Struggles with Spanish

teaching is really different then i tought it would be, we really only teach investigators maybe three or four times a week cause we are not allowed to tract. we mainly teach the less active families and it's difficult cause they know what they should be doing, we just remind them. i feel like we teach the same people over and over. which is not that far from the truth. 

 

as for any experiences that are particularly spiritual, nothing comes to mind. which is not a bad thing, its just i cant think of a single experience that was more spiritual then the rest. we have two investigators with baptism dates. so that's good. they had it set before i got here. i think its is for the 7th. i went on splits on saturday that was different cause i was with another white person he is from Boise and has been out for two months. we had a really good day planned but the activity that took up four hours got canceled and then two of the lessons we had planned got canceled so we had no plan and our backup plans failed so we wandered around to different members houses. most were not home.  but that's how it is all the time, every one is working all the time. and even on saturday they go and do other things.

 

after two weeks my spanish is still bad, i just have less of a struggle using my bad spanish to talk with people. i still have no idea were anything is because they name streets differently here and usually there is no street sign.  i know how to get back to our apartment from anywhere and to two different houses, other then that i am lost most the time.  we went to lagoona which is truly a ghetto, dirt roads and cinder block houses. plus it had rained so the roads were really bad. we only have lagoona which is small, some entire areas are like that. 

i am glad i got to attend sam's wedding that was awesome. (my face was on a card board cut out of obama). i wish i could have really been there. well, i hope we can get the members to help us cause without them we have nothing to do. and i feel as if we do a lot of nothing and a little bit of genuine teaching. 

 

have a great week every body

 

Elder Ritchie