John - July 7, 2010

Hola mi familia!
things are going well here. I think I'm really starting to bond with my companion, Elder Harvey. Anyway. things are going good, the spanish is still a working progress, but now we've gotten through all the gramatical things. So thats good. Now i just got to work on forming the sentences on the spot. So I've decided there are a few things wrong with this place, One is that they don't allow ultimate frisbee, and two... well i can't really think of a second one at the moment. So I'm starting to enjoy this place, Waking up in the morning is not difficult anymore, just part of the routine now. So the best time of the week is for sure gym time! I went and did some frisbee out on the field, but its not very fun if you can't play ultimate and the guys here weren't the best(my companion), but no worries i still had fun. Now I'm in a little team callled, team Unity, we play volleyball. its pretty sweet. Elder Christensen and i spend half of our time playing volleyball and half of the time working out up stairs. The only bad thing is that they don't have free weights here. they only have machines and there are like 12 machines totall. We make it work though.
Our"Game Night" is tonight! Right now we are working on giving the second lesson in our "TRC", which is game time as our teacher calls it. Elder Harvey likes to talk a lot durring the lesson, so hopefully tonight i can get some words in. Also we are talking to our investigator in all spanish and taking him/her to the bus.
So for our 4th of July we had a special devotional that was about our forefathers and how they were inspired to write and do what they did. Also this country must have been protected by the lord! well after that we went outside to watch some of the fireworks. It was pretty sweet, not as good as going over to Jordan high though and watching them there. It was cool to see though. we got to stay out really late that night! Till 11:00, wow crazy right? hah yeah thats the latest I've stayed up in the past two and a half weeks.
well its good to hear that you all visited grandma, and good to hear she is doing good! Tell her i love her! well tonight i will be writing letters to everyone i can. Hopefully i willl have time. And mom and dad I will write to you First! Last week i thought i would save the best for last... not a good idea, might i say. well i love you all! Love Elder Paulsen.