Surprise everyone!!! We have pday on Tuesday this week. All the other missionaries except our district left for the field either this morning or last night, so we're all alone. We're doing our pday today so it doesn't get in the way of the new missionary's orientation and stuff. We still have another 3 weeks here, and the new missionaries should be coming tonight. Then we'll be the avansados! (advanced, i think). We're basically the leaders and examples for the new missionaries. It should be fun. Pday is back to Wednesday next week though.
Estoy muy confuso (confused) sobre muchas cosas. First off, I've already been here for three weeks. It feels like that has rushed by. But at the same time, this feels like its been the longest three weeks of my life. Its very confusing. I'm also confused about my feelings about my mission. The more I hear about Bolivia and the area i'll be serving in, the less cool it sounds. Its going to be super hot. Apparently it looks a lot like Idaho (lots of fields, cows, etc). I got excited about the cows, but then someone told me that they don't really know how to feed their cows super well down there, so the beef doesn't even taste that good. But the longer I'm here at the CCM, the more and more excited I get about going into the field. I can't wait to go teach. Even if I'll be completely drenched in sweat every day. The CCM feels too much like a college dorm. And I hated my college dorm. But I do like the people much better here. I love my district.
I'm also just confused about spanish and stuff a lot of the time. Missionary work is hard. Learning the language is hard. But I'm loving it. Elder Prince and I have had some pretty good lessons this week.
Nothing too exciting happened this last week. Just regular stuff at the CCM. Oh wait, I got injured yesterday! Almost forgot! So we were playing football during actividad fisical (the american kind), and I was going to block a pass. Problem was, Elder Roberts was going to block that same pass. And we were both running full speed. Directly at each other. So we collied in midair, and almost perfectly scissored the legs. Almost. His knee went into my thigh hard. It hurts to walk on now. Mostly up and down stairs, whenever I have to bend it a lot. I also sprained my wrist slightly, either on the fall or on Elder Roberts' body. It doesn't hurt too bad though. The leg is worse. But Ill recover quickly. I have some advil as well, so that helps.
Today when we went to the temple, we had the session in Spanish. I could've worn headphones to translate into english, but I decided to try and listen to the Spanish one. This was great for a couple reasons. First, I really had to concentrate on the words, so I didn't fall asleep as much. (I still dozed off a little, i'm not perfect). Second, to my surprise, I actually understood a lot of it! Probably at least half! It made me really happy. I'm making some great progress with the language. Everyone in the district is. We're trying to speak it as much as possible, which is hard since we really mostly know words about the Gospel, but I'm loving the language.
After the session we always go to the distribution center across the parking lot. Temples like this one have a hotel there for people who traveled a long way to the temple and needed to stay there, which is really cool. They also have a cafeteria down there where we can buy soda and chips for a freaking STEAL. I bought 4 bottles of soda and two bags of chips for 10.80 Soles today. Which im pretty sure is like 3.50 in American dollars. You can google it, I'm not 100% sure on the ratio. The church is true. Its the only explanation for those killer prices. Everyone always stocks up on snacks when we go to the temple. It's awesome. We went over and talked to Tie Guy for a while after as well. I didn't buy anything from him this week, but I did actually get a decent picture with the guy. Attached below.
Spiritual thought for the week. We watched another killer devotional from Elder Holland this week. I decided it would be really nice if I could have that guy yell at me and tell me everything I did wrong at the end of the day, but sadly I don't have that luxury. He talked about the importance of missionary work, and how we owe it to God to work our tails off. We are going out to save the world, and we need to put every ounce of energy we have into it, and love every second of it. He said something like "I can't promise heroic success, but you can promise a heroic effort". He also emphasized that our mission doesn't end when our two years are up. We are to be disciples of Christ for our entire lives. That man can preach.
Thats most likely all from me today. Thank you for the emails, I love you all.
Elder Bingham
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| We discovered I have the biggest mouth in the district. In the literal sense. Its a long story. And thanks for the selfie stick Bryce, people love it here. |
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| We decided to all sit at different tables since we had the whole comedor to ourselves today |
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| Testing how impressive my camera zoom is on Elders Lupton and Yumul |
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| Elder Prince and I with tie guy. And a Peruvian flag even though we're going to Bolivia. |
I almost forgot. We found out this week that there's been some natural disasters in Peru. You guys might have heard about it. Peru is a bit of a desert. they don't get much rain here. But about a week ago, there were massive rainstorms in some parts of Lima, and other missions around Peru. They caused massive flooding in these areas. The Mtc is unaffected, but other parts got hit hard. About half a million people lost their homes, and many places are currently without water. Its sad.
The cool part about this is apparently the local church leaders in the area gave an address about being prepared for disasters like this a couple weeks ago. Spare water, food, stuff like that. So church members were prepared. This is a church of revelation.
But please pray for the people of Peru. They need it.
Elder Bingham
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