(Transcribed from Garret's audio message) I don't want to write an email today, so I'm just gonna send you a voicemail. How have y 'all been? I've been doing good down here. The weather is like perfect right now, literally perfect. It's like... 60s in the afternoon. So it's like perfect without a sweater and then wear a sweater in the night. I'm training now, which is crazy because I was literally in my training like a week ago.
I'm training Elder Roach, the goat, from Arizona. It'll be a lot of fun speaking a lot of Spanish to the people on the street and people in the lessons all that good stuff. I'll be speaking pretty much all the Spanish. So I'm learning a lot.
Tuesday, P -Day, because of cambios, played games with the elders from San Vicente, Elder Ren, Elder Winter, my companion, Elder Macias, in their house. Played some Settlers. I lost. Sorry, Grandpa. Ah, that's rough.
Wednesday, we went to pick up our companions together. Thought it was good. And we were supposed to get there at 5 and the meeting didn't start till seven and we got there early anyway, because you know stuff like that you get there early so we were in Concepcion a lot and we didn't really work Wednesday like at all, which is fine.
Thursday was Ella Roach's first day in the field. We had lunch with the wife of the branch president. I told her to correct my Spanish every time I made a mistake. She correct me like 20 times that meal which is clutch because I don't have Elder Macius no more to help me out with that.
Friday had zone conference. It was fire.
Saturday, had two lessons with two inactive members and a big family part member family. We had two inactive members and part of their family come to church. So that was actually pretty lit, I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, but being a trainer's good. It's hard, but that's kind of the point. Gotta speak all the Spanish and make a lot of decisions, but that's normal because I got Elder Roach. He's still learning.
But being a trainer's fun. The mission is fun, teaching a lot of people. Well, trying to teach a lot of people. And yeah, that's about all I got for y 'all in English. (The rest is in Spanish but Kirt translated it to English) But I'm going to speak a little bit in Spanish for you guys. I'm Elder Christensen. I live in Talcahuano, Chile. I'm serving on a mission.
There are four parts of Spanish. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Three out of four of these parts, for me, are very, very good. I'm just missing the ability to speak very fluently. This is a big challenge for me, but I'm learning a lot. I learned a lot of Spanish in my training and I'm blessed. I can understand almost all the words the Chileans say, but they think I can't because I don't speak very fluently, but that's okay. I'm going to learn a lot of Spanish this coming month. I improved my Spanish a lot since my Spanish class. I had four years of Spanish in high school and I didn't learn almost anything, but in three months here in Chile I have learned a lot of Spanish. And one thing is that the Spanish here in Chile is very different from all the Spanish of all the different countries. It's like a different language. And all the Chileans say that.
I hope you guys have a good week. And send me an email. And yeah, that's about all I got for you guys. Hope you have a good week. Bye!
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