November 30, 2011

hey everybody!

it's always good to hear what's going on in the real world. i feel like i don't know anything anymore. i really want my teachers to give me the weather or something, just so i feel alive haha. funny story actually - so my comp was complaining about something in his ear, and he kept saying he couldn't hear and stuff, so we went to the doctor and found out he has an ear infection, so the doctor told him to go across the street to go get some medicine or whatever, so we got to leave campus and walk down the street to the little pharmacy. it felt so liberating! but also so wrong at the same time haha, we just walked down 9th east for like 30 minutes, and it was so weird being in the real world for a bit. we kept hoping we would see someone we knew but to no avail.

i should probably tell you a little bit about how things have been this last week. thanksgiving here was actually a lot better than i would have thought. i was starting to get sick, and just wasn't feeling good, so that was a bummer, but overall the day was pretty fun. in the morning we did a big humanitarian project for people in ethiopia, and it was actually pretty cool. we just made little kits for them. the cool thing was that we had elder russel m nelson come and speak to us that night. he said a lot of good things. between him and his wife, probably the two biggest things i needed were something along the lines of "after all you can do, the Lord goes to work" and doing things the Lord's way, not after the manner of men, kinda like nephi with the boat and all. i feel bad cause we also had d todd christofferson come, but i don't have my notes with me so i'm not sure i remember what he said, but they are inspired men for sure!
things with our new investigators are going pretty well. i think that's good to look back at where you've come from, cause at times i feel like i don't know any spanish at all, but really i'm able to communicate fairly well. of course there are times where i just have no idea what they're saying, but we're getting better at asking questions and explaining ourselves. we're also learning about how to teach, and it makes me realize how little i know. the church knows what its doing though, preach my gospel is huge. i really wish i would have studied it more before i came, and people would always tell me that, but what do you expect from a teenage boy?

one thing i decided i'd miss is bathroom readers. i'm not sure what to do with that time anymore! haha i guess i should probably read my scriptures more, i actually just started jesus the christ, and it's got some heavy but really interesting stuff in there.

good luck with trev too! i haven't seen him for awhile, well i guess i shouldn't ever see him haha, but he wasn't there on monday. he did mention a little about the lockout, so i would love to be updated on it. really just any information from the outside world is good haha.

and i really could use some jeans and some basketball shorts. we have service projects that we have to do every week and we can't wear shorts, so i've had to wear some slacks, and i would just rather not wear those when i don't have to haha. and i really can't figure out why i ran out of socks, i counted and i used 11 pairs since last thursday, and i have no idea how. i have a ton of laundry, but i wear the same suit and pants and shirt like everyday, so you would thing i would have no laundry, but i've got a lot. i'll need to figure that one out.

sorry i don't have a lot of stories to tell right now. we're in class all day and so there's really not much to tell. things are good though. hard, but good. it's a learning process.  and i apoligize if i miss a question or something as well, i only have 30 minutes and so i have to cram in as much as i can, i'll do my best though.

i hope things are going well up there. let me know how things are.

much love,
elder paskett