every second of the day planned and accounted for, and i have been waking up and hour earlier at 5am to study more and catch up on spanish....one of the things that was really hard at first was having to give our mock lessons, i got frustrated, because i felt like i had good ideas prepared, then i couldnt explain it as fluently as i wanted to in spanish, so i kind of doubted myself, but yesterday me and my companion did really well in our second lesson! i realized that i need to trust in the material that i have prepared and just speak what is in my heart and say what i know to be true even if its not perfectly said, and even though it was a pretend interview yesterday, me and my companion left feeling like we had really helped someone, and the spirit was stronger than i could have ever imagined, i knew what to say and when to say it in every part of the lesson, and my teacher said after the lesson that i sounded like i had spoken spanish my whole life. i honestly didnt think i was capable giving a lesson like that, but i know that because of our study and willingness to share our knowledge, the spirit was speaking through us.
tomorrow we are go to be proselyting in the streets of buenos aires, they are going to give us a map and pretty much drop us off in whatever part of the city we have assigned to us at 9 or 10am then come pick us up at 5pm, i am way excited!! we pretty much are contacting as many people as we can, and trying to set appts for next saturday, because we will return to that area the following week and be proselyting in that area again...its crazy to already be so involved in the work....but i know that after tomorrow i will have a ton of things to tell you ;) time has kind of disappeared here, i like it, but it doesn´t feel like i am in south america, i think it is going to be quite a shock tomorrow in some aspects, mostly because we are so closed in here at the mtc, that i pretty much feel like i am in utah, except that we do everything in spanish and most of the missionaries are latinos.....so tomorrow is pretty much the first time i have even seen any part of buenos aires....the drive from the airport wasn't very far, so i havent seen anything.
when we got to argentina, there was a member waiting for us, and we didn´t know who he was, he happened to see my as i was on my way to the bathroom, and told me that he was there to pick up the missionaries, so i led him back to where me and the other sister had been waiting.
well, i love being here, i can´t wait to teach tomorrow! and i love you all!
love, hermana moyes
