Jake learning Spanish...

Well we just received another e-mail from Jake after he has been in the Argentina MTC for a week. I was personally (John) stressed about my son and if he was going to be home sick and so forth. It was a very long, tough week because we wanted Jake to get right into the work, so everyone was affected in their own way. This e-mail was a big relief for everyone because you can tell Jake has jumped right in and is making friends and doing what he needs to do. Before I post this I just want to touch on what the rest of the family is doing. Ethan is hanging with his friends watching Transformers outside at the Arnolds. Shay, Luke and myself just got back from our neighborhood Trunk or Treat and I did not dress appropriately and I am still frozen. Amanda is enjoying a lovely night working and stressing about all of her tests she has to take. Anyway here is Jakes e-mail and again thanks to all of you who are supporting us and care about our son.

howdy partners! every latino thinks were cowboys. its pretty funny. this week has been crazy, everything is in spanish. the very first day wasent even english. well part of it was but evverything they give you like your agenda and schedule is all spanish. but this is the lords work because im understanding spanish just not speaking it just yet. and my teachers are the best ones here. they are hermana aponte and hermano cruz. both are excellent teachers. hermana aponte is our progessive investagator. thats were she plays the role of an investagator and me and my two companions teach her the lessons. and yes i have two companions mine didnt show. i think it was something medical but im not sure. but anyways when shes doing the ivestagator she is playing a native who dosent speak english. so its been all in spanish and that alone makes me want to learn spanish even faster. well were getting close to getting her baptized me and elder webster and elder kohl have to deal with her "smoking problem". she dosent make it easy. and she can speak english but she wont becasuse she gets too emabrassed to teach in english. hermano cruz is a guy i would want to hang out with if i wasnt a missionary. the land here is amazing. its so much diffrent than utah. its humid, but its not too bad now. its not as hot as i first thought and the people are way nice. hows mom dealing with it? is it quiet around the house now? ugh its so hard to spell and write in english i keep on wanting to use spanish and spelling in english is hard because in spanish it spells just how it sounds. every dorm room has a north american and a latino pair in them. and they are always praying that the north americans will learn spanish. and there always quizzing us on what we learned that day too. one of our roomates is like four foot nothing and he laughes like a little boy. he is the best. last night he tried to tell us a scary story in spanish, but we didnt understand most of it so we played along. i even did a little scream at the "scary" part. oh and by the way ive drinken the hot chocolate and have had no problems YAY!! do you have any questions? i know mom will. she always has the wierd and random questions. im looking forward to your next email. until next thursday... cho!!

love jake =)