So as you know I'm in Casper Wyoming but what I didn't know is how much it snows. It snows every other day here. Which is tons of fun. Elder Juarez and I try to go running every morning but if its snowing we just look at each other and just do our morning workouts inside. But Nothing much else has been going on. Last week we had ward conference which was weird cause our Spanish ward meets with the 1st ward so I didn't really get to meet anybody. But Yesterday I had the amazing opportunity to bare my testimony and give a small talk in Spanish. Very small talk. That was pretty hard. I had been practicing all week for my 2 minute little talk and I forgot everything when I got up there. But Elder Juarez said he could understand me so I guess I did okay. Yesterday was really nice because I got to see and meet everyone in our Spanish Branch/Group. We are not very big but we are growing fast. Plus we have tons of investigators so that's good. We have 3 Couples in the Spanish group that speaks Portuguese which is cool cause they are helping me speak the language better. Every once and awhile a family from the first ward that speaks English to feed us dinner which is a nice brake from the Portuguese and Spanish. We are getting fed really well here. Anytime we go teach any of our investigators at any time of the day they feel like like need to feed us. The food is really amazing but Elder Juarez and me can barley do anything by the end of the day because we are so full from eating about 6 meals a day and we have been skipping breakfast and lunch. My weight really shows it though. Before I left to the MTC I was 165 pounds. I stepped on the scale last Friday and it said I was 183. Must of been broken. So I tried another scale and it said 187. I have decided that all scales are broken. Elder Juarez and I are scared so we are working out hard every morning. But everything is going really good. All of the families we are teaching are going really good. We have two baptisms in April and are hoping for a third. But we are going to have tons in may. Everyone is excited about the gospel in this area. I really want to share my love for it but my Spanish isn't that good yet. But really getting better. We don't have a lot of tracking time, mostly on Tuesday mornings because everyone is at work, but I have been taking the lead in talk which is fun because we can only teach people who speak Spanish, so someone who doesn't speak Spanish opens the door we can teach them a little but then have to had them over to the other elders. We are constantly going from English to Spanish and I start to get head aches and speak in Spanish when I'm suppose to speak English. So that's fun. Plus I forgetting my Portuguese. Brother Macintosh came up to me on Sunday and started speaking to me in Portuguese and I responded and he said Elder Tomlinson that's in Spanish and I was like oh sorry. Its going to be a struggle once I get my visa to learn Portuguese again. No news on my visa yet. But i hope everyone is doing good. Please Email and write :) I will try my best to respond as fast as I can.
-Elder Tomlinson
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