Hey There Everyone!
Whats going on??? k so i'm here in Chicago. Its already so stinking hot and the humidity is getting to me! besides that i'm doing good!!
Ok first I i'm in the Jolliet 2nd South Area. I love it here! i'm kinda in the country and yes i'm in a Spanish branch so i'm speaking Spanish and not English !! WAHOOO!! I love the people here so much already! there so nice and caring and the members are awesome! My area is so dang big though! when the mission gets split in a couple weeks my area will cover half of the new mission! Crazy right! Well it looks like i wont be searving in the city but i know this is where god wants me to be so i'm not complaining Also because of the people and how beautiful it is here!!! Also President Fenn is taking all of us missionaries to a Cubs game in like a week so i'm super excited for that!!! We have to pay like 15 bucks to go but i'm really excited for that!
So my first companion for the next twelve weeks is Elder Dakota Adams! He is such a cool kid and were allot alike! He is from Utah and he is a straight up cowboy. He rides bulls and stuff like that so yeah he is cool. He has been out for like 14 months and his Spanish is so good and he also has a girl at home still writing him! there so cute together! Hes also super funny. When we wake up he just runs around the house and yells in Spanish ha. Its the funniest thing ever! We are gonna do work together because were so alike and yeah its just awesome!
So our first couple days have been awesome! Were teaching allot of people and people here are so nice and willing and ready to accept the gospel! Ok so here is a crazy story! so my companion has been in this area for a while and has taught this 18 year old girl named Cynthia They have taught her all the lesson but she wont commit to being baptized. Our second day my companion said your teaching the lesson today and i was like oh crap, my Spanish is bad, what if i mess up, what do i say, and we get there and my companion just happened to forget to tell me that she speaks only English ha! so i was freaking out for nothing! So we went in and i started teaching. She started crying and said Elder Banta You said exactly what i needed to hear! I then committed her to being baptized and She committed to being baptized on June 1st. Isn't that just a cool story. I was bauling at the end of lesson and i didn't know or remember one word i said! its amazing how the spirit works through us! So i'm excited for her and her baptizim coming up soon! Well so that's my first mission story and i'm excited to be here.
OK so anyways because of the time shortage on emails i don't really have enough time to email everyone so i'm really sorry, If you can i would rather write letters because i can write them whenever. So anyone who wants to write me letters feel welcome and ill try and email the ones who still email me! my new address for the next twelve weeks is 1230 Rockrun Drive, Apartment 105, Cresthill, IL 60403. If anyone has written me letters already and sent them i wont get them for a while because they only give them us to at transfers and stuff so yeah sorry ha. I will do my best to keep up on the writing and stuff!
So the first night here we stayed at the mission home and President Fenn bought us all Chicago deep dish Pizza. WOW is all i can say it was the best pizza i have ever tasted in my life. It was awesome to be there for a whole night with President Fenn and his wife and just talk and get to know them! Anyways Well yeah that my area, companion, and story for this weeks email. I'm super excited for Cynthia so please keep here in your prayers. Shes the only PI we have right know on date for baptism and were working on others so keep them and her in your prayers please. I will try to send pictures soon its just been super buys the first week here getting settled in and everything! so sorry for the inconvenience if that's how you spell that word ha. So its sad to hear about President Monsons Wife. I know shes in a better place and that President Monson more then anyone knows that!! Remember to keep them in your prayers though for sure!
So Spanish is coming along great and its getting better bu the day. Its awesome how many Spanish people there are here in my area like probably 80 percent no joke. So i'm pretty much submersed in the Spanish! Our Branch is so awesome also. There is only about 50 Members but there all super awesome and help us allot. The Priest Quorum here is so dang cool. They have gone on splits with us allot to lessons when we need a member present and there all so dang cool. So each week we get to eat with the members each night for dinner, or whoever signed up to feed us. Every meal so far has been homemade real Mexican food and it had been Awesome!!! I get up every mourning and run for 30 minutes with my companion so we don't gain weight because they feed us so good and so much freaking food. So far though i have lost 11 pounds and i'm trying to keep going but its hard when these people just feed and feed and feed you ha!
Ok so the area i'm in right know is a car area and yeah i'm driving. Scary right ha just kidding. But my companion doesn't like to drive so I've been the driver and he takes care of the phone. Its awesome and were having allot of fun so far. Were also being careful as well, not to scare everyone but the area i'm in the the 3rd most dangerous area in our entire mission. We've already seen thing i don't like to talk about and been yelled at by a bunch of black guys and then chased by them so yeah its been fun and scary but we know the lord is protecting us!! Sorry if i scared anyone but yeah that's just how it works down here! but i love my area and wouldn't trade it for the world!!!
Well that's all for this week, i love you all and miss you all like crazy. Please write letters and emails and keep in touch. Its nice one day out of the week just thinking of home and writing to my family and friends. But anyways good luck to everyone finishing school for this year and i hope everything is well at home!!! I'll watch for all of your letters and emails and stuff! Oh yeah and if anyone is sending packages or anything bigger like that its safe to send that to our apartment as well. Our place is in a nice little safe neighbor hood and is sourounded by gates with pass code so yeah but thanks again everyone!!! Love you all and hope the best for everyone!!!
Love Elder Banta
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