¡Hola!
Here I am, in the Spain MTC, and it´s great. I am thoroughly enjoying myself now, even though I am in another 3 some! It´s not too bad here though because you´re not joined at the hip like in Provo. They really trust you here, and you don´t have every single hour of your day planned out for you. There´s a lot of time where you just get to choose your focus in your studies. I´ve been focusing and studying a lot, even though today my alarm didn´t go off and I looked at my alarm at 6:50! I was so mad. But it´s okay, it was an honest mistake. So during our gym time, we get to go play football with some kids, and it´s in this cool football pitch that´s like from the movie El Dorado. It´s all concrete, and it´s in like a pit. It´s way cool, I´ve never seen anything like it. The kid´s here were all really good, and they´re all like 13 to 16, and they all have piercings and tattoos, but they are good kids. They´re pretty shy, and when I scored a goal I said ¨"¿Bueno por an Americano sí?" and they didn´t really laugh, but I did. They knew who Landon Donovan was, and that made me happy. But anyways, talking to them made me excited to get out to the field and to proselyte to people just like them. I was talking to this one English elder here, Elder Middleton, and we were talking about how much the church and the priesthood would change these kids lives. It made us both excited. It´s going to be good. Today, we have to go give some fingerprints to some government agency, then sign some papers, and they´re sending all the Americans out into the metro by themselves! This could get dangerous. But we´re missionaries, so we´ll be okay. Then, we come back here for lunch, and head back out into the city for 3 hours to look around.
So yeah, I´m just in SPAIN having a grand time. The teachers here are all very nice, and there are 7 or so Spaniards who I try and talk to all the time. They like talking to me, and I LOVE talking to them. When I first got here they basically shattered my confidence in Spanish, but I am slowing putting it back together. They talk so fast, and they use words that aren´t used in Latin America, which is where my teachers served, so I have a lot of learning to do, but hey, it´s all good.
So I´m glad that you all are well, school´s about to start up I guess, and that will be fun. Make sure to study hard!
Wait until September 8th to send me any real mail, but feel free to email me all you want! I hope to here from you soon. I have to go get ready to go downtown. Adios.
Mucho amor,
Elder Pericle