Hola family. This week flew by like that. It is already friday my p-day. I leave this tuesday for guatemala. Crazy. Im really excited to leave. I met a elder that going to idaho here that is from guatemala city. He looked a lot different then i expected, he looked like a mix between like someone from india and a phillapino. He told me lots of interesting things. He said that the language there is a little different and what I learn here might change. He said that Guatemala city is the provo of central america. He said that there is a mormon church every 2 or 3 blocks. Thats suprising I had no clue. Thats awesome though im excited. I got an email today from somebody from guatemala at the mtc. It was all in spanish though so hope there wasnt anything too important in it. We already have are travel plans, I don't remember if I told you. We leave tuesday at 6 to la. Then we get to Guatemala city at 6 in the morning the next day. There is actually like ten kids going with us to guatemala. We have met some sisters and a couple elders that are going there. It is freezing here, I cant wait to get back in the warmth. And my lips are always chapped here, so I cant wait for the humidity. And to play soccer at the mtc there. Here I have playing basketball. ( don't worry my hand is perfectly fine, It hasn't hurt since ive been in the mtc, except the first day). I am really bad at basketball though. My companion is really good. He played when he was younger. He can make three like its nobody business. To get into a game you have to make a free throw. Since ive been here for a while now, I have gotten really good at making free throws, so I get to play now but then I cant really do much after that. Yesterday I had a amusing experiance. The new missionaires showed up wednesday and so the first day they played basketball we shot for teams and I swished it right off and everyone was like woow that kid must be good. Then they soon found out that i could just make free throws because i have been doing it for 15 days in around but that I cant do anything else. I did get to see Marshall Deem yesterday. Didn't get to talk much because i was going to dinner and he was leaving. So we just said hi, how you doing, bye. Oh I had one question for ryan and andrea? Is andrea's brother still here thats going to brazil or has he left for st. george yet. I see this elder witaker all the time. I feel bad for the missionarys going to brazil. None of them have made it there. There is a district that just got reassinged to st. george. I think all of them go to st.george for some reason. But if they don't get there visas in 6 months they get permenently reassinged somewhere. I don't even have a visa yet. You don't need one to get into guatemala and can live there 60 days without one. So I think I will get one once im there at the guatemala mtc. The food here is great. Its really good. This morning for bereakfast we went to the temple cafteria before our vistit. I got biscuts and gravy, and bacon, and hashbrowns. That also was really really good. My companions and the other kid in our room elder brandons mom are so funny. They remind me of you mom. Elder Brandons mom makes cookies every sunday and mails him like 5 pounds of cookies on monday. ELder hymas my companion gets a package like every other day of random candy and stuff. He has gotten burritos and pizza, and drinks, and cookies, and random stuff like that. Their moms don't understand how much food we eat at every meal. We're so full. Candy is always nice though. Right now we have cookies from both of their moms stacked up in a pile in the corner of the room. I don't think we will ever finish it. We always feel bad though when we get stuff though cause the one other elder brixey has only gotten a few letters and no packages so we always give him tons of our food. Plus he loves candy and gladly eats it all. We call him the candyman. Spanish is coming along okay. Im learning more. We have learned most of the teneses now and I understand them, but you have to conjugate things as your speaking, I cant do that yet. I have to sit down and take out some paper and take a minute and figure it out. Then I can say it. I can kinda talk and have a little conversation. I can talk about familes and extend and check up on commitments a little bit.
Farewell, Elder Gardner.
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