all i can say is wow.
these past 5 days have been crazy! okay so Im in the area Juan de Salazar and its right outside of the city of Luque! its about an hour from the mission home and it takes about a half an hour bus ride to come into the city to where we can go to the grocery store and email!
okay let me just describe paraguay. super blue sky, super green trees everywhere, mango trees actually! and red dirt everywhere! its so red! and its soooo hot its 100 degrees all the time and you sweat and sweat some more! it never stops! haha
okay here is the sum up of my week so far...
we left the mission home on wednesday, me and my companion hermana tomco! we are like soul sisters haha we totally have the same style and listen to the same music and im so thankful to have her as my trainer! shes from springville and her dads from seatlle and her mom used to work at snowbird too! haha
anyways pablina, our landlord came and picked us up, shes baptist and has been housing the missionaries in our area for 14 years haha we live in this tiny white house and the elders live pretty close which is awesome and our ward building is about 5 minutes away! our area is huge though, it would take about 2 hours to walk to the other side of it. oh and like no one has cars here, you either walk or ride the bus which drives super fast! haha they start driving before your even on the bus!
our first night we went and met the ayala family! they had been meeting with the past hermanas and they got baptized on saturday! so we were super busy planning a bpatism for angèl norma and alejandro. they are the cutest family ever! i will send you pictures from the baptism!
the people in our ward are super nice! they have helped us so much in getting to know the area and the people in our ward and investigators. (oh yeah by the way, both me and my trainer and new to this area so we know nothing but have been getting help from elder hunsaker, because hes been here about 4 months now)
its been kind of overwhelming trying to keep up with the spanish but i know i just have to be patient with myself. they totally like mumble their words here and sometimes speak in guarani when they feel like it so its harder to understand. also the education is really poor and a lot of people dont know how to read and they also speak grammatically incorrect so im going to come back speaking a spanish that i dont know who would understand haha
the people here are so kind though, they just will be sitting in their front yards drinking matte and they let us come sit down and share a lesson with them, the problem though is that they are lazy and so its hard to get them to commit to something, especially a religion that requires putting forth some effort but they are so humble.
there houses have dirt floors and concrete walls and they dont have windows or doors. we clap outside the front gates, thats the way of like knocking at the door. and we have lunch with the members and they feed us a lot of meat and rice and pasta cooked in oil, its all super fatty and they want to feed us a lot because they feel like they will be blessed for serving the missionaries! also hermana lopez in our ward does our laundry, we pay her a little bit each time she does it so we could do it ourselves but she needs the extra money so she always wants to do it.
another highlight of the week was i got to speak in church on sunday haha i hope they understood me!
also i just need to describe how third world it is here.... we have to burn our trash out back behind our house, the plumbing system is so poor you cant flush toiletpaper down the toilets so you have to throw the toilet paper away but they dont have trashcans so they throw it in the corners of the bathroom stalls, air conditioning doesnt exist haha and you cant shower with the light on or else the shower knobs will electricute you haha
its so different but yet so the same! Last night everyone was out in their front yards eating dinner with their families and playing soccer together and it reminded me of home!
okay ill have more to tell you about next week! its kind of just been busy hectic crazy change in a good way! haha
i love you all and hope your doing good! until next week!
love
hermana meese
Monday, November 25, 2013
Thursday, November 14, 2013
My last Pday in Argentina!
oh my goodness time goes by so fast here in the mtc! Im leaving this tuesday or wednesay for Paraguay! its unreal to think its already been over a month since ive been gone! and I have to start off with some super exciting news! Elder Holland is coming to the CCM this weekend and we are going to get to meet him! on thursday we are going into buenos aires to a stake center where hes going to speak to all the missionaries in the buenos aires missions and including the ccm and so theres going to be like 900 missionaries there! crazy!
Okay so our last full week here has been super great! me and hermana minks started a soccer league with like all the latina sisters haha we play everyday and we get into it! im like dying by the time our games are over haha we started that on friday, and then saturday!
we went proselyting for the last time and it was probably our sketchiest area yet but it was funny because on the bus ride there. there was soooo much traffic and we were looking at the people in the cars and we saw girls with justin bieber shirts on and posters and their faces painted, it turns out that justin bieber was in concert that night in buenos aries! haha anyways everyone we talked to kept telling us to be careful because our eyes are blue and this one guy took our map and told us all the places not to go in that area which was super nice of him! but best part of the day was we went to buy alfajores, (they are like the best treat you can get here in argentina) and we go to this little shop and we wanted to give this shop keeper a book of mormon, he honestly looked like he should be a member, he was so sweet! but right as we were about to give it to him like 3 people came up and we stepped aside and as those people were buying their cigerattes his phone started ringing and hma, minks thought maybe he was too busy but i told her no! satan is trying to keep us from giving this to him! so we waited until everything cleared out and we told him we wanted him to have this book, we explained what it was to him and bore our testimonies about it and he was so thankful he said he was going to read it that night with his wife when he got home! it was awesome!!
so the ccm has been full of spiritual experiences, honestly its all about feeling the spirit all the time but we do have some fun on the side which makes things less stressful. okay our roommates are the best! last night they were singing shakira and teaching us zumba in our bedroom haha they are all super good dancers and they said that its super popular all over south america! right now we have roommates from chile, costa rica, honduras and columbia.
okay and from bad food experience was the other day we were having lunch and it was turkey and it was just like big pieces of meat and then hma. sanders was about halfway through hers when she realized something was in her meat. it was a brain and a spine, she had gotten like the head and back and it was so gross! we thought hma. sanders was going to die, she was like white and she hasnt eaten meat since.
also i have to tell you how much we love our teachers! they are absolutely amazing! they have taught us so much and we were talking with hermano abad the other day and he takes the bus an hour and a half to get to work so he rides the bus 3 hours everyday to come to work and teach us and im so thankful because i think hes the best teacher here! he said hes going to come to the temple session with us today because they just got the new temple movie yesterday here so everyone here finally gets to see if for the first time! woohoo!
okay so that wraps up my week! i think we get to email again on monday to let family know our travel plans! talk to you guys again soon! the church is true! love you!!
Okay so our last full week here has been super great! me and hermana minks started a soccer league with like all the latina sisters haha we play everyday and we get into it! im like dying by the time our games are over haha we started that on friday, and then saturday!
we went proselyting for the last time and it was probably our sketchiest area yet but it was funny because on the bus ride there. there was soooo much traffic and we were looking at the people in the cars and we saw girls with justin bieber shirts on and posters and their faces painted, it turns out that justin bieber was in concert that night in buenos aries! haha anyways everyone we talked to kept telling us to be careful because our eyes are blue and this one guy took our map and told us all the places not to go in that area which was super nice of him! but best part of the day was we went to buy alfajores, (they are like the best treat you can get here in argentina) and we go to this little shop and we wanted to give this shop keeper a book of mormon, he honestly looked like he should be a member, he was so sweet! but right as we were about to give it to him like 3 people came up and we stepped aside and as those people were buying their cigerattes his phone started ringing and hma, minks thought maybe he was too busy but i told her no! satan is trying to keep us from giving this to him! so we waited until everything cleared out and we told him we wanted him to have this book, we explained what it was to him and bore our testimonies about it and he was so thankful he said he was going to read it that night with his wife when he got home! it was awesome!!
so the ccm has been full of spiritual experiences, honestly its all about feeling the spirit all the time but we do have some fun on the side which makes things less stressful. okay our roommates are the best! last night they were singing shakira and teaching us zumba in our bedroom haha they are all super good dancers and they said that its super popular all over south america! right now we have roommates from chile, costa rica, honduras and columbia.
okay and from bad food experience was the other day we were having lunch and it was turkey and it was just like big pieces of meat and then hma. sanders was about halfway through hers when she realized something was in her meat. it was a brain and a spine, she had gotten like the head and back and it was so gross! we thought hma. sanders was going to die, she was like white and she hasnt eaten meat since.
also i have to tell you how much we love our teachers! they are absolutely amazing! they have taught us so much and we were talking with hermano abad the other day and he takes the bus an hour and a half to get to work so he rides the bus 3 hours everyday to come to work and teach us and im so thankful because i think hes the best teacher here! he said hes going to come to the temple session with us today because they just got the new temple movie yesterday here so everyone here finally gets to see if for the first time! woohoo!
okay so that wraps up my week! i think we get to email again on monday to let family know our travel plans! talk to you guys again soon! the church is true! love you!!
Thursday, November 7, 2013
It's already been a month!!!
Hi family!
I saw a letter from you on the stack of mail this morning and we get to open them at lunch! ahhh Im so excited!!!!
okay i´ll start off with last thursday and tell you everything thats happened this week! so last p day night all the elders got in huge trouble because they had a pillow fight haha the president told them how its time for them to grow up because their missiionareis now but sometimes they really still act like their 18 year old selves haha
and then friday was complete downpour all day! the rain just dumped and didnt stop so during activity time we went and played soccer in the rain and just got absolutely soaked! haha and then we went and did service at the hostile! they had us go over and fold all the towels and sheets in the laundry and the guy in charge didnt speak any english but he said my folding was very good and he wanted me to teach the elders how to fold and put me incharge of making sure everyone did it right haha all i was thinking was, mom would be so proud of me right now!
then saturady we went proselyting! we got sent to a different area this time because of what happened with the elders in the last area and this new area was a lot nicer! it almost reminded me kind of corona del mar with the big trees and lots of small houses except it was still a little dirtier than that haha the highlights of the day were that me and hermana minks met a securtiy guard named jesus that knew a ton about the church already and we gave him the address of the church in the area so he can go to sacrament meeting on sunday! we also taught the restoration to a boy that was probably about 15 years old and he stood at his door and listened to the whole lesson and laughed at our spanish and then after our whole lesson, he was like, so where are you guys from? i think he just wanted to talk to us because we're girls from the states haha oh well!
so then things got exciting again on monday, they are remodeling the ccm right now and so they had us move bedrooms so they could redo ours and so we moved down the hall, and then that night when i was in the shower, water starting coming up out of the drain thats in the middle of the bathroom floor soooo fast! by the time i got the water turned off there was like an inch of water acorss the whole floor of our bedroom! so we spent a good portion of the night squeegeeing up water, and then all our latina friends and the other north american groups were all leaving at 4 in the morning the next day for their missions so we got like 4 hours of sleep! and then the next day before class they had us move rooms again, they put all 6 of us american sisters left at the ccm in one room for now while they remodeled the past two days and now we get to move again today! haha good times!
so yesterday there were only 16 of us missionaries total at the ccm until everyone else arrives today! yay!
so that pretty sums up my week and we have like a week and a half more until we will be heading to paraguay! ahhh!! im so excited! love you all! keep smiling! be happy!
I saw a letter from you on the stack of mail this morning and we get to open them at lunch! ahhh Im so excited!!!!
okay i´ll start off with last thursday and tell you everything thats happened this week! so last p day night all the elders got in huge trouble because they had a pillow fight haha the president told them how its time for them to grow up because their missiionareis now but sometimes they really still act like their 18 year old selves haha
and then friday was complete downpour all day! the rain just dumped and didnt stop so during activity time we went and played soccer in the rain and just got absolutely soaked! haha and then we went and did service at the hostile! they had us go over and fold all the towels and sheets in the laundry and the guy in charge didnt speak any english but he said my folding was very good and he wanted me to teach the elders how to fold and put me incharge of making sure everyone did it right haha all i was thinking was, mom would be so proud of me right now!
then saturady we went proselyting! we got sent to a different area this time because of what happened with the elders in the last area and this new area was a lot nicer! it almost reminded me kind of corona del mar with the big trees and lots of small houses except it was still a little dirtier than that haha the highlights of the day were that me and hermana minks met a securtiy guard named jesus that knew a ton about the church already and we gave him the address of the church in the area so he can go to sacrament meeting on sunday! we also taught the restoration to a boy that was probably about 15 years old and he stood at his door and listened to the whole lesson and laughed at our spanish and then after our whole lesson, he was like, so where are you guys from? i think he just wanted to talk to us because we're girls from the states haha oh well!
so then things got exciting again on monday, they are remodeling the ccm right now and so they had us move bedrooms so they could redo ours and so we moved down the hall, and then that night when i was in the shower, water starting coming up out of the drain thats in the middle of the bathroom floor soooo fast! by the time i got the water turned off there was like an inch of water acorss the whole floor of our bedroom! so we spent a good portion of the night squeegeeing up water, and then all our latina friends and the other north american groups were all leaving at 4 in the morning the next day for their missions so we got like 4 hours of sleep! and then the next day before class they had us move rooms again, they put all 6 of us american sisters left at the ccm in one room for now while they remodeled the past two days and now we get to move again today! haha good times!
so yesterday there were only 16 of us missionaries total at the ccm until everyone else arrives today! yay!
so that pretty sums up my week and we have like a week and a half more until we will be heading to paraguay! ahhh!! im so excited! love you all! keep smiling! be happy!
Our North American groups that left
My dance buddy Hermana Olsen that left on Monday!
My roommate Hermana Lanuza from Guatemala
Week 3!!!!
Hola Family!
k crazy week! I have to first start out by telling you about proselyting! holy cow the mtc is a bubble compared to the city! on saturday they took us all out on buses and gave us a map and dropped us off on the side of the road to be picked up in 5 hours where they had dropped us off, and buenos aires is like nothing ive ever seen! it is so dirty, and there are sooo many dogs everywhere! it doesnt smell too good because they dont have anywhere to put trash so they burn it in the street and theres apartment buildings everywhere and they look like there are half built but people live in every single one of them! k it is the most intimidating thing ive ever experienced to walk up to a complete stranger and just try and get them to talk to you, being a missionary, you say hi! people see your tags and they look the other way and pretend your not even there! but dont worry we found a couple people that wanted to talk to us and it was a miracle! first we talked to this grandma and she didnt have any teeth, at all! haha but we gave her a pamphlet about the gospel of jesus christ and asked if we could meet with her again and she gave us her number and her sisters number who lives in paraguay! haha she just kept talking and telling us all about her family! then it was a miracle! i was so nervous, and it had been awhile since anyone had talked to us and i just said a prayer in my head that we would find someone who would want to talk to us and before i even finished my prayer we came around the corner and there was a lady hanging up her laudnry that was probably in her 20s and we stopped and talked to her, her name is carolina and she had never heard of the church before but she was so excited to hear about it! she wanted us to come back again but she doesnt have a phone so we told her we would try and come visit again next saturday! and to some it up we gave away 2 book of mormons, got 3 referals and about 15 contacts where we gave them pamphlets about the gospel!
oh my goodness i wish i could have taken pictures for you! there are honestly horsecarts in the street and on the freeway too! there are people playing soccer in the streets everywhere and its not like anything ive ever seen before. we arent aloud to take cameras proselyting though and we totally learned our lesson about being obedient too because some other elders went out of their zone to eat lunch at a park and one was taking pictures and some guys came up and took all their watches and wallets, but all together they only had about 8 pesos, but there are rules for a reason! its crazy! they were pretty shaken up after that happened. but dont worry im safe!
okay other amazing story is! last p day we were coming out of the temple and our mission presidents were there!!!! they had a 2 hour layover here on their way back to paraguay and so they decided to stop at the temple! so they told us all about what we´re going to be doing once we get there and about the mission! we have such a young mission! over half of the missionaries have only been out 4 months! and its sounds like we´ll most liekly have latino comps because they beg to have a norte americano comp to learn english! and thats okay! that means we learn spanish from them!
okay some little sidenotes are that a sister came up to me thats from peru and she told me that Meese means Cat in kechua, you know the language of the incan people? how cool is that! now they call me hermana gatito (little cat) haha
we had a super good lesson from president eckels on sunday and he told us that how well we work and serve on our mission is going to be a direct reflection of how successful the rest of our life will be, dont worry im working really hard! i also had to speak in sacrament on sunday and gave a talk in spanish and our district had the musical number so i got to sing too. haha fun day!
also the other day during our physical activity, hermana olsen, shes from st. george! we were talking about thriller, happy halloween by the way! anyways we both have danced our whole lives and so during activity we went and danced in the middle of the grass field on the west side of the temple haha we legit were dancing full out and she was teaching me some of her choreography and its been so long since i danced and it felt so good!
oh and we got new roommates! from guatemala, spain, peru, and argentina, they are all so sweet! we get to take pictures on sunday so i´ll send some more next week! the one from guatemala is like a total hipster and our one from spain is obessesed with star wars! haha she has a yoda stuffed doll on her bed!
okay love you guys! i read all your emails but sorry if i havent replied back! its hard to fit it all into 1 hour but i get to print them off so i have time to read them!
talk to you next week!
love hermana meese
k crazy week! I have to first start out by telling you about proselyting! holy cow the mtc is a bubble compared to the city! on saturday they took us all out on buses and gave us a map and dropped us off on the side of the road to be picked up in 5 hours where they had dropped us off, and buenos aires is like nothing ive ever seen! it is so dirty, and there are sooo many dogs everywhere! it doesnt smell too good because they dont have anywhere to put trash so they burn it in the street and theres apartment buildings everywhere and they look like there are half built but people live in every single one of them! k it is the most intimidating thing ive ever experienced to walk up to a complete stranger and just try and get them to talk to you, being a missionary, you say hi! people see your tags and they look the other way and pretend your not even there! but dont worry we found a couple people that wanted to talk to us and it was a miracle! first we talked to this grandma and she didnt have any teeth, at all! haha but we gave her a pamphlet about the gospel of jesus christ and asked if we could meet with her again and she gave us her number and her sisters number who lives in paraguay! haha she just kept talking and telling us all about her family! then it was a miracle! i was so nervous, and it had been awhile since anyone had talked to us and i just said a prayer in my head that we would find someone who would want to talk to us and before i even finished my prayer we came around the corner and there was a lady hanging up her laudnry that was probably in her 20s and we stopped and talked to her, her name is carolina and she had never heard of the church before but she was so excited to hear about it! she wanted us to come back again but she doesnt have a phone so we told her we would try and come visit again next saturday! and to some it up we gave away 2 book of mormons, got 3 referals and about 15 contacts where we gave them pamphlets about the gospel!
oh my goodness i wish i could have taken pictures for you! there are honestly horsecarts in the street and on the freeway too! there are people playing soccer in the streets everywhere and its not like anything ive ever seen before. we arent aloud to take cameras proselyting though and we totally learned our lesson about being obedient too because some other elders went out of their zone to eat lunch at a park and one was taking pictures and some guys came up and took all their watches and wallets, but all together they only had about 8 pesos, but there are rules for a reason! its crazy! they were pretty shaken up after that happened. but dont worry im safe!
okay other amazing story is! last p day we were coming out of the temple and our mission presidents were there!!!! they had a 2 hour layover here on their way back to paraguay and so they decided to stop at the temple! so they told us all about what we´re going to be doing once we get there and about the mission! we have such a young mission! over half of the missionaries have only been out 4 months! and its sounds like we´ll most liekly have latino comps because they beg to have a norte americano comp to learn english! and thats okay! that means we learn spanish from them!
okay some little sidenotes are that a sister came up to me thats from peru and she told me that Meese means Cat in kechua, you know the language of the incan people? how cool is that! now they call me hermana gatito (little cat) haha
we had a super good lesson from president eckels on sunday and he told us that how well we work and serve on our mission is going to be a direct reflection of how successful the rest of our life will be, dont worry im working really hard! i also had to speak in sacrament on sunday and gave a talk in spanish and our district had the musical number so i got to sing too. haha fun day!
also the other day during our physical activity, hermana olsen, shes from st. george! we were talking about thriller, happy halloween by the way! anyways we both have danced our whole lives and so during activity we went and danced in the middle of the grass field on the west side of the temple haha we legit were dancing full out and she was teaching me some of her choreography and its been so long since i danced and it felt so good!
oh and we got new roommates! from guatemala, spain, peru, and argentina, they are all so sweet! we get to take pictures on sunday so i´ll send some more next week! the one from guatemala is like a total hipster and our one from spain is obessesed with star wars! haha she has a yoda stuffed doll on her bed!
okay love you guys! i read all your emails but sorry if i havent replied back! its hard to fit it all into 1 hour but i get to print them off so i have time to read them!
talk to you next week!
love hermana meese
Futbol and the temple aka week 2!
hi family!!!
ahh it was such an amazing week but first i have to start out by apologizing to cade for not saying happy birthday to hiim in my last email! but the day of his birthday i played soccer with all the latinas and i thought he would be proud to know that i have some skills and i owe it all to him! also i was thinking about cade on sunday when he got the priesthood! im so proud! it was special too because our district leader gave us blessings and and it was only his second time but it so special to see all these elders here with the priesthood!
k so last sunday we watched a devotional from elder holland that was from like back in january and elder zwick was there with him! it was so fun to see a familiar face! the hermanas in my district make fun of me because they say i know everyone! haha its so spiritual here at the ccm its amazing! but we also have so much fun too!
at dinner all our latino friends try to convince us norte americanos that it horse meat or ostrich or somehting weird haha and then everyone calls the cook here papa noel because he wishes us merry christmas when he gives us our food! hes the cutest old little man! haha
also i have to give a shout out to halle because she secretly put her favorite stance socks in my bag before i left and i am so thankful for them because you cant walk around barefoot anywhere so when you want your shoes off in your room you have to where your socks and so i wear them like everyday! love you hal!
the other night was so cool with our roommates, hermana miranda from peru was teaching me how to speak kekchua, she said its the language of the incan people of peru! she was like, you know, macchu picchu? and i was like yeah! so now i know how to speak 3 languages kinda haha also that night the hermanas were straightening their hair and the plug on the wall just sparked super big and started smoking, they acted like it was no big deal and me and hermana minks were like, um fire? no bueno!
k so our teachers have been telling us about paraguay and im so happy because apparently the paraguayan people speak super slow compared to other countries, blessing! now we might be able to understand them! also our teacher hermano mirisinkov told us ostrichs run wild in paraguay apparently like its a normal thing! oh man. and also they said the people are so humble that almost everyone joins the church!
okay so sunday president eckels and his family came and spoke to us! he works for the fbi here and his whole family lives in buenos aires and its his calling to be in the mtc presidency. anyways he has three daughters and a boy, and they reminded me of the pixton kids! all super blonde with long hair and they all got up and shared their testimonies about how living in a different country can be hard but we can do it and heavenly father will help us, it was the sweetest thing! it made me cry!
okay now for the highlight of the week! we went to the temple on tuesday! me and hermana minks got to be our roommates escorts too because they were going through for the first time! it was so cool to do a session in spanish and our hermanas told us that they are both the first in their families even before their parents to go through the temple! they cant afford to go to the temple so this is a huge blessing for them! they didnt want to leave the celestial room, and we ended up being the last to leave! the temple is soooo beautiful!
also across from the temple is a hostile where families can come and stay when they travel here to go through the temple and be sealed to their families and now that the temples open its just bustling! there are so many people here! i just realized what a blessing the temple is, i was overwhelmed thinking how easy it is for us to go when these sisters of ours have been waiting their whole life! its humbling.
they all left today for their missions! we all were hugging and crying and now by the end of the day we´re going to have 4 new latina roommates! 3 showed up about midnight last night, they are all from guatemala!
im nervous for this week because on saturday they are taking us out in the city to go proselyting! ahhh! we are finally putting what weve been learning to do to the test! really though, all we really need is to have the spirit with us because when we do, our spanish comes easy and we know what we are supposed to share with our investigators, its amazing.
alright sorry for how random this letter has been!
its so good to hear from all of you, i love you all so much! i hope everyone is doing well! i´ll talk to you next week!
love
hermana meese
ahh it was such an amazing week but first i have to start out by apologizing to cade for not saying happy birthday to hiim in my last email! but the day of his birthday i played soccer with all the latinas and i thought he would be proud to know that i have some skills and i owe it all to him! also i was thinking about cade on sunday when he got the priesthood! im so proud! it was special too because our district leader gave us blessings and and it was only his second time but it so special to see all these elders here with the priesthood!
k so last sunday we watched a devotional from elder holland that was from like back in january and elder zwick was there with him! it was so fun to see a familiar face! the hermanas in my district make fun of me because they say i know everyone! haha its so spiritual here at the ccm its amazing! but we also have so much fun too!
at dinner all our latino friends try to convince us norte americanos that it horse meat or ostrich or somehting weird haha and then everyone calls the cook here papa noel because he wishes us merry christmas when he gives us our food! hes the cutest old little man! haha
also i have to give a shout out to halle because she secretly put her favorite stance socks in my bag before i left and i am so thankful for them because you cant walk around barefoot anywhere so when you want your shoes off in your room you have to where your socks and so i wear them like everyday! love you hal!
the other night was so cool with our roommates, hermana miranda from peru was teaching me how to speak kekchua, she said its the language of the incan people of peru! she was like, you know, macchu picchu? and i was like yeah! so now i know how to speak 3 languages kinda haha also that night the hermanas were straightening their hair and the plug on the wall just sparked super big and started smoking, they acted like it was no big deal and me and hermana minks were like, um fire? no bueno!
k so our teachers have been telling us about paraguay and im so happy because apparently the paraguayan people speak super slow compared to other countries, blessing! now we might be able to understand them! also our teacher hermano mirisinkov told us ostrichs run wild in paraguay apparently like its a normal thing! oh man. and also they said the people are so humble that almost everyone joins the church!
okay so sunday president eckels and his family came and spoke to us! he works for the fbi here and his whole family lives in buenos aires and its his calling to be in the mtc presidency. anyways he has three daughters and a boy, and they reminded me of the pixton kids! all super blonde with long hair and they all got up and shared their testimonies about how living in a different country can be hard but we can do it and heavenly father will help us, it was the sweetest thing! it made me cry!
okay now for the highlight of the week! we went to the temple on tuesday! me and hermana minks got to be our roommates escorts too because they were going through for the first time! it was so cool to do a session in spanish and our hermanas told us that they are both the first in their families even before their parents to go through the temple! they cant afford to go to the temple so this is a huge blessing for them! they didnt want to leave the celestial room, and we ended up being the last to leave! the temple is soooo beautiful!
also across from the temple is a hostile where families can come and stay when they travel here to go through the temple and be sealed to their families and now that the temples open its just bustling! there are so many people here! i just realized what a blessing the temple is, i was overwhelmed thinking how easy it is for us to go when these sisters of ours have been waiting their whole life! its humbling.
they all left today for their missions! we all were hugging and crying and now by the end of the day we´re going to have 4 new latina roommates! 3 showed up about midnight last night, they are all from guatemala!
im nervous for this week because on saturday they are taking us out in the city to go proselyting! ahhh! we are finally putting what weve been learning to do to the test! really though, all we really need is to have the spirit with us because when we do, our spanish comes easy and we know what we are supposed to share with our investigators, its amazing.
alright sorry for how random this letter has been!
its so good to hear from all of you, i love you all so much! i hope everyone is doing well! i´ll talk to you next week!
love
hermana meese
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