wow. Has a week passed by alreay?? Sorry about not emailing you
yesterday, they misinfirmed us when we got here and told us we´d be
emailing on wednesday but we ended up not getting to email till today.
so first off, exuse all the errors in this email, i don{t have alot of
time to write so i´m not going to go back to fix mistakes, and... it is a
spanish key board so everything is in the wrong place for english.
everyone here knows me as Elder Reay... it is so
amazinng!! NO ONE knows me by my first name, to you guys Elder Reay
sound awekward but Logan sounds correct, here it is the other way
around. I got to go to the argentina temple yesterday!!! infact, if i
turn around right now, i can see the beautiful temple with it{s water
fall in front. It was realy interesting to be in an all spanish temple,
EVERYTHING here is in spanish, our teachers speek complete spanish and
don´t speak english untill they have finished completely describing the
lesson. i am amazed how quickly i am picking up the accent here, they
have a huge difference between what i learned in the states. I learned
that y and ll and all the y sounds sound like a y. but here, everything
sounds like a z. anyways it is amazing. in the classes, i feel
completely overwhelmed, but after a lesson, i use what i{ve learned with
the latinos here and i can actualy communicate on many different
levels!!! it is very beautiful.
It doesn{t really feel like i´m in a nother country
beacause, well i don{t see much of the outside world. for all i know, i
could be in an mtc in the states!!! the only differences are the
different birds, all the birds flying past the windows are compleatly
different than those from home. also, i am obviously surrounded by
native speakers. when we arrived in Buenos Eries or however you spell
it, i was with a group of missionarys. i was the only one who KINDA
spoke half way decent spanish with the airport people because i was the
only one that had spoken the language regularly, everyone else had
learned it in school but never actualy spoke witgh someone with an
accent. so we struggled our way through customs and securuty and found
our way to our luggage and finaly to the main part of the airport.
there was a lady waiting there for us and she took us to the mtc.
I have a latino in my room named Elder Barkett and
he is super helpful with my spanish. he speaks quite a bit of english
so i am able to struggle trying to figure out what he is saying in
spanish and then he can tell me what is missunderstud in english.
It is important to note that i WILL be here at the
mtc for 9 weeks. for the first 6 weeks i will have a north american
comp. then for the last three i will have a latino companion.
I am amazed at how much more prepared i am than some of the other
elders in my district. my companion is .... well.... he is a wonderful
person :) haha he struggles with the language AND testimony AND
leadership. so i have done alot of teaching .... alot of teaching.
so far, argentina has been staring me down from this
building. i have stared out the window at the beautiful green plush
area and haven{t seen anyof it yet. saturday i will go trackting and
that will be very exciting, we go every saturday. the temple was
staring me down untill yesterdar, i couldn{t believe that such a
beautiful building was foot steps away and i wouldn{t be able to enter
till pday. }
so far i like the schedule and all the leaders. our mission
president here is very VERY learned in the gosple and so every time we
go to a meeting with him, i take a good scripture marker and sit on the
edge of my seat yearning for every word that he says. Hermano Aguedo is
a wonderful man as well, he is the manager here at the ccm (Spanish for
mtc) he has given me alot of insight aswell.
