Elder Churata is from Peru, and he has 9 months in the mission...and i am learning a lot from him. in different ways. He is such a humble awesome guy, but sometimes struggles with the motivation and desire to do things...which has had the opposite effect on me, i have never wanted to walk as fast, to work as hard, to contact, to teach, to do all the things with more focus and determination than now...well not write now..im a little tired...its P day. haha but seriously this past week, i have felt better than ever. Yeah there are still tons of problems, i still struggle sometimes with spanish, still dont know everything, its hard because we dont have like any investigators right now, etc. But...i dont know. Heavenly Father has blessed me with a fire, a pasion, a desire that wasnt there before. I get up in the mornings and excercise my heart out, and study hard, and im trying to be more punctual to things and im not afraid to talk in the lessons, i am pretty much managing the area right now,...Im still not perfect...WAYYY far from it...but i have never felt the desire to try sooo strongly in my life, or in the mission.
My testimony of change has really grown this past week. Change is hard (well not always i guess, if all of the sudden i had a year supply of chocolate, that wouldnt be too hard of a change) but i have really seen that through change and challenges, trials, we can learn things that we could never learn without difficulties. I am so grateful for the hard things that i have been given, because i have felt myself change, i have felt the growth that comes with them, I hope i can make the most of every situation that i have and learn and grow from it.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Letter #18 November 25,2013
Well first off, ill explain the pictures, so that you can laugh a bit about them and then keep reading! And of course they both contain COMIDA! haha so the first with our little jar of peaches that a miembro gave us, was thursday, and we thought that Thanksgiving was always on the 3rd thursday of Noviembre, so that night at 10 oclock, we were like...wait...TODAY WAS THANKSGIVING! So we took a picture of our feast to send!...but appently, its this week?? haha I think its a good sign that im losing myself..hopefully in the work and not just my mind! haha And the other picture is of us, with eggs, and bacon, and toast, we splurged and made a SUPER yummylicious breakfast. haha
So probably the biggest change! We got a phonecall from our District Leader last night, and Elder Reiley is leaving to finish the instruction of a missionary that is REALLy struggleing with spanish and im staying here, and a peruvian missionary that knows no english is coming to be my senor companion.
We were so shocked, because we were thinking, oh maybe we are going to leave, but about a week ago, we both felt, no, we are really started to work well together and figure this out, and we are going to POUND it this next transfer...so of course we are changing..Its really sad, He is my first real companion, because Elder Neddo and i always knew exactly when we were going to switch, but we have learned a lot from each other, things that we want to keep doing, and things that we have learned from and that we should improve...
Letter # 17 November 18, 2013
Hola familia!! Como les ha ido???? Let me tell you, yesterday i was SOOO excited for it to be P day!!! It was kind of a longer week this past one...but thats okay!
Wow, now that i am actually here writing I have completely forgotten all the things i want to write! So I am doing well, adjusting to the food more, but a lot of times i just get super huge cravings for CHINESE FOOD!! haha i mean i love this food, but man i crave Panda sometimes. haha Actually we had some pretty dang good meals this past week (we ate at subway 2 because none of the RElief society ladies put there names down to feed us a couple days..odd. ;) but we ate BBQ ribs one day and it was SOOOOOO good!!!!! and then another day we had this creamy corny sopa that reminded me of all of your yummylicious soups mom! and this mushroom spicy chicken that was TAN DELICIOSO!!!
So this past week was good in a lot of ways. Elder Rieley and i have our ups and downs, like sometimes he doesnt have an opinion on things and it irks me, and sometimes i get impatient which im sure cuases him a bit of grief, but for the most time we really have a good time together, and we really did work hard this last week, but it was definetely a rough one.
OH! so i dont forget, we were on the micro (the green buses that we take EVERYWHERE! ill have to take a picture for all of you to see) but anyway, we were joking around because one of us had sneezed and we were experimenting with different words and structures in spanish, instead of just saying "salud" haha we said stuff like i hope that blessings pour on your head (because of the "bless you" in english" i cant remember all the funny things that we said but the best was that i said "Que bendiciones derramen en su ojo" (i hope that blessings pour in your eye" and we laughed...and then Elder Rieley got something in his eye and started itching it, haha it was SOOO ironic and hilarious. haha so thats the funny thing of this week!
haha Elder Rieley said, im just going to eat cereal and ill be good. I bought onions, tomatoes, lettuce, and avacados, made some ricisimo sandwiches, and of course he didnt just want cereal..haha :D
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