Hola Madre y Padre,¿Cómo están? Me alegro que etén bien!
Well it´s crazy to think that I´ve been here for nearly 2 weeks now. Every day seems to take forever but somehow the week still goes by fast. I´m still working on simply understanding people. I really feel like I can talk fairly well so I can teach principles and things but as soon as I ask a question or they ask a question I just don´t understand a word so I´ll just turn to Elder Sanchez, lol. So yeah I´m just really trying to focus (by the way that may be the biggest problem for me, by the end of the day when I´m dead tired as it is of walking all day in the heat and I´m sitting on a couch with a family talking away in some language I don´t understand its easy to just zone out, lol:). But yeah I think I´m getting better. Some people are really understanding and talk slow so then I can understand and it´s nice. But anyways, so it´s awesome we are teaching so many families like every day Elder Sanchez says how our schedule is so full, which is great. We are now working really hard with the family of Julia Magallanes (it´s her daughters family). They have a big family and they are great people I know they would be awesome members and really contribute to the ward. We were also teaching another sister and we were actually about to put a fecha bautismal (baptismal date- AKA commit her to baptism:) when seemingly randomly a guy starts working on a fridge right outside the door with a metal saw. It completely threw out the spirit so we just had to post-pone the lesson for another day. As we were walking away we blamed Satan for it, lol. So yeah that´s just a few of the families we´re teaching. I am still getting accustomed to the area and the names so I don´t remember the names of everyone but it´s amazing how nice everyone is (oh and mom, I hope you´re not worrying about me eating enough because every day for lunch we get a heaping plate of rice and chicken or something that I can barely finish. and on Friday it was funny our second to last appointment made us wait so they could make us dinner. We really had to go so they just put it in a container for us to take then the next family we visited made us wait so they could make us dinner too, lol and this time we stayed and ate with them:). but anyways, that´s awesome that you were able to get in contact with Elder Martineau´s mom. She sounds really nice and he is a really nice guy too. That´s neat you´ve found lots of other mom´s on the list. Yeah I´m not sure exactly how many americans we have here but I thought I heard that we have somewhere around 50 or so.
Oh and before I forget yeah I did get the easter package (they gave it to me the first day I was there in the office in fact, lol. It was kinda funny, actually, me and Hermana Brown were in there and they were giving us the rundown of everything and they were telling us how we should have our families send us packages- he was like they need to be sent with a specific sticker, the green such and such, oh here let me show you- then he went and grabbed a package and showed us the sticker saying that was how it should be. I didn´t even notice it was from you I thought he was just using an example until Hermana Brown was like "hey, isn´t that your mom??" lol.) so yeah it was good...
Well it´s crazy to think that I´ve been here for nearly 2 weeks now. Every day seems to take forever but somehow the week still goes by fast. I´m still working on simply understanding people. I really feel like I can talk fairly well so I can teach principles and things but as soon as I ask a question or they ask a question I just don´t understand a word so I´ll just turn to Elder Sanchez, lol. So yeah I´m just really trying to focus (by the way that may be the biggest problem for me, by the end of the day when I´m dead tired as it is of walking all day in the heat and I´m sitting on a couch with a family talking away in some language I don´t understand its easy to just zone out, lol:). But yeah I think I´m getting better. Some people are really understanding and talk slow so then I can understand and it´s nice. But anyways, so it´s awesome we are teaching so many families like every day Elder Sanchez says how our schedule is so full, which is great. We are now working really hard with the family of Julia Magallanes (it´s her daughters family). They have a big family and they are great people I know they would be awesome members and really contribute to the ward. We were also teaching another sister and we were actually about to put a fecha bautismal (baptismal date- AKA commit her to baptism:) when seemingly randomly a guy starts working on a fridge right outside the door with a metal saw. It completely threw out the spirit so we just had to post-pone the lesson for another day. As we were walking away we blamed Satan for it, lol. So yeah that´s just a few of the families we´re teaching. I am still getting accustomed to the area and the names so I don´t remember the names of everyone but it´s amazing how nice everyone is (oh and mom, I hope you´re not worrying about me eating enough because every day for lunch we get a heaping plate of rice and chicken or something that I can barely finish. and on Friday it was funny our second to last appointment made us wait so they could make us dinner. We really had to go so they just put it in a container for us to take then the next family we visited made us wait so they could make us dinner too, lol and this time we stayed and ate with them:). but anyways, that´s awesome that you were able to get in contact with Elder Martineau´s mom. She sounds really nice and he is a really nice guy too. That´s neat you´ve found lots of other mom´s on the list. Yeah I´m not sure exactly how many americans we have here but I thought I heard that we have somewhere around 50 or so.
Oh and before I forget yeah I did get the easter package (they gave it to me the first day I was there in the office in fact, lol. It was kinda funny, actually, me and Hermana Brown were in there and they were giving us the rundown of everything and they were telling us how we should have our families send us packages- he was like they need to be sent with a specific sticker, the green such and such, oh here let me show you- then he went and grabbed a package and showed us the sticker saying that was how it should be. I didn´t even notice it was from you I thought he was just using an example until Hermana Brown was like "hey, isn´t that your mom??" lol.) so yeah it was good...
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