Elder Bowen is serving in the Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission. He is teaching in the Spanish language.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Email Uno--He's doing great! Write him soon!

Hola Familia,
As you have probably guessed by mis much esponol, yo y mi companero estamos espanol officianodos.  Just kidding.  But really we have learned a lot already.  It is crazy.  Everything is already a blur of whats happened.  I told you about mi companero in my letter before, hopefully you got that.  Hes a great guy and is always really focused on what we need to do.  Since nosotros are such bueno comaneros, i am now the district leader.  Basicly I just interview the senior companions, get everyones mail, lead meetings, collect letters, and communicate to the Branch President what is going on with the district.  Not to bad.  We have a great district.  5 of us are going to Florida Ft. Lauderdale, 2 to St. Louis, and 3 hermanas are going to Carlsbad, CA.  We all have about the same amount of Spanish learned so we are all on the same page.  We have also started teaching really quickly.  We have been working on our first lesson since thursday, which seems like weeks ago.  Soon we will have to know it in Espanol too.  We are praying and bearing our testimony en Espanol now, but most of us still need to look over notes a little bit when we do so.  We have all gotten to know each other very well too.  Most of the people are from Utah.  People are from St. George, Farmington, Las Vegas, Indiana, Salt Lake, Mapleton, and Idaho.  Mi companero has gotten like 7 letters/packages already, so yo necessito mas letters.  Put it on fb to write me soon.  The candy and notes were great thanks.  So one thing i do remember perfectly is our former room.  We moved into a room everyone called "the furnace" and for good reason.  It was 95 degrees, no joke.  It is ridiculous.  I so after dos noches we got moved across the hall to a much better room.  Now we dont have to sweat while we heat.  It was kinda fun though because we were known as Shadrack Mishack and Obendaguys(dos elders).  But now we have escaped the firey temperature of the furnace.  Gym is what we all look forward to everyday.  Mi companero es muy bueno at basketball.  el es bien shooter.  Gym definatley gets us through most of the day, it is our release.  The rest of the time we are pretty much studying or in class, or now doing interviews and writing up paperwork.  I have really gotten to love espanol now though.  It is my favorite thing to learn about.  Dont get me wrong, teaching is a lot of fun too, and i definatly couldnt do Spanish all day, but it is easy to see progression in Espanol and its fun being able to put together my own words now.  So I was wondering what the scores were too, we all want to know.  Well thats pretty much my life until we start getting a progressive investigator and get onto normal schedule with the other elders y hermanas in our zone.  From now on my P-day will be on Friday, so expect my emails then.  se que jesucristo es me salvador y que Dio ama me.  Testifico que Jose Smith fue un profeta de Dio y que el espiritu es real.  Yo Amo el evangelio.  En el nombre de jesucristo, Amen

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