Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Habla Georgian?


Well, apparently the VISA dept is a little behind so Paul is heading to Georgia today. Here is a letter I got from him yesterday: (I only have an idea what his spanish said...)

Hola!
Me gusta su rosado papel, muchas gracias! Tambien gracias por sus palabras de sabiduria! Tu eres me hermana favorito en el todo mundo! Gracias por su testimonio, you tengo mucho feliz porque sabe la verdad, su testimonio me da mas fuerteleza por mi testimonio. Gracias!
Sorry, I don't even know what that all says, but i'm in the referal center all day. That's just where I sit on a nice chair all day and listen to people try to tell me that I'm wrong. I shut them down then get the missionaries going to their house. It's so cool!
I talked to this one guy yesterday who is really interested and he's probably getting baptized. It was super cool talkin to him and teaching the lessons over the phone. I go to Georgia in a couple days so i''m pretty excited about that. This should be fun! I'm finally getting out of here! Thanks for the letter and support. This is such an amazing work. I love it! and you too.
Much love,
Elder Castleberry

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Stuck!

8-5-08

Hola! so I’m still stuck here in this spiritual prison paradise it's great here though. sometimes. most of the time. well it's tough cause I’m so stupid sometimes but then I just know things that I don’t even know. did that make sense? ya it's weird here. anywho. sounds like you guys just decided to party without me! that’s really cool! I wanna go golfing so bad! that would be sweet if they let us do that on p-days. I wonder if they've got any sweet golf courses in Culiacan. probably! hopefully I can go. that would be off the hook! but ya not much happened this week. nothin really cool anyways. I mean I sat in class all day. ate a lot of food. got fatter. well actually that’s not really true. I’m really sick of the food so I have a pb and j every day and I lost 6 pounds! haha I’ve still got a nice little pot belly but that’s alright I love bein fat. si, estoy gordo. learned that the other day, and soy listos. I love learnin nice things in spanish. haha I say estoy cause I’m not always fat I would use soy if I’d always been fat. we learned that the other day and I was the example that’s why I’m' telling you that. ya really boosted my confidence. great stuff. the soy listos is like them tryin to make it up to me. that means like I’m smart I guess. but estoy listos is I’m ready. ya, Spanish is messed up, those two words mean like the same thing and they don’t make sense at all. it's annoying. it's all good though I love it. were tryin to speak in total Spanish just cause were supposed to be doin that right now anyways. I’m so bad at it! I sit there say a word and sit there and say um...um...um... between all the other words. conjugating is just so lame. all the irregulars! why can’t we just all speak the same language! wow sorry I’m on a tangent my bad. ya we don’t know when we’re getting our visas and no one here can help us no matter how much we ask ha-ha we go to the travel office everyday and just say to them hey just wonderin how the visas are coming. I don’t think they think it’s very funny. and they said we won’t get reassigned. cause Mexico is weird and sometimes they just show up and take all the missionaries. ya it's lame. that would be sweet if I get to see Jackson. kinda. well no it would be cool. I’d rather just be in Mexico though! sucks here!