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| Our "Lazy River" where we can study outside. It's really pretty because there is a creek with a waterfall we can sit by. |
I can’t believe it’s already been
two weeks! Its’ crazy that I will be in Mexico TOMORROW! Okay just kidding! I
still have 4 more weeks here but I’m sure that got you! Haha! Well this week
has been great! It went by so fast its crazy! So from my last letter some
updates: The elder from my district that I told you left came back the next day
so that was great! "The investigator" we were teaching went well. We
got him to agree to go to church and pray about being baptized!
So in our lesson with him on Wednesday
I had the strong feeling to give my testimony to him in English. When I would
normally do it I would just read my testimony from a piece of paper because I
didn’t have everything memorized yet. So I told him to listen and see if he
could feel a difference in how I was bearing my testimony. So the first word I
said I started bawling! haha it was so bad and it was a really bad ugly cry
where you couldn’t breathe! I was trying to plug my nose so I could stop, but
then it just turned into this loud gasping for air sound that was really loud.
Let’s just say it wasn’t pretty! I don’t even remember the last time I cried
like that. haha it wasn’t my finest hour. But I ended up getting it all out and
talked about how my father was a convert and got baptized and had to leave his
family for a little while. After I was done he said he felt the holy ghost
while I was giving my testimony so that was really cool. Before we went into
teach him I prayed for a spirit to be there, but I think I prayed a little too
hard and it just over took me haha. It was a great experience and the spirit
was so strong in the room. So the next day we found out that Mario the investigator
we were teaching is now our second teacher! So that kinda made me even more
embarrassed about my loud gasping for air cry. haha He is a great teacher and
has taught us so much already.
This last Sunday I fasted for me to
be able to understand more and get the language down better, and yesterday I
already noticed a difference. I was able to memorize a lot more and remember
more as well. It truly made me so grateful for the power of fasting! It works
people! So for devotional on DOMINGO! was Jenny Oaks Baker! She is the daughter
of Elder Oaks! She is well known for playing the violin. She brought her kids
and they all played 5 songs for us and she gave her talk in between each song
it was amazing!
So you asked about my Companion. She
is barely 19, she graduated the same year I did. She was home schooled. She is
pretty hard to get along with to be honest, but every day I try to find
something good about her, and love her. I won’t say a lot, but she likes to
prove me wrong a lot and kinda rub it in my face, so I have just been brushing
it off. On Sunday I couldn’t take it anymore so I punched her and that shut her
up. Okay, that didn’t really happen, but it did in my mind. What I actually did
was sit her down and tell her how I was feeling, I was very nice about it and
she said that she has had that problem and she will try and be better at it.
But she is a great girl and helps me with my Spanish. I know we were meant to
be companions for a reason. She has already taught me a lot and I really do
love her for it!
Thanks again for everything you and
dad have done for me! I really do appreciate all of your love help and support
for my mission. I know I couldn’t do this without the support from my family!
So we got to go to gym in the bubbles this week and play volleyball. I taught
the girls how to serve and they did really good during our district game! It
was fun. Then my companion hit me in the face with the ball twice so that was
an experience.
Anyways I have some really cool
blessings that I have noticed that have been happening. So first we sit probably
14 hours a day and it’s kinda hard. But my hamstring hasn't bothered me once
since I’ve been here! Between working out and sitting all day its doing pretty
good. The ringing in my ears doesn't bother me as much and keep me awake at
night anymore! I was really excited about that. It is still hard to hear people
sometimes, but it’s okay. So do you all remember when I was younger and we
would read the B.O.M together and it improved my reading? Well the idea came to
me that me and my companion needed to start reading the BOM in Spanish because I
have a hard time pronouncing the words. It has been helping, and I know the
more I do it the better I will get! I know these blessings are from our
heavenly father and he is helping me in the ways I need most! I am so grateful
to be here and be blessed in ways that I need the exact most.
I wanted to let you know how much I
am really loving it here! Every night I go home so happy and just happy I am
here! It’s pretty funny every night before I go to sleep all I think about are Spanish
words. And half of the ones I am saying I am probably just making up in my head
haha Dad I am kinda getting a taste of what it was like for you going into
school not knowing what your teachers were saying to you. I mean it’s not as
extreme, but it’s still hard. I don’t know how you did it, but you really
inspire me to keep going when I get frustrated! Well I love you all and hope
you have the greatest week ever! Thanks again for all of the Dear elders you
guys send; it really does lift me up during the day!
Love, Hermana Velasquez!
P.S I don’t think I need anything
else sent to me, but I don’t know where else my YW necklace would be? And also it’s
silver. But I would love if you sent me a hand written letter with the
package:) Love you!
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| This is Hermana Cookerham... We rewrote a song into a missionary song... kinda, haha! |
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| Mi amiga, Hermana Hoggan. |
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