Oct 12, 2009

Hey there family (and friends),

Tell Cole that I can’t wait to play fútbol with him when I get home, because I’m not gonna lie, I love playing soccer now. We play just about every week, and it’s a ton of fun. We gringos suck pretty bad, but I can keep up with the best of em... um... sometimes. But Hey, congrats for accomplishing the half marathon! Glad to hear that the two old folks are still keeping in shape. But yeah, I also got those pants, and they fit just fine, thanks so much for that, because I definitely needed it. I’m not gonna lie, I’m getting pretty fat... sooooo, yeah. But yeah, now I’m good for the rest of my mission. I think I might take one of my suit coats in to a fancy store and try and get some pants tailored up of the same kind of cloth, because man, those pants are wayyyy too tight. But you don’t have to worry too much about packages, you should just save up to spoil me when I get home :)

But wow. This starts my 14th transfer... I only have 3 more to go, and wow, I’m getting so old in the mission. I was thinking about that today, and I swear it still hasn’t hit me that I’m actually on my mission, but tomorrow is 20 months... WOW: I’m just bummin it in Paraguay and talking to people about Christ. And its amazing. I definitely wouldn’t call it the best two years of my life, but it is by far the best possible thing that a young man can do to prepare himself to be successful in life. I’ve changed so much, I can just walk up to a perfect stranger and talk to him about anything. And it’s in spanish. I was so shy before! By the way, I really hope you people can understand spanglish, because trying to speak straight english is literally impossible. The phone call home should be pretty interesting.

Alright, I guess I’ll answer your trunky questions though. First off, yeah, just go ahead and have me scheduled to talk that first week back to just get it out of the way, no point in procrastinating. Plus my accent might fade after a week in the states, and we can’t have that now can we? Haha As far as getting into the spring session, I’m sure Pres Wade will do whatever he needs to to help me get that all done, I’ll talk to him about it the next time I see him. I’m thinking if I need to, I can just go to UVU to get my grades up a little, because I know they were pretty low before. I bet that would be cheaper too than going to U of U, and once I get residency I can decide if I want to go there or if I want to try and transfer to BYU. I’m not gonna lie, I just want the cheapest solution to get things started off, and then once I get back to making some money and getting into the hang of things, we can see what happens.

Well, no changes information as of yet, so it looks like you’ll just have to wait til next week. Its almost certain I’ll be staying in the area and getting a new companion, but you never know. And tell Elder Wagner that being a ZL is way overrated. I just want to be a beetle. Now that’s deep doctrine right there. Who says I haven’t learn anything in two years? Hahaha. (The Savior’s Atonement, by W. Cleon Skousen). Oh, and if you can find that in English you should totally send it to me, I only have it in Spanish.

Love you all,

Elder Dennis