3 weeks to go! Flight plans pending. Food experimentation.

Hi everyone!                                                                                                                                         Velez(Texas), Benson(Russia), Klein(Algeria), Brase(Phoenix), Martinez(Japan) Mayberry(Chile)

How is everything back home? Things here are pretty normal, not much new happens here. So Its exciting to hear about BYU, I guess theyre doing pretty good. Yeah, so here at the MTC things are going pretty well. The spanish is coming along. The classes are pretty much all in Spanish now, and its up to ourselves if we speak it outside of class. I like to try to have 3 days a week where I speak nothing but spanish all day. I'm getting pretty confident in it. I'm pretty sure that within a month or 2 of being in the field I'll be fluent. Teaching in spanish is going pretty well too. My companion Elder Paull is a good teacher; his spanish is a little bit under par, but its alright, we still make it through the lessons. I try to help him out as much as I can. And basically when we don't know a word we just carry around the dictionary they gave us, which is useful.

Some more good news; we get our flight plans in about a week or so!! I'm super excited for that, I just can't wait to get in the field. I kind of feel restricted here, I'm pretty sure if I went in the field now I would be pretty well off. But oh well, these next 3 weeks will hopefully fly by. Something cool is that I get to be a host missionary tomorrow, I get to pick the missionaries up after theyre dropped off and show them around.

To Jordan: High schools alright, it can be pretty fun. Just make sure you do well, then get into college; thats where the fun really happens. And make sure and let me know how your football games and your fútbal games go.

And to everyone else, I have begun the long and difficult process of trying fruits and vegetables. So far ive tried onions, tomatoes, carrots, spinach, cantelope, pineapple, and a green grape. On a scale of 1 to 10, they're rated a 2,3,3,3.5,5,3,6, respectively. So thats pretty good, I just need to start working up to eating more of these now. Oh yeah, I also tried eggs too. Theyre alright.
Ok, thats all the news I have for now. If I didnt remember anything I'll type it in another message later. I love hearing from you all! Thanks for supporting me! Talk to you later!

Elder Ryan Mayberry