Haha ok so,
first of al, ¡hola! How are you all doing?
I am
doing great! Except that this is my first P-day and it has been super crazy
because nothing stayed on schedule and so...that means I have like no time to
write this week! But that is ok because I will be a lot better next week. But
anyway, I don´t know what questions you all asked or anything since I have 22
new emails this week for some reason (I´m like really popular for once in my
life ;) ) and so yeah I will just print them all off and read them in my spare
time (haha, spare time. What?) yeah I actually don´t have a lot of that but
esta bien because I will find time since I love all of you and want to read
what you wrote to me!
But
yeah anyway, So i really really love my companion! She is super super awesome
and way cute and we get along really well. She is from Farmington so when we
get home we are totally hanging out. We already discussed it. And we are
attending each other´s weddings :) haha yeah she is just so great! She has been
en el campo (in the field) for six months now. That´s so crazy because I have
only been here for uno semana (one week!) I still sometimes can´t believe that
I am like, actually walking the streets of Mexico sometimes.
But
anyway, So it is crazy here because everyone speaks Spanish. It´s like they´re
Mexican or something ,) They speak really fast and some are fairly easy to
understand while others I´m just like, um...what did you just say...?? and some
speak like in the back of their throats and so that is super hard to understand
as well but its ok because I know that I will get it down and the Lord will
help me as long as I try since He called me here for a reason and I know that
the Lord doesn´t ask us to do anything that He knows we can´t handle.
Ok so the flight
here was cool like the one to Dallas felt kind of long and then the whle
calling my family thing didn´t work out like I wanted so that was kind of bad
and there were tears but I am really grateful Hermana Peterson let me use her
cell phone thing to call and that the phones were eventually able to get
service so that I could talk to you guys because I didn´t realize how much
talking to you would mean to me before. So yeah but the flight to Puebla
seriously flew by! (no pun intended but hey, you can have one anyway) :) I
honestly felt like we were only on the plane for thirty minutes and then all of
a sudden we´re flying over the city and it is super gorgeous and I am freaking
out just a little bit. But yeah, ah, crazy stuff! S the first night we stayed in
the mission home and met the APs and the mission President and his wife. I
really like them. Presidente Stellmon is a little bit more strict but he is
stil really nice and he is all about getting the work done and working hard and
forgetting ourselves and getting to work and al that so that is awesome. But
Hermana Stellmon is so cute! She is really bubbly and fun and I like her a lot.
The mission home is really pretty! Just so you know.
The second
day, or I guess technically the first ful day in Mexico, was crazy. I met my
companion at the changes meeting and then I aso found out my area and I had to
move all my suitcases into the back of a truck and a member drve us to our
area.
Our area is
super awesome! we are in Cholula and we live in San Gabriel. It is like a
pueblito or pueblo which is like a tiny town and the houses in this area are
all apparently pretty big but I wouldn´t really know since I have nothing to
compare it with except houses in america and that isn´t really a fair
comparison haha. But yeah some of the houses here are actually like, pretty big
and nice. and mostly everyone is a farmer and there are chickens and turkeys
and pigs and horses and all that. um, que mas...? Oh yeah. The food. Oh my
gosh. I eat so much food! They just feed us and feed us and feed us! And the
food is like super rico, or super delicious. They like always start us out with
a soup of some sort and then they give us the main meal with tortillas always
and then sometimes we even get dessert and we aways get fruit. I ate a mango
for the first time in my life and holy cow it is like the best thing ever! Me
gusto mucho! I aso ate a fruit called tuna which is apparently a fruta de
cactus. It is really yummy as well. We definitely need to come here and visit
when I am no longer a missionary. And it wil be better then anyway because then
I will actually be able to speak and understand haha.
Um, yeah so I
am running out of time....oh but speaking of which, I ost my watch....like, I
lost it somewhere between the MTC and the Airport...haha I know I know, how
dumb right? Well it´s ok because Hermana Kraczek and I just bought some watches
today! They are actualy pretty gigante but we think they are cute and so yeah,
we bought them. we both needed watches super bad. Um, ok going back to the
food. Y´all better still love me when I am fat because...yeah it´s going to
happen. But don´t worry, I will work really hard when I get home and then I can
be skinny and it won´t be as bad haha.
I have born
my testimony a lot here since that is basically all I can do, wel and I can
kind of pray but a lot of the time I say the same things...so I am working on
getting better with that so that my spanish prayers can be just as meaningful
as my english ones :)
One realy
spiritual moment for me here was when I was bearing my testimony at a member´s
house after la comida and I was bearing it about Joseph Smith and the Book of
Mormon. The Spirit just overcame me and I was all choked up (but I didn´t quite
cry) and I just knew without a doubt that the Book of Mormon is true and that
Jospeh smith was and still is a true prophet of God. The Spirit was really
strong in that moment and I am so thakful to Heavenly Father for giving me that
experience to make me stronger and to increase my faith and strengthen my roots
of testimony.
I am really
sorry for all the typos because this keyboard is a little weird and I don´t
have a lot of time so I am rushing but I need to go now. I love you all so much
and I just want you to know that I know this Gospel is true and that I love
being a missionary and I am really grateful for this opportunity and to be
here. This work is truly amazing and although it is really hard and I am slowly
becoming less attractive physically, I know that the Lord will help me make up
for that spiritually and that I will be able to come closer to Him through this
amazing opportunity to bring his children unto the Savior Jesus Christ. I will
talk to you more next week! I love you a lot!
Love always,
Hermana Walker
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