Hello family and friends!!
Where to start
its been sooo crazy and amazing! After i left you all in Utah i ended up
with 6 elders and 4 hermanias I was so happy to have other people to
travel with so there was less chance of being lost! It wasnt til i got
off the plan in Guatemala that i was like oh ya I need to learn a new
laungage cuz the guys who came to pick us up only spoke spanish and
guess what all the other sisters knew lots of spanish! it is very
humbleing to not understand what people are saying around you! so first
day in the mtc or ccm thankfully they let us have naps the fist day but
it was still very overwellcoming the first day felt like it went on for
ever and right off the bat everyone is speaking spanish and we are
learning lots to take in. It was also weird to start going by hermana
and to get the name tag made it very officail i still cant belive i am
out here and its been a close to a week time goes by weird here the days
are weeks and the weeks are days. The sisters in my room have been here
for 2 weeks and they are the best and are very encouraging everyone. So
in my district i am the only hermana cuz with all the other new nortie
or north american elders because all the other sisters that came with me
all have spanish down. so i have two elders i teach with and all the
sisters are my conpainons like the sisters that room with me and the
other sisters 3 nortie sisters that are in my zone but sometimes its a
little lonly cuz the sisters in my room have different schedules then me
but its nice getting ready on my own with the whole room to my self. Oh
ya did i mention there is no extra time in the ccm its busy busy going
going to classes planing lessions teaching investagotors and of course
they have you starting off your very first day. It is somtimes
frustrating to be teaching and wanting to speak but not knowing how to
say it! its like mission prep doubled trying to learn how to teach while
learning how to teach, but it will come and i am slowly getting better
and remembering more and more words every day. Sunday here was soo
amazing it cuz most of it was in english you have no idea how good it
sounded and felt to get and give a lesson in english it was like this is
cake!! Our mission president is soo amazing he is soo encouraging happy
excited and very motivated about baptising first day he aske what is
your misson its a baptiesing misson. \him and his wife gave great
devotionals making you want to get out there and get working and makes
you feel like nothing can stop you and he always is talking about not
stressing he is amazing and his wife is also so encouraging first day
she came up conforing me that it was just my first day and the laungage
will come and that has been my encouragement that with time spanish will
come i will just work hard and be open to the spirit. The mtc is very
busy but it is also soo amazing to be in a place where you are praying
and singing and working to be missoinaries there are so many amazing
sisters and brothers here and i am soo thankful for some of these
latnenia sisters who know some english who teach me every meal new
words. I am so thankful for the lord and his comfort when every i am
feeling down or wondering what am i doing i remember my favorite
scripture dc 68 6 where for be of good chear and do not fear for i the
lord is with you and will stand by you, where for bear record of me that
i am the son of god that i am that i was and am yet to come. this is
not word for word but it is nice to know that i was called on this
mission that the lord wants me to learn spanish even if i have had no
backround on it that he knows i can handle being the only sisters with a
bunch of boys he knows i can and he will help me sooo i will! oh and im
starting to grow close to the elders in my group but it was funny the
first couple of days where we all where kinda acward cuz im a girl and
they have to be good but on sunday we had a meeting with just us no
teachers and it was nice to just talk and laugh not have to worry about
talking spanish!! I have two teachers who are both return missionares
and they are very helful and encourageing i cant wait til i know spanish
like that and can say what i wanna say! Today i got to go to the temple
which was soo amazing the temple is just two minutes away and it was so
nice to be out side! and get some sun. so the basic schedule of my day
is wake up at 6.30 study and get ready to go out and exercise and i get
to play sports with the other sisters then i have to get ready in 45 min
then breakfast then class and class and lunch basicaly all day busy but
it keeps you going and not thinking of home i love you all so much and i
am sending the pictures we took of all of us and pictures we took this
morning! im sorry for this kinda random letter its crazy having only a
little time and so much to say it kinda comes out random. I have so much
more respect for other missionaries who go to other places with crazy
laungages to learn spanish is kinda easy im having a hard time writing
some words cuz i have spanish vowels in my head. i do love it here at
this mtc i know i will learn alot and my spanish will get alot better
cuz it is all around me! I love you all and i will figure out how to
write actual letters and send them.
love \
Hermania BOully!!
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