Hola,
Como esta familia? Este semana ha sido llena de experiencias
espiritual y chistoso.
Okay, all you Spanish speakers can go ahead and
critique that sentence but hey, atleast my point is getting across! haha.
Oh, what a week what a week! First of all, it's been raining
off and on which has been GREAT. I don't even mind walking around outside
in the rain because it feels so good. But alas, the rain has ended and
this week will be hot and sunny and humid and wonderful.
We've had to do a lot more walking this week because we are
running out of monthly miles on our car. They put sisters in this area
just the transfer before me, so when they were finding housing, apparently they
got the wrong apartment complex or something and accidentally got an apartment
that is about 10 miles outside of our area. We work in south Fort Worth
but live almost in Arlington, so we have to drive about 40 minutes to our area
every day. It's fine because it's good study time. Hermana Reina helps me
with my Spanish during that time. But it's a little hard because that's
an extra 20 miles every day and we only get 1050 every month so we have to be
really careful and only work in certain parts of town every day. Also we
can't drive to members houses for dinner because of the lack of miles so
members just bring us dinner to the church a lot of times and we eat
there. It's all good though. I'm definitely grateful that we have a
car in this heat!
It's pretty cool because there are 10 missionaries in our
ward. 10! That's a lot! 2 comps of elders and of hermanas, all in a Spanish
ward haha. We have to be careful not to sit in groups and talk because it
looks intimidating to some people to see a ton of missionaries all in a crowd.
It's great though. Last week at church until about 10 minutes before
church, we all had a lot of investigators there so there were more
investigators and missionaries than there were members haha. That's a
good problem to have I guess! One of the Elders, our district leader was in my
freshman ward at BYU. It was funny when I first met him because I read
his nametag and saw "Elder Newman" and then looked at his face and we
both go, woah! no way! So it's been funny to have to call him "elder
Newman" now.
Yesterday at church was fun because I played the piano for
Primary. There is a pretty big primary in our ward. It's funny
because all of the kids are bilingual because of school and a lot know English
better than Spanish, so the teachers were trying to get everybody to be quiet
and listen and a kid yells out, "Can we just speak English please?" I
was like, yes! Thank you! Haha. That kid read my mind. But it's
good because this week i've actually seen a lot of improvement and
can understand people a ton better. I'm getting used to their speed
of talking and their slang and what not. I still can't speak super well
but I can understand pretty decent which is great.
Oh yeah, another funny thing about Spanish. A lot of
people here speak Spanglish, so it's funny because someone will be talking and
I'll understand what they're saying and they'll say a word and i'll ask my
companion what it means, and she'll tell me it was an English word, but they
say it in a spanish accent that I don't catch it. It's funny. For
example, no one ever says "fiesta," everybody always says
"party" except they say it with an accent so it sounds kinda like
"poorty" and it throws me off every time. My companions and I
have a good snicker every time someone says it.
Our investigators have kind of gotten a little stuck this
week. We're still working hard with them and are trying to figure out
what it is exactly that they need. Most of our investigators are at the
point where they know it's all true, they just don't want to do anything about
it. So we've been working and trying to get them to make sacrifices and
commit to things. It was pretty cool this week because we were teaching a
girl named Kassi. She's hispanic, but she prefers English. We
taught the Restoration and when we talked about Joseph Smith and the
First Vision, and she said that she had been so confused about
religion and everything so one day she prayed, like he did, and the next
day we came over, so she's taking that as an answer to her prayers. Wow!
What a miracle. She has such a strong desire to do what's right and
really wants this for her kids. We have a baptismal date for her so
hopefully she continues to progress.
Anyway, I'm running out of time so I'm going to close up but
thank you so much for all the letters and love.
Love you!
-Hermana Jones
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