Buen Día Familía!
I hope you all are smiling right at this exact
moment, cause I definitely am! I have just loved everything so much here!
Here's the news for the last week:
Friday we got to go out as a district and get
contacts around the temple. We'll always take any excuse to get outisde, so of
course it was fabulous. The people we usually talk to around the temple are
often the sweetest old people you ever have met, that have got to be at least
104 years old. I love talking with them, and I'm sure I would love it even more
if I could understand what they say. The young youth that we'll talk to
occassionally are much easier to understand though.
Saturday, we went out for Proselitismo again,
except in a new area this time. My compañera and I had a very interesting area,
definitely different than our last one. It bordered a really busy street that
had lots of shops on it (some of which were sometimes a bit sketch or of the
night-time apperal sort haha). As we walked further into our area though we got
into more houses. We didn't have as much success this time, but we were able to
understand a lot more spanish and have more meaningful conversations with the
people that we did talk to. Some of which were an evangelical, an athiest, an
evangelical, a catholic, oh and more evangelicals... everyone is evangelical.
Which I'll be honest, I don't even really know what that means! But they
believe in God, so we've got some common ground at least. Also, my compañera
almost accidentally bought a whole sack of potatoes just by waving to someone
haha super funny! And we ate like homeless people sitting on the side of the
street cause there were no benches or parks, so we got some good looks haha.
Sunday was really great. So every week there's
a topic for that Sunday, and eveyone in the CCM has to write a talk in spanish
and then after the Sacrament is administered a district leader will get up and
announce which 5 missionaries the president has chosen to talk. So you better
prepare your talk every week, cause you never know if it's going to be you.
Well this week my number got drawn and I was called up to speak about Caridad y
Amor. SIDE NOTE: We were placing bets how long it would take a missionary to
mix up the word caridad (charity) with castidad (chastity). Lo and behold, the
very first elder that gets up to speak says "today the topic im speaking
on is chastity and love". Maybe I should be better, but I promise you it
took all my effort to not snort out loud from laughter! Anyways, I gave my talk
which involved talking a lot about D&C 12:6, D&C 12:8, Mosiah 4:16, and
then ending with the promise in D&C 81:5-6... if any of you care to look
those us and see what you can learn. I definitely enjoyed making the
correlations between them and speaking about their importance. So I spoke for
the usually about 5 minutes and was just glad that I never said castidad
instead of caridad. Although I may have said "I love you,
Jesus." Which isn't too bad, just a bit preachy sounding and not what I
was going for... But it's alright cause another hermana in my
district that spoke right after my said "I love
myelf, Jesus". Probably not even funny, but we laughed for probably
30 minutes about that. And then my compañera Hermana Christensen and I
gave the lesson for our Didtrict meeting right after sacrament, and I thought
we did really good considering we didn't really plan much. We've become
really good at teaching with eachother and picking up where the other leaves
off. I'm gonna miss having her as my comp, it's been so effortless with her, I
love it!
On monday my district and I came up with a fun
game of 'blind bottle toss' hahah. Hermana Harman in our district is blind in
one eye, so in tribute to her we spent a long time one day chucking water
bottles at eachother with one eye shut hahah. It's pretty trippy to try
actually! And I don't know how, but we found so much fun in doing that haha.
Also, our district is practically a zoo now. We decided what animal everyone
would be and we've got: a bear, a bunny, elk, egyptian cat, salmon, cow, cocker
spanial (cant spell), zebra, badger, baby baboon, turkey vulture, and I'm a
merekat apparently haha.
And now for the big day: wednesday we got to go
and meet Elder Cook and hear him speak!!! It really was so wonderful! I can't
ever get your suit jacket washed mom cause he touched it for so long while
shaking my hand! We also got to meet and hear from Elder Gonzales who is the
missionary leader for all of south america. I remember him speaking in
general Conference before. I really was so amazing to hear from them and be
able to meet them! I learned so much. Shucks... I wanted to share something
with you guys about it, but I wrote it in my other notebook that I forgot to
bring with me, so now I can't remember haha. I just know that I am still
beaming from being able to meet him!
And now it's Thursday and we just got back from
the temple which I always love! It was my last time that I'll be able to go to
the temple cause I leave in 5 days, on Tuesday, to Neuquen which is so crazy!!
I'm gonna miss all the missionaries here cause all of them are going to Uruguay
or Paraguay. But I'm so excited to get out there and meet my trainer!
Here's a picture for you and hopefully I'm able
to attach some more in another e-mail! love you all lots!!
Also, thank you grandma, Kaden, and
Kelsey Haddox for the Dear Elders!!
Love you all mucho!
Hermana Ashcroft
Just your typical missionary standard
works... what I study from every day.
This is my companera, my district and I on the temple grounds!
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