wahooo!!! Once again we are LOVING
Alex's letters and are so proud of everything that he's doing! The MTC can be
hard at times,
but it's worth it! I feel it's
incredible to see the change in missionaries from the first day to even the
following week! Sometimes
I have to remember that it's Alex
writing because he sounds more mature than ever (and let's be honest, I still
see him
as the troublesome 4 year old who
would run around and cause havoc everywhere he went.)
Well hello family!!!! It sounds like
you are all doing well!! I am so excited to hear from you all!:) I love getting
letters and hear the amazing things in your lives. Well, I am doing well
and my Spanish is coming along. Dad, thank you for that letter. I am glad
you followed that prompting. I really needed to hear it at that
time. It has been getting tougher and harder as I get better at
Spanish. I'm not saying I'm getting discouraged, but I am saying it is
getting a lot harder. It just gets really frustrating when I know these
simple words that just don't come to me. I study and study and I
can remember them, but when I do these practice lessons, I forget them.
It's so strange, because I can remember all the grammer and all of these longer
and harder words, but I can't seem to remember these small simple ones!!!!
ahhhhh! But, I just gotta keep on working and I needed to hear that dad,
Thank you :)
Other than that, the language is
coming along. I am so thankful for great teachers. They have helped
me so much in understanding not just the language, but also the lessons and
doctrine. Hermano Hardy is awesome!! He and Hermana Hall do a tag team on
our district and they just do so well with all of us :) Fun little
story. Almost everyday we have a random teacher help out our teachers when
they are are being an investigator. Well 2 days ago, Hermano Walker comes
in. We get to chatting and he knows David!!! :) He said he knows him from
back home in Washington :) He went to Ecuador (I'm not sure how to spell
it:P) on his mission :) Another quick story, I was studying in the couch
in the lounge area on our floor when a teacher comes in that I met from the
first day. Well we get talking and he knows Mitch very well :) His
name is Jarom Auna. He was so nice and he told me that he'd let Mitch
know that I said hi :)
On a more spiritual note, I went to
the temple today :) It was so nice to just get out of the MTC and be at the
temple. A couple of days ago Hermano Hardy asked us to pray to know what
the Lord wants us to become as a missionary and as a person. That night I
was praying for that. From that night on I have been praying to know what
he wants me to become. The next day, President Brown came to our table to
eat lunch :) He sat right next to me. We all started talking and he asked
us some scripture questions. I knew them, but I could get better.
He was asking for 10 scriptures in the Book of Mormon on this and that.
As soon as we got done, I had a firm prompting to become so good at the
scriptures that I can just remember them like that.
Well I love you all and thank you for
the pictures. I love looking at them and showing all the elders that ask
about my family :) By the way, the district is good, we all get along
very well. No one knew Spanish before we got here so we are all in the
same boat. We all are very close and help each other out. But life
here is good. The days are very hard, long, and a lot of studying but I
love it!!
P.S. If my spelling is bad, I'm
sorry... Spanish does things to my spelling. I know it wasn't good before
but now it's really bad. I was writing in English and it switches over to
Spanish in a second! hahahah I guess thats good:P but still it gets
annoying asking how to spell a word hahah :P
I love you all and I hope all is
well!
Love, Your son or brother,
Elder Alex Laubaugh
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