killer week as usual for you guys!!! thats crazy that there was a hurricane?! i never would have imagined that happening!!!! the jeep looks so sweet!!!!!!!!!! im sitting here showing everyone it and they all love it:) yeah i knew that his birthday was this week but i didnt have his email and i dont have enough time to send one so i will write him a letter this week and if you can just send me his adress that would be perfect:) so the letter that i sent to you guys for alyssa should be getting there sometime this week....hopefully it works!!! i also sent one for rachael this last week so itll be a week or two till that one gets there:) anyways.
LAst pday we got to have the pday in the morning and then the temple the rest of the day! it was so unbelievably awesome!!!! the temple was extra cool because this time i got to do the last part with the temple president and he wanted me to do it in spanish....(that was super rough) but afterwards he pulled me aside in the changing room and was telling me how i did super good and had great pronunciation. he then gave me advice on how ways that i can practice my spanish in my free time that helped him tons. Super cool:) oh and the names at the temple that we did were all found by a lady from alpine!! her name is Jasmine Bennet who, it was a pleasant surprise to be chilling in the chapel and looking at the card and seeing Alpíne utah! you guys should try to see if anyone knows her:) Representing Utah down here in the southern hemisphere;)
So this week is crazy becaue it is independance day. and its a 6 day celebration that everyone is just going crazy and parties all of the time! so on thursday they let us go to this park where there was a carnival to see the people and get the culture down and to just practice our spanish wiht people! it was an awesome experience, we handed out pass along cards and stuff. awesome:) oh and on that day alot of our teachers took it off so we had a sub and his name was hermano Leiva and he served in the Houston Texas East mission with levi gifford and parker olsen!! he said he knew both of them and had gone on a couple exchanges with him!!!! it is such a small world in the church:)
On friday our schedules had a 6 hour break of just nothing and we all were confused on what it was and stuff...so this is what it was, a full on party. non stop dancing and eating soooooo much good food!!! they had ribs and brisket and chicken and i dont even remember but it was soooo amazing!!! we were able to wear our normal clothes too and that felt super weird....but nice to change things up for a bit:) we played all these games that were ones we played as little kids and they are all these adult going all out and stuff. super funny to watchh and do:) we played musical chairs and out of the 60 of us missionaries i finished number 4! so close!! this little brazilian girl just was so quick and i think she cheated;) jk it was fun though:)
a sad event also happened... an hermana from our district went home... Hermana Zobrist. she had problems with her knee and needed surgery. She didnt tell anyone that she was leaving untill she just disapeared... I wish i could have said good bye! she was sooo chill and super hipster and idk a super cool girl. she also felt that she couldnt speak spanish(she was the 2nd best in our class behind a brizilian) and it stressed her out and you could just tell that she was going through a really rrough time. I hope that she will be able to go back out on maybe a english mission because she would be an amazing missionary!! she is in our prayers.
On sunday we watched a devotional that president scott gave last tuesday the provo ccm. it waas so powerfull and i felt as if he was talking directly to me. i have had tons of questions on my mind and he answered all of them. so amazing how the lord works. my testimony is growing so much everysingle day. one of the questions that he had answered was "why did it seem like the last few weeks before i left that everyone told me to be exactly obedient no matter what?" and i had found a reason why. so my district is called the "party" district because there are tons of kids that just are here like its a party or something. i am always several times a day telling people that they shouldnt be doing something because its against the rules or that we are representitives of jesus christ and stuff. i have become this stubborn kid to them bevause they just dont understand the importance of following rules. even though they rarely listen to me, i know that they are still learning because if i do my best to help them, then the lord is going to do the rest.
i cant wait to be actually out in the feild and am super stoked to be on my mission:) love you all!!! keep it real;)
Elder Collins
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