July 12, 2014

"Here is a picture of my teacher doing an amazing leg thing. I am having so much fun. I love it here so much."

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Mom- I am so glad you had a good time cleaning the house haha believe it or not that is something that I really miss! This morning we got to wake up early at like 5:30 and do service and I have never been so excited to clean toilets. It was so much fun and it felt good to do something haha I promise I'm not going crazy.

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On the Language:

I am continuously amazed at how incredible and real the gift of tongues really is in the mission field. Sometimes in our lessons I realize the sounds coming out of my mouth and cannot believe that I can do that with 3 weeks in the mission. I'll admit sometimes it is easy to focus so hard on everything I have to learn and work on that I forget the immense progress I have made so far. I have found that when I sincerely thank Heavenly Father for my progress and have gratitude for both the work I have to do and the work I have made so far, I am blessed even more. Teaching lessons is starting to be more of something to look forward to and not something to check off the list for practice. Two of our investigators named Jose and Hele would be my favorites if I could pick favorites :) They are from Guatemala and they LOVE to tell stories and have fun. I always enjoy our lessons with them and the Spirit is so easy to feel.

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On a Lighter note:

Okay I truly don't want to be the missionary that sends a potty joke home with each letter but I knew you guys would love this story:
So an Elder in our zone was teaching one of our investigators and he was bearing his testimony to her about Joseph Smith. During his testimony, he declared that he knew "Joseph Smith asked of God in order to receive an answer". Or at least he tried to say that. After he said the sentence our investigator just started laughing her head off! She laughed for about 5 minutes haha but she couldn't explain to him why because she couldn't speak English. So later we asked a teacher why and he repeated what he had told her. The work for "he asked" in Espanol is "pidio" but instead Elder Hales had said "Joseph Smith pudo" which means Joseph Smith farted. Hahaha we all laughed for a good 10 minutes when we found that out.
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"This week has been such a good one, but then again every week is so wonderful here. It has been raining almost every day in the afternoons and it is glorious. It makes me miss the Arizona Monsoons haha but these Utah storms are still pretty decent. My teacher Hermano Vargas is not allowed to let us go in the rain due to "the possibility of getting sick" (no matter how hard I try to convince him that I do it at home all the time). So while he is busy teaching other Elders he pretends not to notice when my companion and I sneak out to dance in it. And when we come back in soaken wet he just smiles and shakes his head."

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Lately in gym time we have been able to actually play a game of basketball and it has been glorious, although it does my heart good to beat a bunch of Elders in a game of speed.

 



"Haha This is all the Hermanas in my district piggin out on food like we do every day."