Oct. 14, 2013
*Disclaimer: To all those who have
read, are now reading, and will yet read my letters home.
As my Spanish skills are increasing,
my English skills are decreasing rapidly. Please ignore any past, current, or
future mistakes of grammar, incorrect spelling, or weirdly phrased sentences.
(Also, on Spanish computers every English word I spell is wrong so the dumb
spelling check is no help at all.)
If you agree to the above demands,
you may continue reading. ;)
Family!!
Guess what?! I got FOUR letters this
week! I got three letters through regular mail, (the one from Emily, one from
Holly, and one from Peggy) and then I got a Dear Elder letter from Sister
Chappell. Thank you so much for your letters everybody, they definitely
brightened up my week and it was so good to hear from all of you! It looks like
regular mail works pretty good, so maybe that is the best way to send them? It
takes about 4 weeks for them to get to me, but at least some have gotten to me!
:)
And mom, you asked about what I
would like in a Christmas package and I was thinking maybe some new CDs of
church songs, a new skirt (the polka dot one from missionary mall maybe? :)),
some of my sheet music for the piano (especially my sheet music for the EFY
medley) and then just some letters and pictures from everybody at home :) oh!
and some good ol´ American candy like starbursts would be nice too :) I am
getting a little worried about where I am going to find contact solution
because hasta ahora I haven´t been able to find any and I only have one bottle
left, but I am going to talk to Hermana Erickson and see if she knows where I
can buy some and then let you know and maybe you can send some to me? And yes,
print out pictures of Jesus and the virgin Mary and paste them on the package,
and then seal it really good with tape and it should get here without any
problems.
Dad, thank you for your stories
about your mission! They made me laugh, especially the one about your companion
getting in front of you and getting bit by the dog, because that exact same
thing almost happened to me and Hermana Shriver! The dog was coming at us and
she immediately jumped in front of me and hit it with her bag. Luckily neither
of us were bit, but we´ve had some close calls :) I know what you mean about
all the drunk people too. I see too many drunk people to count on a daily
basis. We do our best to ignore them as well, but they´re pretty
annoying.
Ok. I promised the story about
throwing up. So last week I was pretty sick to my stomach for most of the week.
It is a feeling I am getting used to because no matter how hard you try to
avoid it, we eat things that do NOT agree with our stomachs. So anyway, last
week was just one of those weeks and we went to the house of a member for
lunch. This lady is very sweet, but she likes to give us a whole lot of food.
The first course, a soup, did not taste very good at all and it was making me
super sick to eat it and there was a whole lot of it, but I somehow got it all
down and was feeling ok. Then she brought out the second, and then third
course, and by this point I was doing all I could to try and keep it down. We
got up to leave and my stomach literally could not hold it all in anymore and I
threw up the entire second and third courses all over their floor. and then, I
threw up the first course as well. Hermana Shriver said that it was literally
like watching a volcano explode, she couldn´t believe how fast and how much
food came back up out of my stomach. (sorry if that grosses any one out) so
anyway. That was fun.
And I just have to tell you about
what I ate this past week. I still can´t even believe I ate this, but here it
goes. So we were at Hermana N's house and she gave us these little meat
looking things to eat with our bread. They looked a little funny but we
couldn´t say no so we put some on our bread and started to eat. When I bit into
it I saw that the inside was really, really red and we were a bit concerned,
but the outside of it was practically burnt so we thought we were ok. Also,
they didn´t taste too bad so we continued to eat them (because she kept
bringing us more) well, as I was eating my third sandwich Hermana Shriver gets
up the courage to ask N. what we were eating. And as I am taking a bite she
says, ¨Oh, this is Sangrecita!¨ (in English that translates over to fried pigs
BLOOD!!!) WHAT?!?! Hermana Shriver said my face was PRICELESS. My eyes got
really, really, big and my mouth dropped open, and it took all my will power to
not spit out what was in my mouth. Yeah. That was an experience...
Oh! I have to tell you! We had two
baptisms this past weekend! J. is a 25 year old man that the other Hermanas
started teaching back in July, and we got lucky enough to be able to be the
ones who got to finish teaching, and invite to be baptized! And then we also
baptized L., who has been receiving the missionaries for about a year, but
had to wait to get married before he could be baptized. Well, they finally got
married last month, and he was baptized this weekend! The baptism went really well,
the spirit was super strong, and we had one of our other investigators there.
She really enjoyed it and we´re excited to see where things go with her. Also,
remember those kids we taught in the street last week? Our investigator that
was at the baptism was their mom, and all the kids came with her too. It was a
good weekend :)
Well, once again I have to go and I
had more I wanted to write about, but I will have to wait to next week.
I love you all and hope you all have
a great week! I am sorry I don´t have time to respond individually to everyone
but I wanted to let you all know that I read every single word of every email
and they make me so happy. It is so good to hear about what everyone is doing.
I will have to send pictures from the baptism next week, yeah?
LES QUIERO MUCHO!!!
Hermana Shelton
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