April 28, 2010

Hey mom!!

THings are pretty sweet up here. The week has flown by, its ridiculous that its already wednesday and i leave in 5 days. I cant wait to get out of here. I want REAL food. haha. So my plane leaves at 8am on monday morning. and Im assuming i will get to the airport around 6 or so, so here is the deal. I will probably call then, but 6 our time is 5 your time... So its gonna be kinda early that i have to call you. I have a flight to Denver, 1 hour 20 min, then i have about an hour in denver and then fly to colorado springs, which is like 35 min. haha. Idk why they are doing that, but that is how its going to happen. But i was thinking i would probably call for sure in the morning before any flight, and then maybe in denver, i just dont know cuz i might want to use that time to grab something to eat. Cuz when i arrived at the Mtc and i didnt eat anything in the airport and i wanted to die that day. haha. So i will definately be eating something, plus its real food. ha.

This past week has actually been really awesome. Except i got sick, and i lost my voice for some reason, and on saturday it was the worst. We were in class and our teacher tells us he has a secret for us. So we were thinking it was another one of his things we need to know in the field, and then he is all "alright lets go, were going to the Referall Center" And i was like what? Cuz The referell center is only allowed if you come in on your free time or if your teacher takes you, its not required like it used to be. So i was freaking out cuz i had no voice, and he was just like you will do fine. So i was super nervous and didnt really want to do it at all. But we started and the first call REJECTED. haha. It was pretty funny, but i actually could kind of speak. So after an hour of doing it or so we wanted to keep doing it, so we came back after dinner, and i had a really cool experience. I ended up talking to this lady Donna for about 35 min or so. And i shared with her about the Restoration and a little bit of the plan of salvation. And it was the coolest experience cuz it just made me want to get out and teach people. And the cool thing was is everything i taught her she agreed with me, and she would say things and i would use what she said to answer some questions that she had. It was really cool.

Also, we had our last TRC which is teaching in spanish. And it was the best lesson we have EVER taught. It was so cool. I dont even remember what i said, cuz i'm pretty sure i wasnt saying it, the spirit was definately helping me out. My spanish is coming along, and i love talking in it, But i know im in for surprise when i get to colorado. My biggest problem is understanding Natives. It is so ridiculously hard. They speak so fast, but our teach said after the first transfer or two i should be able to understand haha.

And then for our last devotional that we had last night, guess what? We were visited by ANOTHER apostle of the Lord. It was incredible. L. Tom Perry came and spoke to us. It was so cool to be able to see two prophets of the Lord since i have been up here in the MTC. He spoke a lot about the BOM and how powerful it is and how we need to make it apart of our daily lives. Which is something i want to do, i need to become way more familiar with the scriptures. So i can just pull out a scripture whenever i need it.

So ya this past week has been filled with lots of great stuff. The spirit has been really strong, and today was the last time i probably will get to go to the temple. Cuz i dont have a temple in my mission and i dont how that will work. So that was kinda sad, But hopefully i will be able to go to the temple sometime.


So talk to you this weekend and monday.

Love
Elder Kingsley