Daily Archives: September 13, 2011

¿Habla Español?

When we called the mission office the sister who was there told us that a large number of calls come in each day where the caller speaks Spanish and that she was the only one there who even spoke ‘fractured’ Spanish. As we thought about this we decided that since Mary took a couple of years of Spanish in high school and one year in college that she should take advantage of the tutoring service at the MTC.

So we called Maria’s office and set it all up. The program calls for purchasing a large amount of material from the bookstore…after our 40% discount it still came to over $100…which we did. Maria then appointed Mary a tutor and she will start 3 days a week lessons starting today at 11:00.

I am not going to take lessons because I know that I have absolutely no abilities for learning to hear and speak a foreign language. I will try to learn how to read the Book of Mormon in Spanish and maybe I will be able to pick up some Spanish over the next 18 months or so.

While I am writing I will mention that last night – the 12th – we spoke at the Empty Nesters social about our mission to South Africa. Mary put together an excellent slide show and did most of the narration with me breaking in to add a few comments from time to time. We ran about 10 minutes long but that was OK as most of the people seemed to enjoy seeing and hearing about Africa. However when we were done the rest quickly left.