August 16, 2010

HOLY BANANAS!!!!!! I am so excited about Danny's mission call!!!!! That is so super incredible! I cannot believe that he is going to such a dangerous mission!!!!!! I work with tons of Mexicans here, and yesterday at church I was telling them (and everyone else) that my brother just got his call to Tijuana, and they would say, Oh my wow! That is so dangerous! But the Lord really will protect him, and I am so excited that he is learning SPANISH!!!!!!! I am really going to have to get my spanish better and better because both my cute brothers are going to have better spanish than me!!! JK....my spanish is getting better and better every day....but full immersion in a language does help. :) I am sending a couple things home to Danny this week from my Mexican friends here...and I burned him a CD today with my favorite spanish church songs on it :) Danny you are really gonna love spanish! Spanish gives my heart wings! It is so beautiful and when I speak in it, and when I hear it (especially Columbians accents are my favorite) it just mesmorizes me. The bottom line is that I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!

Cierra is getting baptized next Sunday which will make my birthday week extra sweet! She is awesome! Also we set 2 more baptismal dates with Carmen and Jesus, ( they are the cutest couple in the whole world and they are from Venezuela... and I love their accent too) so that rocks it! Also, Daniel Santos (WHOM I ADORE!) is being tricky....he is not wanting to get baptized, and that peeves me a lot. I told him that my birthday was this week, and it was funny because he thought that I was only 22... and we found out that he is turning 26 in oct. so I am actually 2 months older than him. He thought that was funny.....I thought that it was kinda annoying...haha! He told me (Spanish people are VERY BLUNT) the only problem with the fact that we are both turning 26 is that we are both old and not married. He then told me that I need to be sure to be married before I am 30 because white people don't age very well.... and I still look rockin now, but after 30 I will have a very tough time getting someone to marry me. I assured him that I would do my best to be married by then, and thanked him for his concern. Then he told me that he was going to have us over to his apt. on my birthday night and he would order pizza for us or something...because he said that he will never cook :)

We only have 2 weeks left of this transfer, and then I will either be training or be senior comp.....that makes me nervous...and I hope that I am ready. I will be one of the olders after this transfer becasue we have 4 spanish sisters going home this transfer, and 1 the next, and 2 the next....and then I will be the OLDEST! Crazy huh?!?!?!? The turn over rate on these missions is crazy fast. And in about a month my mission will be half way over.

Well, I am so excited fro my Birthday presents, and I am so glad that you all love me so much! I really appreciate you all.

Thank you for being my family! You are the best!

Love Forever, Jenna