June 16, 2008

¿Mba’e chapa? ¿Todo bien? Tranquilo.

Life is moving along. Like you said, its crazy to think that I´ve been gone for so long already, I´m not even noticing the time moving. What’s even more crazy, is that next week, I have to start using a “2” at the front of my age… that’s just weird. And Happy Birthday to Papason! I hope he enjoyed the rest yesterday, and especially his chicken picata... not fare! But what is this about money coming out of my account?! I haven’t been able to get it out yet… haha chiste no mas (or in English, just kidding… I got you, didn’t I? :-p ) Yeah, I got my money out just fine once I dipped below the two hundred mark. So now I got my guitar (HOORAY!) and I also got my cases for my scriptures today! So I´m stoked about that, they’re absolutely awesome.

As for the life down here, its freakin cold! I´m not liking this. Its usually not that bad in the middle of the day, but in the morning and as soon as the sun goes down its horrible. The funny part is that its probably not really all that cold, I just got used to the heat of the end of fall here and now that we’re getting into winter, I´m already accustomed to the weather down here. Other than that things are going pretty good. E’ Cameron is still a little tough to really get along with, he’s quite out there, but I´m doing my best, and we’re trying to work hard and get some people to progress. But really cool today, Pte. Wade and his wife and son stopped in at our District Meeting this morning, and visited with us a bit, so that was really sweet, they’re so awesome.

At home, it sounds like Robyn is doing awesome in here new school and friends and all that, so that’s great to hear. Okay, so I have some way exciting news that I forgot to mention. First I’ll say that whenever I write anything anymore in English, I’m totally translating it from Spanish to English to write it down. Its so weird, some things are just so much easier to say in Spanish. And that leads me to my bit of news: this week I had my first dream (that I remember) in Spanish! So that was a really exciting morning, I was just kind of laying there, and I was like “Woah, that was in Spanish.” So yeah, the language is coming along well. I don´t have to really try to understand anymore, I still have to focus on what they’re saying, and I can’t have too many distractions, but for the most part I don’t have to strain anymore to understand these people.

As for E’ Fiala, it sounds like he’s doing good. And just a tidbit of random information, Joe Weeks from Olentangy hockey is at school in Elmira right now. Just thought I could share that. And as for the package, some more velveeta and shells sounds good, as well as some skittles or nerds or something like that… you know what I like. Also, you should definitely include some CDs, like all the ones you bought me, but more than anything, I could go for some nice soundtracks, like Last of the Mohicans and Lord of the Rings, things like that… :D

Haha, and yeah, E’ Pavon is awesome. He’s one of my Zone Leaders, and he’s one of the best latins here at English. He’s really cool, I love getting to hang out with him. My other Zone leader is E’ Adams, and he’s one of my best friends here on the mission so far. He’s really into music, and he’s a professional drummer, so we’re totally planning on jamming when we get back. But yeah, life is great. I love the work and the people.

I love you all,

E. Dennis