Dos Dias!

Phew!

My dear family, the time has come. I received my travel plans for Monday. Guadalajara, here I come!

So with my last week and all, I had a dream that Thomas S Monson was going to show up to our devotional this past Tuesday.. he didn't. But it was still incredible! Unfortunately I forgot my notebook again for today, and I'm up here on Main Campus so, not sure what to say about that.

Anyways this past Sunday was fast Sunday, and some of the Sisters here had said that they were fasting to speak Spanish the whole day... they did until after dinner. I was so impressed by this. So on Monday night I mentioned to Hermana Afu that I wanted to do the same thing on Tuesday. And the best part is WE DID IT! Except we stopped after dinner, just like the other Sisters did. I think we would have been able to go the whole rest of the day, but one of the Hermanas in our district went with the others sisters in our zone to choir that night so we were with her companion, and she struggles quite a bit with the language. We were pretty proud of ourselves. (not is a bad way)

I was glad to have had her with us because she opened up a bit more with me, and I was able to do the same. And being the DSTL I was pleased with this.

On Wednesday Hermana Afu asked Hermano Dolbin if he would talk to us about what he had learned about the atonement since we had overheard him talking about it the day before, un poco. He was a floater teacher before he finally got a district, meaning he just went to different classes to help and such. He seemed to come to ours most often. He took us aside after he was done teaching his district and asked us if we had any specific questions. One of the questions we had talked about as a district was how does Christ "succor" us? (Alma 7:11-12) We were invited to seek that out ourselves. So we talked to Hermano Dolbin about it.

He asked us all the right questions that led us to be guided by the Spirit, without him just telling us. (Make sense?) It was so great how much I learned from him in that moment. My personal study the next day was really cool too just thinking about what I had learned, and that night my mind was flooded with questions (well in contrast to the 0 questions I usually have! So like 3 haha) The Elders that he teaches thinks that he is going to be an apostle, and many have secret man crushes on him haha.

Thursday was our last day with our afternoon teacher. He almost cried :) He loves us! AWE! With everyone who helped us we picked up the "Living Christ" proclamation thing and all signed the back of it like a card then laminated them. For our 2 main teachers that teach us in the afternoon (Hermano Pence) and our evening teacher (Hermano Brown) we got them these things but also a Mexico shirt from the MTC where we all signed our names, missions, and dates of our mission, our district (123A) as well as their name on the side, and on the other side something funny like "cafe" meaning brown in Spanish so we often call him Hermano cafe. And for Hermano Pense we put "WOW" in big letters, then above "como" cause he always says "como wow" and it is so funny! (meaning like wow!) You all probably could have figured those out, but yah..

So I can half roll my tongue/R's now... I'm working on it. One of the floater teachers kind of taught me this week. I feel funny walking around trying to practice it, especially since I always say desorrollar (develop) when I try to do it. Meh I'm feeling optimistic about it though.

So on Monday sometime I think in the morning I may have the opportunity to give you a call at home!! Please be home so I don't miss you! I would love to talk a little bit. I tried to buy a phone card, but again my debit card wouldn't work, but my comp said I could probably use her phone card cause it has a bunch of minutes on it, however just to connect the call it used 130 minutes on the card, so please answer the first time!!

Tomorrow my district is singing the EFY medley at church tomorrow in our little branch. Lucky me, I get to play the piano for it! So that is exciting :)

Today, my comp and I are speaking all Spanish again today. :) It's a good time. We really think it helps! Today I'm even carrying my dictionary around with me so I can learn certain words that I've been trying to say. But I'm just about out of time here. But I had the opportunity to write down my testimony this week in class, and it was just a really great experience to have done that. I find that I have all my thoughts jumbled together all the time, so taking the time to actually write it down sometimes helps to organize my thoughts. I invite you all to write down your testimonies this week. I promise that as you do so, you will be able to feel the Spirit, as you do so sincerely, and that you will feel good about it too. I think it will be cool to look on my testimony after my mission and to see where I end up.

2Nephi 9:39 (last 5 words) "Spiritually Minded Is Life Eternal"=SMILE see it???? :)D

Con muco amor,
Su favorita misionera! <3<3<3<3 xoxoxoxo