Of all my weeks here this one has been the most calm. All in all this week was very solid and time is flying. We did this really amazing service project and it was sooooo pretty. We carved a pathway into a mountain and it was really cool. It felt so good to work with my hands and wear regular clothes.
Time on the mission is so weird. Today is transfers and that means I'm officially 1/8th the way done with my mission. To be honest that makes me kinda sad. I love putting my name tag on and it just keeps getting better and better. I can understand what is going on around me more and more. And something I've learned is that even when I can't understand someone I can smile and shake their hand and that's really enough.Learning a second language is so different than I thought it would be. It's way harder and it takes a lot more time. It's hard because I can understand a lot more than I can speak. I can get what is going on in lessons for the most part and I get so excited to share something and I bear my testimony and all they say is ¿como? which is like "what? I don't understand." hahahaha It's been very humbling.
Please pray for Jonathan. I guess he has been working a lot more and we haven't seen him for a few days. We were walking to meet him (he wasn't home that night - again) and a man stopped us. We started talking to him and we ended up walking down a few houses to family Sanchez and teaching him in Raul's home. It was so incredible and he loved our message. He was so sad he couldn't make it to church because he had to work but he said he is going to get next week off. We are meeting up with him tomorrow to take a tour of the chapel and to give lesson 2! His name is Edison. He is so excited about it all and he loved the Book of Mormon we gave him. People here are so humble. It's so heartwarming - you give them a Book of Mormon and you'd think it was Christmas.
The food here is so amazing. I'm really so lucky to be serving in a place where I am pumped to eat every meal.
My pictures are always a week behind because I transfer them to a flash drive I bought. We have these little dvd players in our rooms (they are the missions) and you can transfer files. It takes a while thought so it's a week behind. I heard there was a missionary that went home 3 transfers before me and in his 23rd month he plugged his camera in and lost everything like i did a few weeks ago. It's better to be safe than sorry so I'm sorry if my pics are kinda old.
I love you all! Thank you so much for your prayers!
Love,
Elder Nielsen
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