Tayler - May 19, 2014

this week i think has been a little rough. we spent a lot of time walking because all the appointments that we had fell through and we just couldnt find any one else to teach. the investigators that we have right now though are super awesome they are really excited to learn more and usually are pretty good about making sure they are home when we come by. i think i am getting better at teaching to as the time goes i get more comfortable with trying to talk and try to tell them what i think but it is still kind of hard for me to form sentences in spanish, i usually start a sentance and by the time i get to the end of the sentance i dont know what words i need and i usually have to start over and try to rephrase the sentance. i didnt eat any weird stuff this week they dont eat a whole lot of weird things i think but there are sometimes that you eat weird stuff. this week we ate a pizza libre wich is an all you can eat pizza place. it cost like 40 pesos so about 5 bucks and we ate a lot of pizza. i think the pizza here is way better than the pizza that i made during work. they sometimes put weird stuff like eggs and other things on it but it still tastes pretty good. my favorite one was they put a peice of ham and a slice of a tomato on it and it was really good. also a few days ago was a members birthday and we were invited to eat lunch with them. they spent the whole morning cooking all sorts of meat on their giant grill thing and that was super delicious. we had beef and chicken and pork and sausage and somehow they cook it so it all tastes super good. i dont really usually eat breakfast but when i do i eat cereal or a granola bar, and when we do eat in our apartment for lunch or something we eat milanesa or some kind of pasta. they actually do have ramen and hot dogs to i havent eaten any ramen but i have seen it and today we are going to have hotdogs for lunch. i think i have had like one zone conference but im not sure if it was actually a zone conference, and this week i finish my first transfer so that means i have already been here for 6 weeks. i think we are going to the transfer meeting on wednsday but me and my companion probably wont be transfered because usually you stay with your trainer for at least 2 transfers. my mission president is super cool. i think he is from florida and he went to school at byu so he kind of gave me a hard time cause i told him i am a utah fan. but he is super nice i havent talked to him a lot but he was very encouraging when i did talk to him. well i think that answeres all of your questions. so we are having a district activity today we are going to play some sport im not sure what, also its kind of cool every chapel has a ping pong table so thats kind of fun too. i found out that basically itunes does not exist in argentina because there are no apple products here at all. so you can still send me music on a flash drive and i think a lot of the speakers here you can plug a flash drive into so whatever. i think thats all i got i will talk to you next week. i love you

Lexie - May 17, 2014

Lexie - May 17, 2014

Lexie's first letter!

Hola!
sorry ignore that other email before this. I'm really struggling with the computer. This place is insane. I sent you a letter yesterday but I had to write it really quick and so I'll probably just tell you everything again on here. I'll start from the beginning because there's a lot you need to know. First. The food is kind of gross. Every once and while it's ok but I feel like i"m going to be eating a lot of cereal. Uhm, My companera never showed up so I'm in a threesome with 2 other girls so I'm kind of feeling like i'm rocking the whole third wheel thing and their both 19. most of the girls are, I'm kind of old and they are better at spanish than me so it's just awesome lol. So first day went smooth we got our rooms and had food and went straight to our first class. I of course went to the wrong class because I struggle more than most but oh well! I found it eventually. our teachers name is brother harris. He's a BYU law student I think, and super attractive. I always have to be his partner since I'm the third wheel in the group but he's very helpful. I am most definately the weak link of the girls. Oh my gosh the other two seem to know so much. The one has parents that know spanish and the other took a bunch of spanish in high school. So that's awesome. The teachers only speak spanish so it's usually super confusing and I know I'm being too hard on myself because I a have actually learned a lot. I can pray in Spanish and say my testimony and yesterday we had to prepare and teach our investigator and somewho I taught him how to pray. Really simply lol. I said, Uno padre celestial. Dos agradacidos. Tres Bendice. and Cuatro en el nombre de jesucristo amen. And I guess that made enough sense because my companion asked him to pray and he did. First lesson. that's pretty cool huh. It was super scary to teach and it makes me really nervous. I had to do the door appraoch and I was scared to death. I just kept giggling. It was not good. So other than that, everything here is really weird because I feel like I'm back at school. My building is two away from one of my old ones. Laundry is in the same laundry place. Church is in the same chapel. And where we have class across the street is where I used to hot tub so it's all just super weird. Uhm, my companeras are pretty nice. One is hermana dansie and she is from Idaho and is 19. the other is Hermana Allen and same thing 19 from Idaho. They are both are pretty cookie cutter but oh well. What else to tell. Saturday is my P day, we did a temple session this morning and yeah. Everything is just going. Still feels super weird. Don't know if I'm cut out for this but I'm going do to it.