MTC - Week 5

So I got my Latino companion on Wednesday, and I'm in a room with 6 other Latinos (one of my other friends is in my room/district so I get to speak English sometimes). At first it took some time for them to get comfortable and open up to us but now every night is always a blast. We all stay up until like 11 talking and apparently the Hermanas that live above us get really mad cuz they can hear us laughing all night LOL. 

My companion is cool, I like him a lot. His name is Elder Suyón and he's from Peru. He's really funny, but not in a way where like, he just always tells jokes and is trying to be funny, but some of the things he says and does always make me laugh. 

The Spanish is kinda hard, there are a lot of words that I don't know, but its kinda like, the more I know the more I don't know. I've learned a ton of Spanish while I'm here but I kinda feel like this is my peak that I can learn here. I can understand a lot of the Spanish spoken to me too (unless its the Latinos from Venezuela, they don't even speak the same language!) so that's kinda nice. 

I'm counting down the days that I have until I can finally leave and head out to Cali! All of the Colombianos tell me that Cali is literally paradise, with the best food and the best looking women LOL. One of them said it's kinda like Vegas because its pretty much sin city, but I really can't wait to be free and not have to wake up at 5:45am every day. We haven't really done much though. All the lessons and classes that I'm doing now are the exact same as I did the first 4 weeks but they're 100% in Spanish, but I don't really mind it that much. I learned that if I want to speak Spanish, I can't think of what I want to say cuz then I can't think of anything and then I'm screwed, so I just have to start talking and I somehow find words to say. But when I want to say something that I know all the words for, everyone tells me that I speak really good Spanish! It'll probably stink at first when I get out in the field and can't understand anything but I'd rather be helpless outside tham stuck in here for longer, LOL

Today we went to the temple in Bogotá for the last time, and for me the last time I'll go to any temple for 2 years. 

Something interesting about the temple here is that they have to have like a hotel in the parking lot for all the people who have to travel really far to go to the temple, and we went on Tuesday with the Latinos as well because some of them weren't even endowed yet, kinda sad, but kinda cool that people are willing to travel that far just to go to the temple. 

That's kinda all that happened this week, nothing really cool happened. We get to go proselyting for another 4 hours tomorrow but this time I'll have a Latino with me so itll be better i think!

  

Ethan probably wasn't at the baptism because he had work, but he told me that he was taking all the lessons with him because they were teaching him at his house. I'm really happy for Allistar. The other night I had a random thought that he would serve a mission, but who knows, it could've just been a random thought. I'm glad you took a picture!

My Colombian soccer jersey.

My hammock!

Next PDAY is on Tuesday at the MTC, but I'm leaving on Monday night/Tuesday morning so the next time I write all depends on when PDAY is on the mission. If it's on Monday I might not get to write next week. Alright. Love you all.