Okay, just for fun and so we all get to experience the enjoyment of reading Elder Eli's increasingly broken English I am going to copy this week's email from him word for word with original punctuation and lack of proper capitalization also. :)
"Hi,
ok so i just remembered that i forgot your Dear Elder back at my room, so hopefully there was nothing absoluting pressing that I am forgetting. The two things i remember though are about the paper you want notorized, I haven't asked about that yet but i will once i get it. and about the scripture. which the answer is no i don't have one yet I have several i would like to use but i haven't finalized on just one yet. I will by the time i leave the mtc though.
ok so update time. no not yet. ok first off, thank you again for the lovely care package, it really does make life here more enjoyable, even though i'm going to get so fat, haha all of are. we all drink chocolate milk for every meal and then come back and eat candy. our room looks like a little kids after halloween. But it's all good. once we get in mexico i'm sure we'll burn it off fast enough. and me and a couple other guys from my district have been doing some lead works outs a couple times a week so we won't become useless blobs from sitting all day.
that is literally pretty much all we do we eat, we sit, we run around for 50 min. but it's not as hard as i though it would be for me just sitting still all day. especially sitting still and being exhausted. but it's suprising how much energy i have considering how tired i feel when i wake up. i have woken up once where i actually felt rested, but through out the day i feel perfectly fine. especially when we teach. it's like an adreniline shot every time. i get so pumped every time we teach it's just amazing.
but another reason that i could be feeling tired is that i am not sleeping properly. apparently i am still talking in my sleep. in spanish, and not just talking but yelling as well. luckily my roommates are too tired to care hah
OH yeah so i have set a new personal goal for the CCM that is starting from this monday (2 days ago) I am no longer speaking english!! not that i speak spanish well enough to speak only spanish, but i just wanted to talk in it as much as possible. so except for district devotionals, workshops and pretty much any required interactions with english speakers, i am speaking spanish, my whole zone thinks i'm crazy but, all is well and in 4 weeks anyway i'll have to be speaking it, so it's not much difference. it's difficult to learn just because it's so new but it makes so much more sense than english. english is nuts. and i have actually been trying to work with the zone resource teachers everyday on something new to help me. not because i'm stuggling but just because i have become so consumed in speaking this language. it's funny to think that 4 weeks ago i was having a hard time saying 'Donde esta el bano?' no i can talk about the bathroom in great detail in spanish, which happens quite often, due to the MTC food.
Time here at the MtC is irrelevent. it's just all the same time now. 2 week\s, 8 weeks it doesn't really matter it's all the same, the only way i know how long i've been here is because i'm keeping track of it in my journal.
oh yeah and the district ahead of us just got their visas so that bodes well that me and my district will be going straight to mexico no transfers. hopefully, we'll probably go to salt lak in the next week or so.
So yesterday we got visted my another apostle. Elder Christofferson came and spoke and i was in the second row. it was awesome. being that close to a General Authority is simply amazing. and where i was sitting was right in one of those 3 spots they always look at so, it was like were were connected. haha
and we had fast and testimony meeting on sunday and i got up and bore my testimony in spanish for the entire branch, it was nerve racking but it was suprising that actually remembered what to say.
That sunday was just amazing though. Fasting here where the spirit is so strong was just such an experience. It was like drinking from a spiritual fire hydrant. just wave upon wave of understanding. I was studying for myself and for my investigators and i was just recieving so much. i can't even begin to put into words what i learned. It was more that i just gained a more full understanding of these principles.
it's amazing what can come when we humble ourselves before the Lord. If the MTC has taught me anything it is that. I was talking with another ELder the other day about that and we both agreed that this should be the hardest thing we have ever done, but it's not. As we trust in the Lord and lean not on our own understanding. i know I can feel my limbs become light and my mind quickened. Thank you for your prayers i can feel the strength they give and the angels they call down.
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I love you all, keep writing.
Elder Elijah DebROUX"
He sounds well and happy and I guess his English isn't tooo bad, but it is definitely slipping. :)
