Buenos Dias!

Buenos Dias!

 

Well things here are just rolling right along, I can{t believe its been two whole weeks! Only 4 more to go.....it seems like a lot but it will go so fast. THis week was equally as terrible as it was wonderful, which is how things always work out in the mission field. Spanish is hard, and there are some days I dont understand a WORD my teachers say and I just feel like giving up, but then there are times when I can feel el don de lenguas and I can understand and say everything I am thinking......the Lord works in mysterious ways.

 

Our investigator Mary is now our afternoon maestra and she is AWESOME!!!!!!! She served her mission in Chile and goes to BYU, she is so awesome. I know she really loves us and is there to help us and she helps me feel so much better about my spanish. Sometimes I keep thinking that I am learning so slowly but then I have to remember I have only been here for 2 weeks, and Ive already learned so much. If you look at your progress week by week its much better than day by day. My mexicanos maestros talk faster everyday so its hard but está bien.

 

So I have a story. I love the mexicanos, they are great, but their culture is so different. Once they get to know you the get SO close to your face whe you are talking, its weird. But anyways I got used to it. Then one day we were sitting by our latinas in the comedor and I had used a spoon but was done, so I set it down and Hermana Flores asked me if she could use my spoon......so I kinda got confused and just said yeah.....then she proceeds to wipe off the nutella and peaunt butter off my spoon and just dips it right in her soup and starts eating off of it.......guess she not a germaphob. plus there are so many spoons.....whatever haha. Our latinas left yesterday....so sad. But we get more on wednesday.

 

The birds here are hideous. Everytime me and my compañera see one we just say pájaros feos which means ugly birds because they seriously have issues.......they all look demented I dont know how to describe it. I will try to get a pic this week. or even a video so you can see how ugly they walk.

 

So this élder in my district is from ogden and went to Bonneville and so I asked him if he knew brogan marchant.......and he was like best friends with him! Awesome huh? and then he told me that right before he left Jeff told him to look for a Sarah Jones....crazy that we are in the same district! Oh and I found Hermano Monroe, that teacher that Tonya Snow wanted me to find. He took a picture with me and I think he said he was going to send it to ehre, but tell her I saw him! He isn{t my teacher though. And I met someone whose dad works with dad. His name was Elder Adams.

 

This last saturday was hard because we found out last minute that we had to write a talk for fast and testimony  meetin (which I still dont understand because its TESTIMONY meeting, ugh) and then prepare for 2 new investigators.....AND me and my compañera had to teach sunday school.........AND that was the bad spanish day......so that was stupid but it all worked out. I have been so chill this whole time but that was my first breakdown I guess you could call it. It wasnt bad or anything, I was just so stressed. My compañera is great, but sometimes I just want to scream CHILL OUT because she gets worked up over the stupidest things. Oh well. Teaching is sometimes difficutl also because she takes forever to say what she wants to say, not in spanish but sits there in deep thought and I dont know why it bugs me so bad. But yeah she is awesome, just sometimes high strung. She cries a lot so I have to console her....and its hard for me because I dont really understand what she is going through. pero está bien.

 

The weather here is seriously perfection. It rains every night around dinnertime, is sunny in the afternoon, and cloudy and cool in the morning. I am never cold or hot. I LOVE IT!!!!! Its so much nicer than Minnesota weather will be. WE got to go to the temple last pday and that was awesome. It was so exhilarating to leave the ccm haha. The street of Mexico city are so chaotic. I love latin america, I am so going to live here when I grow up. The temple was all in spanish, and in the temple I saw the shortest lady I have ever seen in my life. an Hermana in my district at first thought she was a niña and turned to me and said kids arent allowed here! but I told her it was a lady haha she really was that short, but so cute. We could all see each other in the lockers because they are so short. The celestial room was so pretty, the chandalier was the prettiest one I have seen yet!

 

My district is awesome, we have the funniest people. one is going to my mission. I laugh so hard everyday, and sometimes its hard to focus because I just want to talk, so I{m working on trying to study more.

 

Well I am almost out of time but I love you all! Hasta luego!

 

Hermana Jones

 

Ps everyone pronounces my  name hermana HONEZ haha I love it