What is this, week 4? I don’t even know. Whatever week it
is, it went by quick! Here’s the update,
since last Wednesday.
I’ll start with the massive migraine i got Thursday night
that kept me up all night. I don’t know
what the heck happened, but I woke up in the middle of the night and shaaabam,
my head felt like it was being split. I was pretty nauseous too. The next day was tough. I have trouble staying awake all day, during
all my study hours as it is, so it was hard. But, I went to the doctor the next
day and he gave me something like prescription strength Aleve in America, but
you can get them over the counter here.
I took one of them right then, but eventually just gave the rest away to
people who had headaches throughout the week because my head was feeling mas or
menos. I gave one to elder Goodspeed,
and another one to Hermana Nishyguchi (learned how to spell her name, heck
yeah!).
I’ve had some pretty good lessons with my investigators,
Juan and Judith. We taught Juan all about the word of wisdom. Then he asked some questions about law of
chastity. So, guess what we taught him
next time? Law of chastity! We kept it really basic: We talked about the commandments and how they
bless us, talked about what the law of chastity was, then gave him a folleta
(pamphlet) and we were on our way! We taught Judith about the restoration. I did most of the lesson because elder Odle
was going to do the First Vision for her (by the way, I have the first vision
memorized in Spanish but not English, weird right?) and man did he nail it. The
spirit was so strong. I was showing her the picture of Heavenly Father and
Jesus appearing to Joseph Smith, and the spirit was so strong. Man, it was awesome. OH! Then we invited her
to church and she said no. But she said
no last time, so I was persistent this time.
She was telling me she likes going to parties Saturday night (after we
heard that, we decided we were going to teach her word of wisdom in our next
lesson, which is tonight), and she said her head hurt on Sundays, but I had
JUST gotten my pills that day from the doctor so I reached into my pocket and
pulled them out and I said "my head hurts too! But guess what, I go to
church on Sundays, so you can too!" I said it much more casual than that;
it didn’t come off that rude. Long story short: she is coming to church!
The language is actually coming along better than I thought
it was. I’ve been focusing a LOT on
gospel study the past little while, not so much language. My language skills are pretty far ahead of
the people in my district, due to living in CA and taking Spanish in high
school. Speaking of gospel study, I’m in
3rd Nephi. It took me all week to get
through Mosiah/Alma/Helaman. Not quite as quick of a week as usual, but it’s
okay. I still did good. Last night I was
playing ping-pong with elder Odle (we are super tight now; he’s like the only
person in the district who never annoys me) and these two Latino elders walk in
and he spoke really fast, but I totally understood him. He said, "excuse me elders, we don’t
know where the towels are, do you know" which I’m pretty sure comes out to
"disculpeme elderes, nosotros no sabemos cuando los toellas, ustedes
saben?" I probably just butchered that because I can’t spell, but I felt
totally cool telling him where to get them J
We sang in the devotional on Sunday. It went really
well. I was wearing my light grey suit
with my blue tie (Man, did I look good).
It was in front of a few hundred missionaries. The MTC president and his wife made a point
of finding us afterwards and telling us how great we performed, and how they
wished they would have recorded it because they liked it so much. They said we
were the best special musical number (singing) they have had in a while. They were very impressed that our whole
district could sing. I’m convinced they
just couldn’t hear me singing though, because they wouldn’t have said that if
they did, haha.
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| hermana black, hermana sampson, elder odle, yours truly, elder goodspeed, elder cook, elder hendricks, elder burdge, hermana smith, and hermana heule |
That devotional was cool; the MTC director spoke to us. He is this really young guy who has only been
back from his mission for 10 years. He
has 3 kids and basically runs this MTC.
He is not the president, but he still runs this place. He spoke a lot about jumping into the work
and not looking back at our former lives, because it would inhibit our work. He
talked about “Lots wife,” you know, the chick who looked back at Saddom and Gomorra,
and then turned into a pillar of salt.
He said the reason she turned to salt is because she looked back
longingly. We need to not look back at
our former lives longingly. It was a really good devotional. Then, last night’s
devotional was a live broadcast from the Provo MTC. We heard from Elder L. Tom Perry. He just talked about the importance of
companionships and talked about one of the best Book of Mormon companionships
ever: Alma and Amulek (which I knew ALLLLLLLLLLLL about because I just read that
section).
Ok, time to tell you about volleyball this week. So, there are these elders who just got here
like two weeks ago: Elder L and Elder P.
They are both pretty cool and
nice guys, but they’re kind
of still living in the good ole high school days and walk around the campus
like jocks. It’s pretty funny. They recently have been playing volleyball
with us, and we keep score (oops, not supposed to do that) and MAN, does Elder
L get into it. He is the reason
missionaries aren’t supposed to keep score when they play haha. It was so funny, though, because he is about
6’ 2 or so, and has a full ride to Harvard on a football scholarship. He even has special privileges from his
mission president to throw a football for an hour a day on his mission, to keep
his arm good. So he thinks he’s the bee’s
knees. He really is super athletic,
though, don’t get me wrong. It’s just
funny seeing how seriously he takes it! Well, he was getting SUPER fired up during
the game yesterday because the game was very close. He got a beautiful set (I was on the other
team), and he went up to hit it and he SMASHED it…..RIGHT into my hands. I absolutely stuffed this kid harder than
anyone has been stuffed in the history of the world. When he got stuffed, he just turned around
and went back to his spot in silence.
But, his face was BRIGHT red, and I could basically see smoke coming out
of his ears. He was biting a hole in his thumb trying to contain his anger
hahhahahahahah. It was so great. It is sad to say THAT was the proudest moment
of my MTC career right there. SO funny,
man.
I bought you guys all Christmas presents. I got you all Mexican jerseys with your names
and numbers embroidered on them. They
are pretty cool, authentic Mexican jerseys.
These are jerseys you would spend 90+ bucks on back home, and I got them
for 35 bucks a pop! The prices in Mexico
are unbeatable, man. Every weekend,
since the store closes on Friday night, Elder Odle and I stock up on
snacks. We buy TONS of food, and we
always walk out of there spending like 6 bucks tops. It feeds us for the whole weekend! It’s great!
I’ll send you the jerseys when I get to Texas, and I’ll also send you a box of
bueno bars. They are delicious Mexican
chocolate bars you can only get down here. Just make sure to give Amber a
couple of them!
That’s about it for this weeks adventure. I love you all and I miss you like crazy. See
you next time!
P.S. When i just said
see you next time, I totally wanted to finish it with "See you next time...on
DRAAAGGON BALLL Z" I miss that
show.
Love,
Elder Mason Snow
VIDEO of song PRACTICE:
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