Hello Friends!
This week was crazy because we always have so much going on! Our lives are literally planned out for us like to the minute. I love being a missionary and I love being here and it has reminded me of how much I love this gospel, but it has also been so hard to be so far away from everyone. I feel so disconnected here because I only get to hear from everyone once a week!
My companion is seriously the best. I love her and I´m so glad that she´s stuck with me until we leave here!! Last week on P-day we attempted to make popcorn with hair dryers because apparently the CCM doesn´t believe in microwaves. To our dismay, it did NOT work. It got super hot but no popping occurred. bummer. Don´t worry though, we found one a couple of days later and enjoyed the sweet remembrance of American food! ;)
The fact that we are all still learning the basics of Spanish and teach investigators in Español has made for some pretty good stories so far! Also, when the new missionaries came in last Wednesday I felt so accomplished with my life that we weren´t the newest missionaries on the block anymore!! And now, we are going to get even more tomorrow and it´s just weird how slowly time seems to go by but still so fast! I wish I could even explain it because I feel like I´ve been here forever sometimes and then other times I feel like I just got here!
After all the days of sitting around eating this food, I watched my fellow missionaries get sick from it one by one. They say it happens to everyone here. I was so confident that it was never going to hit me and it was my goal to be the walking miracle that came from the CCM. I was wrong. Oh well, I guess we better just focus on the fact that I´ve been eating, right! :)
We taught our investigator Genaro a total of 5 lessons. Then we found out that he was becoming our new teacher! So now we spend every afternoon with him, and his real name is Hermano Medina. Now we have 2 investigators (they are both fake investigator stories and our two teachers pretend to be them). It´s kind of confusing and I´m not sure that I like Hermano Medina´s teaching. He´s only been teaching us for a couple of days and maybe it´ll get better, but I just don´t like the way that he teaches so far. I guess we´ll see how that goes!
Hermana Hansen and I taught our 6th lesson yesterday to Genaro AKA Hermano Medina AKA now he´s Ramiro. Anyway, we both thought the lesson went fairly well and then afterward he just reamed into us about how bad it was. He told us that our spanish was surprisingly really great, but that the lesson was awful, YAY! I definitely left in tears and it was the worst! But that´s what the MTC is all about right? If I were going to be a perfect missionary and speak in perfect Spanish then I would have no need to be here. I just have to remind myself to be patient and work as hard as I can.
Sundays are the best! This week I got to play the piano in church and for the first time I actually felt like everything was normal. Everything on Sundays except for Sacrament Meeting is in English so I actually feel like I can understand things! However, I have to admit. I´ve been feeling pretty accomplished with the amount of Spanish I can understand. It´s still ridiculously hard and I will be far from fluent in six weeks, but it blows my mind at how much spanish they can teach us in such a short amount of time!!
Hermana Hansen and Hermana Turner are seriously the best!! I have grown to love them so much in the short amount of time we´ve known one another! Hermana Turner lives in our casa and shares a room with us, but her compánion is Hermana Rowley. It´s crazy to me how the gospel brings people together the way it does. I also think that the Lord has a funny way of preparing people for challenges. Let´s just say that if I get a companion in the field like Hermana Rowley it will be a patience testing, faith building, humbling experience if I´ve ever had one! I am, however, slowly.......SLOWLY......learning to love her.
Read the scriptures and pray a lot!! God listens to you and He is there!
Also, read Alma 26 because it´s awesome.
LOVE YOU ALL!
-Hermana Wilson
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