Hola! How is everyone??
Things sound great in Texas! I've had such a great week this week! Every day
here is pretty similiar so the days start to blur together but I'll try to
remember as much as I can. So we had been teaching this investigator, Cleira,
for awhile and things were moving along great and we were going to commit her
to baptism soon, but then she told us she was moving and so we had to end it.
Even though it's just a teacher pretending to be an investigator, it
still feels so real and you really get attached to this person so it was
hard to end it. But we did a visualization in class the next day where we all
closed our eyes and our teacher asked us to imagine Cleira being baptized and
going into the water and coming out with a huge smile on her face and then
coming up to us and giving us the biggest hug and thank you. It was such an
incredible experience for me. It felt so real. I can't wait to have that
experience with someone. We have 3 more investigators now. We teach one every
morning and one every night and then we teach a couple on Mondays. It is
awesome. I love it. Even though our spanish isn't amazing yet, when we get into
that lesson, the Spirit is there and the words come to our mouths. I feel like
I'm really helping them.
So every Sunday we have
Sacrament meeting, district meeting, relief society, a doctrinal class from
President Freestone, a missionary MTC devotional, and we get to watch a church
movie. I love Sundays. On Tuesday we got to go to the store for the first time!
It was the first time we were allowed to leave the gates of the MTC/Temple so
that was really exciting! Things are definitely different here. The traffic is
really scary. They don't enforce any speed limits so people just go as fast as
they want, zipping around people. And there are a ton of people walking on the
streets. It's pretty cool. It was good to get out for a little bit. We tried to
find some American food at the store since all we eat is rice and meat, but
there wasn't much. Pretty much just like oreos, m&ms and doritos. I'm kinda
starting to miss eating a variety of food. But I got some notecards there cuz
we definitely need those a lot for practicing Spanish. I've had a chance to go
to the Temple twice now and it is so great! The first time I went last week
there were a lot of people that couldn't speak English in our session so
we all had to get headphones for translation. But today there were only a few
of us so we did it in English.
When we first got here
there were 78 missionaries, but 61 of them left on Tuesday so for 2 days there
were only 17 of us. It was very strange. We made some really good friends our
first 2 weeks so it was hard to see them go. But we just got 40 new
missionaries today! Only 2 of them were sisters. So we have a total of 5
sisters and like 52 elders. Haha. We're a little out numbered. It's good
though. Everyone seems to think that the elders and the sisters should have
equal opportunities to pray, bear testimony, speak, etc. even though there are
way more elders than sisters, so they call on us A LOT. haha. Luckily we
love to participate though. :) Tomorrow we're going out contacting at the University
here!! I'm pretty nervous, but excited too! Hopefully I can understand them.
Everyone here speaks SO fast and they drop all of their S's.
I got a DearElder from
Allie last week! That was so fun! I haven't gotten your package yet Mom. Like I
said, the mail doesn't come very often. It may take a few weeks to get to me.
Thanks in advance for it though! It's exciting to get mail! By the way, could
you give my email address out to people? I know what you're thinking, you don't
want to because I won't have time to write you, but I promise to write you
first before I write anyone else. We get an hour for emailing and it only takes
me about 30-40 minutes to write you. If I have to, I'll wait to write my
friends until I have a P-day with more time. But especially because we don't
get mail here, I won't be able to hear from anyone for awhile. Could you also
post it as a status on my Facebook though as well and say I'd love to hear from
everyone? Like I said though, you are my top priority and I will always write
you first. :)
Anyways, to answer some
of your questions: We actually don't even study Spanish that much during the
day. Maybe an hour at most. They just speak to us in only Spanish all day long
so we learn from what they say. And then we have to try to find time to study
it on our own as well. We mostly learn how to teach and practice a lot and
prepare for lessons with investigators. That is so cool that Scott is the 11
year old scout leader! haha. He will be great at that. And of course Maureah
got called as a pianist. :) That is one talent she will never escape sharing.
And counselor in the sunday school presidency sounds perfect for Ryan!
I'm glad Amy won SYTYCD.
She deserved it. The craziest thing is that I don't even miss tv or movies at
all. I bet you can't believe it. LOL. I'm glad Tanya's party went great! I wish
I could have been there! That is so awesome that she could have so much family
with her on that day.
So I realized that I
wrote down everyone's home addresses to write them, but I don't have anyone's
email address. Like everyone in the family other than Mom and Dad. Could you
send those to me? Actually I have Christina's because she wrote me, but I need
everyone else's. Thanks! I love you all so much! And miss you tons! Thank you
for all of your prayers! I can feel them from way over here. :) Love you!
Hermana Woolf
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