WEll
what a week. Seriously, longest week ever with many emotions going up
and down and up and down. First of all I made it:) I am in OCeanside
cAlifornina with my companion HErmana Kohrman. She is pretty great and
we have had a great time together this week getting to know each other
and laughing at my spanish:) But it has been great. WE have been white
washed....which means that Hermana Kohrman was most recently in a
Different area, and she got transferred here to OCeanside to train me,
which means that NEIther of us know the area or the ward or the people
or anything. So it has definitely been an adventure to say the least.
THank goodness for Rosi CUellar (who is a mmebr of the ward that was
baptized in JAn) she has been giving us directions and addresses and
feeding us left and right...what a sweetheart. ANywho. FUnny story- her
son, DAniel who is 2 years old, has trouble pronouncing names...so when
HErmana Kohrman and I were introduced to him, he goes "Oh, HErmana
Chicken and HErmana Corn" HAAHhahahaha soo s o hilarious! So just go
ahead and call us Chicken and corn if you like:)
BEacuse
we are whitewashed, we have No current investigators. The hermanas that
were here just before us just dropped all their investigators. So this
week we have been contacting like crazy and trying to get to know the
ward and creating good relationships with them. And let's be honest,
it;s hard to create a good relationship when I don't speak the same
language that they do! But, I am progressing... I think:) Any who, ALi
hit the nail right on the head in her email. TAlk about giving myself a
LOT of pep talks in me head! "Come on, here's a person, you gotta
talkk to them....don't be a wuss!" THat happens many many times a
week:) But things are improving.
It's
amazing how you know certain things are true, like that the Lord will
never ask you to do something you couldn't handle. I know that is true.
But man, let me tell you, that hasSOO much more meaning to me now than
it EVER has in my life. I mean everyone says a smission is going to be
hard, and so i Expected that. Then I got to the MTC and I was like oh
man, this really is hard. But then I got used to it an everything was
fine, but NOW- oh man, I can just tell you right now that I did not know
what hard meant before this week! But, I know that as I continue to
exercise faith in My Savior that all things are possible!
HErmana
Kohrman is just great. She is from Indiana and is just so awesome. She
actually reminds me a LOT of you CAM, so she was really easy to love.
Just her mannerisms and her laugh, she makes things really fun:)
PRetty
sure I've already losta few of my taste buds due to peppers burning my
mouth! WE ate with the CAstro family the other night and oh mana oh man
oh man... I was nearly in tears by the time we left becuase my mouth was
burning so much! I've also successfully eaten fish without
gagging....eww it was gross, but that;'s the life of a missionary!
LEt's
see what else, went to church yesterday--pretty sure I got maybe 30% of
what they were saying...DEfinitely have rrom to improve n that
department:) THey just talk so DANG BLASTED FAST! They don't
enounciate ANYTHIng. Oh man. CAn't wait till I'm fluent. IT is SUPER
humid here. Super. But beautiful. Such a different environment that
where I have lived the last 6 years f my life, but it is just dandy. My
mission Preisident, Pres Cook said that Aunt TAmra worked for him in
Logan for a little while before she became CAche County Auditor, that
was fun to hear:) And HE said he knew Gpa Stones and would go to his
TExaco all the time! Fun fun. Oh man I have like no time left. You all
are great, but I get so many emails that I only have like 15 minutes
left to write by the time I get through them all!
ANyways,
I love you all lots! Got to go to the SAn Diego Temple today...sooo
beautiful! I only get mail on Mondays at district mtgs and you have to
send everything to the mission home address.
I
appreciate all you prayers and I am surviving! IT is hard, but I know
it will get better as I continue to do what the Lord has asked! LOVe
you all so much! The Gospel is true and I'll try and write a snail mail
letter tonight if I have time! Love you lots!
Hermana Whicker!!!!!
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