Hola Familia!
It was great to hear about how everyone's doing this week! Especially Kevin's first experience passing the Sacrament! That's so awesome! So before I start the description of my week I have to say that one of my pet peeves is people who are listening to music in the library through headphones but it's so loud that everyone within 20 feet can hear exactly what they are listening to. Some kid on a computer behind me is doing just this at the moment and I think I might go crazy because It sounds like he is listening to early 1990's video game music. Seriously. and right now its sounding really intense so I think it must be at the part at the end of the game where you have to fight the final monster to win the game. But anyways...my week has been good so far! I got the coat you sent me yesterday, I think it's going to be perfect! I tried on all the winter gear I have so far and I have to say I look pretty nerdy, but the colder it gets the less I care. Also I keep hearing about one week last winter where it didn't get above 0 degrees at all. I look forward to it. I sent in my receipt for my checked bags today so I can get a refund! that will be nice.
Today we only have a few hours to do e-mails and shopping because they are giving us our main p-day tomorrow for Thanksgiving. I think we might go hang out at the church with some other missionaries from the Zone and play sports/board games. A family in the ward is having us over for Thanksgiving dinner and I'm not sure yet whether its going to be traditional food or Mexican food. But either way I'll be happy. We had a zone meeting yesterday and the Mission President talked a lot about the importance people taking steps to find out the truth of our message for themselves, like it says in the promise given in the Intro to the Book of Mormon and in Moroni. The main steps are reading, pondering, and then asking if its true in prayer. If they aren't doing these things we can't really move on because it's so important. We are just the messengers, they need to find out for themselves if its true or not. So me and Hna. Gailey decided to reemphasize this with the people we're teaching even if we've already talked about it.
Yesterday we had a really good lesson with the Russomano family from Brazil where we talked about this. It's so great because the whole family gets involved in the lessons. They are also probably one of the loudest and most animated families I've ever met too (at least the parents). Also, we haven't taught them the Word of Wisdom yet but both parents have talked about how they want to stop smoking/drinking. I think they are really ready for the Gospel at this point in their lives. Because their main language is Portuguese I have a really hard time trying to understand them, but most of the time I'm still able to get the main idea of what they are saying. I think my Spanish comprehension is improving, I understand the most during teaching situations. Small talk situations are the hardest especially when I'm asked a question. For some reason questions are the hardest to understand, escpecially when directed at me. I'll be understanding everything just fine and then the moment they ask a question I'm like...."ummm" and theres an awkward silence until I turn to my companion to translate what they said for me. Yeah... Church in the Branch here is good, quite a few people show up every Sunday. The past two sundays they've had speakers from the Stake come so I got to hear it in English and then the translation into Spanish. Dad it's funny that you ask if they sing in tune or not. So many people sing REALLY out of tune. And it seems like the ones who can't hit the notes are the loudest. I haven't been asked to speak or anything yet but I was asked to play the Piano in Relief Society...that was a little bit embarrasing because I didn't know what the first song was until they started singing it and they started singing the second song before I got to the Piano and they were really off so when I started playing It made me sound like I was hitting all the wrong notes. I did the top hand only...I definitely need more practice. The Branch President is a really good guy, he wants the Branch to be a Ward soo bad and gets a little frustrated at the members lack of effort to get involved in the missionary work.
It's also funny soo many people keep making comments about my curly hair. Either that or they are commenting that I look chinese because, as my companion informed me, the word for curly ("chino") also means Chinese. One lady called me "Chinita" which means 'little curly" or I guess "little Chinese girl". So who knows? haha. This week the weather got a little crazy and there was actually a tornado watch, which I've never experienced before. It got pretty stormy but I don't think there was actually a tornado. I decided it would be cool to see one from a distance, but not if it was coming towards me. Well everyone, I hope that you all have a great week! Keep me posted on everything thats going on! congrats Mom on getting accepted into the UW!
Love,
Hermana West
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