June 17, 2013
HOLA!!!
Holy cow my first week and I'm done...
LITERAL LONGEST WEEK OF MY LIFE. I get off the airplane and it is POURING RAIN. Then we went to the mission home ate dinner and had to get interviews from
the mission president, he is an incredible man. His brother ran away when he was a junior in
high school, and then his dad killed himself when he was a senior in high
school. He went on a mission and a month into it the doctors amputated his leg
because he had terminal cancer and was told he has 2 months left... AMAZING
RIGHT?!! I LOVE HIM. He is the coolest human being ever.
I met my first
companion Hermana Larsen, she is from Holiday, Utah. She is the BEST. She has
only been out for 12 weeks.. So we are struggling on the Spanish but she is
very good!
I had never felt so homesick in my life than my first couple of
nights. I see airplanes EVERYWHERE. I always think of the family. My
companion and I wave every time we see one. My bed is literally right in line with a
window and the airplanes always fly by so I always think of the family right
before I go to bed. Its pretty cool here. My companion and I are
teaching 2 sets of girls that are kind of my age but when they taught them
before they never listened but ever since I’ve met with them she says she’s
never seen them be so interested or loved a missionary so much! Maybe the 1st blessing of the mission. NO ONE SPEAKS
ENGLISH HERE. I will use Spanish my whole mission. I’ve taught 7 different
nationalities here so far and an elder left his mission teaching 107. The usual
number is in the 80's so its hard to get used to the accents. I’m struggling
with Spanish but that’s okay.. Last night we ate at a member’s house and there
was a cook there who didn’t speak English at all. He said if I learn Spanish
he will get baptized! I told him 2 months and we shook on it! I am going to
read the BOM in Spanish in 2 months so I can watch him be baptized! I read 10 pages last
night :) only 9 pages a day! Pray for me!
I woke up this morning sick because
who knows what I’m eating here, there are so many different nationalities! I could be eating a different kind of food every night. It is so green and different here it is insane!
I am the MINORITY! It is rare here for you to see Americans I cant wait to bring you
all back!!! OH ALSO there are about 5000 different churches here and really pretty
ones, makes me think of you every time dad. I take pictures of them so I can
show you :) OH also when it rains here... IT POURS!!
i LOVE YOU ALL.
This
work is hard and sometimes discouraging, but worth it :) xoxooxxo
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