5-12-2014: What a GREAT Mother's Day!

 Hello Lovely Family of Mine!

It was so great to talk to y'all yesterday!  I basically filled you in on everything going on, but here are some extra things that happened this week:

we had zone conference!  I gave a training (i was so nervous!) on how to balance our time between all these resources that we have to do missionary work (doing missionary presentations with members, finding through our own efforts, etc.)  and it went pretty well. 

Last night was a good night, after we talked we were able to go and teach some really cool people.  Being a missionary is awesome, because we get to talk to all sorts of people from all walks of life and tell them about the coolest thing ever.  AND I get to do a lot of it in Spanish.  Something that I've learned while I've been here is that I really like learning another language, maybe next I'll try learning French? or Finish? who knows!  haha :)

Dad-I was thinking about your Mission Prep class, and I'm sure you've got tooons of awesome ideas and that you're going to do great and such, but some ideas came to mind that you may or may not want to use in your classes, mostly about some things that I wish I had known before my mission:

-I wish I had read from the White Handbook more than once.  We read 3 pages every day as a companionship during our Companionship study, and something I'm doing individually is really studying it and reading all of the "additional scriptures" and such throughout the book.

-I wish I had known how to study Preach My Gospel.  It is gold.

-sometimes we'll go through commitments that we leave with people at each lesson and then go through their possible concerns/reasons for saying "no" and then try to resolve their concerns

-I wish I had known how to "role play" which is basically just practicing teaching a lesson/commitment/principle

I'm sure you'll do great teaching the class, these were just some thoughts that came to mind after we got off the phone. 

I'll look for the package this week, thanks for sending that to me! And good luck to Nat on his AP Physics test.  AND (drumroll please) Happy Birthday to Mom this week!  :)

Well, I love you all soooo much, I'm glad y'all are doing well and I hope you have the best week this week!

Con amor,

Hermana Sangre