Fam! How´s it going!!!!!! Awesome!!! Glad you´re all
having fun in the outdoors! But ya, I can attest, sounds like a little
TOO much vacation, especially with work and such. It was good to talk to you again, although little weird and I apologize for any
miscomunication, via the calling cards. those things are a joke!
This week has been super sick! We don´t have cars, we walk but it´s
pretty great here. Dad, we ride the metro every now and again ya, but
only for meetings or special circumstances.
Well sweet! Chile
is definitely awesome. I´m learning a lot- every day- and i´m
really progressing with the work. Glad you got my pic. Yep my trainer is
Elder Jones, from California, he´s terrific, I´m really grateful for
him, but at the same time feel bad because I´m seemingly inadequete in a
lot of areas. He will study at Stanford after the mission, maybe video,
not sure. He likes lifting weights and preaching the gospel! And is
very good at spanish, and like any and every trainer, patient. I´ve
kind of feel like a puppy infant child here. But I´ve had 5 days here
now, and I´m doing more and more every single day.
Tyler, Dad, I think you´re right. I partially have
been just putting in the time here. Partiallly of course it is really
hard to carry on a conversation here because I can´t really understand
what they say all that well. It depends, but I generally glean anywhere
from 5-30 porciento of the convesation. I can keep up with short small
talk much better than with actual full blown conversations, but It´s all
coming. There are def valid factos for me not being as capable as I will
be 3-6-9 months down the road, but I can still be as effective via the
Lord. Anyways, your right. I´ll try this visualization-optimization
more, because your right, there is no reason that every single one of
our investigators cannot get baptized, and there is no reason why I
should hold myself back and help them via my optimism and faith. They
all have their problems and doubts, (a doubt with almost everyone here,
is that they´re lazy or busy, or it´s just
not important for them to come to church, to do the things they
actually need to do), but they´re all progressing and are ready enough
to let us in, therefore if we do all we can do and help them, they all
can be baptized.
Dad feel free to tell me that story again, and what
golden questions are, because I forgot it. Go figure, after all those
years, ha.
Chile! My area is pretty ghetto,
dirty, poor, and vandalized but amazing. The people here are super
amazing and happy. The ward is all super nice and honestly like the
people anywhere- caring, kind, and friendly, so don´t worry I´m in good
hands. There´s one sister who we´ve visited her family a lot already,
(they´re part memebers) who reminds me of Grandma Debbie, in the sense
that she´s super animated and funny and nice and excited. Only of course
Chilean. Spanish-Castillan, is coming, it really is. I´m already
considerably more comfortable in the language than wednesday. And the
work as well. The field is really different, there´s no way they can
really prepare you for this, but sooo much better. Harder too,
definitely but a lot better. I´ve had a lot of moments
where we´re talking to people, or teaching in a home, and honestly I
can´t really understand them, but I just feel really happy, because I
know that I´m where I should be, helping people, and I´m grateful for
all these amazing people. I´ve had some pretty awkward moments at the
door, at the gate, talking to people, but I figure I should get them out
now.
I have a testimony of this gospel, I know it´s true. The book of mormon is the word of God.
Cya later!
Elder Spencer Tasso
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