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| When I First Put on My Badge! |
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| Residents of Casa 9 |
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| Casa 9 |
Hola familia!!
Cómo están? (How are you doing?)
I want to apologize in advance for
any weird grammar or spelling mistakes I might make in this email. Mexican
keyboards are different than in the US!
I´m glad to hear that you got to
watch the video I made for you! I wanted to leave something special for you,
and I hope I did. It was super fun to make! :) I am so happy that Emilee´s
baptism went well. I´ve thinking about her and wondering how it all went.
I´ll try my best to give you a
summary of all that has happened so far.
WEDNESDAY
I was nervous in SLC as I looked for
my portal, but it was so easy to find because there was a whole congregation of
missionaries there! 18 of the elders are headed to the Ciudad Obregon Mission,
Cam! I told them all to look for an Elder Horlacher once they´re there. The flight
to Mexico was nice. I eat my body weight in Biscoff cookies and asked (in Español)
for jugo de naranja (orange juice). We arrived to Mexico City and drove about
45 minutes to the CCM. The city is very, very big and colorful. Right after we
arrived I got my missionary nametag and my companion. Her name is Hermana Ylst
and she’s from Draper, Utah. She´s awesome and we spend much of out time when
we´re not speaking Spanish either quoting Spongebob or Disney movies or
speaking in this awesome Mexican accent that sounds like Nacho Libre. We
unpacked and went to sleep after we had dinner. The food is actually really
good. We’ve had tamales and taquitos and lots of other Mexican dishes. :)
THURSDAY
We met our district on this day.
Elders Barrus and Lunt are both going to Ciudad Obregon, and Hermanas Harman
and Barton are both going to Hermosillo. I call the girls in my district
"Las Hermanas" because we do everything together! They’re darling
girls And I´ll try to tell you more about them next week. We memorized our
missionary purpose in English then in Spanish.
FRIDAY
Oops Hermana Ylst and I accidentally
slept in a bit this day, but luckily we made it to class in time. More Spanish
on this day.
I´m going to skip to Sunday because
I´m so short on time.
SUNDAY
What an amazing day. We finally got
to relax our brains a teeny bit and just enjoy meetings. There was a common
theme of love throughout most of them. In sacrament meeting, which is only with
my zone, I was called on to give a talk on el Espíritu Santo or the Holy Ghost.
I had to read it off of a script that I had written, but I was able to bear my
testimony at the end in Español. We later watched this devotional Jeffrey R.
Holland gave to the MTC some years back. It was just what I needed! He talked
about Peter when Christ asked him that if he loved Him he must feed His sheep.
I hope that my love can grow so much for
Christ and for the people of Hermosillo. I have been called to feed His sheep
and I will do my best to fulfill my duties.
I´m out of time but I want you all to
know that I love you SO MUCH! I have been blessed to not have terrible
homesickness, though I miss you every day.
We´re not allowed to take pictures
here at the CCM, but I´ll try to send the one´s I have taken so far next week!
Next week I´ll try to have more
detail!!
Con amor,
Hermana Hauck
