OCTOBER 06, 2016 

I LOVE AMERICA, BUT MEXICO IS SWEET TOO!

Mom, Dad, Friends, Buds, 

This week was pretty awesome but ended not so awesome. The more that I’m here, the more I love it. I’m really starting to get a ¨flow¨ of everything. This sounds so cliché but ¨the days go by like weeks and the weeks go by like days. It’s crazy that there is now two knew ¨sets of missionaries (can’t wait for Tauna to get out here). First off, HAPPY BDAY MOM AND BRYCE. You guys are two of my very best friends (probably because sometimes you act exactly the same) and I love you so much!!! Keep being you!

This week was filled with General conference, hundreds of new vocab words, and lots of love for my companions and nuestro Padre Celestial. We taught two new investigators this week, Mitzy and Vanessa. and WOW, my spanish has improved so much! I felt the spirit SO strong when I was testifying in Spanish. Everyone says that your spanish is good enough if you can just feel the spirit. So I guess I’ve made it.... except I still can’t ask for directions soooo. I am learning so much and there is seriously no way that I could be learning this much without the help from a higher power. 

Wasn’t general conference so awesome??  Everyone here was SO excited for it and we basically got to watch it in a movie theater type of room. My favorite talk was Elder Yamashita´s and Elder Nelson´s. Elder Yamshita´s was directed to missionaries and I love the line he said to ¨Be ambitious for Christ. It’s so real. We need to not only be representatives of Christ but have JOY in this work and motivated, focused, and dedicated WITH JOYFULL HEARTS. Elder Nelson talked a lot about how much joy can be found in the Plan of Salvation. Everyone reading this just needs to go back and reread it because it was the best! I’m so thankful for the knowledge and testimony I have of the Plan of the Lord, The Plan of HAPPINESS. 

My district is so close and we just love each other so much. The Elders in my district just feel like Brothers and it’s the best! One of the elders, elder Geisler, wrote this huge thing in his journal about how everyone in our district is exactly like the office. It’s hilarious how true it is. Apparently I’m a mixture between Pam and Kelly. HAHAH and our Dwight is SO REAL. It’s hilarious!!! it’s the elder I wrote about in my last email who is the dating doctor. 

Gym time is the best time! Me and Hermana Wertz go for a run and then go to the Gym. It’s so fun! And pretty much every other day, we play ¨noncompetitive¨volleyball with another district in our Zone and they are so fun! We are having such a great time

Although, my companion really isn’t. On Tuesday night at 8:00pm we were sitting in a devotional and she just got up and walked out really fast holding her side. She had been feeling kind of sick all day but we didn’t really think anything of it and neither did the doctor. But we ran over to the doctor’s office in the CCM and got rushed off to the hospital. We went to the ER where NO ONE spoke English at all. A Doctor from the CCM got us all checked in and stayed for about an hour with us but when the ER doctor told us that we were going to need to stay the night because they think she might have appendicitis, he left us to go back home. I was the translator for the whole time and it was so stressful. I had them talk really slow and understood about 75% of what they said. I felt so responsible for my companion. We then continued to sit in the ER while they ran a whole bunch of tests and I had to sign a bunch of papers that I have no idea were (could have signed her life away). They gave me the hardest foldable chair to sit on and me and the wall next to me got pretty friendly as I used it as a pillow. Long story short, 5 hours later, we finally got up to our room where I slept on a hard bench. But its Bueno. They woke us up every hour to check her so I got about two hours of sleep. They brought another sister to switch me out in the morning but right when I got back to the CCM my district went to the temple so we just went nonstop all day. I was EXHAUSTED. 2 hours of sleep for 48 hours really gets to you.... but my district leader let us sleep in the morning. My companion is still in the hospital and no one really knows exactly what’s wrong so if you could keep her in your prayers that would be amazing! 

Anyways. THE CHURCH IS TRUE! SOOOO TRUE! these past few days were the most exhausting weeks of my life but all is well and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I LOVE YOU ALL. STAY TRUE.