Week 15

 I'm trying to upload some videos right now to send you but I don't think they will finish before I have to go. I forgot to tell you guys but like a week and a half ago we burnt Elder Lozano's shirt for his 1 year mark hahhaha. And then last Wednesday some other elders came down to do splits and one has the same amount of time as E. Lozano but he hadn't burned his shirt yet. So E. Lozano grabbed another shirt and we went up to the top of the apartment and they both burned their shirts!  So that was sick.

We have a couple of super good investigators. Hopefully we can get this 18-year old named Alexander baptized this week. He is super cool. And maybe the week after if we can get the other good investigators to attend church and hopefully set their dates for the Saturday after this one, we will see.

Like I said, we did splits last Wednesday which was pretty good and something super cool happened. We were in a lesson with this girl and I started talking and all the sudden I had the gift of tongues for like 2 - 3 minutes, it was amazing! I started talking and all the sudden the Spanish just started coming out without me trying and I didn't even have to try to think about what I was saying. I was even using some complex grammar, like imperfect subjunctive, and tons of other  grammar without even trying, so yeah that was super amazing! I'm pretty sure my Spanish was perfect during those 3 minutes and the only explanation I have is that the Spirit must have blessed me because after that the rest of the day it was normal haha but yeah that was sweet.

So we were getting out of a taxi right when this tall Peruvian dude was walking by, so he walked right past me and like stopped for a sec to look at me cause I was his same height, then he gave me a sup nod then kept walking, lol so that was funny.

Another cool thing is that I ate peanut butter sandwiches! We brought a lot of bread back to our room cause we didn't have time for dinner and I got out my jar of peanut butter and we made peanut butter sandwiches, they were amazing.

Also, I had a great a idea: I figure since Trish is reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish to relearn Spanish while fulfilling the Prophet's admonition to the women of the church. Blake should read the Book of Mormon in Tongan so he can relearn Tongan and study the BoM, too. It would also make it so he could actually talk with the USU Polynesian coaches properly, instead of just saying fukamuna (not sure how to spell it) 20 times hahaha but seriously that'd be cool.

So I have been trying to learn how to play the piano so that I can play it in Sacrament Meeting because no one here knows how to play. Hopefully, I can learn even though I don't have much time at all to practice. It sure would be super nice to have the piano when we sing! 

That's about it. I'll talk to you next week!

Love Elder Mortenson

-no hablo español