Week and a half In

Hey! This past week and a half has been super long but it's gone by really fast! My comp, zone and district are so cool! That really helps for how hard the language is and stuff. We are always laughing and having a good time when we aren't in class and studying and stuff. I have class two times a day. 3 hours in the morning 8:30-11:30 and then another three in the after noon 1:30-4:30. It's not so bad. Right now I am doing laundry! I woke up at 5 to get here and there was already a ton of people! But I'm so pumped cause I've had to re wear a lot of my clothes. So now I'm going to be fresh and ready to go again and I'm so pumped! 

After last Sunday it's been so much easier. Easier as in getting through the day and dealing with being away from home, family, friends, etc. my days are so busy I never really have time to think about those things anyway. But when I do I get kinda home sick. So to deal with that I just write a ton in my journal. Like 2-3 pages. Its so nice cause I can just let everything out and no one has to hear about it. I had to buy another journal just to have in case I fill up my other two. 

So I think it was the third day where we had to start teaching an investigator in Spanish. It was so rough at first but it was so amazing! His name was Jorge. It was hard to communicate with him but the gift of tongues works wonders. I always thought the gift of tongues was to speak the language and stuff but that wasn't the case. I learned the gift of tongues meant that if you can't speak the language and you can't communicate with words then it's the spirit that communicates between us, the investigator and the Lord. The spirit communicates what I am saying even though they may not understand the words I'm saying. We both understand each other on a spiritual level. I'm really bad at explaining things so I hope you kinda understood that. But that's what I have learned about the gift of tongues. Yes the language matters but not very much. It's the spirit that teaches we are just there to help them feel the spirit and bring it in. So yeah anyway we had around 5-6 lessons with Jorge and he was a member the whole time! We kinda knew since we could kind of tell that he had garments. But yesterday he walked into class in the morning and well I guess now he is our teacher! Haha that's awesome! He's so cool and when I walked into class he gave me the biggest hug! Well he gave everyone one but yeah it was awesome. 

The past week and a half have been pretty darn good! It's hard but pretty good. We have three three nerf guns and a small door basketball hoop to pass the time. That's fun! But all is well and life is good. It's easier being here knowing why I'm here. To invite people to come unto Christ.