Week 5: Imperfect and preterite... wack

Hey guys today is my last pday until I enter into the campo (the field). Honestly before I came on my mission I never felt scared or nervous once. It never even set in at the airport or even in guatemala. I am however terrified to go into the field. Idk why. Maybe cuz of the language cuz I still cant understand a thing but Idk thats not even that big of a deal to me. I´ll be fine though. Finally getting out of prison. 

Today has been kinda weird. The ccm put on a christmas breakfast program thing for a bunch of important people in guatemala. So between this and my having to go to immigration I´ve only had like two real pdays which sucks. All the missionarys have to stay in their rooms all day or at least til the delegates leave. I was kinda luckyish. I was in a bell choir for the meeting and we played Joy to the World. We´ve been practicing for about two weeks and me and only one other guy could read music so it has been rough. Even though everyone learned it, nobody has rhythm so for a long time it was pretty bad. Even today wasn´t perfect but it was alright, and the choir overshadowed us so you couln´t hear us too well haha. 

So again this week was pretty much the same and I can´t remember a lot of it but I do remember I forgot to tell you last week that I´m still the chess master. At the market a guy bought a super nice mayan jade chess set and we play that everynight and I´m reigning champ of course. 

It´s gonna be sad leaving all my homies that I´ve made here but its gonna be aight. It´s crazy how fast the last three weeks have gone by. People going on missions, don´t listen to people that talk crap on the mtc. I´ve never been to provo or any of the other ones but mine im sure is as strict as it comes and I love it. I love the spanish language, even though its wack. To all español speakers, Imperfect and preterite... wack, por y para... wack, ser y estar... wack, spanish slang (or lack thereof)... WACK! But we chillin. Everyone says that first you can read it, then hear it and then speak it. It´s not the same for me. I think out of the gringos im one of the best of the speakers but I still can´t understand anything anyone says. Which stresses me out. I´m pretty good at teaching in spanish too. All our lessons are good and flow pretty well.

Sundays are always rough because it´s like straight devotionals all day. They´re always way good tho and at night we watch a talk from an apostle and then a movie after. This week we listened to Elder Holland. That man is insane. Always so good to listen to. Everyone should listen to his talk I think titled Feed My Sheep. So good. The spirit was way strong.

Anyways thats probably it for me. Next time you hear from me imma be in the land. Quetzaltenango. We literally have the best mission. Everyone says that about theirs but even the teachers say its awesome and other missionarys here say they want to go there. Im so pumped but also kinda sketchin cuz its the coldest mission in central america. IT gets down to like low thirtys but then stay in like the seventys all for the rest of the year where El Salvador is like 105 average. Haha anyways love you guys.

-Elder Severe