Week 25

Ok. This is cool. Dogs are attracted to the Gospel / the spirit. One thing I learned from the Dog whisperer is that dogs like it when people are in charge. They like knowing what we want them to do. They like being calm. They need to get energy out sometimes. They need exercise/ sports, but they generally like peace. I have seen several instances on my mission were dogs leave a room full of people that are playing with them to come and lay down in the room in which we are teaching. In fact, sometimes I think I have seen the dogs look at something that I could not see. They love the calm loving peaceful environment.

Week 24

I just want to let you know I am being transferred. I am going to Idaho Falls. I am going to the Mesa Spanish Branch. It has two sets of missionaries assigned to it. I actually have everything in Spanish. The members are great. It is a bit larger; there is a more concentration of Hispanics. And I don't cover such a huge area. Apparently, my area is the area with all the best stores in it.

week 23

OK. This week is insane, or should I say my companion is going insane. The other day we met someone and he told me how he trained his companions.   He wanted to give us some advice on methods of teaching and things.

Here it is:

Only speak Spanish. Trainer writes down all words during the day that his companion does not know. He then quizzes him on those words all day long. Same thing goes for teaching the lessons. Quiz your companion all day long. Have your companion start lessons all the time. ...... etc.

Week 22

I have one story:

I went on exchanges a lot these last couple of weeks, with Elder Bishop. Throughout the whole exchange he was trying to get me to let him write Tacia. It was so funny because I knew what he was doing. He knew what he was doing. He knew what I was doing. He knew that I knew what he was doing. And I knew that he knew what I was doing. At the end of the exchange, he said "OK, You win." But even that was an attempt to get me to allow him to write Tacia. It was so much fun. I was just a game all day long.  He said, "I may be decently good at manipulating but it is embarrassing to lose."

Week 21

Not much to say.

So, I can finally do the double r in Spanish correctly. Before it was more like phlegm than actual “rr”. Now I can do it correctly.

The other day my companion said, "We need to think outside of the box for this investigator." I thought, "How can I think outside the box. I can hardly think inside of it."