Hello Family!
Mom--thank you sooooooooooo much for the package! I got it and everything is perfection. I'm stoked to wear my BYU shirt to the P-day activity at the church (basketball and writing letters basically) and I even already wore one of my skirts!
This week has basically flown by like you would not believe! Because in my first few weeks we had a gazillion meetings, we didn't have District Meeting until this past week and I have come to the realization that my District is pretty dope. Pretty much everyone in our District has a Hispanic sounding name--Me, Hermana SANGRE, then our District Leader is Elder MADERA (wood), There's Elder Pandulce (Pandulce is like a mexican sweet bread dessert thingy, but his real name is Van Dusen), Elder Atake (Like, Attack? Except for he actually spells it Atak...) and of course hma Gomez is really hispanic. There's also an Elder whose last name is Brueggeman, but Hispanos don't know how to pronounce that so they just call him Elder B.
But I have a pretty fun story about our slightly awkward but super hilarious District Leader. So he I guess served in Fort Worth a few transfers ago, but then the Elders got white-washed (when 2 brand new missionaries come into an area) out by Sister Gomez (my companion!) and her trainer. So H. Gomez was in the apartment that once was inhabited by Elder Wood/Madera, and while she was looking through her desk one day, she found this giant picture of Elder Wood's face (I guess his brother got married so they printed out a picture of his face for the wedding and sent it to him on his mission or something like that). She of course had never met him before, so she just thought it was weird and ignored it. 2 transfers later, she found out she would train (that's me!) and so she goes to a new trainers meeting where Elder Wood is also at. She kept thinking to herself, "Man, that Elder looks really familiar. How do I know him??" Then she got back to her apartment and while packing she realized that he was familiar because she had found that picture of his face at the bottom of her desk drawer! So she brought it with her to Hurst, here, so that she could give it to him, and of course she told me and Hermana Hansen about it and we busted up laughing the first day. SO we had a Zone training meeting thing and she brought the picture, and just left it on her desk, waiting for Elder Madera/Wood to come and shake our hands. I don't think the color of red that his face turned is even on the rainbow....It was soooo funny! So now if we think someone looks familiar, we wonder if we secretly have a giant picture of their face in our apartment...
S is doing ok, we haven't had a chance to talk with her lately because she's been pretty busy, but I know she's ready for baptism. The problem is that Satan also knows that and is working pretty hard on her and her inactive husband, but we're being patient and doing all we can to be there for her. We're waiting for once her kids are in school so that we can drop by and see if we can have another lesson with her and her husband at the B's house. (BTW, The B family is the coolest family on the history of the planet and their testimony and faith is beyond incredible.) They were the family we visited on my first day, and when Hermano asked me how my spanish was, I said "I can learn better than I can speak" instead of "I can understand better than I can speak"....whoops! But they are so loving and just awesome. And I feel like Hermano was a gourmet chef or something in another life because their food is amazing!
I love the Hispanos in our ward. They are basically the best. Sometimes we have to play piano in primary for a second because nobody knows how to play piano here, so we get to hang out with our favorite kid, A L, for a second. He literally answers every single question and sings "A Child's Prayer" at the top of his lungs. He's the coolest 5-year old in the history of ever and I just want to be his best friend. And I still love my trio! We seriously feel like we've known each other forever and we also have really great teaching unity. I don't know what I'm going to do if I'm ever in a normal companionship, I only have ever known trios!
Spanish Slang for today: "Andele pues" which means, "oh, it's all good" or "anyways" sort of...I think that's what it means at least....haha I love asking what everything means!
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The work is progressing here in the Hurst 3rd ward and we love how down with missionary work this ward is, they give us referrals and ask to go on exchanges with us and they are just rockstars! I'm loving it here and I hear it starts "cooling down" to the mid-80's within the next few weeks, so I'm going to have to break out my down comforter and wool tights or something... :) Chistes chistes...
Thanks for all the love and support! I can really feel your love and prayers out here in the field.
Love,
Hermana Sangre
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