Elder Waddell 5-29-12

Hey well as you can tell I couldn't email yesterday. Holidays are the  

worst as a missionary. The mail is closed so you know you won't get

any. Everybody is out doing stuff and nobody wants the Mormons to stop

by their house ha. And everything else is closed so you can't do

anything if it's pday. It's not that bad, but it's definitely not a

"holiday" 2 years without seminary Ummm let's

see I'll go through the week backwards. pday (yesterday) we played

bball with the elders quorom in the Branch then we went with our

mission leader and his family to "the flats" we ate lunch on the beach

with them. We were there on high tide but during low tide there's

supposedly just tons of mud because of the tide change being so big

it goes way out. So it was a good day even though it was a holiday ha.

Oh Sunday we went to Wasilla to work with some Spanish people up

there. That was the closest to a road trip I've been on for a while.

40 miles ha. So that was pretty cool. Elder Thorne taught someone from

Spain and I taught someone from Guatemala. Oh yeah we're trying to

pick up little phrases from different countries so our Spanish would

be like a muts ha. We teach people from The Dominican Republic, Puerto

Rico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador,

Mexico (of course) and Spain ha we've met others from other places but

yeah it's pretty cool hearing the differences in the way they speak.

Even if I have no idea what it means ha. We found a lot of new people

this week. Including a couple different ones that seem really willing

to act and learn but don't live here for more than the summer. But

yeah, the works going pretty well this week. With some people

we're having a real tough time getting in contact and having lessons

but we have enough people now that we're always busy. Oh transfer

calls are this Saturday. We already pretty much know we'll be staying

here for at least another transfer. It's weird that elder Thorne and I

are the same age on the mission. We're working on our eleventh month

now. We're almost real missionaries! Oh somebody that we just met told

me I had good Spanish the other day. I got pretty excited. Of course

this is before he had very much time to judge how well I speak but

still I'm progressing! ha So yeah the weeks been good. And this one

should be as well. We're going back to Wasilla and already have a few

lessons set. Oh and we're organizing a fireside for the Branch trying

to get them really into the work. It's hard since there are only like

6 or 7 people that can come with us to lessons and stuff. But we're

really trying to work with them and their missionary efforts. So yeah

I hope things keep being exciting for you guys back in the lone star

state. I feel weird saying this but I kind of miss the heat. But

anyways Alaska is beautiful the people are awesome the work is great

the gospel is true. All is well in Zion.