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Querido Familia, This week has been pretty good. I am doing better at understanding conversations, meaning I can pick out a few words and know the general topic. But my companion and I speak spanish a lot to each other, but its more like he speaks then I speak then he corrects me. Which is really good because it will help me learn faster. He also helps me a lot with my pronunciation. We have a ton of investigators, but a lot of the time we set up appointments and they aren't there when we get there. But we have taught a few people where I can see a true desire to hear what we have to say so they are always there for our appointments, which is really good. We have gotten a few new investigators this week, so we will see if they follow through with our next appointments. I really hope they do. The people we talk to, even the ones we don't teach but are in the park or something, are super nice. The spanish culture here is so much different than it is in Virginia, but I think part of it is they are more receptive when they see that we speak spanish. I am so anxious to understand and speak spanish, just so I can talk to the people. I work really hard everyday and listen to all the conversations I hear and try to understand. These people are so great. I gave a prayer in sacrament meeting on sunday and only messed up on one word. Most of the food I have had was super good. It's way different than any restaurant food. The reason I say most is because we had some cubans feed us, and they gave us some sort of fish and other wierd stuff. I didn't really like it too much but I ate some of everything and even had seconds so they wouldn't be offended. Oh and by the way my P-day is on Mondays, but no libraries are open and the computers at the Gym have been reserved for children until I think this Friday so starting next week I will probably be writing on Mondays. And also I do not know if all spanish missionaries have cars or not. Although we do have the second biggest mission car fleet in the world which is 103 cars. I do have a car in this area but I will also need a bike because we are only given 1000 miles per month and my area covers my whole zone which is 1/7th of the whole mission. So we need to ride bikes as much as possible. That is kind of ironic because we also live with the Zone leaders who cover the smallest area in the whole mission. So I thought that was kind of funny. There is no apartment number because we live in a two story house. It was donated to the church when the couple that lived there passed away. So thaty is pretty much it, I keep a daily journal so you guys can read that when I get home. Have fun in Arizona! And maybe instead of visiting the Grand Canyon You can come visit New Mexico! HAHA! Chiste! which means I'm joking. (technically it means Joke but every one uses it as I'm Joking). Good Luck. Love You All! Carino, Elder Lee