Lost in Translation - "¡PATO!"

This little tid-bit came to us as a surprise Saturday afternoon; apparently Elder Wright had a little free time to send an email.  I had asked him in an earlier email to tell us a little about his district and any funny stories that may have happened since he had been at the MTC.  While much time is spent learning and preparing, no matter what, something funny is bound to happen:

"A quick funny story I was able to come up with is when we were doing that Holy Ghost activity where one person is "blind" and the other person is to guide them around like the "Holy Ghost".  So I was the Spirit this time around and my companion was about to walk face first in a tree but I couldn't remember how to say "Duck!" and I couldn't quickly ask him how to say it cause he would of hit the tree.  So I just said "¡Pato!" hahaha.  He hit the tree after just saying "What?" So ya that was a quick funny story I was able to think up."

For those of you who aren't familiar with Spanish - Pato is the Spanish equivalent for the animal friend that Mickey called Donald or the season that Elmer Fudd looked forward to with much passion... not the typical word that a Mexican would shout out to avoid a head injury!! :)

"Also what's funny is that one of the Branch Presidency looks like Barney from The Flinstones.  So Elder Garcia would say "Pedro!" in a high pitch voice to us when we see him.  Apparently Pedro is the name for Fred in Spanish Flinstones..."

Obviously, Elder Wright had forgotten that he used to watch 'Los Picapiedras' as a child!  They were constantly on at abuela's house in La Vega... and we used to change the audio setting with on the Cartoon Network to Spanish at home when he was young. This and 'Godzilla' were among his favorite muñequitos...  He should have remembered that - right?!

"By the way I met Elder Christianson from The District tv show here at the MTC.  He's the blonde one in it.

I feel like I am ready to go on my mission by the way even though i've only been here two weeks. "

If you haven't seen an episode of the district before, you have got to click on this link :The District and see what missionary life is like in San Diego.  I think a new season is about to begin in September!

He was able to see and talk with his cousin Josh while at lunch on Thursday this week which he mentioned was really nice.

He flies out on Monday - we are looking forward to his early morning phone call!