4/18/12 - Hola everyone!

Ok, not going to lie, this week started out really hard, Thursday I was starting to get really worried about proselyting, I didn’t think I would be able say anything but I wasn’t like super worried.

Friday in the morning our morning teacher was saying that it would be easy all we would need to do was prepare 5ish minute lessons and 30-45 min lessons for the first thee lessons and I kind of just started crying because I couldn’t do that I can just plan a lesson, me and mi compañera can barely speak Spanish, let alone plan lessons in it. I just feel like we really haven’t learned that much yet, and we have this computer program tall that were supposed to be on every day but because of the construction the internet is down a lot… so tall is down… so the thing that is supposed to help us the most half the time we can’t get on……………

Saturday we went out proselyting… it was kind of a joke, neither of us could say anything. Friday night we memorized how to say that were missionaries and stuff and if we could share a message… but we couldn’t even give a message cuz neither of us could say more than that… we talked to a few people but we couldn’t even understand anything that they were saying… and couldn’t even give them a message… we just tried to say some stuff then handed them a pamphlet.  The other girls had like this super spiritual experience and are going to meet with this one lady again and the other district all did great and then there was us….but there were parrots there! And I got a feather from one of them that I found off the ground hehehe. And we get a sack lunch and that pack us oreos! I don’t know but I think they are made slightly different because they were the most delicious oreos I have ever tasted.

Monday night was really cool though. Da silva our night teacher was teaching us how to transition between the two of us and then he had us teach him as an investigador in English cuz we all feel like we suck at teaching in Spanish. The other girls went first and came back but they said that he had asked if they wouldn’t say anything about it so we just went. We got down there and he was playing the piano when we knocked so he opened the door and we were just doing really good and he let us right in, we talked to him a little bit to get to know him and then started in to our lesson on the restoration and he stopped us half way through! He said we were so good he was about to start crying! And he was! His eyes were tearing up! Oh man, I thought we were doing ok but not that great. I think that I really needed to know that I would eventually be able to do this, that right now my Spanish may suck but I can teach. Apparently the other girls didn’t get in so easily.

Yesterday the other girls planned a song and dance for the door approach its hilarious! We’ll be videotaping it in secret. We taught our morning teacher and our lesson was so bad. She asked in Spanish if she would see god if she prayed and I misunderstood the question and said yes twice to it then my companion started calling joseph smith jesus smith (cuz in Spanish joseph is jóse and jesus is jesus) right after and we just lost it and started laughing so hard we had to just end.

They have really amazing fruit and rolls here let me just tell you, but da silva was saying in his three weeks when he was here he gained 8 lbs and out in the field same mission he gained 30 cuz its all pasta… oh man I love pasta…. This is going to be a challenge, one of my latina roommates when we told her she was joking around that in the end we would all come home as two people!

Today hasn’t been too bad that’s all

Love, danielle

oh also, I thought they would print off dear elder here but they don’t they print it off in salt lake or provo then mail it here so it takes three weeks to get it... so you can still send some to me! then I won’t be the only one not getting mail but I just won’t get it for a while and you won’t get a reply for a while.