December 5, 2008

Well, last Tuesday I went on team-ups with Elder Rico again. We had a good time! Ha ha! I taught him the slang words we as Americans use and pointed out the incorrect pronunciation of words. For example: "watcha doin" instead of "what are you doing" or as commonly heard around here: "what're ya doin." I taught him the words "ya'll" and "gunna" and other words like that. It helped a lot of things click for him because he heard all of those but didn't understand them. I've noticed a lot of things like that in spanish. So we had a really good time.

Thanksgiving was really great! We went to Granny June's for a thanksgiving meal. Wow! She is an amazing cook! She made TONS of food and it was all good! Usually I'm not a big fan of ham, but she made the best ham I've ever had! She is the nicest lady! She should be a member! Later that night we went to the Martinez house for dinner. They made Babasos for dinner. They are like mexican sub sandwiches. They were pretty good. They also made homemade doughnuts which were amazing! MMM! . . .

Monday we had a Zone p-day in Warrensburg which took up pretty much the whole day. We just played basketball and dodgeball and ate scones on p-day. Then after p-day I went on an exchange with one of the Zone leaders, Elder Tuttle. President Van Komen's interviews were going to be on Wednesday in Warrensburg so to save miles we had an exchange until then. We had  a good time. He's a cool guy and a good missionary. We had an awesome lesson with an investigator, Fidel Medrano. I'm really excited about him! I think he'll get baptized sometime soon! We also got a new investigator, Donald Jones. He has recently been wanting to change his life around and has been praying for help. We were tracting his street and showed up on his porch! He let us right in and told us his story. He is now reading the book of mormon! We have high hopes for him!