Hey everyone! I hope I didn´t sound super desperate or angry in that other email, but thank you all for your emailing me! I thought you could just send them to the mission email and I would read them tomorrow, but you are quick!
Well it has been...not the best week. We had our conference in Mercedes and I actually didn´t really like it very much. For starters the traveling part always takes a toll on being able to sleep. We left at 12:30 in the morning and rode a bus for some 2 and a half hours to paysandu where we got off and went to a church where we and the other 2 hermanas slept on the floor in the guarderia for a couple of hours until we had to walk back to the bus terminal and ride for another four hours to mercedes and start the conference. The new area president Elder Arnold spoke to us along with his wife and the heatons. We kind of expected him to ``bajar la caña`` or drop the cane a little on us, which he kind of did, but not as much as I expected. But to be honest I didn´t really like him very much. Which I know is really bad of me. Maybe it was partly because I was tired but I didn´t really like his personality and he did talk a lot about how we need to do things and be really strictly obedient and what things we need to be doing in our lessons and planning and everything. I left the conference feeling really depressed because I felt like I am the worst missionary ever and don´t do anything right but I still feel confused about how to do things better and I don´t think I will ever be a very good missionary. But I think that is how the conferences with area presidents usually are. I just didn´t really feel the spirit though and we didn´t get to talk to the heatons really because they all left right after the closing prayer and...yeah I just didn´t love the experience. Although I have also realized lately that I have some pretty serious pride issues so that was probably playing into things. After the conference we went and worked in Mercedes for a few hours and knocked some doors by the river. It was weird because it was a really high end area with big nice houses. We didn´t have much luck.
Hermana Halladay and I are getting along well, she is really nice. But I still don´t think that we work very effectively. We pretty much started out the change with no real investigators and we needed to find news, we are still in that same situation. Our numbers have been horrible as far as lessons a week go and we aren´t really working with the members. It is hard because we both want to work hard and I think we do, just not in an effective way. I´ve been missing you all a lot this week and it´s just not been the best week, but i think you have those sometimes. I´ve been really tired too though after the conference. I´m just glad that there are only a couple weeks left in the change. I would kind of like to go to a new area, I think it would help me to refocus a little bit and get out of my comfort zone some more to shock me back into life....maybe, or it could just make things worth. But the elder arnold said at the conference that he wants us to start staying in each area for at least eight months so I am not really sure what will happen. the work is really slow here though right now, I hope it will pick up, I need to distract myself because I am really unfocused this week.
I am out of time, but mom I didn´t get the premarin yet but it might come tomorrow. Amy I think the mission address is 1167 enrique martinez montevideo uruguay c.p. 11.800.
Talk to you next week,
All my love, Jessica
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
It's PDAY!!
Hey everyone! I love you and I miss you!!
Well this week was a little odd because all of the zl´s and dl´s had a 3 day conference in t-bo so our district meeting was moved to friday and the mission wants us to start doing our big planning day on sunday after church instead of on fridays so things feel a little out of sync. And this week will be a little off too because we have SECTOR CONFERENCE on wednesday!!! I´m so excited. We are going to Mercedes this time and we will be seeing the hermanas from paysandu (hna crofts!!) and from fraybentos, (hna flores from artigas!) So It should be pretty fun and the area president is going to be speaking to us.
Brahian Marichal was baptized on Friday night and it was a really nice baptism. His dad baptized him and it was really special for both of them. It is so awesome to see Javier, who didn´t know the church two months ago, baptize his son and then get up and bear his testimony and get so emotional about his love for the gospel. The big lug. We sometimes call him pica piedra-fred flinstone. Yesterday in church Miriam was moved from rs secretary to second counselor and hna de mattos was made the new president-i know hna sol i was confused too. hna de mattos will be good though and blanca was put into primary. Miriam also gave a talk in church yesterday on repentance and she did a good job. Working has been kind of slow. We are trying to find news still so not that much has changed. It has been a really humbling change because I think I am really a lot more aware of my weaknesses in teaching and actually doing missionary work. It just hits me sometimes how much I need to improve.
Today for pday we went bowling with hna vogel and hna humphries. It was...fun. Bowling is pretty lame though when you cant dance and sing along to the music though in between your turns. Judy I took the mickey mouse picture just for you, as well as the picture of daniella with her hlj ring. thanks a ton!
I tried to print all of your letters earlier but the printer in the cyber didn´t end up working so I will try to respond to them later. I skimmed some of them and jennie your trip sounds so FUN!! And the pictures were darling. I do remember when we when to jackson hole and i tried to eat all of the ice cream and then later we stopped and got ice cream cones. I don´t think I ever lost the weight i gained that trip! Good times and great memories.
Mom I am making good use of the craft supplies you sent me. For every conference I try to make something for each of the hermanas. One time I gave them a "blessing" by wrapping a twix and crystal light in a little paper. another time i taped a gold wrapper candy to a paper saying you are a missionary of gold. this time it is, a pen with a paper tied to it that says, "una lapicera para una misionera" it ryhmes in spanish but means a pen for a missionary.
How has your birthday been mom? Did you get my card yet? What have you done to celebrate? How was school? I'm really really excited for you to meet hna salisbury. maybe you can have her over for or take her out to dinner. I think she would love to drive the corvette wink wink!
I hope you all have a great week, enjoy the pics! I Love you so much!!!
Mom you said you like to think about me safe under the covers before you go to bed at night so I sent you a picture to help you imagine! Also there is one with a cool crown i made for jeans birthday. enjoy, all my love
Well this week was a little odd because all of the zl´s and dl´s had a 3 day conference in t-bo so our district meeting was moved to friday and the mission wants us to start doing our big planning day on sunday after church instead of on fridays so things feel a little out of sync. And this week will be a little off too because we have SECTOR CONFERENCE on wednesday!!! I´m so excited. We are going to Mercedes this time and we will be seeing the hermanas from paysandu (hna crofts!!) and from fraybentos, (hna flores from artigas!) So It should be pretty fun and the area president is going to be speaking to us.
Brahian Marichal was baptized on Friday night and it was a really nice baptism. His dad baptized him and it was really special for both of them. It is so awesome to see Javier, who didn´t know the church two months ago, baptize his son and then get up and bear his testimony and get so emotional about his love for the gospel. The big lug. We sometimes call him pica piedra-fred flinstone. Yesterday in church Miriam was moved from rs secretary to second counselor and hna de mattos was made the new president-i know hna sol i was confused too. hna de mattos will be good though and blanca was put into primary. Miriam also gave a talk in church yesterday on repentance and she did a good job. Working has been kind of slow. We are trying to find news still so not that much has changed. It has been a really humbling change because I think I am really a lot more aware of my weaknesses in teaching and actually doing missionary work. It just hits me sometimes how much I need to improve.
Today for pday we went bowling with hna vogel and hna humphries. It was...fun. Bowling is pretty lame though when you cant dance and sing along to the music though in between your turns. Judy I took the mickey mouse picture just for you, as well as the picture of daniella with her hlj ring. thanks a ton!
I tried to print all of your letters earlier but the printer in the cyber didn´t end up working so I will try to respond to them later. I skimmed some of them and jennie your trip sounds so FUN!! And the pictures were darling. I do remember when we when to jackson hole and i tried to eat all of the ice cream and then later we stopped and got ice cream cones. I don´t think I ever lost the weight i gained that trip! Good times and great memories.
Mom I am making good use of the craft supplies you sent me. For every conference I try to make something for each of the hermanas. One time I gave them a "blessing" by wrapping a twix and crystal light in a little paper. another time i taped a gold wrapper candy to a paper saying you are a missionary of gold. this time it is, a pen with a paper tied to it that says, "una lapicera para una misionera" it ryhmes in spanish but means a pen for a missionary.
How has your birthday been mom? Did you get my card yet? What have you done to celebrate? How was school? I'm really really excited for you to meet hna salisbury. maybe you can have her over for or take her out to dinner. I think she would love to drive the corvette wink wink!
I hope you all have a great week, enjoy the pics! I Love you so much!!!
Mom you said you like to think about me safe under the covers before you go to bed at night so I sent you a picture to help you imagine! Also there is one with a cool crown i made for jeans birthday. enjoy, all my love
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Made it to Agosto
Hey there! How is everyone? I made it passed my 5 month birthday and am on to number 6! Amy, it sounds like you had a fun weekend with Carrie, and mom I guess you can kiss summer break goodbye!
Well this week was a liiiittle bit better. Although Hna Halladay has a lot of weird quirks we are getting along just fine for the most part. I still feel like we need to be working harder though. Yesterday she wanted to go to the zoo to do contacts, it is in our area and it was dia del nino so there were tons of families going there. Maybe it wasn´t a bad idea but I didn´t think it was super effective. We had Andrea, a youth from another ward, accompanying us but all we were able to do there was a ton of basic contacting and a lot of the people didn´t even live in our area. I just didn´t think it was a great use of time so I finally tried to nicely suggest that we should go door knocking a pass by some addresses of contacts we had made in weeks past. I think it kind of offended her or hurt her feelings or something, but I just felt like we were doing a lot of fruitless contacting when we could be getting lessons with member and looking for news. We did end up knocking a lot and got 2 lessons with member and 3 others later on. Sometimes I just feel like both she and I are willing to work hard but neither of us know how to do it effectively. It is frustrating but I guess it is part of the experience and you learn as you go and just have to trust in Heavenly Father to make weak things become strong unto you.
So it really end up being a pretty long week and not super productive, but hopefully things will keep getting better. I find myself thinking way to much about how much longer I have left, whick is still a lot, but I like to think that since I will probably leave one change early to go to school, I have less than a year left, which means that after this change is over I only have two left to hit my halfway mark. It is starting to sink in with me that you never do stop missing home.
Today for pday we got up and cleaned the house then we went to centro and ate breakfast, playes soccer at the stake center, and now we are doing email. Last week on tuesday I sent nine letters so hopefully you will being getting them in a week or so. Mom I will keep my eye out for my premarin package. Thanks, and if you have another one ready the only request i have is more stickers. I dont know if you would find them at deseret book or where but I would like some temple stickers to put on peoples hymnbooks or boms, and then basic flowers and stars and stuff like that are really useful. But you all really need to stop spoiling me so much with so many packages!
I know this is short but this computer is being slow and I am going to try and send another email with pictures and i will write more if i have time. I love you!
Jessica
Well this week was a liiiittle bit better. Although Hna Halladay has a lot of weird quirks we are getting along just fine for the most part. I still feel like we need to be working harder though. Yesterday she wanted to go to the zoo to do contacts, it is in our area and it was dia del nino so there were tons of families going there. Maybe it wasn´t a bad idea but I didn´t think it was super effective. We had Andrea, a youth from another ward, accompanying us but all we were able to do there was a ton of basic contacting and a lot of the people didn´t even live in our area. I just didn´t think it was a great use of time so I finally tried to nicely suggest that we should go door knocking a pass by some addresses of contacts we had made in weeks past. I think it kind of offended her or hurt her feelings or something, but I just felt like we were doing a lot of fruitless contacting when we could be getting lessons with member and looking for news. We did end up knocking a lot and got 2 lessons with member and 3 others later on. Sometimes I just feel like both she and I are willing to work hard but neither of us know how to do it effectively. It is frustrating but I guess it is part of the experience and you learn as you go and just have to trust in Heavenly Father to make weak things become strong unto you.
So it really end up being a pretty long week and not super productive, but hopefully things will keep getting better. I find myself thinking way to much about how much longer I have left, whick is still a lot, but I like to think that since I will probably leave one change early to go to school, I have less than a year left, which means that after this change is over I only have two left to hit my halfway mark. It is starting to sink in with me that you never do stop missing home.
Today for pday we got up and cleaned the house then we went to centro and ate breakfast, playes soccer at the stake center, and now we are doing email. Last week on tuesday I sent nine letters so hopefully you will being getting them in a week or so. Mom I will keep my eye out for my premarin package. Thanks, and if you have another one ready the only request i have is more stickers. I dont know if you would find them at deseret book or where but I would like some temple stickers to put on peoples hymnbooks or boms, and then basic flowers and stars and stuff like that are really useful. But you all really need to stop spoiling me so much with so many packages!
I know this is short but this computer is being slow and I am going to try and send another email with pictures and i will write more if i have time. I love you!
Jessica
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Starting of the change
Hey there! I have so many things to tell you today I really don´t where to begin...as usual. Well first of all I got to packages last week at district and they were the BIGGEST packages I´ve gotten! Thanks mom and Judy it was AMAZING!!! I loved all of the treats and soup/pasta mixes and the stickers, paper, markers, pictures and all. I must have some really amazing luck because I seem to always get my packages, they come fast, and they are never opened or stolen from.
In other news, I cried like a little girl when Hna Salisbury left. For two days. It has been really weird being here without her and having a new person living in the house and walking the streets that I came to know with Hna Salisbury. Hermana Halladay is...interesting...to say the least. Let´s be honest, she and I are really different and she is kind of...weird for lack of a better word. She kind of gets on my nerves but I´m sure we will still get along. What I am worried about more than anything is that she doesn´t seem to be a very hard worker. Of course it is probably hard to tell since she has been sick, but our first day she would walk so slowly everywhere we would go and then her contacts were pretty bare-bones ´´heres an invitation and chau´´ kind of a thing, hna sol you would be proud of me though, I wouldn´t let them walk away without pulling out a folleto and really talking to them. After a while of that hna Halladay said something along the lines of, ´´not all of the contacts have to be super-salisbury contacts´´. I took it as a compliment.
Then on Saturday she started complaining about not feeling well and so she had to walk slower. It would take us a half hour to walk somewhere that should have only taken 10 minutes. It was really ridiculous. Then on Sunday when we woke up she said she couldn´t go to church. She said her stomach was hurting and she had a fever. I let the bishop know that we wouldn´t be there because she was sick so then he and his wife came to check on her later and as most people here do, they made a fuss about her temperature being high and needing to go to the doctor. It was really nice of them to come over though. So she was in bed all Sunday and yesterday and then today we left to go to district. She says she is feels fine until she starts walking. I´m sure she does feel sick but I think she is kind of being a little bit over-dramatic and she should still be able to work. We will see how the rest of the week goes but I have a feeling I will be doing a lot of divisions.
It has definitley not been easy and I had way too much time to think about home the last couple of days, but as Hna Sol said I would, I have really felt a new strength and support that I did not feel as much before. I was able to lean on her a lot and let her do most of the work, but now even though I am compañera menor I think I will be carrying a lot of the load this change. I almost wish I was senior comp though because I feel like hna halladay´s spanish and method of teaching are a little bit lacking. People react to her differently because she is kind of socially akward and doesn´t really know how to approach people and when she does they just seem to get annoyed be the way she talks to them and stuff. I´m being really judgemental and critical though and I really have no room to talk.
I am worried about the work though and our members. I could almost feel things come to a halt when Salisbury left and halladay came in. Susie, digo Hermana Salisbury, I know you will be reading this off my blog so here is something for your benefit:
Elisabeth did not come to church yesterday. I tried to call her but couldnt get a hold of her. Lourdes tampoco. We passed by her house several times fri and sat but never could find her. We went by alexi and valeria too and the moto was there and we heard music but no one would come to the door. Buuut, Brahian is actually pretty excited about the thirteenth although we still have a lot to teach him. I will be sure to send you pics. Everyone misses you a lot and when I got to Silvias house to take her your scarf we just hugged and I cried and cried. Thanks again for being an amazing comp and for teaching me how missionary work should get done! And thank you for telling me about the Vietnamese lady that had the misfortune of waxing your legs. Amy make sure that gets posted online!!!
Oh!! And congrats Amy and Pablo on the house!!!!!!!! So exciting. And no we aren´t really running anymore. I did get hna halladay to go out on sat morning but we ran for maybe 5 minutes before she had to stop. I have been doing exercises and yoga in the morning though. I do think I lost wait the last couple of changes.
Judy I hope you had a happy birthday, I did send you a card but it probably won´t get there for at least another week.
Well I am about out of time and I am going to attach some pics. I love you all so so very much!!
Love Jessica
Ps Hna Salisbury is going to come visit you, Y hermana cualquier dia esta bien pero por las dudas, si vaya el veinte tres es el cumpleaños de mi mama entonces seria un buen regalo para ella, pero haga lo que le queda bien. Te quiero hermana!! Saludos de Javier y miriam y todos!!!!!
In other news, I cried like a little girl when Hna Salisbury left. For two days. It has been really weird being here without her and having a new person living in the house and walking the streets that I came to know with Hna Salisbury. Hermana Halladay is...interesting...to say the least. Let´s be honest, she and I are really different and she is kind of...weird for lack of a better word. She kind of gets on my nerves but I´m sure we will still get along. What I am worried about more than anything is that she doesn´t seem to be a very hard worker. Of course it is probably hard to tell since she has been sick, but our first day she would walk so slowly everywhere we would go and then her contacts were pretty bare-bones ´´heres an invitation and chau´´ kind of a thing, hna sol you would be proud of me though, I wouldn´t let them walk away without pulling out a folleto and really talking to them. After a while of that hna Halladay said something along the lines of, ´´not all of the contacts have to be super-salisbury contacts´´. I took it as a compliment.
Then on Saturday she started complaining about not feeling well and so she had to walk slower. It would take us a half hour to walk somewhere that should have only taken 10 minutes. It was really ridiculous. Then on Sunday when we woke up she said she couldn´t go to church. She said her stomach was hurting and she had a fever. I let the bishop know that we wouldn´t be there because she was sick so then he and his wife came to check on her later and as most people here do, they made a fuss about her temperature being high and needing to go to the doctor. It was really nice of them to come over though. So she was in bed all Sunday and yesterday and then today we left to go to district. She says she is feels fine until she starts walking. I´m sure she does feel sick but I think she is kind of being a little bit over-dramatic and she should still be able to work. We will see how the rest of the week goes but I have a feeling I will be doing a lot of divisions.
It has definitley not been easy and I had way too much time to think about home the last couple of days, but as Hna Sol said I would, I have really felt a new strength and support that I did not feel as much before. I was able to lean on her a lot and let her do most of the work, but now even though I am compañera menor I think I will be carrying a lot of the load this change. I almost wish I was senior comp though because I feel like hna halladay´s spanish and method of teaching are a little bit lacking. People react to her differently because she is kind of socially akward and doesn´t really know how to approach people and when she does they just seem to get annoyed be the way she talks to them and stuff. I´m being really judgemental and critical though and I really have no room to talk.
I am worried about the work though and our members. I could almost feel things come to a halt when Salisbury left and halladay came in. Susie, digo Hermana Salisbury, I know you will be reading this off my blog so here is something for your benefit:
Elisabeth did not come to church yesterday. I tried to call her but couldnt get a hold of her. Lourdes tampoco. We passed by her house several times fri and sat but never could find her. We went by alexi and valeria too and the moto was there and we heard music but no one would come to the door. Buuut, Brahian is actually pretty excited about the thirteenth although we still have a lot to teach him. I will be sure to send you pics. Everyone misses you a lot and when I got to Silvias house to take her your scarf we just hugged and I cried and cried. Thanks again for being an amazing comp and for teaching me how missionary work should get done! And thank you for telling me about the Vietnamese lady that had the misfortune of waxing your legs. Amy make sure that gets posted online!!!
Oh!! And congrats Amy and Pablo on the house!!!!!!!! So exciting. And no we aren´t really running anymore. I did get hna halladay to go out on sat morning but we ran for maybe 5 minutes before she had to stop. I have been doing exercises and yoga in the morning though. I do think I lost wait the last couple of changes.
Judy I hope you had a happy birthday, I did send you a card but it probably won´t get there for at least another week.
Well I am about out of time and I am going to attach some pics. I love you all so so very much!!
Love Jessica
Ps Hna Salisbury is going to come visit you, Y hermana cualquier dia esta bien pero por las dudas, si vaya el veinte tres es el cumpleaños de mi mama entonces seria un buen regalo para ella, pero haga lo que le queda bien. Te quiero hermana!! Saludos de Javier y miriam y todos!!!!!
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
And the new companion is...
Hermana Halladay. I have met her once or twice and she seems very quiet but very nice and sweet, I believe she is from New York. And I am staying in Salto. I was actually kind of hoping to go somewhere else but it´s fine. I am not ready for a comp change though. I cried for probably an hour last night before I went to bed. I didn´t know serving a mission was going to be such an emotional rollercoaster.
Jennie! I got your package last week! THANKYOU!!!!! Oh my goodness, Emma does not look like the same baby that I said goodbye too. I love the family picture of the three of you. It turned out so so good. Thank you for the nutter butters, mnms, starbursts, and holy peach-raspberry crystal light! You are awesome, love you!
Last week was actually a really eventful letter week. I got a wedding announcement from colson, whoo whoo! A letter from Judy with a really good article, an amazing letter from becca lane who is serving in st. petersburg russia. her letter actually had a huge impact on me. It sounds like she is in a really hard mission and that there are probably so many things to deal with but she sounds really positive and like she is staying strong. It was really impressive to read and helped me a lot. She says when they do their contacting people ignore them, yell at them glare at them, laugh at them. We literally have had people contact us. I don´t have anything to complain about. I also got an awesome letter from lanae who met uncle ezra in nauvoo. Can you try and get her address for me so i can write her? Hers was really newsy too. Katie watkins from mexico study abroad got her mission call to the phillipines! what? yeah the phillipines, go katie girl! Also mary got hers to detroit...and i think there was another but I don´t remember right now. And did I ever tell you that a while ago i got an announcement for sarah hermann´s wedding?
So that´s a lot of the recent news that I have to tell you. Oh! Hello, and the awesome baptism on Friday. It was so good and after they had all changed and there was time for testimonies they were the first to get up and share their experiences with how the gospel has already changed their lives. afterwards we had a party in the cultural hall to celebrate blanca and ricardo´s marriage, they got married so that they could get baptized. Miriam and Javier, who were baptized a few weeks ago made pizza and cake for it, they are soooo cool.
Well this week has been a little tough just because I don´t want a new companion and I can´t help but feel that Hermana Salisbury is going home and I am getting left behind. I still have so much longer to go and i feel a little jealous that this is her last day. And I am worried about this next change because like you said amy, after being with a good comp for two changes it will be weird to adjust to a new one. I guess I will be emailing on Monday and letting you know how it goes.
I love you all, mom and dad the pictures are of your trip are awesome, looks like you had fun.
All my love, Jessica
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Week of Boring
Hello family, or should I say hello all of my adoring fans? Carrie you are more than welcome to send me a package and yes I do remember you, specifically I remember when I was little and would blow raspberries on the back of your neck, so yeah I you can count yourself as a personal friend! My sister Amy told me about how some random people are reading my blog and I feel really funny, like people are reading my journal or something, but it is funny to me because my journal is super boring and I don´t get why anyone would want to read it. But I hope you are enjoying! Personal shout out to Rochelle, Andrea, and unpersonal shout out to everyone else!
Okay, back to my family, sorry for the interruption family, it is hard being a famous missionary. amy I´m not actually sure on the address but I will find out, I think it is 1167 though. This week was lame and I really have nothing to report. We did have interviews with the president and the hermana and that was fun for the 10 minutes i was with them but the rest of the time the assistents do a big lesson thing and it was super dry. Dreams, Goals, Covenants, yeah yeah baptize baptize. Anyways, I wasn´t going to tell you about this because I don´t think it will happen but since I have nothing else to say I´ll tell you anyway. Hna Sol wasn´t suppossed to tell me this but in her interview i guess the president was asking about me and if I am ready to be a senior companion. A SENIOR WHAT?! I said, did you tell him NO WAY! I´m still not even sure if I want to stay here after my next change, my plan has been give it six months and then split! You can take away my crutch! Well as I said I don´t really think it will happen because I am definitley not ready for that. I guess he was only asking because they are having four new hermanas coming and they don´t really have a ton of older hermanas to handler all of us newer ones, but I think that he can figure out a better solution than using me. I would be just fine with going my whole mission as the junior companion, and let´s not even talk about training. (I am aware that I overdramatized all of that)
Mom and Dad! I am excited for you to go on your trip. make sure that you take a camera-charge it before hand and take the charger with you-and actually use it to take pictures okay! oooh, Frankie Valley and the four seasons just came on the radio in the cyber cafe, you´re just too good to be true! Anyways, that will be a really fun trip I think. Ryan, take good care of Sally! Speaking of Ryan I have a postcard to send you but I do not have stamps so it might be a while. Amy what card did you recently receive? Jennie I have not have received your package yet but a HUGE thank you in advance. Hopefully I will get it tomorrow, and thank you for your email! How was your Yellowstone trip by the way? Has anyone sent me stickers by chance? That would not require a package, just a regular envelope, so I am not going to feel guilty for asking for stickers-they are super useful.
Let´s see, today our pday will be cut short because we are going to a little pueblo where Blanca and Ricardo are getting married. I didn´t tell you much about them because I sent you a letter about them. But they are an awesome family and all 5 of them are getting baptized on Friday. They weren´t married but they immediately understood and accepted our "marriage proposal" and they are getting married today. It is kind of weird and humbling to think that two young american girls showed up at their house one day and told them to get married and they are doing it. It is one of many evidences of how the Lord´s hand is in this work.
My time is up. I am hoping to get lots of emails tomorrow at district (wink wink) and hopefully your letters will arrive. Oh I did get a letter from Melody the other week, Ro if you see her give her a big hug from me. And Amy matt harris is the guy I saw in the airport in buenos aires from my home ward, you can email him if you want and my email and facebook are open access to you and you too jennie, maybe you can have me socially set for when I get home. Feel free to add some juice to my personal ad.
Okay really do gotta go. I miss you and love you. Give sally a scratch for me and hugs to everyone! Hi back to Bishop Workman, and...I think that is everything. Over and out,
Love, Jessica
Okay, back to my family, sorry for the interruption family, it is hard being a famous missionary. amy I´m not actually sure on the address but I will find out, I think it is 1167 though. This week was lame and I really have nothing to report. We did have interviews with the president and the hermana and that was fun for the 10 minutes i was with them but the rest of the time the assistents do a big lesson thing and it was super dry. Dreams, Goals, Covenants, yeah yeah baptize baptize. Anyways, I wasn´t going to tell you about this because I don´t think it will happen but since I have nothing else to say I´ll tell you anyway. Hna Sol wasn´t suppossed to tell me this but in her interview i guess the president was asking about me and if I am ready to be a senior companion. A SENIOR WHAT?! I said, did you tell him NO WAY! I´m still not even sure if I want to stay here after my next change, my plan has been give it six months and then split! You can take away my crutch! Well as I said I don´t really think it will happen because I am definitley not ready for that. I guess he was only asking because they are having four new hermanas coming and they don´t really have a ton of older hermanas to handler all of us newer ones, but I think that he can figure out a better solution than using me. I would be just fine with going my whole mission as the junior companion, and let´s not even talk about training. (I am aware that I overdramatized all of that)
Mom and Dad! I am excited for you to go on your trip. make sure that you take a camera-charge it before hand and take the charger with you-and actually use it to take pictures okay! oooh, Frankie Valley and the four seasons just came on the radio in the cyber cafe, you´re just too good to be true! Anyways, that will be a really fun trip I think. Ryan, take good care of Sally! Speaking of Ryan I have a postcard to send you but I do not have stamps so it might be a while. Amy what card did you recently receive? Jennie I have not have received your package yet but a HUGE thank you in advance. Hopefully I will get it tomorrow, and thank you for your email! How was your Yellowstone trip by the way? Has anyone sent me stickers by chance? That would not require a package, just a regular envelope, so I am not going to feel guilty for asking for stickers-they are super useful.
Let´s see, today our pday will be cut short because we are going to a little pueblo where Blanca and Ricardo are getting married. I didn´t tell you much about them because I sent you a letter about them. But they are an awesome family and all 5 of them are getting baptized on Friday. They weren´t married but they immediately understood and accepted our "marriage proposal" and they are getting married today. It is kind of weird and humbling to think that two young american girls showed up at their house one day and told them to get married and they are doing it. It is one of many evidences of how the Lord´s hand is in this work.
My time is up. I am hoping to get lots of emails tomorrow at district (wink wink) and hopefully your letters will arrive. Oh I did get a letter from Melody the other week, Ro if you see her give her a big hug from me. And Amy matt harris is the guy I saw in the airport in buenos aires from my home ward, you can email him if you want and my email and facebook are open access to you and you too jennie, maybe you can have me socially set for when I get home. Feel free to add some juice to my personal ad.
Okay really do gotta go. I miss you and love you. Give sally a scratch for me and hugs to everyone! Hi back to Bishop Workman, and...I think that is everything. Over and out,
Love, Jessica
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Ending the Trip
Hey hey! It was kind of funny and cool today to open my email and have messages from my mom and my sisters, I don´t know why that occurred to me but I just think it´s awesome that we are close and keep in touch so much.
Okay, well the Montevideo temple trip was so much fun. While we emailed you Hermana Heaton let us use her washer and dryer, we had brought all of our garments so that we could wash them. It was so nice to have clean clothes that had been dried in a dryer. It was also fun saturday to be at the mission home because it was the Heaton´s 40th anniversary. Not that we really did anything but still, we got to hang out with them on a really special day. And then when we needed to leave they drove us to the bus station and I was laughing in my head watching President Heaton try to hide his frustration about the traffic. They both make me think a lot of mom and dad, that is probably why I like them so much. I think Hna Sol is getting sick of me talking about how much I love the Heaton´s and how great they are. Anyways it was going to be close for getting on the bus but we got there with 5 minutes to spare, or so we thought, Hna Salisbury had confused the time and it had actually left ten minutes before. Haha. So we ended up having to wait seven hours for the next bus which left at 12:30 in the morning. We probably could have called the president to pick us up but we felt too sheepish. We had to call him last night anyways though to ask a question and he asked us if we made the bus and we told him what happened and i think he felt bad and he said we should have called him. But oh well, it actually ended up being a really fun and productive seven hours and we are both glad for the way it worked out. We got pictures printed for the family and for Carla who was baptized on thursday and I bought a new straightener and some post-it marker things for my scriptures and we got some colored paper. We also wrote letters, I wrote to my converts in Artigas, and we ate at Mcdonalds. The only mcdonalds in uruguay is the one in the terminal in montevideo. It was actually pretty good. Oh and Hermana Heaton sent us with Peanut Butter sandwiches. Mmm..mm!
So yesterday we got home at 6:30. I was really tired all day and it was good to go to sleep last night. Yesterday was a pretty dull sunday. It has been really gloomy and rainy here.
Well out of time. I love you all and I hope the pictures come through!
Love Jessica
ps hna salisbury leaves in about two weeks and i am trying to plan some suprises for her but I am also freaking out and I think I am going to have an emotional relapse when she is gone!
Okay, well the Montevideo temple trip was so much fun. While we emailed you Hermana Heaton let us use her washer and dryer, we had brought all of our garments so that we could wash them. It was so nice to have clean clothes that had been dried in a dryer. It was also fun saturday to be at the mission home because it was the Heaton´s 40th anniversary. Not that we really did anything but still, we got to hang out with them on a really special day. And then when we needed to leave they drove us to the bus station and I was laughing in my head watching President Heaton try to hide his frustration about the traffic. They both make me think a lot of mom and dad, that is probably why I like them so much. I think Hna Sol is getting sick of me talking about how much I love the Heaton´s and how great they are. Anyways it was going to be close for getting on the bus but we got there with 5 minutes to spare, or so we thought, Hna Salisbury had confused the time and it had actually left ten minutes before. Haha. So we ended up having to wait seven hours for the next bus which left at 12:30 in the morning. We probably could have called the president to pick us up but we felt too sheepish. We had to call him last night anyways though to ask a question and he asked us if we made the bus and we told him what happened and i think he felt bad and he said we should have called him. But oh well, it actually ended up being a really fun and productive seven hours and we are both glad for the way it worked out. We got pictures printed for the family and for Carla who was baptized on thursday and I bought a new straightener and some post-it marker things for my scriptures and we got some colored paper. We also wrote letters, I wrote to my converts in Artigas, and we ate at Mcdonalds. The only mcdonalds in uruguay is the one in the terminal in montevideo. It was actually pretty good. Oh and Hermana Heaton sent us with Peanut Butter sandwiches. Mmm..mm!
So yesterday we got home at 6:30. I was really tired all day and it was good to go to sleep last night. Yesterday was a pretty dull sunday. It has been really gloomy and rainy here.
Well out of time. I love you all and I hope the pictures come through!
Love Jessica
ps hna salisbury leaves in about two weeks and i am trying to plan some suprises for her but I am also freaking out and I think I am going to have an emotional relapse when she is gone!
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