Working on My Spanish

Hi Everyone,

Laur Really stepped up the competion when it comes to getting packages of GOODIES! SO much way, way good Food! Dont worry I shared(not too begrudgingly). Thanks for the letter and the photos. Big shout out of Thanks to Laur.

Life is good! It is Suit Coat Season!!! Suits all the time till next conference, so I guess we are looking extra cool on our bikes! It will help us stay warm. It is going to be COLD here.

We actually are starting to see some forward progress from investigators which is sweet! one of our investigators, Belen fasted this week with us to receive and answer to her prayers. It was cool cause the missionaries have been teaching her for like 3 years and has never done anything like that! It's kinda sad because she really does not like me at all... She loves my companion but doesn't like that I do not speak Spanish very well. Spanish has been frustrating me lately, I am coming up on my 6 month mark on the 16th and really do not feel like I have a good grasp on the language... BUMMER! I am working for it, it will come. I can communicate, I am just grammatically disabled so I get funny looks alot.

Conference was great! I watched the Priesthood Session and Sunday Afternoon session in English and the rest was in Spanish... MAN DO THOSE TRANSLATORS TALK FAST!!! but overall life is Good! I am excited for the work here. My companion got way, way sick this week. He is a Diabetic (like Wilford Brimley) and he got the flu, was vomiting profusely and could not keep anything down. It was rather reminiscent of the night at the Domingo’s right after my farewell in CA. But the difference is that he will die if his sugar got low. So we were up all night on Thursday and trying to do what we could to keep his sugar up. We called the ambulance cause he dropped from 140 to 56 in about 25 minutes. So that was a pretty sacry, miserable night. I am not gonna lie it was pretty miserable for him. He later said that I am going to be a good husband because I touched his vomit (dumping out his vomit and switching buckets) and he was just a companion on the mission. HAHA I agreed... It was disgusting.

OK So this happened a couple weeks ago but I did not have time to write about it last week...
I, Scott Stiles have hit Rock Bottom... I think that any hope I ever had at being a moderately successfully human being is now gone... and do you want to know why? Because, I Scott Stiles was FIRED from the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen... Yes, I was FIRED from Volunteering to serve food to people for 6 hours a week while receiving no monetary compensation! WOW!!! It was actually probably the funniest thing ever. The Major "their religious leader and great military mind" came downstairs from his perch in the office and told my companion and I that they had enough volunteers and they were getting more so "you don’t need to come around here anymore" OUCH!!! haha I was mopping the floor at this point in time and just kinda looked at my companion in dismay. After salutes and receiving awards for our bravery in "Salvation's Army "(sarcasm) I asked my companion "Did we just get fired from the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen". Man he did not even say if we were honorably discharged!! I love missionary work and everything we are doing.
Love you all!
Elder Stiles