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What a week!

Whats up everybody? Its awesome you guys are having so much fun. The MTC here is going super awesome, and I`m learning spanish as they say here, poco a poco. Im super excited to go out to Honduras already. These next 4 weeks will probably fly by though. We had one fake investigator last week, really our teacher we just had to pretend he was an investigator. We stopped teaching him, but bot 2 new ones. These two are definitely harder to teach than the last one. They both have more problems than the first one, and are less understanding i guess. A funny language mistake i made this last week was that i said to our teacher, who was pretending to be someone we were teaching at the time, that we were there to comer(eat) a message, instead of saying compartir(share) a message. He just kind of looked at me funny and then i realized what happened. My friend and i just started laughing then we corrected it and taught the restoration. My favorite scripture here so far has been Alma 26:12. I know that i wont be able to learn this language as quickly as i need to without help from Heavenly Father. Sundays here are awesome, and i haven`t had to speak yet. They don`t tell you if you are speaking until right after the sacrament. It has to be five minutes, and completely in Spanish. It is crazy. Needless to say the english to spanish dictionary has been my best friend when writing those talks. Tell Zach not to die with Stans practice. My companion actually also swam for Stan, his name is Elder Maynez. He is about as fast at swimming as I am. He and I have been learning Spanish pretty well, so when we have to practice teaching the lessons go pretty well. Don`t worry about the Utah football player, im already on the BYU recruiting squad. As i am writing this i can see the top half of the Guatemala City temple. It is a really interesting looking temple. Last week we got to walk around Guatemala City in a space of about 2 or 3 blocks around the MTC and it is super different. Pretty much every store, or school, or pretty much anything has a security guard with some kind of gun. It is kinda weird. We got to go to this super sketchy convenience store right in the middle of a parking garage. It was awesome though because i got american candy. We have been having to practice teaching lessons to Latinos a ton this week. It is super crazy, some of them speak so fast. They all tell me that I am doing excelente for only being here for 2 weeks. Thats super cool. Well thats about all i got for this week. Till next week.
Nos Vemos
Elder Jensen

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  1. KatAugust 24, 2016 at 11:43 AM

    He sounds good. I love the little insights he gives. Brave boy.

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