Alright, it's my first p day. I've made it one week.. it has been such a crazy long week but it has been good! The days are long. Sssoooo long. We are in class for thirteen hours a day speaking nothing but Spanish... mostly... I can't speak Spanish to save my life.
Ah I miss you all a ton! The mission is cool though. My companion, Elder dyerly only likes computer programming, but he is fun. We get along alright.
The other companionship in our dorm room is really cool.. Elder Lang is awesome. He is from California, likes classic rock and is super chill. We think of a song of the day every morning and sing it randomly all day. We also are doing a song of the week every week of our mission, the song for this week is people are strange by the doors.
His companion Elder bly is from Canada... kinda by Alberta... and he reminds me a ton of Ryan. It's pretty awesome. Elder bly, Lang and I are all going to the NY NY north mission so that's cool too.
Spanish is going to be crazy to learn... the moment I got here they spoke nothing but Spanish which was hard but after only two days I could actually understand most of what they say. That was an awesome experience.
When we started teaching our first investigator I couldn't say a single word in Spanish and it was really hard. The next two times I had a script I spent hours preparing before and could only say what I wrote down, but yesterday I went in, and had a script bit I ended up just closing my notebook and saying what I felt I needed to. I was still struggling a ton and had to ask my companion how to day a ton of stuff but I started to just speak Spanish which was so awesome.
Dad, I remembered what you told me about the spirit touching everyone in the room if you feel it there, so I knew she was feeling it and just said whatever came. It was a great experience. If I can learn as much Spanish as I have in the past week again every week I'll do great.
There have been so many things that have happened in toys first week, and so many of them I can't even remember, but it's be good.
We have a good district of elders and a couple sisters and we all have lots of fun. Already so many inside jokes and it's great.
I'll try to write more stuff down this week as they happen so I can have more stories to tell. We laugh as much as we talk. It's pretty great.
Alright, to answer my mom's specific questions...
Who is your companion and what is he like?
Elder dyerly, and he is pretty great. From California, likes computers, and programming. He has no interest in girls and gets a ton of heat for it haha. The other day he tried to teach our district binary... we were all laughing so hard we couldn't understand what was happening. It was pretty great.
We get along pretty well, except for mornings... the first day he turned the light on less than a second after the alarm went off... we all were like WHAT JUST HAPPENED IT'S SO EARLY! he is a robot in the mornings which is a great thing because it keeps us in check. So far I'm quite happy about him.
Do they speak only Spanish to you?
All Spanish... all the time. It's really hard but I'm understand a ton of it now so it is a good thing. still can't speak much but it's getting better.
Do you know your departure date?
No idea. Don't have time to find that out.
Do you know of any missionaries with wifi cameras?No, I man maybe but eh... I've just taken a few with my tablet. But I'll work on taking more because I'm bad at that.
Is there anything you need?
Lots of emails. I can read emails at Any time so anyone who wants to two me something fun about home please do. It is literally the only thing we all have to look forward to.
Anyway, I'm running out of time and need to write some other letters so goodbye for now! Love you all
Elder Figgins
here's a couple pictures.. Elder dyerly (my companero is closest to me, Elder Lang is on the top bunk and Elder bly is on the bottom. ) Elder bly is from Canada and is totally just like Ryan is pretty funny
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