Hola mis amigos!
So glad to hear that work is going good! I'm so proud of all you are doing mommy!
Haha
it's been pretty cold here or it got really cold...crap if Utah is
colder i'm dead...haha I don't even remember Utah weather anymore. The
only thing i know is that on Saturday
it was 91 degrees and it was so nice to have hot weather during the
month of march. Today it's only like in the 70's as of right now and it
feels so good! It's a little humid. It's so funny because Rupp and i are
always like the complete opposite. Our apartment is sometimes either
really cold or really hot. When i think it's cold she thinks it's hot
and when i think it's hot she thinks it feels good. its really funny.
I
can not believe that Ava is going to be in Junior High! I wish she
could go to my junior high...stupid school districts. haha oh well
hopefully the Spanish fork junior high is a good school!
Man i have so much more respect for those who
teach primary. It's really hard to teach primary as a missionary because
there is not much you can do when they start getting wild...turns out
we shouldn't even really taught primary but since it was the fifth Sunday they
wanted all the women and men together so they told us to teach primary.
Haha it was a mess! We tried singing songs but they don't know any
songs and we don't know any of them in Spanish! We tried to teach about
being missionaries, we gave each of them a mission call and a name tag.
We tried to give them companions but they got really wild. So we started
singing head shoulders knees and toes, pop corn popping, once there was
a snow man, book of Mormon stores. Rupp and Murdock did all the hand
motions with them and mitchell and i tried singing them in Spanish. It
was cute we asked them what they think missionaries do and here are some
of the answers we got. we knock doors, we eat, sleep, eat with
families, wake up early, eat exotic foods, bring others closer to god,
study scriptures and pray, cool name tags. Teaching primary was fun but
man...for those who can keep those kids under control haha they are more
awesome! I mean most of the kids were pretty good but there were two or
three kids who were just absolute terrors. And as a missionary there is
NOTHING you can do! It was crazy but lots of fun!
Womens
conference was so much fun! We had 3 investigators that came!!! It was
awesome! People in our ward sat with them during the dinner and during
the actual thing. hmm probably in the picture where i am in the back
corner i might have been talking to Woodard. She's training and they are
both having a rough time so she was talking to me about it. we got to
sing a child's prayer in Spanish during the small little program they
had before the actual conference. I really enjoyed the conference. It
talked a lot about the family but i liked how it focused on more than
just the standard ideal family. It was fun to see all the sister
missionaries again. I always see hermana Woodard but i never get to see
haslam! I sat next to gayler and rupp for the conference. I love Gayler
she is so funny. She and i are trying to convince Carbajal to let us go
on an exchange together before carbajals birthday so that we can plan
something but carbajal says that will never happen, haha she is afraid
we are going to team up against her...which we are planning on
doing...haha
Yeah! I love that video! I saw it in Spanish first but i just watched it in English. We actually got pass along cards on Friday
to hand out to people so they can watch it and share it. With the he is
the gift we did the same thing. Hopefully we will start handing more
out this week! #becausehelives
How was mission life this week? This week was really good. On Tuesday
we walked, we walked a lot to save some miles and i didn't wear good
shoes because we hadn't been planning on walking and i got some blisters
and i could hardly walk the rest of the day. haha We had people show up
to English class on Thursday which was super awesome! It's always so much fun to teach English! Friday
we had zone meeting and we got permission to give the elders a ride. It
was funny because there was some communication and they went to a
different krogers (just a grocery store) and they were about ten minutes
away from us. We felt bad and so we bought them cookies while we waited
for them. ended up being like 15 minutes late but all was well. The
stls and zls did a role play and we were learning that we need to invite
everyone in the house to come and ask the people if there is anyone
else home who could come and listen. So during the role play the zls
just kept calling elders to come over and they were a big happy family.
the elders all acted like kids and it was really funny. I thought i was
recording it but i hadn't hit the button all the way. But i sent a
picture i got. It was so funny. Oh on our way back from zone meeting I
was driving and i hadn't started slowing down fast enough and the cars
took forever to start going and so i had to hit harder on the break and
so i got an aggressive driving mark...boooo! Luckily it will never happy
again so it won't affect me to much. It really doesn't do anything to
me yet since it's only been once.
There was a German festival on Saturday
and we went to it because we wanted to find Lourdes (the mom whose
daughter died) a birthday present. We ended up finding one and then we
were just walking back to our car and a member basically attacked us and
begged us to buy a box of girl scout cookies, so we bought some thin
mints.
On Sunday
Mitchell sang This is the Christ in Spanish during sacrament
meeting...even though it was fast and testimony meeting, they just took a
break during the testimonies. He sang and i played for it. It went
really good. We ended up staying all day after church with Lourdes for
her birthday. It was a lot of fun. I tried craw fish and it was really
interesting.
Are transfers coming up next week? yeah, and i can't believe it! This has been the fastest transfer ever! On Sunday we get the call. it's going to be a crazy day. It's going to be Easter, general conference, and then transfer calls.
Any
idea what will happen? Rupp might leave. She feels she is going to
leave but she doesn't want to. I asked carbajal to guess what's going to
happen because when we were companions she would guess and it was
almost always right. She says that rupp is going to leave and that i
have a chance that i might train...haha but we will see.
Is your bap date still set for 2 weeks? yup! it's all set for April 11!
It's going to be so good! This baptism has been just waiting to happen
for about 10ish years or so. So it's definitely going to happen now. We
are all so excited!
Last
week you said you had some good potential investigators—how are they
coming along? Yeah things are pretty good, We had a really good fhe with
them. they came to mutual the next night! Hopefully we will see them
again soon. The mom has a lot of questions. During mutual she wanted us
to give her a little tour of the church but we only were able to show
her the chapel and she was asking a ton of questions that i have
never been asked before, but we were able to listen to the spirit and
answer them the best we can. Hopefully none of our answers threw her
off.
Did
you ever go see that investigator whose house you were at in your dream
when you and Rupp were fighting? Yeah we went to go see them Friday
night. We went over and they were outside shoveling from a huge pile of
dirt. It was like 730pm and we asked them if we could help them and
they let us, but in that they basically just watched us work the whole
time and just hung out. haha it was fun both of us were wearing pencil
skirts and we were shoveling dirt. I got so many bug bites and they hurt
and itch! The bugs are starting to come back out again :P
Things
are pretty good with rupp and I. I wouldn't mind her staying another
transfer with me. She is super nice and sweet and such a good
missionary! She's become a good friend. I mean last night we stayed up
talking till 1130 and then we decided we wanted to eat cookies so we
made chocolate chip cookies from the dough that we had and kept talking
till past 12 haha it was so much fun! Now i'm just a little tired but
that's mission life!
we
didn't notice it but during one of the days our toilet got clogged and
so that night we ran to HEB and Walmart but all of their plungers were
super expensive. so we just went home and we were saying a billion
prayers in our hearts and we flushed it and it improved a little bit,
every couple minutes we would flush it and now it's working just fine
again! Thank goodness for prayers!
I can't believe March is almost over! It's going by so fast! I can't believe this transfer is almost over! Hopefully next Monday there will be some fun news to tell y'all!
HAPPY EASTER!!!!
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| craw fish! |
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| cracking the legs |
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eating the meat
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| I ate all of it...even the head |
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| teaching a bird the gospel |
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| We went for a walk and found a baby turtle |
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| My favorite person! |
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| Teaching primary is hard! |
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