April 16, 2012

hey mom!

yeah i agree those pancakes probably weren´t the best for me, but they were so good! haha and i´m not sure when i´ll do them with chocolate milk, they do have milk down here, but i just hadn´t seen any for awhile and they didn´t have any at that time so i did what i could! :) i didn´t even realize it was time for spring break! the weather hasn´t really changed too much down here, but it´s starting to rain a little more. sometimes i just forget what day or month it even is. i guess time isn´t going by too slow! although these last six weeks have been the longest of my life! i really hope i get a change this week! and we did get i think it was this month´s liahona, but we haven´t gotten the conference ensign, probably not til next week, but i´´m pumped to get it cause there are a lot of talks i want to re-read! i did remember that talk you mentioned, and i thought it was super interesting too! i´m excited to read it again! oh and the package was awesome! i´ve already shown off the juggling balls a ton, and the music is great! it brought back a ton of memories! the little ear cleaning stick thing looks a little weird, but it sounds good so i´ll have to try it! so yeah thanks a ton for all of that! it´s awesome!

well a couple of things happened this week. so monday night the zone leader´s asked if my comp and i would teach the zone for  district meeting the following day. the subject was appropriate enough, personal worthiness and obedience, so i thought it would be good for my comp as well as the rest of the zone, cause there are a few others that don´t like being obedient as well. so we did get the assignment a little late, but i still wanted to plan for it, but my comp didn´t. so we go to dinner and after getting home at like 9:30 i finally get him to plan. we planned for about 15 minutes cause he thought it was good enough. i don´t know, i wanted to have a bit of a more solid plan, but whatever we ended up just winging it mostly. i planned on my own for a bit longer of what i wanted to say, and i guess overall it went pretty well. or maybe not cause none of it stuck. the next day my comp is still getting up late, not studying, dumb things like that. we actually had another little obedience interaction this week cause we were alone at this girl´s house for like 3 hours, and basically those two just talked. i tried to get him to realize we should leave, but he didn´t want to i guess. so after we got home at like 9:45 i asked him how he felt about that, and he just played dumb, pretending like he didn´t know what i was talking about. so i told him, and he just told me that he thought there would be more people. i didn´t try to fight, but i was wondering why he ate SO slow, or would just do dumb little things to delay us, or why he didn´t tell me about it before, or why he´s here if he doesn´t want to follow any rules, but i let most of it go. i´m pretty sure i´m getting changed this week, and it couldn´t come at a better time. i mean i´m not sure, we might both be here or maybe he´ll leave, and i think usually you´re where you started for 3 changes, but president always tells me he doesn´t like to leave elders here for more than 2 changes because he feels like he´s torturing them. he keeps telling me i´m getting a new companion so who knows? but i´m hoping i leave. the zone leaders will call us tuesday night if we leave or not, so only a little more than a day and we´ll see!

we also had an interesting experience teaching this guy yesterday. well i should say my comp did. ok well firstly, i think this guy is 7th day adventist, and we´ve taught him 2 times and it seems like he was fairly receptive to everything. everytime we read the book of mormon with him he says he´s really interesting and he likes it and stuff, so i thought that was cool. but we went there yesterday and as we walk up he tells us that his church doesn´t want him meeting with us anymore and that we should go. of course we tried to find out why and if we could share just a little more, and he seemed a little hesitant but said yes. so i think it could have gone well from here, but, it didn´t. my comp gave like an hour long bible history lesson and all this weird stuff, and i said nothing. we were probably there for an hour and half, my comp spoke an hour and 15 minutes, the guy spoke like 9, the member that was there spoke like 4 and i spoke like 2, no joke. i was furious. he never looks at me, never pauses, never asks questions, just talks, and i just get mad. i told him like week 2, i was like "do you think we talk equally in lessons?" and he said "no i agree, maybe that should change." it didn´t, week 6 i told him it makes me super mad that he doesn´t let me talk, and he just blew it off. so yeah more or less things aren´t good between us, and so i need a change.

but i think that about wraps it up. sorry that´s so boring, it´s just i never have spirtitual experiences with my comp, or really any experiences for that matter. everything is just bad. i´m trying really hard, but it´s still dificult. my spanish is coming along, i´m starting to actually have fairly decent conversations with people and i can understand a little bit better. i mean just an hour ago in the street some lady came up and i think she was a member, but she was talking to me and i almost got it all. i think right now i understand more than i can say. like usually when me and my companion fight, i speak in english but he speaks in spanish, but i can still understand him, my mind is just too slow to fight in spanish haha, he more or less knows english so i´m not trying to one up him or something though. so i´d be really happy with a change, but we´ll see how that goes.

so that about wraps it up, not a very exciting week. i hope everything is going well back home. good luck to karissa with her schooling, i know my hair is leaving, but after 2 years of cutting it myself, an expert to cut it might be good haha. and good luck with those bees, i hope no one gets stung too much! but anyway i hope everyone has an awesome week!

much love,

elder paskett