February 25, 2010

hey me familia!!! well to start things off , i did get all of your dearelders on time so you can keep sending them. jord that stinks that you guys lost to madison in b ball , that is rough hang in there i bet you will beat them at state. could you send me anouther SD card for my camera and i think i sent home my SD card from provo so you should have or will be recieving it. also if you really want to then i would be more than willing to accept food in that package... like chips and candy and stuff and letters!!!!! but everyone who is reading this needs to know that I KNOW ZERO SPANISH!!! we went to the university and i go in there thinking that i will be able to pick up a few words and create a sentence out of it BUT NOOOO nothin i seriously just stared at the people the whole time having no idea what they were all saying. thank goodness for me they love to talk here so all i had to do was nodd my head and say yes. but there were quite a few people that spoke english too so i talked to them alot. but i did place my first book of mormon ... YAY!!! to a kid that is 17 going to college and going to learn 5 different languages. he is really smart. everyone here though speaks at least two languages, im not even kidding. it was really intense to try and listen to people speak spanish when i really really really really had no idea what they were saying. my rooms and stuff here are so  so much nicer than at provo. the beds and pillows are way better and i can actually get a full nights sleep. it is so pretty here too, especially at the temple, you all need to come down here and see it. i can see the ocean from the temple too , it is way cool. right now it is like perfect tempurature... kinda. it is way hott sometimes but at other times it feels really good. there is always like a litlle breze which makes it feel so nice outside. they said that it gets way hott in june july and august so i cant wait until then :) . my spanish isnt as bad as it sounds though . in class i can understand them but they speak really slow for us and cleary but out on the streets i have absolutly no idea que en el mundo they are saying. our teachers said that we will be able to understand people by the time we get out of the MTC and by three months we will be able to speak it in three BUT we will see about that . i dont really like the mtc here as much as i did in provo. it is alot less organized and there is less free study time for the missionaries. we have three teachers everyday and they teach in spanish all day . my brain seriously hurts so bad by the time i go to bed at night. we did have a devotional this tuesday and elder vina of the seventy came and talked to all 30( or something like that) people at the CCM. so that was pretty cool. its really dumb .. were not suppose to take pictures at all so i have to wait until all the haitians leave and they we can take out our cameras so we can take pictures with them and stuff. i dont know its a dumb rule. i also got my first domincan haircut today....? remember when we shaved my head?....well i got round two today. it does feel pretty good because its so hott down here. humidity is wierd. you will walk outside and i feel like my entire body is swimming and breathing water and i feel sticky all at the same time. but there are no mosquitos here cuz were in the middle of the city and there is alot of pollution and stuff. all the stories are true there are dogs running around and garbage all over the place and it so funny cuz i totally feel like im in a third world country but its way cool at the same time. they are crazy drivers crazy crazy crazy .... like i would instantly kill myself if i got in a car. they drive the wrong way on the road and honk and do whatever they want. they call of the missionaries mormonies, just a random fact. but the food here is so good. and they feed me so much of it too. i am stuffed at every meal, so i will probably get fat. but one bad thing all of the new missionaries go through what i like to call the     " enfermo estomego" phase. i dont want want to go into detail with but lets just say that my bathroom visits were often and not solid haha. i had a dream that jonathon bought a suburban :)....? but that is about all that i can think of so i cant wait to here more from all of you and I LOVE YOU !!!!!! elder finn