Colton at Provo MTC

Colton at Provo MTC

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Coltons Letter, March 30, 2011

Well I won´t get any of your dearelders or pouch mail till tonight but Thank you family for last weeks Dearelders!! It was so great that night and reading and hearing from you! You all sound like you are doing great!  Well let me just say that I love it here. I love it more than anything except for Utah. It is my home and people always make fun of me but I like to sing about Utah. Utah with it´s mountains and valley´s. What a great place to be!! Well let me just tell you about my week. It was exceptional if you wanted to know. We got to go proselyting on Monday. It was the best day of my life. I experience some pretty crazy stuff. We went out with our Latino companions and even though I didnt understand much I still got to bear my testimony and smile. That was great. But our teacher felt that we needed more referrals so we went out again but this time it was E. Meoño and I. Yes two N. Americans with little Spanish and not knowing where to go. We walked into a neighborhood and we talk to the first man we see. He realized that we knew little Spanish and yet he was still interested in our message. The Spirit was like nothing I´ve ever felt. My companion rocked it and I asked him if he´d ever read the Book of Mormon. He replied No, I´ve never had one. A smile came to our faces and we just shared our favorite scriptures with him. We gave him his first book of Mormon and he wanted more visits with the Missionaries. I wanted to cry but my smile was too big. I got a taste of what the next two years is going to be like but our next referral was a different story. He was talking to us and rambling on in Ketchee or something and I had no idea what he was saying. I testified to him and my companion did the same and we told him about the book. He prayed about it in front of us with the book held high in his hand. Hahahahaha oh what a day. I hope he receives the message! My spanish wasn´t so hot though. Well this week will be the final week with our Latino companions. They leave next Tuesday and let me just say that they are going to be amazing. I am going to miss them so much. They are the funnest people and so loving and patient. They are so willing to help with our Spanish but next week we get new ones. The language is coming slower than I´d like and that is why I´m working on patience and dilligence.  I went through the Guatemalan temple and it was one of the best experiences I´ve ever had. It is so beautiful and small.    Well that about sums up everything that has happened this week. I miss you all so much. We got to talk about our families and I was so excited to show everyone our family pictures!! I love you so much family. Dad thank you for being who you are. You are the most amazing father and the most amazing example of love and support. You are so humble and that is what I will strive to be like. I love you so much. Alyce thank you so much for the Dearelder. It was so good hearing from you and I love you so much. You are everything I could ask for and I know that you are a shining blessing in my life. I don´t have a lot of time left but to my siblings. Oh how I miss you all. I can´t describe how much I miss being around the house with all of you. You are all truly amazing and what an amazing support group I have. Tell the grandparents hi for me and let them know how much I love them! Till next week my amazing family! Don´t think that I´ve lost my funny, I still laugh way hard here and i still like to party. Connor I hope you are dating a lot of girls because you have to make up for me too. Oh how I miss the girls. haha just kidding!! Girls are gross. Love you family!!

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Elder Llewelyn

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Coltons Letter, March 23, 2011

Ay mi familia!! I want you all to know i´m loving it here. It is the best. That first day was hard but it was over and now it is great. I love the Latinos. Lo esta fiest en mi cama todos los noches!! I hope everything is going great. This week has been quite an adventure. If you like hearing sirens every couple of seconds and car alarms. The roads are crazy here... my english is horrible now so i apologize if i mess up. The food here is amazing. I eat frijoles todos los mañanas. It is pretty crazy. And we drink this juice everyday that is made out of melons and papaya. We had the most amazing teaching experience yesterday with my companion and I. We did this thing where we go into a house and talk to a fake investigator but the play this role and we decided to not draw out a lesson plan and just go with what we thought was best. The spirit was insane and my companion and I spoke the best spanish we could. My latino companion is great. His name is elder salazar and he is from guatemala going to honduras. He doesn´t speak any english so it´s difficult to get to know him  but i love it. My spanish is getting so much better and I know why i´m here. This is the best place. We get to go out and do service every saturday morning and the little girls want to talk to us but I have no idea what they are saying. I smile and say bien.... haha. We have this market thing every wednesday and i hope you know... that i´m rich. I currently have 900 quetz. haha ok it´s not that much but I feel rich. I wish I could send some stuff home but I will just have to wait to get the family stuff. International mail comes whenever but dear elders and pouch come wednesday night. Just make sure to only put colton llewelyn not elder. My favorite word is puchica. It is guatemalan slang for dangit. I use it more than I should but it makes the latina hermanas laugh because I pretend to fall up the stairs and say it. My gringo companion and I laugh all day. We are pretty funny. My district is great and we get along way good. I´m currently senior companion so I make elder meoño wash his clothes by hand. bahaha just kidding. But will you let people know I can get dear elders and pouch!! I love you so much family and I love what amazing examples you are. Yo se que Jesucristo is nuestro Salvador. Yo se que Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y nos ama mucho. Yo se que Jose Smith es un profeta verdad y el traduce el Libro De Mormon. Mi testimonio es poqueno pero mi español es progresando. Give everyone my love and I don´t know how to send pictures but I´m sure I can figure out sometime!

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Elder Llewelyn

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

He's There

Mi familia!! I´m here! I have reached Guatemala. I´ve been here since 6 this morning. I didn´t get any sleep on the plane I didn´t dare talk to anyone. They all spoke Spanish... I was a small fish in a big world. We got to Guatemala and the first thing I see coming out of the doors was a small man riding on a skateboard using his hands to push himself. He tried to sell me something but I said no gracias. I´ve said that a lot today!! There are guards on every corner with guns. I will convert them one day. The people here are very friendly except they look at me like I´m an alien. I´m so tired that I can barely concentrate on anything. I have two companions. One for Spanish class and one for everything else. He´s latino. I don´t know who he is but I´m sure he´ll be great. They are only here for three weeks and most of them are going to other central american countries. I sat with one and I had no idea what he was saying but he told me that Shakera was really famous and he told me he likes country. Haha it was a really great day. It is beautiful here! It is so green but the city is so noisy. The templo es muy bonita and we get to do a session there. That freaks me out a little but I´m sure it´ll be great. It is going to be a really hard next couple of weeks I can already tell. I have my first shocks of homesickness and I hope it doesn´t stay. I really like the MTC President here. He is from Sandy so that is pretty dang cool. Well I can´t wait to here from you all! I hope that everything is going great and I can´t tell you how amazing it was to talk to all of you.  It is strange to think that this is my home for the next to years and quite frankly I´m more terrified then I think I´ve ever been in my whole life. I don´t understand spanish. I can´t seem to remember anything that I learned in the MTC and right now that place sounds like a dream. But I know I will learn to love it here. I know it will all work out but I´m sure Dad and Spence can relate that when it hits it hits hard. I miss you all so much. I´m so happy everytime someone brings up my family and they want to know about you. Thanks for everything!! I can´t wait to send home some good pictures. I love you all and I can´t wait to hear from you next wednesday.
          Elder Llewelyn