Park Buddies (03/14/2022)

This week has been a bit crazy! We had our hermana leader come and help us out, and now we are doing so many things differently! Very nice, but nuts! We have been teaching some people in English still because that's all they know, but it's a vibe. We taught one of our boys at a park and we had a plan, but then we didn't do any of it haha.

But when we were at the park, there was a guy sitting down and my comp went and talked with him. It was odd because we had someone else with us, but it worked out fine. After we sat down, the guy came up to us and said that he had prayed to God to give him confidence to go to his little training camp and we talked to him! And then he said that because of us he had the confidence to go! MY HEART! It was so crazy. Listen to that little voice when it whispers to you, friends! 

We also got cake for my two months as a missionary, and I was so happy. All I want to eat is cake and cream haha. We have no cream here. It's sad. 

Love you all! 

Hermana Bicho

I Got About 2/4 of These (03/07/2022)

Our lessons this week have been a bit nuts. One of our lessons was in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole. I have English down, some Spanish, some French, and one word in Creole, so like added together 2? Or not enough haha. 

I forgot I didn't say anything about my new companion last week! Oops. She is also an American, and she's from Washington state. It's nice that we both aren't from Utah.

I literally can't remember what we did this week lol. It has rained a ton these past two days. I have been informed that this is the dry season, and it will only get hotter and more humid and rainy. Esta bien!

I had a lady come up to us this week and tell me that you can tell I'm beautiful because of my bug bites. My bites have been the size of quarters and fiery red, and then they turn a purple/black. Not pretty. She told me that you could tell though. Then she asked why I didn't put on bug spray haha. I do. Oh well.

Here are some fun pictures too!

They needed "house" shoes.

Remember When... (02/28/2022)

...I said that I wouldn't worry about the housing because they give the sisters the nicer houses? Well, here they don't do that lol. Our shower has lots of options! Cold, still cold, left cold, right cold, and more pressure cold! We are in the process of looking for a new house haha. 

We have taught a lot this week. I've jumped in head first, and I have no idea what's happening! On my first day of the MTC, people told me I'm not learning Spanish but Dominican. I thought it was a joke. It is not a joke. 

Because I am new, I have no idea what the rules are like here, but my first night here we were in an area and my comp said that we weren't supposed to be in this area at night. This has happened at least three more times. We also go places to talk with people, and in these areas she says that we aren't supposed to be here either because it's dangerous. So all is good. Nothing has happened yet! God looks out for us lol!!

Also, at the rate kids are telling me I look Japanese, I'm probably just going to be known as the Japanese sister. Why do they think I am Japanese? I have no idea. But it does keep happening. 

Remember that God loves you and to pray to him! And whenever you take a hot shower, remember that's a bendición!

Lots of love,

Hermana Locey

On Sunday, February 20, Bug, her companion, and a lone elder left the CCM around 7:30 pm to go to the airport for their 1 AM flight from Mexico City to Miami. They had a 7-hour layover in Miami before flying to Santiago, arriving late afternooon on the 21st. She said it's green and pretty there. She's serving in the Arroyo Hondo area of Santiago, and she says she's grateful it doesn't stink like big cities often do.

Last week at CCM (02/17/2022)

This week has been crazy! We are all super excited to leave but don't want to leave haha. We all love our district and our teachers, so we don't want to go. 

Esta Bien Mis Amigos (02/10/2022)

Hola todos!!

I am trying to redeem myself this week for my one paragraph email last week lol. So much has happened, and I can't remember any of it haha. The title for this week is because our workshop teacher always says this to us. We love that dude. His name is Hermano Alarcon. 

We had a devotional about the women and sister missionaries in the church and it was great! It's also our one month in the mission today! It's so crazy! I can hardly believe it. We still have so many classes, but we are making good progress on our Spanish. (At least I hope so.) I spend most of class just nodding my head with no idea with what's going on. 

At church on Sunday, Elder Fajardo was so tired, so when we went to do our district meeting he just laid on the floor and took a nap. He looks dead. (Picture to the right.) On Saturday our teacher got us bread from outside, and there's a picture of that on here too! (Picture below.) We also have our infamous elder at the CCM who never wears a mask and our teacher has started taking pictures of him, so we sometimes do too. We keep making memes, but we have to draw them, and we made one about him lol. It's illegal here not to wear a mask. He's in the background of the other two hermanas pictures. (Picture at the bottom.)

Yesterday we also had two of the elders do an interpretive dance and they said not to film it to the teachers, but didn't tell us because we don't have phones, so I used my camera to film it. I think all that we do here is laugh sometimes. We had to give a fake lesson, and the elders were our teachers' fake children but they were all girls under the age of 12 so that was interesting for our lesson.

We have been having so much fun here, but we also have been having a great time with all the church stuff too. The CCM is so much fun, and I am so happy that I have been able to come here. We are also late to everything because our elders just talk to everyone. We have been late to dinners and classes so much.

I hope all is well!

¡Hermana Bicho!

mask rebel

CCM (02/03/2022)

first time together in person

These two weeks have been crazy! We have been learning so much! At least I think so. We have been able to spend a lot of time together as a district, and it's like a party every day! We have been staying up too late talking with the hermanas in my district. 

finally meeting!

I am very thankful that my comp and district have really good Spanish because that means I learn a lot. I don't like it all the time though. My teachers have been so fun, and we have been having so much fun together. 

There are so many birds here and they make loud skreacky noises and I think they are so funny. There are also so many mosquitos here, and we just kill them all the time. My district talks about how we can baptize them by killing them. 

They went to the temple on pday.

birds

HMTC & Departure (01/25/2022)

Hola all!

I have had 10 days of Spanish, and it’s been crazy! My morning class is all in Spanish, and I have been learning so much! It’s been super hard work, but it should all be worth it! I leave for the Mexico MTC on Tuesday morning, and I’m very excited! It will be fun to meet my companion and district for the first time!! We already get along pretty well! 

Bug and her 3 teachers

We are all learning and growing in our Spanish! My district is very good at Spanish, but I’m the worst in my district lol. I feel pretty good about it though because I didn’t take any Spanish before two weeks ago! I have a picture of me and three teachers in one breakout room on zoom! It’s pretty funny. We had two morning teachers, but one of them left this week. It was sad to see her go, but our other teacher is nice. Not much has happened these two weeks other than studying and sleeping! Hope all is well!

District and teachers

Awesome "family" picture of the district

On her way!