Wednesday, January 29, 2014

30 December 2013




Hola family!

Today I'm a little short on time to write. A family in the ward took the us to the beach (to see it and picnic, not to swim). But we had some delays, so we're getting back with just a few minutes to write. I did take a bunch of pictures, so hopefully next week I'll send you some. It was my first taste of beach complete with palm tree.

So I am back to learning Spanish. My eight weeks with Hna Trujillo was a much needed mental break where I could speak English at least in my apartment. Although it was a nice break, it also slowed my language progress. But now I am back to speaking in Spanish all the time and thus I am starting to think more in the language too. We didn't go on any divisions this week, but starting Thursday we are going to be traveling like crazy. It's going to be an interesting challenge to take care of our area and follow through with our other responsibilities. 

I really like your pictures of Christmas. It was definitely a different day for me. But it was good. Tomorrow and the next day will probably also be challenging days to teach, but we will do our best to find people. This week we took some of the young women in the ward out to work with us. It has been fun to see how excited they are to work with us and to hear them ask when they can go out to teach with us again. And trust me--they are getting a taste of everything: contacting, powerful lessons, rejection, appointments that don't go through, people in the streets who say crazy things. And they are still excited to go out with us. I'm not saying that all of them need to go on missions, but hopefully those who do go will feel more prepared for having spent time in the shoes of other missionaries. 

Till next week.

Love, 
Hermana Davis

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