Week 2, down in Argentina. T´was a pretty good week! Went by pretty fast.
So Nika, my older sister, returned home this week from her mission in Fort Worth Texas - Spanish speaking. I tried really hard not to think too hard about it, but really I'm just happy that my family is together again having fun!
Something i figured out about myself on the mission is that i love to be corrected. I just want to learn as fast as possible... so i always tell my trainer to correct me whenever i say anything wrong.. and she was nervous at first, because she said when she got out on her mission, she hated being corrected and would get super annoyed. But I am ready to learn...so that's good.
I LOVE READING MY BOOK OF MORMON. I really do. Its my favorite part of the day.. and I use any spare time to read it. For some reason, I can understand my scriptures so much better on the mission. Alma is just the bomb. I read the war chapters recently, and got a lot out of it. I want to go into detail but have like zero time.. I 've already learned so much in the 2 weeks in Argentina, especially that I could have made much better use of my time at home. Oh well, you live and you learn.
I´m super diligent with my studies, I'm not gonna lie. I don't waste any of my spare time. Spanish is killing me though. I still just feel so inadequate, and keep wondering when its gonna get better. People keep telling me I'm doing good for only having 2 weeks. and they always say the same thing... "be patient, it will come..".. and I"m like do you know me at all, I am not patient with this stuff. I like to get As. All the time. I like to be good at stuff haha. But I've really been trying to work on hope and faith.. and just trust that i will someday be really good at speaking it. Its my biggest stress.
Anyway, Nadia (our investigator with a baptismal date) is AMAZING. She loves the church, and every single lesson we teach her. She is so gonna go through with her baptism. I love her. This week we did tons of contacting... which I'm awful at. And people usually swerve us.. But we met a guy the other day named Ariel. He said his wife took his daughter and left like 5 months ago, and he has no idea why, and so his life is super hard, and he had a period of time where he didn't want to live. He feels like god isn't listening to his prayers. He said he doesn't usually open up to people but for some reason he told us everything. So he said we could come back, and we´re hoping to he will find happiness in the Gospel right now.
OCEAN STEWSo here's my funny moment of the week.... which was actually awful haha.
We had lunch at a members house... and they gave us this squash stew stuff.... and i went to put some salt in it.. and the lid wasn't fully on... so ALL THE CONTENTS OF THE SALT SHAKER fell into my soup. I felt so bad to waste the food, so they took it away... and i thought that they dumped it and gave me a new soup.. but turns out they just spooned out the salt.. and gave it back. So we prayed and i started eating, and it was soooo salty. I didn't want to say anything though because I felt so bad. So i thought i can just make it through. Ill just dip a lot of bread in it to dilute it.. But it was like drinking the ocean honestly. So they started commenting on how i hadn't eaten hardly any of it... and "ohhh she likes bread a lot"... so then eventually i told them it was super salty because I couldn't finish it. And they were all laughing soooo hard at me. Apparently they kept making jokes about it but i obviously didn't understand because it was in Spanish. Now every time I see them they say they´re gonna bring me a pack of salt. It was awful.. I felt sick for the rest of the day.
RANDOM THINGS
-This lady in the streets thought i looked exactly like Avril Lavine...? So she wouldn't drop it.
-Also our toilet stopped working one day and we had to plunge it with a hanger, because that's all we had.
-There are dogs EVERYWHERE. So many dogs.
Anyway, I'm doing well! There is so so much to be learned out here... its such a great experience. I´m trying super hard to keep faith and hope throughout my days and weeks! Love you all!
P.S..... go to the temple for me. Take advantage of that opportunity. I miss the temple so much. Also eat some peanut butter. That doesn´t exist down here.
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