How was every one's Mother's Day?? Mine was pretty good! Seeing as I got to talk to mom, dad, Julie and Kelli! It was a really good talk. I was lucky that it wasn't too much of a distraction for me. It was tough hanging up and I may have cried a little bit afterwards, but an hour later I was on shift at the visitors' center and haven't really thought much about it since! Mother's Day in Mexico was on Thursday, then we had a Mother's Day activity on Saturday night, and then yesterday was actually Mother's Day. So it's kind of been like a week long activity! But it's been fun! Our ward activity was really fun. It was a dinner that the Elders Quorum made, and then there was a talent show. There are six of us missionaries in our ward, and we put a little number together for others to laugh at us and enjoy. It was La Bamba... so funny. We had an Elder and my companion that played the guitar, and then the rest of us sang. We put sunglasses on and were just silly. They were loving it. We changed the words a little bit to make it more of a missionary message. Our ward was just dying. We had a lot of fun.
We have an eighteen yea- old girl that we are teaching that is very interested, but her parents are not convinced that this is something that she should be doing. We were over at their house having a pretty intense lesson and we were talking to her mom, when my companion noticed a scorpion that was crawling on the blinds right behind me. That definitely changed the atmosphere! haha I had never seen a scorpion before and we had fun with them catching it in a jar and then flushing it down the toilet. We got a lot of fun pictures... I don't know if I will have time to today to send any of them, but we will see!
Every Friday (that we can because sometimes we are on shift at the visitors' center) we go over to Abuelita's for lunch at noon. Her name is Teresa but she calls herself our Abuelita, which is like little grandma. She's from the Dominican Republic and always make really delicious food! It's usually just the 6 of us that are in our ward (or 4 if one of the sister companionships is on shift), but this past week we had an extra sister with us, and the Elders were working with the zone leaders. So there were nine of us at abuelita's. And she was loving it. These people really don't have a ton of money, but they absolutely love to feed the missionaries! One of our zone leaders had never been to her house before and told us that he really had to go to the bathroom. We told him that she didn't have one and that you have to use the outhouse. He didn't believe us at first but we talked enough that he was finally convinced. So he walked up to her and was like "Abuelita, is it okay if I use the bathroom outside?" We were laughing so hard. She was like "No... don't go to the bathroom in my backyard!!!" He eventually came to think that it was pretty funny too.
I'm seeing a lot of improvement in my Spanish and am feeling very blessed. I know that God is helping me because there is no way that someone can learn a language as fast as I am, with the kind of exposure I am having. It's not much, but I am doing the best that I can and He is making up the rest. This past week I started making my first calls in Spanish from the visitors' center. A lot of times I don't know what they are saying, but I just pretend the best that I can and it usually works out okay. I am terrified most of the time but people keep telling me that this is the way that I am going to learn it. So I am trying!
I love you all!! And I hope everyone is doing so well. I'm doing great, so don't worry about me :]
Love,
Hermana Larson
No comments:
Post a Comment