You will be happy to hear that I am actually doing really well! :) You were right about everything....the field is about 4 trillion times better than the MTC. I love my 2 companions! I have been learning so much from them....
I adore my companions!!!! Hermana Murray is from Seattle. She is great! She is an architecture major and goes to a university in Oregon. She has been in the field for a year now. She is nice and helps me a lot! She is a very hard worker and a great missionary. Hermana Kortsen is my other companion and she is really pretty and tall, thin, and athletic. She is from Hollister, California. She is like your typical Californian I think. she is super into healthy foods, loves to do all kinds of sports and outdoorsy things. She is really funny and really nice. I just love her! She has been out here for 9 months now. They are so nice. I think that the Lord relaly heard and answered my prayer to get a good first companion, and gave me 2! :) We all get along well, and last night we stayed up until like midnight just talking...and I really enjoyed it.
Saturday was my first baptism!!! It was really exciting! His name is Mario Escobar, and it was wonderful and amazing! The speaker did not show up so the bishop asked me to speak at the baptism!!! I did most of it in spanish and then Hermana Kortsen translated the last little bit for me in english, because I wanted to share a little about my baptismal day...and I did not know all the words :) Then on Sunday, all 3 of us and the 2 elders in our ward were asked to speak in sacrament!!!! I prepared a talk with help from Hermana Murray, and I just stood up there and I read the entire thing! it was really exciting to be honest. :)
I did have one troubled moment...yesterday after church we ate at a members house, and while we were there I started getting really down. Then, I prayed that it would go away....and soon after the sister who lived there Hermana Horn started telling us a really sad story about her daughter and I got really involved in helping her...so I forgot about feeling sad and I helped her the best I could. Afterwards I told my companions how I was feeling, and they comforted me and told me that it happens a lot, and I am not weird and it will get easier. Then Hermana Murray said that soon it will change from being sad cuz I feel like I am going to be out here forever, to feeling sad cuz I don't feel like I have enough time left. They are both so kind and helpful. We are all 3 pretty different. But we really work great together.
2 funny things happened that I can think of right now.....I wrote about them both in the letter too....the first was the first night I was here...and Hermana Murray asked me to bear my testimony about baptism. When we were in the lesson she looked at me and nodded so I knew that it was time, and I FROZE! All I could remember in spanish was, "Baptism is very important in my life..(pause)..yes." haha! it was really funny and awkward! The the other was last night..... I shook one of our new members hands after the activity and I meant to say "nos vemos" which mean "we'll see you" but what came out was "Me gusta" which means I like you. I didn't even notice that I had said the compleltey wrong thing.....so he kinda looked at me weird....and said "ah yes, Sister. gracias." hahaha! Then I tried to explain that it was not what I had intended to say...and he helped me find a new way to phrase it! haha! It was classic.
There are lots of funny things that happen out here. The spanish is hard, but seems to be coming along. It is really great.
All the mail gets sent to our mission office and then they forward it on to us...that way it always gets to us....even when we move around. so send it to that address. i think that it is that one that I gave you on Dale Mabry. :) The apt is so nice! complete with workout room and there is a washer and dryer in our apt! I love it! and we have our own car! it is funny cuz there has to be a "backer" so one of us has to stand behind the driver and make hand signals in order to guide her although she needs no help of course. haha! it funny to run over and do like a bigh "STOP" signal and kinda scare her... Hermana Kortsen does that sometimes. It is funny! It is especially fun when we are in a crowded parking lot and we look like big dorks! haha! My comps made me get out and do it when we were pulling out of a crowdded Mexican apt complex and all the little Mexicans looked at me really strangely! It was funny!
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