Week 2 Update

Week 2's letter arrived today! He had to mail his letter this time instead of email because he was so busy answering emails from others he ran out of time :) With the holiday, it delayed it arriving until today. I hope to have another letter waiting for me tomorrow!! Love hearing from him!! :)

11-6-13

Hola! Today was a great day! I've been learning charity, love, and patience the most lately and today was just one small result in doing my best to keep all those characteristics with me. I am learning that all of the Elders in my district have a different perspective than what I am used to, and that's o.k. but it's given me some off experiences at times but being here, and exercising charity has shown me that you can ALWAYS make something work even if it seems impossible. Lately our "investigators" we've been teaching haven't really been progressing or keeping their commitments we extended to them. Tonight one of our investigators we were set to teach just hadn't been understanding what we were trying to help him learn. I noticed that my companions hadn't been really preparing for it, so I didn't remind them this time on purpose cause I found out that the more they "over prepare" the more doubts and, (my favorite word "assumptions" haha), and lack of confidence would fill their minds. So! Instead I let them just go throughout the day and right before we were set to teach I let them know that I thought we should make sure he knew. Now, usually we all bring note cards or a notebook with Spanish phrases to remember , but I had a big prompting to leave that all out this time. I said, no note cards, all memory and thought of an object lesson to include and so when we got to our lesson the spirit was so strong it was just awesome! I don't remember ANYTHING I said, but I knew it was what I needed to share and our investigator said he felt the spirit really strong, that all his stress and nervousness had gone away! It was the coolest thing to see happen and gave me a HUGE testimony in faith and prayer! I Loved it! I'm really starting to see how to really teach someone, and the feeling to care for someone in this way is so indescribable for me.

I just love learning new things every day. Literally every day here I learn something new. It's amazing! I can tell I am where I am supposed to be even though the food here makes me realize how SPOILED I was at home! haha It's good though, and I get seconds almost every time I eat! Jake better be proud of that! Hahaha 

And, I am sorry I don't miss you all too much yet. I love you all, but I know learning what I am learning is mas importante! :p But is there anything I can do for you guys? enserio? ( means sincerely) I know I'm far away, but I'm learning how powerful words can be :p

Love you all lots!

Love Elder Preciado

P.s. I'll try and send some pics next week and tell people they can write me! I love it when they do!