Week 2

\hello family

so this week was pretty good. im starting to actually learn the language a little. i can speak it. just not very good at understanding it. we teach a fake investigator every day and i feel like i do pretty good at teaching but every time she says something i have to turn to my companion elder mecham and im like what in the heck did she just say. it is pretty frustrating. but it should get better.

so last p day after i wrote all my emails later that night we checked the mail and i had three letters so the dear elder isnt the best option they have this thing called missionties.com and its way better i can hand write the letter then they scan them and email them to you. and when you write your letters on the computer they print them out here in the mtc and put them in my mail box that day so everyone should use that because i dont have enough time to read everybodies letters in the short 30 minutes i get to email on p day.

on las p day we were walking in the mtc and we looked out the window and there was a dude just laying on the side walk. at first we thought he was dead..... but then we saw his bottle of whatever he was drinking laying right next to him. so a few hours pass and hes still there. im not going to lie i grabed my camera and took some pictures of the guy.

ohhh so this last week my eye decided that it wasnt happy being its normal size so it decided to swell up to about 100 times its normal size. but no i got a sty. in it and it was the worst i couldnt walk around anywhere without everybody asking me what was that matter with me. even the brazilinas would ask in portuguese and even though i cant understand them i could tell what they were talking about when they started pointing at my.... haha

so we got 2 brazilians that moved in to our room with us and they are the most amazing people i have ever met. they are so loving and they just make you feel so good. every time we see them they come up and give you a hug. the other night we were sitting in our room and i was singing some american song and they dont know any english but he starts singing it. so i asked him if he new what that song was talking about and he had no idea. so we started testing them on how many songs they knew. they love american music....

so im running out of time. can everybody that emailed me remail it to me through missionties.com. because ididnt have time to read any of my emails.. sorry i know its a pain but i would love you even more it you do that.!!!

but im so excited to be here i love every second of it. there are deffinetally hard times but i have been able to come so much closer with the lord. and we are starting to be very good friends. its amazing how strong the spirit is here and how good all these different elders. i am very privilaged to be here with so many good men.

Thank you all for supporting me i love you!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Ruesch