Dad! I am so glad you got my letter on your
birthday, and it sounds like you had the dream day. You have good
friends, and there is nothing like having two breakfasts!
Mom, I got the package, the slip is perfect! Thank
you thank you thank you! I do have a few requests for you and dad.
First of all, if you and dad and whoever could send me some of your
favorite conference talks, printed out, I would love that. Also some
information on the women in the Old Testament, I guess how they are
inspiring. I started reading the Bible and it is a little nuts. I am
trying to make sense of it, and Mana Rosen is reading it at the same
time, which is good, so we discuss alot. But We are trying to find the
spiritual messages! So any ideas with that would be great. And one
more thing, I have this book at home, it is a personality test called
Enneogram, I think, It is a light yellow cover with a blue face on it.
If you can locate that, that would be the best.
This week has been awesome. We have finally met all
of our investigators and started making plans and preparing for them.
It has been a little weird, because we really don't know them super
well, but it is the best! And I already love them all. We have one
investigator who is on date to be baptized, she is 14 and the niece of
one of our recent converts-Sandra, her name is Daniela, and she is the
sweetest. We are working with her, trying to see her more often during
the week and all that Jazz. We are also teaching a mother and a
daughter from peru, Laurdes y Gaby. Gaby is best friends with Daniela
and Laurdes is best friends with Sandra. So there
is friend-shipping all around. Gaby and Laurdes are the most united
mother daughter I have ever seen. They are so humble and love the Book
of Mormon. Sandra, the recent convert is just on fire, loving the
gospel and has two cute little kids and a bird named Nelson (after the
apostle).
We started getting to know people, but there are
just so many, slowly but surly, we are getting there. They feed us
here, so it is a good way to get to know the members!
We had our zone meeting last week, which was like an hour
away. Our zone is the largest geographically in the mission, so yikes.
But it was an awesome zone meeting. We talked about goals and visions
and all those shenanigans, very inspiring. Also President Wilson came,
which was new, because we are literally neighbors with him, so I guess
down here we will see him alot more often.
Which reminds me, we had dinner on Saturday night
with President and Sister Wilson. They invited us over, and it was so
much fun. They are just hilarious. It was neat to have that time to
get to know them better as humans, and Mana Rosen and I just had a wee
of a time. We were all laughing the whole time, and we also gave them a
little training on talking to Hispanics. Mostly taught them how to say
they were from the church and give them a card in Spanish and then they
give you their information, its a great little system.
We have been getting more used to the area and
figuring things out a little bit more. We also did some tracting for
the English sisters and it was way rough. First of all is was pouring
rain, which by the way it does here all the time, and no one even
pretended to listen to us. But we sang Spanish songs and had a lovely
time.
We also had a crazy lesson with this Evangelical guy
who was trying to teach us, and it was kind of nuts. But we had this
fuerte member with us who just bore her testimony and we got out of
there right quick. But it was the good mems.
Also I gave a real live talk yesterday! In Espanol!
It was very real, 20 mins long, called on Saturday, the whole 9 yards.
It was about members and missionary work. And I had to wing it a
little. But it ended up going pretty well! I am starting to feel more
comfortable conversing in spanish. and Mostly i am so grateful that I
was called spanish speaking!
I still love being a missionary. We work hard, and
we are tired, but it is just so so so good. I love my savior so very
much, and I just want to do what he would have me do. Thank you for
your love. I need you guys. I hope you have the best week!
xoxo Mana Myer
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