Week 3- Buenos tardes!

Ford is in the middle and to the right.  Not sure if this is his zone, district, or random missionaries....

It’s already been two weeks since I arrived at the CCM and time seems to be flying! This morning I got to go to the temple! The Utah missionaries say it’s rather small but compared to our little Spokane temple it's huge! We got to do sealings first, which was great and then we went through a session. President and Sister Romney went with us too! It was awesome. It's so wonderful to hear from all of you and I apologize if I don't respond to all of you! 

Soooo this week. Last week a new batch of missionaries arrived and most of them are all Latin. So this week we've had the interesting opportunity of trying to converse with these missionaries in our broken Spanglish. It's kinda rough but I think I'm making progress and the Elders are really good about the whole thing. This past Sunday I played in sacrament meeting, Kinda freaked out a bit but I did my best and the meeting was awesome. The topic of the day was Faith in Christ and we heard some wonderful messages. The rest of church was great and we got ice cream after dinner! President Romney has a bit of a sweet tooth and nobody's complaining.

This Tuesday's devotional the area president came to speak to us! His name is Elder Cornish and he's a member of the second Quorum of the Seventy. He shared with us a beautiful message about the importance of conversion, for ourselves and our investigators. He told us that now that we're here, we need to strengthen our own conversion if we wish to convert others. Also, we don't baptize investigators, we baptize converts! Awesome message and afterward we all got to introduce ourselves and shake his hand. I have decided not to wash my right hand! I'm joking, I'm joking. This week we also started teaching two new investigators. It's been a new challenge for all three in the companionship. We're trying to teach the gospel simply in a language we don't know and it's difficult to communicate what we want to say. I know a bit more Spanish then Elder Lee and Elder Lester so if I don't watch myself I'll start to ramble on with our investigator. We've set a goal to work on communicating and listening to one another, to the spirit and to the investigator. It's hard but we're making progress. In the mornings our investigator is Neiva (Maestra Martinez) and in the night it's Sebastian (Maestro Eve). 

I love our night lessons with Hermano Eve. He's probably my favorite teacher here at the MTC, he always has a huge smile on his face and makes everybody laugh. He's English is really good, this week we taught him the word Health. We repeated it a couple times and start laughing. I don't know what so amused him but it got all of us laughing. He's super spiritual and gives us great feedback for our lessons. Last night we went and walked around the park across the street from the MTC. There was a Zumba party going on but we steered clear of it. The park is beautiful, especially the trees. They make you feel like your stepping into the jungle. We spoke briefly with a wonderful Dominican gentlemen who told us how much he likes President Obama and a lot of other things I could not understand. We just smiled wide and wished him a good night. When we got back Hermano Eve spent some time coaching the sisters and then our companionship. He checked on our progress with the language and the doctrine and challenged us to do better. He says were doing great, so we should push for our best. He read 2 Nephi 31: 20 with us. Press forward. I'm trying to heed his counsel and keep pushing forward. 

I love you all! Thanks again for your love, support and your letters!

Love, Elder Call