Haha its good to write home again finally, i feel like i really havent been able to write home for like 2 weeks now it was killing me haha. Not much interesting happened tht last week in provo so the letter would have been pretty short anyways, the letter about here though should be a decent length if i can type fast enough haha.
oh first, if anyone decides to send mail to the CCM here, you cant write CCM or the long way its spelled out, and any letters or packages cannot have Elder before my name, so mail for the rest of the mission, unless it is from dear elder.com needs to not have Elder or anything that would give away that its going to a mormon haha. ill try to figure out this week the best way for you to be able to send packages and letters to me here. i have so many pictures i am going to have to try to find a way to send a flashdrive with the pictures on them or like send the memory card. i{ll figure out the best way to do it and get back to you guys next week. for now the emails and dearelder letters are wonderful.
i was the only elder with mail on my second day in here, and considering it was a rough day, that helped a ton, and one letter was from elder lapray so that was bomb. except he decided it would be funny to put the whole stupid thing in spanish, i guess i should appreciate it haha but it was a tough read!
So getting here wasnt too bad, i told ya{ll about the flight last week and such. I was pretty out of it the first day. The second day was awful, ive never felt so awful at spanish and like i couldnt do anything in my life. i was pretty ready to quit, i was making myself sick enough to probably haha. but things got better, i finally figured out that i{m actually decent at the language when i relax and just speak it and listen, and that im not the worst one, even though i shouldnt compare myself. God truly answers prayers, i know that, andrew was able to get me a little message through his cousin stopping by the CCM here and giving a teacher a note, i couldnt believe it. i really needed it and the time here has been pretty decent after that.
not going to lie, its not like this is my favorite place in the world. it really feels like i{m in prison now haha, the building isnt half the size it looks online, one solitary building and some concrete out back for 2 small basketball courts and a small barn gym like place haha. I can dunk again for some reason, or i finally figured out how, or the hoop is only 9 and three quarters, take your pick haha. The whole complex we are at is surrounded by 20 to 30 foot tall chain link fence with prison barbed wire all around the outside of it. There are guards and stuff at every entrance. And good news, sometimes we actually get to leave the prison. we{re going to the temple today and last friday we did service at the chapel near the temple, we still had to have guards with us but it was nice to get out of one building for once haha.
the food here is a little different than provo, its like half latino half american, you never know what youre going to get, and since i don{t know what half the stuff they are serving us is i usually don{t bother asking haha. im not sure if i really want to know if you know what i mean. but it tastes good about ninety percent of the time, and it definitely feels more homemade than provo, just no more all you can eat til you explode. the other elders told us we are lucky because they fired the old cooks 2 days before we showed up and we now have brand new good chefs that are doing all of our food. I actually really like the fruit bar here, everything is so so flavorful.
my spanish is coming along slowly, it took me about 5 days to figure out that half the kids that with us are from the advanced spanish group like andrew and i shouldnt feel like i didnt learn anything cuz they are basically like 10 weeks ahead of us easily easily easily haha. my new companion is elder brown, hes a lot more chatty than elder reeder was, which is nice for me because you all know how much i like to talk. we have a similiar sense of humor too so im having a blast with him. he{s from oklahoma and went to byu last year too. i really like him. i also have a latino companion haha, elder rodriguez, he{s supposed to only speak spanish to me but he knows jsut al little bit of english and likes to speak it so i have to remind him that i have to learn and that we can do english at night and during english language teaching time. he{s extra chubby and from mexico haha, he{s super funny. he had filled his bowl with fruit and then was throwing more and more and more on and i looked at him and said <´holy cow<´and he didnt say anything, then like 2 minutes later he looks at me and says, elder andersen, what did you call me back there, a cow? hahaha, i had to explain to him that it was just an expression of like whoaaa!! he understood and now all he does is say holy cow, orin a high pitched voice he{ll yell at me from the shower room, elder andersen, es su novia, hahaha. hes pretty funny. oh, and since i am the largest person here at the ccm, a couple of the latino elders nicknamed me big bear haha. more like beeg bur, is how they say it, every latino seems to know me and i dont know like half of them, but they are super nice people and i really love them.
oh and before i forget, there is some ccm website, im not sure what it is but i think it is just guatemalaccm.com or something, i might be on it, i should be in the big group picture at least. so try to find it.
well im almost out of time, i really am enjoying it here, elder rodriguez and correa both act like a mother to me half the time so dont worry mom haha.
spanish is coming along and this place really isnt too bad. other than it looks depressing outside because its winter and it rains like ive never seen before ever single day. which is kind of cool, and the thunder sounds like it is going to knock down the building. but, life is good, i{m trying to work as hard as i can, thank you so much for the emails and letters they are truly a blessing and help to keep me sane while in prison :) thank you so much. i love you all so so so so much! have a wonderful week!! i{ll email again next wednesday,
Love,
Brock
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