November 23, 2010

Thank you so much for the package! I love the new tie and am looking good in it!! But first for this email I need to start out by saying, just because my call is Spanish speaking does not mean I am fluent. The entire letters in Spanish are not working! I understand most of anything in the gospel but as for the exotic words I am not understanding it. I tried my best to translate your letters this week that were in Spanish and got about half or three fourths of it. Ha sorry! But this week was fantastic. It was easily the fastest week yet and tomorrow marks the half way mark I do believe. That is weird huh! This week was also the last week that we teach English lessons to our fake investigators. From now on out we will be teaching in Spanish which is crazy! When I said that our teachers did not really ever talk in Spanish well that changed... a lot. They ramble off about something and nobody knows what is going on. I swear one the teachers don’t want us to know what is going on because he mumbles so much ha! But at the same time it is so useful! It is so cool to have a secret language with your comp and the people that are not speaking Spanish have no idea what you are saying.... then again I don’t really know what I am saying either. I make it sound like Ii am not doing very well with the language but really I am. This week was very beneficial doctrine wise as well! It is the greatest feeling to be teaching and something comes up and a scripture pops into your head about the topic. Really it is amazing! So I have really started to focus on memorizing scriptures!

I’m so sad that I am missing thanksgiving with the Beans! Tell them that Ii love them and that they are missing out and I'm not the one missing out! But also tell Todd that he better be getting ready cause his time is coming and it is the greatest experience ever! I hope he is doing well?

I play basketball every day here and even though most of them are completely horrible and they don't know how to dribble it is fun to play.

I am so sick of the food here. I mean it was great but it is the same thing every day and I can't stand it. I would give anything for a crunch wrap supreme!!

Oh ya could you send me Braydon Lee's address and Cody Fischers?

Sorry I’m not responding to any of your questions. I left the letters back at the residence hall but let me know what you want to know!

But oh ya I did talk to President Clegg and met him. His wife recognized me as Kelly before she saw my name! They are nice people tho! I can’t remember if I have already told you this cause my sense of time is absolutely destroyed!

Tiffany thanks so much for the help with ties! have you guys already made Christmas lists? cause I want Santa!!!! Yo se que esta iglesia es verdadero y tambiem que los prefetas es verdadero.l yo estoy agredecido por jesucristo y yo se que el morrio pare me. le amo. gracias por me escribir todos los tiempos y porfavor cuntiniudad. yo se que nosotros podems vivr para enteridad.

It takes too long to write in Spanish but I love you family. Tell Caleb to continue getting good at basketball and to start growing! Next week I will write more sorry. I hope everything is good

P.S. I am here to testify that the Spanish hymns are so much better than the English hymns and they are always stuck in my head! oh ya and i am thinking about trying out for the missionary talent show on Christmas but maybe not... probably not but i want to! My two favorite scriptures this week is Mormon chapter 9 and D and C (forgot the verse) talks about the peace in your heart is your answer from god!

I hope all is well and thank you for the letters!

Love Elder Shaw

Some pictures of Elder Shaw

November 18, 2010

Thats awesome braiden made varsity!!!! tell siefert to go pet his llamas if he is telling him to play on jv! is braiden going to play alot? who is looking good?! Ya i heard seifert is retiring after next year from someone, i forgot who tho.

I have an elder in my district that is obsessed with the lakers and i told him and he didnt come out of his room for the whole night ha It was awesome!

I absolutlly love the granole, it is delisous and the only thing i eat in the morning! cause the breakfast is horrible!!!!!! but ya i did get the package thank you some much it was so very much needed, i have gym everyday and was wearing the same pairs of socks and shirts everyday and it was pretty nasty! oh yesterday in gym i threw down an oop through the lane! so you can tell braiden to watch his back, and i am hitting 180 and i dont think it is fat (hopefully) but ill probaby lose it all in paraguay!

Ha so yesterday me and my companion were practicing contacting people and we decided to contact drew and his companion... who is weird. and so i did the talking in spanish and my companion translated after each sentence, I got half way through the contact and decided to have some fun with it and statered, saying stuff about his eyes and his companion, and messing with him and my companion would translate like i was contacting and it was so cool!!!!!! i haver always wanted a secret lanuguage and now i dont have to use PIG LATIN!

We dont speak spanish very much in class cause all we do is learn docterine which isnt bad but its more benificial in english. we tried our first english fatst yesterday. which  means no english and it last for about an hour before every body in the whole zone gave up. it was pretty bad! its really weird that we are already working on the 5th week scinario (teaching thing) and that i on my 4rth week it feelike 1 week!

Ha way to go mom, io get to pick the hyms for evcery class and we are dominating the christmas hyms already. also the 4 elders in my room we have starting a whistling quartet (dont know how to speel that) and it is crazy awesome! we also might be singing for sacrament soon, there is some talent.

Thank you so much for the package tho it was needed and i hate asking so i wont cause i know it costs money, but if you ever can or want to or dont, but could you send some of my cooler ties, apparently the books over exagerate on the tie thing i miss my coo good ties, like the paisley (paisely is gold here) and the ties are like pokemon cards for missionaries, we all trade and compare and it is awesome! but im no to high in the standings. although last night i trade 1 of my ties for 3 of anothers (eperiecnce in sales are paying off)! but if you cant that is all right also dont worry about it.

November 16, 2010

Whats up Familia!

How is life? Anything new? How is work dad? How was Braiden’s tryouts, nobody told me if he made varsity or what happened! The basketball here is fun but not super competitive but there are a couple that provide sufficient competition haha, that was a joke. But i thought i was going to get fat when i came here, but i think i have lost fat and gained muscle cause there is an elder in our room his name is elder hatch, and he knows the Spiels, but he does like 200 pushups  and sit-ups every night so we all look at him and feel guilty for our fat bodies and end up trying to keep up with him. We 3 have come up with the sweetest situp games, like holding your legs off the floor and seeing how many corn nuts we can catch in our mouth in that time. But he is crazy.  We say WWHD what would Hatch do.

I run into Spencer Shumway and Travis Lish all the time and this week I saw Drew Wagstaff twice, they are all doing real good.  Oh ya and i did run into President Clegg after a fireside on Tuesday and talked to him for like 5 minutes about Dad and he is funny! He said he was going to call me into his office later on ask me to do something i think... but he hasn’t called me yet.

Yesterday my companion and I did a TRC training something something where we had to pick investigators up for church and take them on a 15 minute bus ride and NO ENGLISH. Iit was awesome i have no idea where the words came from (i do the spirit but you get the point) they talked about Catholic baptism and proper authority it was cool.

Our teacher Brother Pepper has decided that we don’t need to be taught Spanish in class anymore and is only teaching doctrine because of a talk that Elder Bednard came and gave (which was amazing) but i am learning so much every day. I’m like a Wizard on the great apostasy now!

O and mom you know how you use to drench my oatmeal in honey and hide grapes in there to get me to eat it well... I have a bowl every single day and love it so don’t worry your efforts have not been in vain. It’s delicious and the only thing that doesn’t give you gas here! I’m not kidding you.

But as for the getting up at 6:30 it aint so bad! At first it was but the elder in our room decided that we are not allowed to turn the alarm off until we do 10 pushups each right after we roll out of bed./ (i have managed to fake a pushup pretty well so they think i am doing it every morning with one knee) but it still works really well. The other day i had a question about the Catholic church and couldn’t figure it out, so i got on to lds.org (which is allowed) and asked a missionary on chat and the missionary walked up to our room from another building and got mad at for me for doing that... I thought it was really smart!  I am learning a lot. I understood most every single word in your Spanish letter except the exotic ones.  It was fun to read it.  Oh ya and Sunday I was called as district leader, because the elder before me moved up. So I got all these important meeting to go to.  But our Sunday sacrament meeting is all in Spanish except for the branch pres. cause he can’t speak it.

I am sending home some pictures but they aren’t the good ones cause I got the wrong ones but you get to see me and my district and companion.

Tell the family I love them!

La Paz (peace)

Elder Shaw

November 9, 2010

Okay so the MTC has the weirdest time thing going on. every day feels like eternity but the week seems like an hour. I can never tell if yesterday was 3 days ago or we will talk about something that happened and it feels like last night. but My companions name is elder kirth, I have really come to love him and he is deffinatly making progress from the last postal mail i sent to you. he has a desire to do better and we had companion ship invintory last night and it was so good! He expressed his desire to do better and I just felt like i needed to promise him a couple things if he did buckle down and did do certain things... i promised  him that his dad would come back to the gospel and i dont know why i said it other then i was prompted to. we were both crying and it is going really well. we get aloung very well but he has trouble focusing. The lanuguage is going absolutly fantastic, i could understand everything you sent me. I can read the scriptures and miss a couple crazy words here and there but for the most part understand them. I cant talk as well as i can understand and read but i am far away doing better then i dthoguht i would. I know that i am being blessed so i dont have to focus on it and i can focus on other things and other people! but I love studying the languagem, i hate when my time is up to study the language, but im still waiting for that to come for the docterine study but i know it will. The food is absolutly amazing, i dont know why people complain i love it, and today i fit 18 tator tots in my mouth and then after that one i fit an entire pb and j sandwitch in!! I have a really hard teacher for my district named hermano pepper but i loe being pushed!

send more spanish i like translating, just cant be crazy words! but hey i was wondering if you could send me a couple more shirts, white socks, black socks, popcorn to eat, and could you have braiden go to thopson at school and get his full verb list for me to study? (the mtc is the first time i have appreciated thompson ha)? oh ya and somehting to fix smelly feet ha, oh ya and i found out that i have to wear a suit everyday and it has to match, so i am wearing the same pair of pants every day (2 cause its suit)

What else do you want to know? uh oh ya i am taking some sweet pictures i can develope and send back so i will get on that.

Hows everything at home? anything new? what do you what do you want to know? im bad at this

but Tell the family i love them!

but love you

Elder Shaw

OH ya and i saw a picture of some paraguay people heaar on the wall and THEY LOOK LIKE CAVEMEN!

November 4, 2010

Sorry i dont have much time to write today, but we have a little time on thuresdays cause we have service on our pdays which is tuesday! but it is going really well here, it is very overwellming the first couples days but you get use to a schedual. I am senior companion and and my companions name is elder kirth. The Zone i have been put into is so much fun and such good examples they are  amazing and they help our district with spanish so much. Ha and i felt like i was studying alot in school, every single second of every day except meals is studying here! I can pray so much better i can say almost anything that pertains to the gospel if i am aloud to chose how to word it and i can understand when people talk, i am working on the talking back part but it is not bad i like studying the docterine and expesially spanish it is just fun to me to study the language and try and learn new things. I wrote alot in dads letter so have him forward that and i sent 2 letters casue i couldnt figure out the email her but i got now!

How is everything at home going? braiden enjoying my car? how are the boys?

oh ya and the money should be in my room... i think, if not it is in my locker? but its in an envolope somewhere.

Wish i had more time to talk

Love Elder Jameson Shaw

Oh ya and i LOVE THE NAME TAGS!!!! mine is so cool

Elder Shaw

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