Family,
Hopefully you all saw my email
yesterday, i've been reassigned to serve in the Texas Fort Worth Mission until
my visa arrives! I'm so excited to be able to go and start doing work out
there. I'm also excited because out of all the places in the United States,
I got called to Texas which means i'll hopefully be able to use some of my
Spanish until I get down to Peru. My companions also got
reassigned. Sister Lind is going to Billings, Montana and Sister Olsen is
going to New York City South. We are all very excited!! I leave the
MTC on Tuesday morning at 3:30am. Fun right? I'm a little
confused because my flight doesn't leave until 8 so I guess I'll get there
plenty early. They give us a calling card and allow us to call at the
airport, so I'll probably be calling home before my flight leaves SLC because
my layover isn't very long in PHX. So, parents, I hope that's cool with
you if you get a call at 6am. :) And if I don't have time to do it then, I
might have a little time during my layover to call briefly so that is at... I
don't remember but I think I told you the time yesterday in my
email. 9am Arizona time or something like that.
This week has been pretty
interesting because the MTC didn't really know what to do with us. Our
teachers left on summer vacation because we were supposed to be gone by
now. A teacher had us moved to an advanced district that just
arrived on wednesday. So, we've been spending class with native
Spanish speakers which is definitely overwhelming. I feel like I just got
thrown into my mission with these native speakers but it's weird because we're
still in the MTC. The advanced districts are only here for two weeks
because they don't do any language training. It's hard because the teachers
only speak Spanish, which was the same in my beginner district but now they
speak as fast as they want and use all sorts of weird vocab and slang that we
don't know. It has definitely been overwhelming but helpful because this
is what it's going to be like when we get out into the field. It's kind
of mentally exhausting because I constantly have to translate in my head what
is happening. It makes me tired to just try and listen to what people are
saying haha. Yesterday switched up companions with their district so I taught
a lesson with a native speaker and we taught a couple other of the advanced
people. I played the role of the investigator at first and a few times
everyone would just look at me at once. And I would say, "oh, did
you just ask me a question?" haha. Apparently they were talking to me a
lot and asking me questions but I only know enough to pick up about half of it
haha. It's been fun though and i've learned a lot.
On wednesday Emily Lewis
came into the MTC and I got to host her which was fun! She dropped me off at the
MTC 6 weeks ago and I got to host her so that was cool. I've seen her a
couple of times since then and she is loving it. She only has to be here
for 2 weeks because she is going to Australia.
Today we got a note in our
mailbox with a classroom and time to meet our new mission
presidenttomorrow. Our Peru mission president, that is. He's here
for training right now so the few of us that are going to peru Lima West get to
meet with him tomorrow so that will be fun. I'm excited to meet
him and his wife.
This sunday is the day
that the huge broadcast thing is happening. I'm pretty excited to sing in
the choir, it'll be fun. Watch for me on TV! I'm going to look extra
missionary-esque so that they'll have no choice but to focus in on me. haha.
It's pretty funny because they are being very strict about what we are allowed
to wear. They changed the dress and grooming standards just
for sunday specifically. So on sunday we're only
allowed to wear solid colors and no bows and no jewelry at all and we have to
hairspray our hair back out of our face.
Everything else here has been
about the same. It's been getting hotter but now that i'm going to Texas
i'm going to embrace this "cool weather."
My time at the MTC has been pretty great. I'm really grateful that I was able to come here and learn so much about the language of Spanish and the language of the Spirit. I feel pretty ready to go out and, as Matt says: 'Baptize the [heck] out of people." Literally.
My time at the MTC has been pretty great. I'm really grateful that I was able to come here and learn so much about the language of Spanish and the language of the Spirit. I feel pretty ready to go out and, as Matt says: 'Baptize the [heck] out of people." Literally.
One of my favorite scriptures
recently has been DyC 6:36- Elevad hacia mi todo pensamiento. No dudeis,
no temais.
The church is true.
Love,
Hermana Jones
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