These are 2 of my favorite photos so far. My Companion, Elder Best and I showing off our Sweet Spirits.
Swimming with the Leapord Sharks?!? Wow... I don't think I remember the last time dad or mom even went into the water!! Haha!!! That's awesome dad took Labor Day off :) Us missionaries just . . . LABORED! ha ha
It's awesome here at the CCM. I just finished lunch which was surprisingly good! I've figured out if your American you do not know what Mexican food is. you all think Mexican food is a tiny shop like Karina´s or Rico´s in a sanitary kitchen with a few workers with hair pulled back that makes celestial burritos. YOU HAVE NOT TASTED MEXICAN FOOD! If you're in America and don't have the pleasure of knowing what Mexican food really tastes like do these steps:
1 walk outside
2 grab a handful of dirt
3 find some sticks
4 find some flies
5 mix these supplies together
6 add maybe ten beans and 5 pieces of rice
7 say a prayer of sanitization over this food and that your body may hopefully digest with ease
8 quickly eat the food before your body has registered what is really in your stomach
9 now be prepared for your sanitization prayer to not be answered.
That is the real experience of Mexican food! ha ha but I am grateful because we get three meals a day and a lot of Coco Crispies.
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| ADIOS MI AMIGOS! Us Boys & the Latinos |
So another week in this beautiful thing... let me start with the bond that everyone feels here! This Monday morning our dorm woke up at three thirty to say goodbye to all our Hispanic friends I had written two of them a note and us three cried together we couldn't say anything accept for I'll see you in two years! I can actually say some common phrases pretty well I told all of them to get married in the San Diego Temple and that I will be there no matter what we all laughed and cried and said goodbye and ever since it seems like the CCM is empty! They were so loud and boisterous! We would all say funny things in Spanish that were inside jokes with us! Good Times!
It rains every day here and hasn't been hot AT ALL! It rains HHHAAAARRRRDDDD at 6pm and its around 65 degrees, so its not hot at all but Honduras is 91 and thunder storms so it'll be a wee different for sure! So i don't think Im really getting any of a Honduran experience yet! One thing is that here, we have earthquake drills about twice a week. Whenever there is an earthquake larger than a 5 on the richter scale a loud alarm like the type in the movie "Pearl Harbor" where it starts low and slowly gets higher pitched and we all go to these designated points throughout campus. Well, one of the Latinos figured out a way to copy it and on the last night he and two others did it outside our dorm and every room around us freaked out! It was so funny ha ha We all laughed and will continue to laugh at that one for hours!!
We also had tie trades with them I gave them two of my favorite ties!!! But I got two nice ones too we all got each others email and facebook for after the mission and promised we would send pictures in our ties to each other.! Something funny this week is my companion thought it would be a great idea to clean his contacts with hand sanitizer... I'll say that again HAND SANITIZER! His eyes turned bright red in about 5 seconds and for the next two hours we kept on asking him if he wanted us to get milk or something to wash his eyes out but he just kept saying he was fine it ended being hilarious because there was no point in being stubborn or prideful! That night I said our companion prayer and asked for his right eye to not feel the pain anymore and boom I started to hear crying. I quickly ended the prayer and he said that he felt no pain right when I asked for that, it was awesome that our prayer was answered so quickly!!!!
A strange experience was we have an Hermana in our district who dated a teacher here. He came in to ¨teach her¨. Ughhhh... I WAS SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY WERE LAUGHING SO MUCH and it was so obvious they were flirting! After I said that THAT was so wrong and that we should leave everything home... well it turns out I'm wrong about them being a current thing but that being taught by your ex-semi-boyfriend is OK! I felt so terrible because I really hurt her feelings. I felt like I was useless as a supposed leader but then all the guys in the district said they supported me in everything I do even if it wasn't the best way to approach it. Then Fast Sunday came and I bore my testimony of the love of the Sister Missionaries and their dedication they show in my district and then talked about my brothers out serving missions and how I'm the one serving close to where my dad served. I was so happy!!
I miss Tiara so much and I still can't get over the fact I got no time to really bear hug any of you before I left! But I am not as home sick anymore. I still miss home but I have a bigger desire to bring others back home! We got our investigator to get baptized it was awesome we asked her to get baptized and she said "NO" and so I asked if we could pray one last time together, but this time on our knees and that she (our investigator) offer the prayer with faith and a sincere heart and ask specifically if she should get baptized. The spirit was so strong when these words flowed from my mouth that she committed 'YES' even before the prayer!!! We then said a prayer of thankfulness and it was truly a beautiful day!
In closing todays letter, I think I might have found my closing line for my letters... okay here it goes:
¨When you're down, get off your booty, get down on your knees, then get up on your feet and DO!!!¨
I like it, :D
MUCH LOVE, MUAH!!!
Elder Ty Toolson4
Mom & Dad, Thanks for everything! I love you so much and wish I could've hugged you longer and kissed you on the cheeks! The Mexico CCM is great at letting you know how unprepared you really are but I am amazingly excited for the stories and the struggles. Dad, I cant wait to go through all the struggles you did! I wish I would've worked with you more often but please keep sending little inspirational quotes they really brighten my day!! My Spanish is improving, we hangout with the Latinos and swap languages all night, ha ha. We all cried when they left yesterday it was so depressing but we were so proud of our Latinos! My great companion doesn't speak a lick of Spanish though! Please pray for me every night for the gift of tongues and especially for Elder Best, he struggles so much with Spanish and I try my best to help but he's like Trey that whenever he says something wrong and then I correct him, he just gets frustrated! Ha ha, I do understand him and feel bad for him. He tries so hard!
I love you SO MUCH. I will write you all next Tuesday!
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