TUDO BEM!!!!
Family! Friends! Everyone...WHATS UP?!?! I am alive believe it or not. I dont know how i am alive though. This MTC thing is incredibly hard. Many tears shed. But absoulelty the best thing in the world!! The first day..yeah, class was in portuguese. I cant understand what I am being taught but slowly things are coming along. I can pray and bare testimony in portuguese. Crazy, huh?!? I have a district of 6 of us. We all live in the same room. Its a tight squeeze, but I love us. My companion, Elder Knowles is so cool! He knows Mitchel Scott and plays lacrosse so that has been really good. He is brilliant. He teaches me so much stuff. God definitely had a role in placing my companion. All of the Elders in my district have taken a lot of language study so they know how to speak well, especially spanish, so they are leaps and bounds ahead of me. But im pushing through and its amazing!! I have seen Curt, Tracie, Scott.. and some others that I knew from school. It is so inspired here. All the teachers and workers are great. The devotionals are awesome. Tonight a general authority is coming. I cant wait!! I love singing hymns here. All of us singing is amazing. I can also sing is portuguese, thats awesome!! My second day here....we taught an investigator in portuguese. What the heck man?!? Crazy! The food here is amazing. The wraps and salads are solid! Yes mom, I am eating fruits and vegetables...in fact, thats the majority of what I eat!
Thanks for the package familiy!! Its awesome to know you care and love for me and know whats most important ;) The weather here is so dry!! Sunday morning I woke up with blood all over...stupid lip cracked!! Its really weird being on a scrict schedule. Sometimes it is really hard! I get frustrated a lot, cry some, but the joy far exceeds all the bad. I know that one of these days the language will start clicking for me.
Ready for a funny story? Its somewhat bad so if you dont want to here a naughty word, look away.... So I was teaching the second lesson in portuguese and I was just talking to the investigator. I was asking him "Did you enjoy work today?"....Bad news..I used the wrong verb for enjoy..Yes, it meant enjoy, but it also meant sexually enjoy. I went back and looked and it was (pardon my french) orgasm....GAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What else? I cant really think. In the top corner my time clicker thing is counting down. I dont like it.
Oh yeah, Tuesdays are my P-days for now at the MTC. So, expect an email then. I forgot to bring my address card so i dont remember so I will have to send it to you. Im sorry. Once you get it, please put it on facebook so people can send me letters. Also, please tell people to send me "Dearelders.com"'s. Its the easiest fastest way to get to me!
Im sorry about the dogs and car and house. I know it will come along. Just keep pushing through family!!
Well today i had the opportunity to go to the temple and do sealings. HOLY CRAP!!!!! SO AMAZING!! Family, Freinds, everyone...the church is true. My testimony has grown so much. We need to put all our Faith in God. If I can learn some portuguese in one week, anyone can do anything. I have relied on the holy ghost so much. He lives. God Lives and so does his son, Jesus Christ. I KNOW it to be true. Keep me in your prayers and I will keep you in mine! haha I could use some help on the uplifting spirits thing and learning portuguese down. Its gone by so incredibly slow, but thats alright. It will pick up, I know it. I hear that the first 2 weeks feel like two years and the next two years feels like 2 weeks. SWEET!!! "I have been called for this work not because of who I am, But for who I will become!" Pretty cool, huh?! Cant wait to get down to Brazil but it will come. I love you guys with all my heart. I miss you...kinda...not really. Havent really had anytime to think about you guys but I pray for you. Keep it up family and friends.
Keep on keeping on!
I love you all. I really do. Thats one thing Ive learned! Miracles happen....
Anyways, my time is up. Im sorry its all over the place. I will send you a letter soon. But just remember, Im alive!! haha
Tell people to write me so I can write them. I need their addresses.
LOVE, Elder Lakey
This was really amusing. Being one of those teachers, I know exactly what he is going through right now. It is really funny to hear it from his perspective. This could actually be helpful to me.
ReplyDeletehahaha your awesome ryken!
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