Elder David y Hna. Pam Johnson

Monday, July 20, 2009
Tonight we had more Spanish language training. It was fun and very unstructured, a nice change. The first half of the evening we told each other stories using the past tense of verbs. We laughed so hard our sides hurt. The second half was a mock Family Home Evening with our wives. Te FHE ended with a game of charades using verbs. It was a hoot!
Exactly 40 years ago today I was in my districts Spanish class in the old “LTM” Language Training Mission in the Knight Mangum Hall being tutored while at that very moment Astronaut Neil Armstrong took mankind’s first footstep on the moon. Since the event happened on a Monday it was later referred to as “Moonday”. A television was set up in the lobby of the MTC (an unprecedented event) so elders and teachers not currently in class could see the history making event. Myself, my companion (Elder Randy White) and the rest of my district missed the event as we were dutifully in class learning Spanish and committing to memory 96 pages of dialog, part of the 6 uniformed missionary discussions.