October 18, 2011

My Dear Familia y Amigos!

Buenos Dias! Haha! So i am looking at my time and i only have 24 mins left to write ya´ll.... i am going to try to cover everything cause i have so much so i apologize in advance for being so jumbled.

Wednesday, when i arrived at the CCM, that is spanish for the MTC. It was kind of a blur to me... my host was Sister Diaz who is going to the Las Vegas, NV mission. She was super nice and took me to the book store where they handed me a big blue bag with all my spanish books and then she took me to my classroom where i met my Companero, Hermana Baird. She is from the Falls area in Idaho, she is the oldest of 7 children and she did not know a little of spanish. She took German in high school and it has been such a treat to help her learn the language, well, and refresh my own skills. OH AND! She is going to Des Moines as well!  We have another set of Hermañas in our District Hermana Henderson, who is from Haiwii, and Hermana Hansen, who is currently from Utah. Ok, i really fast want to thank the Merrifield family for letting me stay with them and taking me to the Provo Temple right before they took me to the MTC. I just read in my journal my feelings and well, my heart is very full, thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Thursday, we woke up super early and did a service project! They are going to be taking down one of the buildings so we went and pulled up all the carpet and took all the beds that were in one building and took in into another building. it was so much fun! I saw Hermana Moffat! It was so good to see a familiar face and one of the Hermanas in her district is HERMANA WADSWORTH too! We took a picture together cause we are cool.... hahaha! I cannot remember where Hermana Wadsworth is going though... she said that her family is from Ohio so there is definitely a connection, we just don't know where yet.

I forgot to mention something that was so DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS for me.... so i go into class and our teacher ONLY SPEAKS SPANISH! AHHH!!! Hermana Baird and I look at each other and just start laughing..... we were so stressed. It was been very good. On Saturday or Friday night we met with our Branch President, President Claybaugh and we had interviews. All of us Hermanas met with Brother Washburn (second Counselor) and i told him about dad and that he recently passed away. He gave me some counsel and he said that it might be a good idea to tell Hermana Baird. So, on Saturday, i informed Hermana Baird about it and man it made SUCH a difference and really changed our companionship. It is kinda weird cause i find myself talking about dad all the time here. and it isn't painful to talk about him.

ok, now im starting to get short on time. I LOVE SUNDAYS here... We wake up do companionship study, go to church, eat breakfast, do more studying, eat lunch, go on a Temple walk and then study more, eat dinner and then we have a special fireside. This week we had Brother and Sister Hacking came and spoke to us. Sister Hacking spoke about proper etiquette with setting a table and eating. Now Grandma, did you know that the napkin is not supposed to go under the fork it is suppose to go beside the fork on the left side... i just wanted to make sure you knew that. =) ok now i am running out of time... uh... ok.

Today at breakfast Hermana Baird and i sat next to President Nally who is in the MTC Presidency. It was really fun to talk to him. He said that tonight at the fireside we are going to have a special speaker come, but he cant tell us who. then he said, oh we have another surpise as well for this morning and i cant tell that to you either... well, we found out. it was a fire drill! haha! it was so crazy, if that doesn't wake you up, i don't know what will.

 

well, i am out of time, i just wanted to thank everyone who has written me so far. Richardson family, i LOVE the pictures! Everyone should send me more pictures (taken or drawn).

 

I love you all so much! Thank you for your prayers and love!

 

XOXO

Hermaña Wadsworth