July 18, 2011

Hey mom!

So this week  we have been working super hard and we taught a solid 29 lessons our goal for the mission is 20 a week so we did pretty good. We have 3 baptisms set up so far, two for the 31st of july and the other for the 6th of August. I hope all works out. We are teaching two men named luis and a lady named lucia. So i get all the names mixed up. We are teaching a lot more people than that but they are the ones with baptismal dates. So basically spanish is coming for me but whenever we are in a lesson and someone says something to me in spanish it goes right past my head and i say ¿Cómo? About 30 times and then my companion just translates it for me. But i am making progress! I am able to say enough to teach the lessons i just need to expand my vocabulary to other words other than gospel oriented words. There is a man in my ward named Elias Aldrade and aparently he served his mission with uncle scott. It is a small world. I thought going to spain that there would be no connections with anything in my life before my mission. I thought that was cool.

The food here is good. Different but good. We went to a members house the other day and they gave us a mound of chicken alfredo. they didn´t know that that stuff is worshipped by any missionaries who are from america and living off of 140$ a month. Wow it was good. But they like green olives here. It would be a good place for Jaicey to live, if she still likes those. And they like to put tuna fish in everything. Not a big fan of tuna fish, but when i am hungry i will even eat a bug! Yes i ate some nasty looking bug from a columbian man in my ward named jaime. It actually didn´t taste too bad and you weren´t supposed to swallow it. Just the fact that there was a bug in my mouth was kind of disgusting.

It is pretty funny before we lift the mtc. Our president there gave us some advice and it was to go to the apartment buildings and ask for all the south americans in the building. And i now understand why. All of our investigators are south american and we have one from negeria and two from the dominican republic. There are a lot of people from ecuador and columbia and argentina.

In our Piso ( apartment) we have four missionaries that are doing the work here in Alicante. And yes it is a huge city for the four of us, i hear there are around 300,000 people here. Crazy but we are always busy with something and everything is going good. My companion is awesome and has taught me everything that i need to know. And last but not least i am sick of seeing Harry Potter posters everywhere. I think it is a test from heavenly father that the last movie of my favorite series decided to come out when i am on my mission. I will survive, don´t worry i am staying focused. Love you all

ELDER MCGARRY