ALright well this week was quite fun. and I'm stilll loving every minute of it. This week we started our twelve days of zChristmas. cause elder pond's mom got gifts for him., and for me. and quite hilariously for the first day. i was the only one to get a gift. i let Elder pond open with me. but, he kept ranting about how they were gonna get quite an email back from him.... about how they love me, more than him. so, i had a good time doing that... Also, best part of my week- Elder pond has been making fun of me because i have sneezed so many times in the past two days. well, it just so happened ,that he got kicked in soccer by one of the other missionaries. and his foot is a little inflamed. Well, I decided to take him to Hermana Moore, the CCM president's wife. and anyways, long story short- they made a big deal about his big toe, and how it is swollen and that a tendon is sprained or strained. idk the difference. but, he is now on crutches. and I have been relentlous with the teasing. I feel like God answers prayers, when you ask for your companion to be more humble!!!! I have basically carried his food trays back and forth carried his bag for him, etc. you guys were definitely right when you said this was training me to be married. ha ha. But, he's been a good sport about it. but, it really has lifted my spirits. and actually it has kind of strengthened our relationship as a copanionship. But, probably the coolest most exciting part of the mission so far, was that me and elder pond were able to go out of the walls and teach with a little Ketchawan elder named, Elder Anguya and an elder who looked and sounded like a latino. And, if you would have asked anybody they would have said the same thing well, it turns out he was taught by my same teacher, and she said he struggled with the language, a lot. and now, 5 months in. he is pretty much fluent so, my spirits are pretty much through the roof right now. well they played a joke on us. the other Elder's name is Elder Uta´. and they told us he was from Brazil. and the whole time, we were trying to talk to him in Spanish. and he messed up our names .so, we were thouroughly convinced . well, lit turns out- he is from Farmington, Utah. complete American: through and through, and we sounded like idiots. but, it was worth the laugh. Well, they put me and elder pond with these two stellar missionaries, and we went out procelyting for two hours. and the streets here are crazy, all sand, I think there were only like two paved roads. And then the houses.... most of them didn't have rooves. but, they all had smiles on their faces. but, i kid you not,t in two hours I think we saw close to 100 wild dogs. in the street. They are everywhere .it was the craziest thing i think i have ever seen in my life!!!! We started handing out little things to go watch movies. and then Elder pondand I tried. we gave it to them said our little shpeal. and then he rapid fired all the spanish he knew. and we had no idea. so, the other elders came and saved us. i wish i had pictures to show you, but the look on our faces had to be: absolute horror, cause we had no idea what we should say, or anything. so that was quite the experience. Then we started knocking on doors, and we actually got to give a lesson to one of the investigators. and at the end of those missionaries' lessons, they asked elder pond and I to bare our testimonies. so, we bore our testimonies in Spanish. and it was probably th'e coolest thing to have him listening, so intently, to two 18 year old boys, who have practiced spanish for 3 and a half weeks. And, had no clue what they were doing. but, after we were done, he said, "wow- that was powerful. It looks like i really do need the Holy Ghost, huh", but in Spanish. and it was just the funnest experience here yet. I dont' know if anything will top that until we go out- bu,t somehow they keep managing to find ways to suprise us!!!!!! but, the elders said we did good., and were so proud of us. And it was way fun. except, for the bus ride there and back.- i'm pretty sure we went no further than 5 miles and it took us an hour and a half to get the..e and an hour and a half to getf back .it was crazy!!! but yeah- other than that- so much volleyball and soccer that i'm pretty much a professional now. not even kidding. and, you should see me at goalie. not gonna lie, I kinda look like Tim Howard out there. no one scores on me., But, 'ive handed it to a lot of those Latinos haha!!! anyways love all of you and hope everything is going swell and that you all are getting better without me. i'll let you know if i get your gifts, but idk how packages work here so..... any ways last thing i will have 30 min to call, not skype, on christmas and 'im pretty sure it will be somewhere close to 5:30 in the tarde or afternoon. i will have more info next week good luck and feliz navidad!!!!
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
week three summary
Helloooooo from the land down under. Week three is now over . which means we are the top dogs here. but not really, caus,e now all the new latinos got into our area and they are already making us look like fools.
elder Pond after I knocked him on his butt for trying to show me up in volleyball.
, some pretty dang good chips and guac, some normal food when we went to the temple
and we again raided all of their Doritos, and Coke they still always look quite excited when we all start walking down into the court yard. well, 'im glad that you all are doing fine without me, and are just living life like I'm not there pretending like nothing has changed. whateve,r 'im not all that hurt over it or anything. But, I guess i'ts fine, cause i am having the best two years of my life filled with hard work, and the struggles of learning a new language. this weekElder Pond and I
decided to wrestle and it was a pretty even match.so, we are setting up a fight night, to see who the real champ is. and it's going down sometime this week. tune in to the show at garrett.hyde@mylds.org for updates. a week later and no to see how it goes. but these guys I'm here with are quite rambunctious !and we are quite the crew of individuals. we love to sing, jam out to the piano, tell all of our many stories together, and be able to just get along with each other, like we have been the best of friends for like 9 years. I don't know if it is because we are all jammed in the same place for 6 straight weeks just enjoying the fact that everyone elsearound speaks a different language and can actually process the food all right or whatever. but we are probably the tightest group at the CCM. (it might also help that we are the only group without hermanas. Guys nights are definitely the best!!!!) Anyways life is so good the classes are getting better. the days seem to be endles,s but the weeks fly by, and that is definitely the only way to explain it. pretty much we feel like all we ever do is star,e eyes glazed over, at our teachers acting like we understand., Because our brains literally just hurt 90% of the time because we are trying to process everything so fast. I think i finally understand what my mom means when she says her brain gets tired. Cause that is now how i feel all da,y everyday. ButIi still love it, our teachers are grea.t but probably the saddest news this week was that everyone was leaving. our teache,r hermano vasquez, probably one of the funnest guys here :
is leaving to cuzco and he just so happened to pack up, and leave, the exact same day as the avensados did. but we decided to get back at him for leaving us. so, we grabbed somewhere close to 60 of the butter
and jam packages they give you to put on your toast. and we hid them in various parts of the room,
in the air conditioners, pinned to the walls, under erasers, in the ceiling tiles (notice in the above pictur)e., and behind the posters. the best part was, that He didn't notice for like 30 min that they were everywhere.Then he just laughed, and shook his head at us, and then we had a good laugh watching him move post,ers and having butter just hit the ground. Anyways, we are all gonna miss him. and his little spray he would spray everywhere because we "stunk". so what if some of us don't showe,r or wear deodorant. you don't have to say that to our face. ha ha. and then of cou,rse we had fast sunday this week. and all of the older guys bore ttheir testimonies and it was a pretty emotional sacrament meeting. most of the girls were crying. and a lot of the guys just looked like they couldn't smile because they were gonna miss us .,cause our group that came, was the best. but it was just nice to able to hear how they fel,t and why they decided to come out and we actually get to understand what they are saying because it is English. Sundays are so good. definitle,y the best day out here. They have all diferent classes, where the teachers just go back and forth between scriptures and the doctorine and it is so in depth, and so fun. but Sundays do seem to last like three days., but nobody minds, caus,e its English and your brain doesn'tneed to work very hard. but then Monday was the day they actually packed up. and it was quite depressing.we sang in the hall,s
"Called to Serve". and " 'til we meet again" and it was so cool to heare 50 guys with stupendous voices, I might add ,sing these songs with gusto and authority. I do'nt know about the rest of the people in my district, but i'm going to misss those guys. wel,l sorry if not all of you got this ,but next week P-day will for sure be on wednesday and i dont know what time, maybe not as early, cause our schedules will change cause we are now the oldest ,but just stay tuned and maybe we can actually chat back and forth.... love you all
elder hyde
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