USA! USA! USA!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 


Hello Family!


I am doing really really well for being in a foreign country lol. We are pretty sheltered from the outside world since there is like a 15ft wall all the way around the MTC, and huge gates keeping people out, or maybe us in? haha But we do get to go to the temple and a "tottus" which is south americas answer for a wal-mart. I bought some coke, fanta, two lima ties, and some chips and cookies. I was dyyyyyying for some american food. Down here they have a McDonalds and Pizza Hut  and KFC but we can't eat there because we are always in the MTC. I like it better than provo in some ways, but in other ways I don't. Its a really small MTC, and everything is less than a minute away, whereas in the MTC in provo it would take us like five minutes to walk anywhere.  You get to know a lot more elders because there is waayyyy fewer of them here. The food is good for the most part. sometimes I can't eat, but most the time it tastes good, rice for every meal, EVERY meal lol. with some meat, and usually a dessert. Wednesdays and Sundays we get Ice cream so thats always something to look forward to lol. I am not going to be able to send any handwritten letters because I dont have any stamps, and you cant buy them down here. which really stinks.


I am glad you actually had a day of rest mom, you do way to much as it is. My companion is nice, he is from Colombia, and he is always singing Michael Jackson songs and dancing to them lol, its pretty funny. He is a prankster also. Always joking and making the natives laugh. Sometimes it is hard to have patience with him, because he takes a really long time to get ready or do anything, which is unfortunate. But I know heavenly father is just trying my patience. so yesterday we played Futbol with the natives and it was the americans verse the natives and we tied them 5-5! haha it was sooo funny because none of us americans knew what we were doing so everytime we would score a goal, we would celebrate and scream USA! USA! USA! and then one of the teachers came out and told us the police had been called because we were being too loud. Which got us even more pumped. Oh and I can still recieve dear elders just so you know, I only get them like once a week but I still get them so let everyone know! letters are what keep me going! And today we had to catch a bus to go to the temple. We were all crammed in this tiny bus, and the people here drive soooo dangerously, thought we were gonna die a couple times, then I had the opportunity to be my companions escort for the temple. It was really cool, because I remember just a couple months ago when I was getting my endowments out, Dad did the same thing for me! Kinda a weird temple experience since it was all in spanish though. Definitely didn't know what they were saying, but luckily I had a general idea because I had heard it in english before. So afterwards, we went to the distribution center because my companion didnt have scriptures yet either. They are really slow with the service there, it took like 20 minutes to
checkout. afterwards we went to this other church store where they have scripture cases and ties and that kind of stuff made out of leather with cool things on them. I bought two ties, but I am gonna wait till I get to ecuador to buy one of the scripture cases because ecuador is known for having really cool scripture cases. Afterwards we went to "Tottus"(wal-mart), but we only had like 20 minutes so we had to speed shop, they have quite a bit of american food, which I was really  happy about. But my companion took a long time so we only had like 3  minutes to get back to the CCM and so we grabbed a taxi really quick and  got there in just in time as everyone else. But seriously the taxi was such a crazy driver, it was insane. like I thought we were gonna crash at least once every five seconds. They call Lima the gray city because of all the smog lol. We made up a new basketball game called tip magna, it was pretty fun for making it up. Well family I am praying for you guys, and I will pray for sister Brown as well, I hope all is well, the spanish is coming slowly but surely. Alright well talk to
you guys later! Love you.

Love
   Elder Storm