Week 2!!!!

alright so much to tell you :) yay!

 

again mom please leave translations at the bottom :) gracias!

 

there are about 800 missionaries aqui about 187 native english speaking hermanas and 49 latina hermanas for a grand total of 236 hermanas at the CCM

 

My casa is pink

 

I saw Elder Paul Larkin from the M;ission Viejo Stake....well I actually see him quite often its fun. I wave and give him handshakes...

 

so in my districto, hermana young and I shake the elder´s hands in "brief formal ways" to say I´m sorry and I feel your pain and I am so proud of you and excited for you...and we also do air 5´s (because high fives are not appropriate for missionarios) but its quite entertaining well be like " can I give you a short brief im sorry hand shake?"  muy divertida

 

i wrote a long letter to the familia with tons of details last week and I will give you more info on that later in my letter.

 

I will be released 24 Feb 2015 and leave the CCM 10 of OCT  Again...please dont send snail mail in october there is a very good chance i wont get it. gracias.

 

okay I had the hardest time learning  to say religión, sacerdocio, bautismo, and restaurar! and those words are kinda fundamental to the gospel! but its okay I am practicing but please listen and feel my pain when i say it is not easy! seriously look it up and try it!! i still have issues with restaurar...i cannot say it fast at all! i have to say it like....well i was going to say child but they can totally speak spanish way better than us!

 

hermana young and I assigned spirit animales to our districto:) maybe itll help you understand their personalities a bit better if you hear

 

neeley: golden retriever named lucky (loyal, always rthere and nice but not in your face)

Cook: kangaroo named fluffy (needs to be alittle fluffier bc he pack a punch)

hutchinson iguana named dragon because there is more that meets the eye and he can be a pet but not your normal one

silva: killer whale named killer (we are so original... hes not mean or anything but totally awesome )

byrd:cuckabura named Steve (like steve irwin, loves to laugh and joke and is always smiling and awesome)

brown giraffe named sheldon (quiet tall, but if you listen hes actually quite funny)

hunt:panda bear named willard (just plain awesome. loves to be in the middle of the fun and great natured and just lovable and big)

humphreys is a bison named chuck (he seems quiet and peaceful, and kinda naturally looks like he doesnt care, but hes a great listener and has a beautiful testimony)

maestro: hermano silva: hummingbird named archemedes (so much energia and beautiful and petite and fun sized the elders once joked of wanting to play catch with him as the ball- hes so good natured i really admire him)

 

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡me gusta mi districto!!! ( i found the upside down punctuation haha)

 

and when hermano silva tried to teach us a version of head shoulders knees and toes using cabeza cara hobros piers (feet) but forgot how to say shoulders...and kept saying hombres which is man...so I said "su es un hombre" to correct him and remind him man=hombre and he said "No, Usted es un hombre." HE CALLED ME A MAN!!!! I stared at him in shock! excuse me?! "no, no no you had said yours is a man, lo siento hermana ming" hahaha way awesome as we learn spanish ( if the joke doesnt make sense maybe my mom will further explain for you)

 

so now for the bad news. mi companera might be going home tomorrow.

(wait for shock and disbelief to be expressed)

ya, she got extremely sick this last week, like so much pain and nausea it was hard to walk! I pushed her around in a wheel chair (and chased birds with it and we may or may not have slingshot her with the elders  using the excersise bands we were given...maybe...) but she is really sick. she had pre-exsisting health difficulties like a hereditary digestive problem and anxiety, but she tells me this is a different kind of pain she has never experienced. and I believe her when she says this is something new, and slightly worse. it stinks. she is seriously my best friend here and I feel like i have known her for much longer than 2 little weeks. She is phenominal. and at first she and I rejected the idea that she would leave me and the district and go home, but later she prayed and felt peace over leaving. and through her testimony and my own prayers I was able to receive confirmation that I will be okay, that God will not leave me friendless. idk who will be my new companion (if i get one), if i will move houses (because I am currently the only companionship in my cuarto), if I will change districts (only hermanas) idk...its all in the air in the Lords hands. Its sad too because she REALLy doesn{t want to leave, especially because her family is not in any way supporting her decision or her ability to make the correct choice on her own. its difficult to watch.

 

I am so grateful that I have been blessed with Family and Friends that would support me both in my decision to serve a mission and would trust in me and in the Lord, should the Lord tell me I needed to leave early. I know that God loves us and He has blessed us with Agency and the ability to receive Revelation.

 

Jacob 4:13 (please post the scripture) I am not the only witness of the Gospel of truth, I have the Book of Mormon, Modern day Prophets, a companion, the Holy Ghost, and countless other testimonies of faith in this glorious gospel.

 

I love you all, I pray for you, I know this "la inglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días" The CHurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the only True Church on the earth today. Keep the Faith

 

Hermana Ming