Okay, so because technology blows, this letter is going to be a little short. Don't worry about it though, the church is still true. also, i may not capitalize. This keyboard blows. And it took me ten minutes just to sign in, so.....what do you do? Pues....
Congratulations to my little/big brother. way to make it to prom for the first time. i bet you looked all fancy-shmansy in your tux, and wish i could have been there to laugh at you whilst you slept away the most important part of our sunday services. i love you! But between that and the big youth activity/games it sounds like the fam has been having a party, which is good because that ties in to one of the things i wanted to talk to you all about. Okay, i need everyone related to me by friendship or blood to be on the look out. apparently, satan is not so happy with my efforts and he's going to go after you to get me to stop. why would i be saying such a thing you ask? it may or may not be because for the past couple of weeks whenever there's a down moment or during a teacher interview, one of my leaders/teachers will ask me "how is your family doing?" seriously, out of the blue, and it catches me off guard every time. I hope everyone is doing well, and if you are. watch out because apparently, somethin's gonna happen.
Better news is that I have been doing a lot better with my teaching. part of that is because we've been practicing return lessons. and i can teach. no problem. sometimes i can even find out someone's spiritual problem without being told. so it's fun. the best is hermana hunt, who we've continued to teach. it's just so real. like yesterday we went in to teach her and for a moment she forgot that we actually taught her as her real self, so when i asked her "no, really, how are you doing?" she responded "oh yeah, you teach me. My day totally blew!" Actually, i think she said something about it being jacked up. which i was shocked to hear someone say in the mtc. Can't wait till I go back into the real world and get bombarded by swear words again. i may pass out from shock. maybe. Anyways, it was just nice because she told us about how she was stressing over finals, and her wedding, and how something came up and her parents aren't going to be there for the reception and she's afraid everyone from her fiancee's family is going to think she's an orphan. and it was nice, because when we really are teaching people in argentina, they are going to have bad days. they are going to have days where they are walking down the street and someone randomly gets out of their car hits them with a water bottle and then runs away (sis hunt said that happened to one of her investigators....weird). so cool. and then we were able to talk about celestial marriages and how the real importance of getting sealed in the temple is not the reception afterward or who is there or who isn't, but the fact that you are making a covenant with God to be completely loyal to him and to your spouse for the rest of eternity, and that you know after death you are going to be with your best friend, and nothing will be able to keep you apart. she left really happy. unfortunately we didn't actually get to teach the lesson we had planned. service. oh well, that's how the world turns i guess.
not even joking, that's pretty much all the story time i have for today. we taught our first full lesson in spanish at the TRC last week, and we also got asked to be "hosts" and show the new sister missionaries around. my companion had a friend come in so she bailed on me for the first part of the TRC and I got set up on an "exchange" with this very nice lady who had already served a mission in a spanish speaking locale. totally boosted my spanish confidence....not. during the lesson she'd lean over "transition to this..." "enough chit chat start the lesson..." things like that. and the whole time i'm sitting there thinking "lady! you're lucky i'm speaking spanish at all and it's related to the gospel in a real sentence. don't mock my ability *with a little glare and potential finger pointing*" anyways. good times. i hope to never go on exchanges at the TRC ever again. that will come true because we only have one more week at the trc! yay!
also, we finally got our meeting with the argentinian visa consul. he got to meet everyone in this big meeting. i thought i wasn't going to get a visa because that's what they had told me. but apparently they just sent me that note to make me go to the travel office to make sure i had already sent in my passport.....you couldn't have just asked. way to stress me out unneccessarily. lame. lame and lamer. but i've got my visa. in two weeks, i'm outta' here!
seriously, sorry for the lack of capitilization and shortness, but what are you going to do? complain? not my style! suck it up? sounds like it! i'll talk to you guys next week.
love you all, have a good week, don't die or do anything bad.
Hermana Reed
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