June 7, 2010

My Dearest Family,

Hi! How are you all doing? Well, I have had a hard couple of days. The weirdest thing happened! I GOT TRANSFERRED! Can you believe it? I have only been here for 3 weeks....so I am packing up today and trying to get all of the bed bugs outta my stuff.....we keep finding them everywhere. It is so crazy! SUPER STRESSFUL! I am going back to TAMPA!!!!!! I will be companions with Hermana Murray again, and it will only be the 2 of us. I am excited to go back and I am excited to serve with Hma. Murray again, but it is hard because I just got here and I thought that I would be here for awhile and I have really invested myself with the people and I love all of them more already than I ever did with the people in Tampa.... and I have been learning so much spanish from my comp..... so I am pretty sad. But the Lord has a plan for me I am sure of it.

So today we have been running all over trying to wash our stuff and clean the apartment so that I can move to Tampa and not take the bugs with me! PLEASE pray that I will not take the bugs with me! That would suck so bad! I spent like 20 buck today at a laundromat washing EVERYTHING that I have trying to prepare to go to Tampa.... and I am still not even close to being all ready. I spray stuff, stick it in the suitcase and then run it out to the car. It is crazy. I kinda hate it and I am really stressing out.

I have really loved Bradenton and I really hope that I get to serve here again! Hopefully when all the bugs are gone though. I REALLY love the people! And the way that Hermana Ellsworth is with the people has been really cool to watch.... I really hope that I can adapt some of the things that she does in the way that I do missionary work in the future. We have visited people in the hospital A LOT. We take a personal interest in the lives of the members and then we get several member present lessons because she is like best friends with all of the members and the recent converts. She has been here for 8 months though...and she is still staying...I hope that I can be in an area that long sometime so that I can finally feel like I am getting to work.

Last night was cool! Tell Michael that we went over to these really cool Argentininan's house and I got to drink Matte. I really loved it! I love the way that they speak! There were like 20 of them there last night and they are so awesome! I love their accent and they are really fun people! I love getting to see all of these different cultures.

I love you all so much! Thank you for being my family!

Love, Jenna