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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