Elder Pier Dick

8/7/16 This next week will be my last week in the Training Center!  WHOOP WHOOP.  Cannot wait to stop studying for 10+ hours every day.  However, if anyone thinks that high school or college studying was hard, come to this Training Center and try to learn a language in a Month!   What's even cooler, is that it sounds totally impossible.  But I'm about to leave here being totally conversational in Portuguese.  I ran into an employee today who served his mission in Brazil (So he knows Portuguese super well) and we had a 30 minute conversation without a single word in English!  I never planned on being the guy who could speak another language.  And it still doesn't feel like I can. But what's it supposed to feel like?  I seriously imagined my brain feeling HEAVIER.  Cause it's like double the information!  I mean, makes sense, right? Haha, no but this has been super hard, and super rewarding. But yeah, feeling super confide...

Yep portuguese is hard.  My companion got his VISA, and without notification he got sent off at 6am on Tuesday.  So I no longer have a companion at the MTC, and I am the only one on my level in Portuguese.  Some might find this difficult, and a challenge, but IT'S A BLESSING TRUST ME.  As a missionary, I was already getting slightly annoyed with having to be attached at the hip to another guy.  Let me tell you, when you're the only one who has to use the restroom, and your companion has to wait outside the door, that will never not be awkward.  So I'm liking this power as a solo Elder.  Also, being one-on-one with my teachers is probably the best thing that has ever happened to me.  I've more than tripled my vocabulary since Tuesday, and I can say any sentence I want with the proper conjugations.  I'm still lacking vocab, and I need to memorize the conjugating better, but by the time I leave the MTC I really might be close to fluent.  I ...