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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Just a little forenote. I can't not say filler words now. So I will be speaking in Spanglish. Especially when typing. So I'm just going to tell you what they mean. Pero is but. Y is and. Entonces is so. Porque is because. Esta bien is it's okay, and other things like that. Nuestro es our. Okay, now on to the email.

I am taking pictures! But I can only take them on P-Days, and for some reason I cant upload them. So they will have to wait. 

I ripped my suit pants my first day! It sucked, pero esta bien porque I got to change before the devotional that night. My first full day at the CCM was interesting. We had personal study out of the Book of Mormon for an hour and then class was supposed to start. But it didn't. Half an hour into it we still had no teacher. Then this guy rode up to the class on a bike and said our classroom was completely different than the one they told us to be in! Esta Bien. Later that night I was called as a district leader. I was a little intimidated. In my distrito there is mi compañero y yo, as well as 4 hermanas. My companion's nombre es Élder Martin. He is from Vegas. The 4 hermanas are Hermana Rawle, Hermana Wolfgramm, Hermana Feiloaiga, and Hermana Gates. They are all awesome! My companion is pretty tall. Compared to Latinos that is. Está 6 feet 3 inches tall. On the third day it was mi compañero's birthday! I gave him some candy. We started a new tradition today en nuestro casa. All the American Élderes (10) talked with all the Latino Élderes (8). Well, at least we tried to. We commited to do it todos los noches from 930 a 1015. It wildly improves our language skills. 

The next day was just a normal day. Pero, en la noche, one of the Latino Élderes said the oración en ingles! It was awesome! Also all the Latino Élderes were having touble saying tree, amd three (tres=three y tree=árbol). The next day our distrito met some new friends in nuestro branch. They gave us dulce for making it to the end of the week. 

First Sunday was awesome! Nuestro branch precidency is awesome! So is our branch! I also got to speak with my family today for 30 minutes! That was really fun. We also watched the Restauración movie tonight. Also! I can say a prayer in Español now! 

Tuesday. There is a growing friendship between a Latino Élder and I. His name is Élder Bautista! He's really good at fútbol. Élder Tauanu'u is also one of my best friends! He is Samoan. Devotional night! (There is one every Tuesday night.) Élder Pedro X. Larreal of the seventy came and gave an amazing talk on obedience. 

Wednesday! So. I'm taking this time to talk to all of you about our first investigador. Él nombre es Jorge. Jorge is actually a real investigador that one of mi maestros, Hermano Lara, taught. Hermano Lara played the role of Jorge for us. Jorge believes in God pero no cree en religión. His wife es LDS. So he was interested and his wife had him meet with the missionaries. Our first lesson was a little rough, as expected, porque it was nuestro primero lección en Español. Pero, Wednesday, he commited to repentance, as well as bautismo! It was awesome. And then hoy, Thursday, we went to the temple! That was a new experience! 

El CCM is awesome! The maestros aquí are amazing teachers! The food here is amazing as well! 

I hope you all are having fun in the Tuc Town! Love everyone!

-Élder Wilkes

 Elder Wilkes and Elder Tauanu'u from Samoa



Home Sweet Home for 6 weeks ...


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