What A GREAT day it was yesterday to see all ofyour lovely faces:)
It
was just pure joy to Google Plus-- sorry I feel like I didn't really
get to talk with everyone the equal amout, but it was just lovely! And I
love you all! Definitely am a Chillona (cry baby)....whoops:) Thanks
James, for your lovely declaration of that at the end "You Glow
baby..."HAHAHAHA that was hilarious:) You have all changed, but you are
all the same:) I can't believe it has already been 6 months!
Thank you for all your support and encouragement.
This last week has been a hard week...I just get frustrated when I work
so hard, but I feel like I'm not making a difference because No one's
getting baptized. Plus, I just don't feel very close to my companion
now...which is really difficult for me. I am trying not to be prideful
and just love her, but we are SO different. So different. We are fine-
we don't fight or anything and we get along, we're just not best
friends. But I know that I am here with her doing what the Lord wants!
So watch our Mission Viejo...cuz here we come and we're gonna start off
the new year the right way...hopefully with some baptisms! Oh man I
SOOOOO want to find a family to teach that is just READY for the Gospel!
I want that so bad:) We wil find them!
I'm not gonna lie, I was really nervous that seeing
everyone would make me really homesick and it would be astruggle to
focus on the work after that. BUT Heavenly Father is blessign me
greatly, because it was just the BOOST I needed to put a pep in my step
and keep on truckin'. So so great. I love you all.
Yes- I am a mexican. Seriously. Soy Mexicana. I
eat spicy, drink Abuelitas, eat rice beans and tortillas casi cada
comida. I thought it was funny that ALi kep tsaying that on the webcam
yesterday-we definitely are having different experiences than you did in
Argentina:) But it is fun. Sometimes we pick up vocab from our Cuban/
Peruvian friends and then say them to our mexican friends and they have
NO IDEA what we are talking about...so that is kind of funny...I will
defeintely have an interesting vocabulary when I get home.
Thanks Jalyn for the Thanksgiving day package with
carmels and letters from everyone! It was so fun to hear from everyone
on the Stones side:) Haha- it made me laugh that about half of you said
how much fun it was to read my letters and how much more descriptive
they were than Todd's:) Haha-gave me the gigggles.
Well --- The tradition has continued....we pretty
much eat 2 dinners a day...i'm gonna be so Huge by the time I get
home...gross. For Christmas dinner we had Tamales (delicious...and they
are Traditional for Christmas with Mexicans) and you drink it with
Ponche (like a warm fruit cider with the fruit in the cup). Our second
dinner consisted of Posolee (Po- soul - lay) wich is flippin delicous
(at tleast when hns FAbian cooks it) and it is like a soup with carne
and corn (but it's not regular corn...it's like mexican corn, I don't
really know how to decribe it...) and you put crema and cabbage on top
with aguacate and tostadas. So good. Soooooooo Fullllllll!
OTher than that Chrsitmas was good- we had a lesson
with Enot---he is an idiot I've decided. We are probs going to drop him.
He wants to be baptized, but he doesn't and then he reads the Book of
Mormon and thinks he finds all these inconsistencies as he reads
it...but he can't even explain them to us, and then he gets frustrated.
He just doesn't get the fact that He just needs to read it and pray
about the BOM--- that is the KEY. B/c if they BOm is true, the Joseph
Smith was a true Prophet b/c He translated it, and He really restored
Christ's church. Everything hangs on the BOM. And no matter how many
times we say that...he just doesn't get it. So anyways, that was
frustrating. But- we have picked up a lot of new investigators this
past week---now we just got to get them rollin' and progressing.
At our Mission Christmas Conference that we had on
the 24th our P. Cook Challenged us all to read the Book of Mormon before
Easter (which by the way falls on March 31st this year:) My Bday) and
Mark all the references to the Savior's name as well as all of His
pronouns (He, his, etc). We have to read 5.5 pages a day starting
yesterday to get through it in time and I am sO excited! It is going to
be great and I just love the Book of Mormon! Love love love. I know it
is true! And I'm excited to do this and have my testimony strengthened
even more.
So funny story - Andrea and Jose (the ninos we are
teaching) have really struggled with saying the Lord's name in vain.
Constant battle- and they have improved SO much, but they still have
their moments. So my last companion- Hna Schwegler- was super loud and
crazy and her catchphrase was "OH JUDY!" So now everyime they slip up -
they hurry and correct themselves by saying "Uh I mean... Oh Judy!"
Okay, it's really not that funny of a story, but it just made me think
of When that girl (Adriana?) from spain was staying with us and she
waould always correct herself by saying "Oh my life!" :)
Mom- that is a beautiful Christmas present!! I don't know what to call it...but it is very pretty:) Thank you so much:)
Anywhoo...
hope you enjoy the pictures that I sent ( in the mail) and that they
get to you safely. There were lots,.... like casi 200...whoops. It's
been a while since I sent my Memory card home. but they are good ones:)
Also- Pday next week will be on WDNESDAY again
because of the new year...all the stores will be closed on Tues. So,
that's what's up:)
Love you allllllllllllll soooooooo muchhccccccccccccccccccccchhhh
-FEliz Navidad y prospero ano! (In sing song form of
course. Just imagine Celine Dion singing that...cuz that's most
defintiely what's going through my head:)
-HErmana WHICKER!
Ps Al- If you would like to send me an early
birthday present, I would gladly accept another journal cause mine is
almost finished:)
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