More changes
So things have
changed once again! Hence I'm writing on Tuesday. I'm super grateful though
that I had mail waiting for me! As of a week or so ago, the church enacted a
new policy. Instead of handling email rules on a mission by mission basis, all
missionaries, everywhere can now use email to communicate with anyone. With the
new change, missionaries are also supposed to have more computer time. Thus,
for the rest of my time in the CCM, I get an hour a week. Also, this means that
you can share my email address as seems prudent. Because of the logistics
involved in doubling computer time, I really could write any day of the week.
Nothing here is predictable, so I have no reason to think email time will be.
Probably just try to email by Sunday night most weeks and don't worry about
exactly when you hear from me.
In other news, I
think someone wanted to know how many people are in the CCM. The week I came in
I think there were 172 missionaries, 1 more missionary than the largest they'd
had before. I think we're a little smaller now. Also, we have few Latinos. They
are bringing in more and more Nortes, and once the new MTC in Mexico is running,
I hear there will only be Nortes in Guatemala.
Last p-day, we
spent a little time at a stake center. Some of the Elders played basketball,
and the rest of us played a giant game of never have I ever--the version where
you run between chairs if you have done what the person in the center hasn't.
Then we went to Walmart. I just grabbed some envelopes and a small notebook for
friends to sign as we leave the CCM. Funny story about envelopes. I totally
forgot to pack even a couple in the craziness of the last few hours. When I got
here, I found out that when I send through the pouch from Guatemala, I have to
use an envelope. That really surprised me because you don't use envelopes the
other direction. Because I had only a half hour of computer time, I thought I
might also write home with paper mail, and maybe send letters to a couple
friends. So I bought envelopes. Then they changed the rules, so I don't need
envelopes nearly so much. I can't win. But it's all good. We used some of the
envelopes when the we (the girls in my district) wrote some notes.
After Walmart, we
went to the food court at the mall for lunch. I went for Pizza Hut. The mall
was huge!
As for washing,
we have normal washers and dryers. I'm enjoying a few more weeks of being
spoiled. Washing is a little risky because you can get color on your clothes
from the batch before. I've been careful and lucky so far and haven't had any
problems. Daniel, I'm so excited that you're a deacon now. You'll be great
passing the sacrament.
Yesterday, the
hallway flooded twice. Water was gurgling up from the sink in the mop closet.
The second time we found out that the problem came from the washers upstairs,
so no one in the building is washing clothes until the problem gets fixed,
hopefully today. But we had a great time mopping up the floor with the six of
us girls in the district.
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