A Few Tidbits from His Letters...

July 29, 2009:

Today was our p-day and it was pretty nice to wear regular clothes again. We did our laundry (No discolored shirts in the end boo yaaa!) Got some things laminated and basically just chilled today. We will be going to the temple at 12:20, which I'm excited for.

Elder Flint and I taught the first lesson on Tuesday (7/28) about the Restoration of the Gospel in English. It went really well.

I still can't get the language down so that's a little frustrating but I'm sure I will eventually get it.

August 5, 2009:

First fast sacrament was a little rough. I was so exhausted. I had the infant head thingy. lol. First fast was good, and probably my first actual 24 hour fast. Yes I did bare my testimony but I did it in English, cuz my Spanish is horrible.

I had a real hard time going to sleep the first night, in fact I don't think I got to sleep until 2am. That was rough night, but since then it has been easier to get to sleep. In the waking up department, it has been super easy, ever since I got here I have been a really light sleeper

(**Side note from his sister - we could never wake him up. Even a fire alarm that went off in the middle of the night that was even in his bedroom couldn't wake him up so for him to be a light sleeper and be able to wake up on his own is a miracle. :) **)

Sometimes it is hard to teach with one of the elders. He has a short fuse and I have had to talk to him about having the spirit of the Lord with him and stop bringing in the spirit of contention.

Things have been going better with Spanish, I'm still not good at writing in Spanish or speaking Spanish, but for some reason I can understand it pretty good. Which is nice when our teacher is only speaking spanish for the day. I am about the same age as one of my teachers which is kind of funny. The studying is going fine, and since it is the only thing you get to do away from class, you start enjoying it.

August 12, 2009:

I told my companions all about you guys. They like the war stories I told about you dad, I have basically raised you to a superman level. Talking about how you took out thousands of people w/ one well placed missile, hovering in the air, while you took out the people below, how you ran over mine after mine and you didn't even get a scratch, and yes, I did include the dragons. LOL but seriously they think your pretty cool w/ the stories I have told of you. Mom they love you too, haha I shared some of the letters you sent me and they all laugh at the instructions to keep my hands out of my pockets. I just tell them "It's because she is a redhead" they also get jealous when they see the letters you send me and they don't get any, lol, well I tell them it's because my mother loves me.

(**Side note from his sister, Ster's pockets on his dress pants tore twice before he went on his mission so Mom told him to just keep his hands out of his pockets and maybe that will help :) **)