Ivory sounded so happy! We were so happy to hear from her.
Hola familia!!
How is everyone at home? I miss you all but am having a great time here! I dont even know where to start! P.s. if my grammar is bad its because im on a spanish keyboard and dont know where all the symbols are haha. So the first week has been awesome and hard and scary but fun! I am in district 12 and I love them. We all do the hunger game sign because obviously we are the chosen district. We are constantly laughing. Elder Shurtleff is our district leader and his dad died the second day we were here, so keep his family in your prayers! He has been awesome though and very tough you cant even tell he is going through something that hard. There are 8 boys and then me and my companero. Here name is Hermana Brown! She has blonde hair and blue eyes. She graduated in cosmetology so she is always trying to give me oils and stuff for my hair haha it is awesome. She is super super positive and really like making people laugh. We are learning to love each other. Hermana Laycock is such a blessing. It so nice to have her here to talk to!! The food here is okay haha nothing like home. I feel like all I eat is chicken salad and flan. Most of the time I just dont ask what the food is and eat it if it tastes good. One day what was for lunch was some how turned into our dinner so if that gives you an idea...hah but it is good. On New Years we had hamburgers and fries and a chocolate cookie and it was sooooo yummy! I had been craving american food. Ever since I got here there have been these fireworks going off and they litterally sound like cannons. You can hear them anywhere you are. There is also always sirens going off. The weather here is really nice but in the morning and night its a little chilly. I usually am wearing a sweater over something so I am so glad I have some warm stuff down here! I share a room with four girls and I am on the top bunk. The shower is either burning hot or freezing cold so you pretty much just die either way. I have gotten pretty used to the schedule it isnt so bad.
The spanish is REALLY hard. I am picking things up and am so so so so greatful for what I did know before I came here. I have been doing pretty good with it it is kinda overwhelming though. It will come all I can say is Oracion Oracion (prayer). I can pray in spanish and bare my testimony in spanish! That is what im best at.
My y mi companero ensenar un invertigator this week. His name is Josue. He doesnt know any english at all. He is 17 and so sweet. He really wants to know more about the gosple and he said he would be baptized!!!!! When we taught I could feel when the spirit was there and when it left. One funny story....I gave him my escriptos to have him read a scripture and he just kinda sat there for a minute and then he started to try to read and then I realized I had given him my set of english scriptures. We all started laughing really hard and we forgot our spanish scriptures so that was not very good but you cant win them all. Josue started crying in one of our lessons because he felt the spirit so strong. It was amazing to see him get it to get the gospel and feel our saviors love.
Today we got to go to the temple because it is closing for a year and a half!! We are so lucky we got here because we are the last group that got to go. It was awesome being there with my district and my companion. I felt really calm and the spirit so strong. It made me miss going with mom every week! I also went to la tienda zarahemla, it is like connected to the temple and I think I got riped off but I got some cool suviners. The spirit en el CCM is amazing, it is unlike anything. You feel so safe and protected. I love it here and am doing great. Gracias por todo your support and prayers.
The spanish is REALLY hard. I am picking things up and am so so so so greatful for what I did know before I came here. I have been doing pretty good with it it is kinda overwhelming though. It will come all I can say is Oracion Oracion (prayer). I can pray in spanish and bare my testimony in spanish! That is what im best at.
My y mi companero ensenar un invertigator this week. His name is Josue. He doesnt know any english at all. He is 17 and so sweet. He really wants to know more about the gosple and he said he would be baptized!!!!! When we taught I could feel when the spirit was there and when it left. One funny story....I gave him my escriptos to have him read a scripture and he just kinda sat there for a minute and then he started to try to read and then I realized I had given him my set of english scriptures. We all started laughing really hard and we forgot our spanish scriptures so that was not very good but you cant win them all. Josue started crying in one of our lessons because he felt the spirit so strong. It was amazing to see him get it to get the gospel and feel our saviors love.
Today we got to go to the temple because it is closing for a year and a half!! We are so lucky we got here because we are the last group that got to go. It was awesome being there with my district and my companion. I felt really calm and the spirit so strong. It made me miss going with mom every week! I also went to la tienda zarahemla, it is like connected to the temple and I think I got riped off but I got some cool suviners. The spirit en el CCM is amazing, it is unlike anything. You feel so safe and protected. I love it here and am doing great. Gracias por todo your support and prayers.
I LOVE YOU xoxoxo
Hermana Pentelute.
Testimony:
Yo se que el libro de mormon es verdadero, yo se que Jesucristo es el salvador, yo se que Thomas S. Monson es un profeta verdadero, yo se que Dios ama nosotros, y yo se que el evanjelio es verdadero. En el nombre de Jesucriso Amen.
P.s. my pdays will now be on Tuesday!
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