Email from September 6, 2014

So this week was pretty good I'm not going to lie! We lost another teacher this week and with him another investigator! We have a companionship in our district that haven't had the same investigator for more than a week and I feel really bad for them. Speaking of investigators our investigator is absolutely the hardest person ever to teach and on top of that in Spanish but that's not really that bad anymore. We had a missionary leave this week and it was hard on everybody even though he wasn't in our district. The next day we had a missionary have a panic attack and the ZL's (us) got to help him out and eventually gave him a blessing and just to make sure that everything was OK we sent him over to the ER and everything is good to go now. Besides that district B left for mexico on monday and we were handed the ZONE BALL to describe what the zone ball is is it's a foam ball with a yellow smiley face and has signatures of all the ZL's before us. We were also given the location of a secret room that supposedly has pillows that fill the room and I can't express how excited I am for the day that we go there!!! Speaking of ZL's I know you might have some questions as to what we do. We honestly don't do very much besides interview the DL's and we organize who prays and who passes the sacrament! And also since I'm a ZL I get to have a little bit of "diplomatic Immunity" for talks :) We got our flight plans today and I'm really excited to go! We have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and our flight is at 8:30 and lasts till 2 something and that's to get to atlanta. After that I don't quite remember what we do but we have it all in paper so don't worry too much about me. Our new teacher is Hermana Steward and she is a great teacher. I can say that I have learned a lot of phrases that I'll be using on the daily. Para ejemplo there is a phrase "se le plancho!" which (as I'm told) means "you got ironed!" and that is the Mexican equivalent of "you got burned!" so I use it . . . . . . A lot. Another few phrases that the District I'm in uses is "Tengo dibs!" which is not something that we will probably won't be able to use in Mexico but it means "I have dibs" there is also hota ka which means JK and since there is a rule here in the MTC that we can't dance we will scream at each other "NO BAILANDO" if any of use start to dance. We have picked up a game that we play every once and a while called Gadianton Robbers which is a MTC version of Mafia. The people are the Lamanites, The saving angel is the 3rd nephite, The mafia is the gadianton robbers, and the detectives are chief judges. Just recently we've added a character named Teancum who is able to choose a person to kill if he himself is killed so you could say things get pretty intense! All in the appropriate time of course. I think my Spanish is pretty good for some broken Spanish but I know what it's going to be like when I get to Mexico! I won't understand a thing. 

All in all it has been a normal week here in the MTC! Always remember that the gospel is true! and that it is through the trial of our faith that makes our testimony grow. So don't be disheartened when things don't go immediately well for you. Always remember that it is through Heavenly father and Christ that we can be made clean and that we can not only become like him but while we are here we can have someone to understand us and to go to for support. I know this to be true wholeheartedly.