Te Amen

Hello my wonder-bar family!

First I want to thank you all so much for all the support I've received from you all! I got Dear Elder Letters from all my siblings and parents, and it is the best part of my day to hear from everyone :)

This week has been crazy awesome. Everything went well in Vegas on Tuesday, the Lord was on my side down there ;) and by that I mean I got a Mexican visa... I deffs wasn't gambling. (Just wanted to clarify.) 

So my companion and I are BFF's. Haha, like we are so freaking funny together, and get along great! We are able to laugh at each other.. I mean with.. and it's great. I love her. We pray every night together and pray before each meal together, we were literally meant to be each others companions. I try to pray each day that I will be a good influence and positive example to those around me, and she makes me feel like my prayers are answered. She is always uplifting me telling me the most dear things about me all the time. Things from helping her understand Spanish (even though I feel like I'm not much of a help) to making her cry because she feels my love and understand. I can't express enough how great she is. I just want to keep talking about her. She is so funny. I always walk fast, and do everything fast, like showering, getting reading, more walking... anyways she says it's a good quality (as time is limited) and that it is helping her to move quicker. :) And to answer mom's questions Hermana Afu is serving in Guadalajara too, but that doesn't always happen that your comp. in the MTC will serve in the same mission, but it seems to happen more often then not, or at least the same country.

So this week we taught our actor investigator Rogelio. We have the funniest times with him because I suck a talking.. but it is okay, cause the Spirit is there! I said "ridiculous" instead of "verse" in Spanish. *rediculo*- *verticulo* Then another time I think I was asking him about praying and tacked on "eh" so I said "oraeh" instead of "ora". Anyways like die hard laughing cause with the "eh" instance he totally noticed, pointed it out, then mentioned how I was such a Canadian. My companion and I were able to get Rogelio to commit to baptism, then the next day we got him to commit to getting married before he got baptized. We were the only ones in our district that got him to commit to it! Made us feel like we were doing a good job. *side note: This means I know how to say "Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone who holds the priesthood authority from God" in Spanish!!!! SCORE!

I get about 7.5-8 hrs of sleep here at the MTC. This week I have been feeling better energy wise. Last week was a gong show since the week before I have little sleep.

One of our teachers was telling me how he read the Spanish BOM in 3 months on his mission. Not mind you he had taken 6 years of Spanish before hand. He said that Pres Hinckley once said to the missionaries?? not sure where, but he definitely said that if you read the BOM in you mission language that by the time you are done reading it, he promises that we will be fluent in the Spanish Language. Reminds me of that movie the other side of heaven. Boy do I just want to take a week off of classes and just study the BOM in Spanish. It would make learning much easier. But it's okay, I've already noticed that the Lord has blessed me with the gift of tongues and that my Spanish (slowly) is coming along.

Some of the things that I learnt this week is that asking questions doesn't mean that you are doubting, in fact we are encouraged to ask questions, as it is one of the ways we allow the Holy Ghost to teach us, and then from that our testimonies are strengthened. I thought that was cool. My only trouble with that is that I don't know what I don't know exactly, so I have a hard time finding questions to ask.

Things that I miss: raw unsalted mixed nuts from costco, and air frenshener cause the Elders stink up the bathroom in our classroom (one of the Raintree apts) and in turn stinks up the classroom! GROSS! Anywho, don't forget that I will be calling tomorrow afternoon at 1:45pm and I only have 30 mins.

Con mas amor,

your favorite missionary <3<3<3<3 xoxoxoxoxoxox

Again... not reading this over, probably never will read over my messages :D