This week has been
crazy awesome! When I got to the airport I found out that there would be 23
more missionaries meeting up with me to fly to Buenos Aires. There are 16
Hermanas and 7 Elders (male missionaries) from all over the US with me.
The flight was horrible because we got on the plan
at midnight and arrived at 9:30 in the morning. I didn’t
get a wink of sleep and I tried so hard. It is still summer here and there is
very little AC, but we have a fan that moves faster than the speed of
light in our room! Lucky us! We have been speaking tons of Spanish and my
companion (Hermana Davis) and I have already taught 3 leccions in Spanish
to an "investigador" She's really one of our Spanish teachers (my
district has 2), but they set it up just like a real lesson and they never
break character so you have to teach with the spirit or you look super dumb. We
made her cry our second leccion because the spirit was so strong
in "her house" and we committed her to baptism.
I already have our purpose memorized in Spanish, two scriptures, and
I say all my prayers in Spanish (like 20 a day hahaha.) we are expected to
speak in Spanish all the time and ask our companion if we can say something in English. It's
been a week and by day 3 we were totally speaking all the time.
Oh and we are
the guinea pigs! Sooo the reason why all of us got moved from the Provo
MTC to the Buenos Aires CCM is because there are a few things added to the
language learning program and Lane, the person in charge of training the
teachers in the MTC´s, needed some new meat to teach here and they had to just
be learning Spanish. So he called mission travel headquarters and asked for
some of the missionaries that were going to the Provo MTC to learn Spanish to
be flown straight out to the CCM here. The lady said all of us already had our
temp visas and that it would be super easy to get us all here... so they
changed all of our plans and flew us here! I couldn’t be happier!! If it
continues to be easy for people to get visas then there will be more groups like
us after us but for now we are a super special case haha. Everyone else that
comes to this CCM (MTC in Spanish) is going to Uruguay, Paraguay, or Chile and
most of them are Latinos so most already speak Spanish and they stay here for
only 3 weeks. There are 53 Latinos here currently and 23 of us. Groups that are
learning Spanish stay for 6 weeks. The Latinas are so fun and there are two in
our room! Only one speaks English and they help us with pronunciations and
which words we should use for our region of South America. btw (we are all Americans
so I have to say I’m from the United States, not just America. We speak Castellano
here and at first it was hard but now I love it! My hair is crazy curly because
of the humidity. Argentineans don't like spicy food or beans but they love beef
and chicken. I always have to tell the cooks serving me “poquito poquito” because
they give you huge proportions of meat. Way bigger than Americans, but they are
heathier and more varied. We are right next to the temple. No joke I walk 10
steps and I’m there. We get to go do sessions today!! We can see the South Star
here but not the North Star. They leave fruit and bread out all day to snack
on. We have to say “buen provecho” when someone is eating and we are not. It’s
super polite. We will go proselyting not this Saturday but next Saturday.
Most people either walk or take the bus here. There are a ton of stray dogs
here and some are super friendly and others are not. They use utensils for
everything even sandwiches and chicken legs. They have a siesta (nap) every day
form 1-4 here. I am soooo excited to get out and love the people!! I want to
tell you guys so much about this amazing place but I’ll have to wait till next
time. Adios!! Buenos Dias!! Its 6:30 am here :)
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