Saturday, October 5, 2013
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ultima semana
Buenas tardes!!
I leave tomorrow.....I cant
believe it! I am so excited and nervous and sad and happy all at once.
Excited to teach real people, nervous to be out in the real world, sad
to leave my district, and happy to finally do what I came out here to
do. wooo!
Saying goodbyes has always been hard for me. Leaving
college, saying goodbye to friends on missions, it all just makes my
heart hurt. And that is still true today. Saying goodbye to my district
(more like great friends) was SO HARD. My heart literally aches from all
the goodbyes. I have learned so much from everyone I have met, and even
though we had the most strong, random, and different personalities as
possible, we made it work and were amazing when we worked hard and put
our mind to things. I will miss them so much.
I got to go to the temple again today! The only people
from my district left here are me and Elder Smith, and we are leaving
tomorrow so we just hung out with another district in our zone and went
to the temple with them. I lucked out to get to go 4 veces! Today I am
just a trio with some other girls in my zone, and tomorrow I will be
with the other hermanas going to my misión.
So this week we also had to say goodbye to our
teachers. I love them! They are hilarious. WE always have so much fun
with the language barrrier and learning random words in different
languages. So our little inside joke is alarma, which means guess what,
alarm. haha anyways, so when we were taking pictures with them our last
day, he kept saying alarma in the FUNNIEST voice and I could not hold it
together,. I was laughing so hard I was crying and I have never laughed
so hard in my life. He did it like 50 times, and for some reason it was
funny EVERY SINGLE TIME. Ah. I wish I could have recorded it to send to
you.
So a latino here wants to marry me apparently. He told
the elders that. Haha mexicans and gringos. He made me this cute thing.
It was like a seed from a palm tree or something and he colored on it
and wrote a little message like exito en su mision or something like
that. So cute!
WE had in field orientation this week! It was great and
terrible all at once. Great because we got to practice contacting and
stuff like that, terrible because it was from 8 in the morning til 9 at
night.......ahhhhhhhhh. But oh well, it helped get me more excited for
the field.
So we have this thing called TALL and its where we
practice our spanish on the computer. Anyways there is always a teacher
who is there, and this time it was a native who speaks english, and he
just randomly asked if gordito is fatty in english. which it is. but in
his accent.......when he said fatty....it was too funny. We proceeded to
talk about how it is a compliment here. I loved that day.
I will miss the food! There is always meat and beans
and stuff to make you nice and full. and also you can make peanut butter
and nutella sandwiches. and the juice is to die for!!!!!!!!! Its all so
delicious and I am always full. I have even lost weight here....8
pounds! I should keep this meat diet up. Hopefully I get a lot of meat
in the mission because I am so used to it now.
So whenever I tell the natives where I am serving my
mission, they think I say Venezuela. EVERY TIME. Like not even kidding,
at least 5 times a day without fail. They get SO excited then I say NO
minnesota and then they get all confused why I am here learning spanish.
Then I just give up trying to explain. Oh venezuela.
My teacher Hma. young said that her sister lives in MN
and that there are TONS of Mexicans, so I am so exicted for that! I love
Mexicans!!!!
So there is a guy who works here
from provo and he speaks spanish and married a spanish girl and they
have THE CUTEST KIDS and they are teaching them english and spanish oh
my goodness. It is to die for.
I think I am starting to get a cold. My voice is weird and I have been coughing a lot. Oh well.
This
week we had TRC which is when we teach members who volunteer, and there
were actually pepople for once! of all the 6 weeks, we ended up
teaching each other because no one showed up. We got to teach a c ute
little family, a stake president, and a missionary who just arrived here
to begin his CCM training! It was awesome because we were actuallyk
teaching real people. I loved it and got super excited for the field.
My branch presidente is in Salt lake right now, no sé
porque, pero I think it has something to do with conference or
something. If you hear ANYTHING about a president T as a 70 or
something......hes my branch pres! He has the cutest little hands ever, I
love shaking it every week.
I tried to print my boarding pass, but the passport
number was wrong or something so I might just have to get it at the
airport. My bus leaves the MTC at 3 tomorrow en la
madrugada...yikes....also yikes because I only slept 3 hours last
night.....I might just die when I get there. Oh well. I still dont know
if I can call, but like I said, dont expect it, but dont NOT expect it
either. It will most likely be when I am in dallas so sometime around 8.
we will see.
Well I will send pictures now. Gracias for all your support!!!!
Hermana Yones
semana seis
Buenas tardes!
I cannot believe that I leave
next week......where on earth did the time go? no sé. This week was so
awesome....kinda like all the others haha.
We got
new latinos! The day they left was really depressing for me, and plus
we had to say goodbye to a lot of other friends. But its ok because we
got more people! Every week it gets harder to say goodbye to everyone. I
know it will be so hard to say goodbye to everyone in my distrito.
The new latinos are awesome. There are two districtos
of them in our hall, and they are both so awesome. We get to practice
with them a lot and it helps with the spanish! Last night we went to one
of their classrooms and sang with them (and they were off key as
always) and then left and then went to the other district and they
commanded us to sit down and bear our testimonies. So we did! It was
awesome. The gospel can connect you to anyone, even if there is a
language barrier. I love it so much!
WE went to the temple for the last time today. I love
that temple! I bought a big picture of it in the tienda to take with me
on my misión. WE got to go with both of our favorite latino districts.
So the mail lady here is so sassy. And one time we were going to the
correo (because we check it every morning during gym and everyday after
lunch) and my compañera was like ¨she probably hates us because we go to
the correo so much¨and literally right when we walked in there she said
in her accent ¨I love to see your faces every morning and afternoon¨ it
was so funny! She is really funny because she speaks a lot of english,
but not perfect english. She was telling us how she went to the grito
and instead of saying ït was so fun¨she said ït was so funny. I love it
haha
So there arent just ugly birds......there are cute
green parakeets that live up in the trees! I never even noticed it until
yesterday! oh well.
I am getting super sad to
leave. I will miss this place soooo much! But I am super excited to get
out into the field and do what I came out here to do! Minnesota weather
will be sub par to this but whatevs. My compañera leaves tuesday night
and I dont leave til wednesday night......so I will probably have to be
in a trio with the other girls going to my mission. OH ps it just
started POURING like sun and one second later sheets of rain. Gotta love
it here.
I MIGHT get to call you guys from the dallas airport
but Im not sure. So dont be expecting it but dont NOT expect it. I will
get to email you guys when I print off my boarding pass this weekend so I
will let you know for sure then.
WE have a devocional tonight and pizza woooo! I love
martes so much. I know I have sooooo much more to tell you guys but I
cant remember much once I actually sit down at the computer.
I
love this gospel! I have learned so much about it in these last 6 weeks
and also so much spanish. I am really happy the Lord called me to his
work to preach in español. It is really hard at times and I want to give
up, but this opens so many doors for me, and I love the latin people
and communicating with them. I have been reading in 3rd Nefi about when
he came to visit the Nefitas and it has strengthened my testimony about
the book of mormon so much. THis gospel is so simple and great and I
cant wait to share this with the people who are waiting to hear about
it! Sé que Jesucristo es nuestro Salvador y por medio de la expiación
podemos volver a la presencia de Dios.
I am also going to blow all of my leftover money on
food from the tienda to send to you guys once I get to the states. I am
going to get Japones. They are addicting....idk how I will survive
without them. But you guys can try them and see for yourselves. HAve a
great week!
Hermana Yones
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