I'm eating what?!

                                                                                                                     Oct. 14, 2013

 

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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

Homeless men, Jehovah’s witnesses, and Devil dogs, oh my!

Hola Familia!

 

First of all, Conference was wonderful!!!! It was definitely a different experience watching it in Spanish but I was able to understand it (for the most part) and the Spirit speaks all languages :) It was a little sad to not be able to listen to the actual voices as they were speaking, especially when a veces I could hear what they were saying in English and could hear their voices, but it’s ok. It made me love Elder Richard G. Scott a whole lot more because I guess that before General Conference he recorded his talk in Spanish, so they played that instead of having a translator. It was a tender mercy getting to hear an Apostle give his talk in Spanish :)

Ok. I have like, five stories I want to tell you about and very little time so I will type as fast as I can and if I don´t tell all of them I will finish next week.

 

Ok, first. Devil dogs. So here in Peru everybody and their dog has a dog. I wish that was an exaggeration. Emily, you would not like it at all. You can´t walk five feet without walking by at least one dog, but most likely two. Most of the dogs are pretty nice and will leave you alone but there is this one dog (who just so happens to be the dog of one of our investigators who is getting baptized this weekend) who absolutely hates us. We can´t walk down their street (which also just so happens to be one of the main streets we have to walk down every day) without the dumb thing chasing us and snapping at our heels and barking its head off. It is completely black and sometimes I could swear it even has red eyes. Best part? This dog only barks and chases the missionaries. It doesn´t matter if they are latinos, gringos, elders, or hermanas. Somehow, the dumb thing knows. It does not even move a muscle if anybody else is walking down the street but as soon as we turn the corner its ugly little head pops up, he stares us down for about 3 seconds and then he practically falls over himself trying to get up as fast as it can to chase us down. We are pretty sure he is the spawn of Satan. If you can´t tell there is no love lost between us and this dog. We were plotting ways to get it run over by a car, but then we decided that probably wasn´t very christ-like so we stopped. But let’s just say that if this dog met an untimely end, we wouldn´t be very sad. :)

 

Ok. The Homeless man. So there are a lot of homeless people here too. It’s really sad. My heart almost broke one day when I saw an entire family digging through garbage looking for food. It is really sad that we can´t do anything for them, but that isn´t the reason I´m telling you about this, this story is actually pretty funny. 

Ok, so the other night Hermana Shriver and I were contacting in the street talking to a man when all of a sudden I felt a hand on my shoulder. At first I thought it was Hna Shriver nudging me but when I looked over at her she had a really worried look on her face so I looked on the other side of me and this homeless man had his arm around me! He was just standing there with his arm around me staring at us. So Hna Shriver pulls me back and says, ¨Hey! Don´t touch my companion!¨  And then the man we were contacting says, ¨Oi! What are you doing?! Can´t you see we are talking about the word of God here!?¨ And then all of a sudden the homeless man starts going into a rant about something, (not really sure what) and the man we were contacting and him get into a fight about religion right in front of us! Hna. Shriver and I just looked at each other, started backing away slowly, and said, ¨Yeah, well, siempre esta invitado a la Iglesia!¨ and started walking as fast as we could the other way. Ok. So maybe this story really isn´t that funny but for some reason to us it was the funniest thing in the world. The next day we were explaining what happened to the Zone Leaders and we literally had tears running down our faces we were laughing so hard. Elder Gneiting said, ¨So what you´re telling me is that a homeless man tried to make a move on Hermana Shelton, and it turned into a street fight.¨ Yeah, basically that’s what we were saying. And then Elder Huambo says, ¨Man, the Hermanas always have the craziest things happen to them.¨ (Something along those lines, it was all in Spanish :)) Yeah. It’s true.

Ok. Jehovah’s Witnesses. So the Jehovah’s Witnesses are always out proselyting on the weekends and this past Saturday we were walking past the house of one of our investigators, M., and saw them talking to her through the window! We were like, ¨Oh no you don´t!¨ So we made a little detour to walk past her window all casually, and as we walked by she yelled out, ¨Hermanas! Como Estan?¨ So of course we just had to go over and talk to her and she asked us if we had time to come in for a minute and of course we said yes! So she opened the door for us, and said goodbye to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and we had a nice little chat about the Book of Mormon. One point for the Mormons! 

Ok. Now a more serious one. Last night I had the most precious experience yet of my mission I think. We went to teach a family and the mom had to go run and get water and it was going to take some time, but she wanted us to wait so we said we would. There was a big group of kids, (two of them being hers) playing soccer in the street and they ran over and asked if we could teach them! We were like, well of course! And so all 9 of the kids, (between the ages of 7 and 14) sat down in the street and we talked about Jesus with them for 20 minutes! It was so precious. They were all completely attentive, and we taught them how to pray and how they were all children of God, and then we asked them how they could follow Jesus and they all raised their hands and named of ways they could be more like Jesus. And then we sang, I am a child of God, and one of them said the closing prayer, and then we taught them how to say some words in English. It was so tender I almost cried. :) 

Ok, I have to go. Remind me next week to tell you about the time I threw up my entire lunch in the house of the member we´d just eaten at :) 

 

I love you all! Happy Birthday again Emily!!! And mom, Yes, putting pictures of Jesus on the box helps packages get here.

I love you!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Shelton

 

Hola! Hola!

                                                                                                Sept. 30, 2013

Hola! Hola!

 

I am glad to hear everyone had a good week and that you had a good birthday Mom. After I got off the computer last week I realized that I had forgotten to wish you a happy birthday and I felt bad, but I thought about you on Thursday and asked Heavenly Father to send you my love and birthday wishes, so I hope you felt it :) 

 

One thing I would love in a Christmas package is the Nashville tribute band CD called, ¨The Work.¨ Most especially the song called, ¨The hardest thing I´ve ever loved to do¨ I can´t think of anything else right now off the top of my head but I will ask about tricks for getting a package here safely and let you know more next week.

 

Haha, sorry about the ¨having experiences I can´t tell you about yet¨ part of my letter last week. Don´t worry, I´m safe! We just get a lot of attention. My new area is a lot poorer than my old area and we have a lot of the cerros (hills). Basically that means that we go hiking every single day, but that’s ok. I am getting some serious calf muscles! The people here are very receptive and friendly and a lot will listen to us, the problem is getting them to progress. But most people we talk to are very nice and I think I have only talked to one man who doesn´t believe in God. Everyone is very, very religious... and very very Catholic. :) Also, something I was warned about, and have come to know for myself as well, is that everyone here believes that the only way to receive revelation is through dreams. An elder in the office was talking to us my second week here and asked if we´d heard about any ¨dreams¨ yet. I said no and he said, ¨Oh. You will.¨ And its true. I have had several investigators ask me to interpret a dream they had, and many others tell me that if they receive an answer from God in their dreams, then they will know that the Book of Mormon is true, or that they should get baptized, etc... We get to explain about the Spirit and how it works a whole lot! :)

 

I did get to watch the Relief Society broadcast this week! In Spanish of course, but same thing :) I was thinking throughout the whole thing, ¨I bet Mom and Kylee are watching this right now, too!¨ It was so good. I was so excited to listen to President Monson. And  I am so excited for Conference this weekend! We get to watch it at the Stake Center (in Spanish of course) and I can´t wait. 

 

We had a good week! A little bit stressful, but good. We had a baptism this weekend for J. and basically everything that could´ve gone wrong, did. We couldn´t get hold of our ward mission leader all week, everyone who was supposed to be on the program cancelled, and the font wouldn´t fill up with water. So we had to move to a different Chapel, do the program ourselves, and call the ward mission leader in my old ward to get the baptismal clothes, but we were able to baptize him and thats the most important part. It also meant I had the ¨opportunity¨ to improvise a talk about baptism in Spanish and give it in front of everyone. That was only a little bit terrifying. But I think it went pretty ok! Hna Shriver and I also sang a musical number and J. sang with us and it was really sweet. (have I mentioned before that he´s ten?) The three of us sang Teach me to Walk in the Light and his aunt (who was recently baptized as well and is his legal guardian) told us afterwards that it’s her new favorite hymn. J. doesn´t talk much and it was a little bit difficult to teach him and get him to open up to us, but in his prayer we had with him before his baptism he said, ¨Thank you for the Hermanas Misioneras, who have helped me and become like a family to me¨ It was probably one of the sweetest things I´ve ever heard. I may have even teared up a little bit :) So, even though everything leading up to the baptism was stressful, it was all worth it :)

 

I can´t think of anything else super exciting that happened this week, just a normal week in the life of a missionary. :) 

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful week at home! I love you all!!

 

Hermana Shelton

 

Three months!

                                                                                                               Sept. 23, 2013

 

Familia!

 

Si, yo tengo 3 meses en la mision! Three months in the mission, thats so crazy. In some ways that feels like no time at all, but in others ways it feels like I´ve lived in Peru my whole life! My life with ya´ll back home seems like a dream right now :) 

I did have a wonderful week! Hermana Shriver and I have lots of crazy experiences together thats for sure. Some of them I probably won’t tell you until I´m back home so you don´t worry ;) As two gringas we get LOTS of attention from everybody. I used to think being famous would be fun, but after having people literally stop in their tracks and stare at us as we walk by or yell ¨Gringas!¨ at us from across the street or cat call and whistle at us constantly, I´ve changed my mind about that :) We were teaching a lesson to one of our investigators in his little tienda the other day and someone stopped and took a picture of us. That was a little weird. Also, everybody knows who we are. Not even joking. We knocked on a door the other day and he was like, ¨Oh yeah! I know you two. I saw you walking down by the municipalidad the other day.¨ And we´ve heard other things similar to that more than once. Oh well. We get in a lot of doors and we have no problem meeting our goal of 100 contacts every week (everyone likes to talk to us :P) so its ok. 

 

I need to tell you about our investigators! We have a baptism this week. His name is J. and he is ten years old. His aunt joined the church almost two years ago and now he wants to get baptized as well. So his baptism is this Saturday. We have one more baptismal date for J. He is 23 years old and has friends that are members in our ward. We have been teaching him as well and he is excited and preparing for his baptism on the 12 of October. We found a family that we absolutely love and we visit them a lot. They are our Golden Family :) M is the mom and she is pregnant, and then there is M. her husband and they have a 16 year old named D. a 14 year old named M. and a two year old named M.. They were all at church last week and have been reading the Book of Mormon, but yesterday only M. came to church and they have some struggles that they are trying to work through. So we are hoping and praying for them that they will continue to progress. We love them so much. And they love us two :) They are always so excited to see us and they let us in at any time of day and always give us food :) haha.

 

Oh. I don´t think I´ve told you much about my companion! Hermana Shriver is from Highland and she went to Lone Peak. We get along really well and have way too much fun together. Her mom asked her in her email today for your phone number mom, so I bet she will be calling you sometime this week :) I will try to send some pictures!

 

Ok. Answers to questions: It is highly possible that ¨The House of the Lord¨ book is in my stuff. If it is it is in the clear plastic crate with the orange lid. About going to the temple, Ky, it’s so amazing! You will love it. But, you probably won’t understand or know what’s going on the first time. Don´t worry. Just relax and focus on feeling the spirit. And, go back as soon as you can. I was really grateful to have what was going to happen explained to me before I went in and it helped a lot, so Mom, maybe just walk her through it a little bit? 

I haven´t received any more letters, but it is possible that they are sitting at the mission office and they just haven´t been picked up by the zone leaders. It takes a while for us to get mail here :P Also, packages have been getting to everyone here just fine. If you wanted to send a package for Christmas, I wouldn´t mind :) 

 

Thank you for all your love and support! I love and miss you all. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

 

Con mucho amor,

 

Hermana Shelton

 

A greenie no more...

                                                                                               September 16, 2013

A greenie no more…

 

Guess what?! I was transferred last week! But the best part about it was....I only had to move beds and desk space ;) Haha.

 

I was transferred over into Barrio Independencia, the other ward in our zone with Hermanas. And since we are living in the same house right now, it wasn´t that big of a change. :) The big change though was that the two latina Hermanas that were in that ward were transferred out of the zone and now I am in a companionship with Hermana Shriver, another Norteamericano. and.....we aren´t in a trio anymore, and....Hermana Shriver has exactly 10 weeks in the field and I have 6. So to sum up my new situation, We are two brand new Gringas with limited Spanish skills, and we are training ourselves. Yeah. Oh! And my new area includes a bunch of the hills and really poor areas of Independencia. Remember that picture I sent of me up in the hills? Yup, that was taken in my new area! So. If right about now you are thinking, ¨What in the heck was Presidente Erickson thinking?!¨ join the club. Cause that was our reaction too :)

 

Haha, but no. We are actually really excited and it has been really good! We have been amazed at how much we actually know when we are the only ones there to do it. We were really really worried about the Spanish at first, but I am here to testify about the gift of tongues, because it is real. When we are sitting down with our investigators teaching a lesson or talking to the members we have been able to understand everything that is being said. And when we speak back our Spanish is fluid and I say things that I didn't know I knew how to say. We were talking last night and both agreed that we don´t feel like the language is one of our difficulties. Which is a miracle.

 

Needless to say we have definitely had other difficulties and it has been really hard, but we are both ready to work hard and learn a lot. We get along SO well, and have the same goals and ideas in mind which allows us to work together really well tambien. (also) And, we have a blast together so that adds to our companionship as well :)

 

We have felt Heavenly Fathers help so much this past week. And we talked and agreed that we need a whole lot of blessings right now if we are going to accomplish anything. So we are trying our hardest to be obedient and listen to the spirit and rely on Heavenly Father. 

 

I will have to tell you more about our Investigators next week, but I wanted to let you know that we had a miracle in both companionships of Hermanas yesterday. We have been praying so hard to have our investigators come to church (In my old area and in my new one) and yesterday The Hermanas of Violetas had 7 investigators (I  think of them as mine still, it’s weird adjusting to a new area when my old one is so close) and Hna. Shriver and I had....7 investigators at church as well! What?! After weeks of zero or maybe one or two that attended, yesterday was a miracle. Between the two companionships we had four families in church. Ahh! Thank you for all yours prayers! I know they are helping. We are so excited to continue working with them and hopefully have baptisms in the upcoming month. 

 

Kylee! I am so excited to hear about your mission call! That’s perfect for you. How are you feeling? Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to come up with a list of advice to send you as well :)

 

Hey mom, will you let Holly know that I got both her letters? I got the one she sent the day I entered the CCM and I also got the one with the program from Abby’s baptism with the note she wrote about it. Haha, I opened the one with the Baptismal program when I was at our weekly zone meeting and as soon as I realized what it was I started crying and it freaked all the Elders out. They didn´t quite know what to do with a crying Hermana. It was kind of funny. :) They kept asking me, ¨are these happy tears or sad tears?¨ I assured them they were happy tears :)

 

Chispas. It’s time to go. Elder Gneiting, one of my zone leaders just came over and told me to get off the computer. (Chispas is the Peruvian way to say, ¨darn it!¨) 

 

Thank you for your email and spiritual thought Dad! I like that a lot. Once again I am sure I am leaving so much out but I always have next week.

 

I love you all!!!!!!!!!

 

Con mucho amor,

 

Hermana Shelton

Cucarachas, cucarachas, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh

                                                                                                      Sept. 9, 2013

Hello everybody!

 

There weren’t enough computers open for us today so I had to wait and don’t have a lot of time to write but I will try to write as much as I can!

 

If you can tell from the subject line we made some new friends this past week. (Cucaracha means cockroach in Spanish) Let me explain. We moved to a new apartment this past week! Thursday morning the Zone leaders told us they had a new apartment for us and Friday morning we moved in. We are still living with all six of the Hermanas, but now we are in a better apartment that is closer to the Zone leaders and is in a more secure area. Everything about it is great! Except for the fact that it was occupado before us. By a ginormous family of cucarachas. I am not even exaggerating when I say that yesterday night alone we killed 50 of them in the time frame of about, 15 minutes. So that’s been fun. But hey, we can always use more friends, right?

 

Someone else noticed also that we´d moved in and this morning our neighbors, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, knocked on our door to give us a pamphlet. So that was fun as well.

 

Oh man. It's been an interesting week. And today is transfers! It’s a possibility that our companionship might be split up so I'm pretty nervous right now. I wish they'd tell us before email time so I could let ya´ll know but oh well. 

 

Sunday was really good yesterday! We had one of our investigators, V., come to church and she is progressing quite nicely. We're really excited for her. Also, on our way to church we ran into a member who wanted to introduce us to a friend and his sister who were interested in the church and we were able to talk to him and he came to church as well!  It was definitely a miracle.

 

Well, I don't have any more time and I am sure I am forgetting so much, but hopefully I will have more time next week.

 

I love you all and can't wait to hear about your mission call Ky!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Con mucho mucho amor,

 

Hermana Shelton

 

P.S. That storm sounds crazy!!! I wish I could’ve seen it.

 

P.P.S. thank you for all the emails from everybody, I promise I will respond individually next week!

 

Officially a Peruvian!...well, sort of.

Officially a Peruvian!...well, sort of.                                             Sept. 2, 2013

 

Hola mi Familia!

 

Como estan todos? Muchas gracias por todos sus cartas! There is so much going on at home!

 

Yo tengo una buena noticia para ustedes! (I have good news for you all) :) My visa went through and I received my Peruvian ID this past week. I am officially a resident of Lima Peru! Whoa. That’s kind of weird. But awesome at the same time. :)

 

I am feeling a LOT better. I have been taking an antibiotic (I think in the US it’s called a Zpac?) and the fever and flu and everything is gone, all that’s left over is the cough, but that has gotten a lot better these past few days as well. 

 

I literally can’t believe that I am sitting at the computer typing another letter to you already. This past week absolutely FLEW by. I can’t even think of what happened! It has been pretty normal. Living with 6 hermanas has proven interesting, but its working out better than the Zone leaders thought it would, so that’s good :) It’s actually been kind of nice showering en la casa de Hermana B. (nuestro pensionista) because she is a hair stylist and always offers to brush out and blow dry our hair for us. It’s really sweet :) It’s also been nice because the otro Hermanas were fed an absolutely terrible soup this past week and were really sick, so with six hermanas we are able to go on splits and still be able to go to all of our appointments. The two that were sick stayed home while Hna Schroader went with the other Hermana to their appointments and Hna Mamani and I went to our appointments. Today for P day we are going ´´apartment shopping´´ (woo hoo....) and I am sad that we won’t all be living together for very much longer. But, we´ll see what happens!

 

With our investigators it was another really disappointing Sunday. We taught G. the Law of Chastity this past week and ever since then he´s been avoiding us and he didn´t come to Church yesterday. :( We´re praying really hard for him because he has been SO excited and has such a strong testimony. We ran all over our area Saturday night and Sunday morning trying to get all our investigators to come to church and we ended up with exactly ZERO once again. We were pretty bummed but we know that Satan is trying his hardest to stop their progress so we are just going to have faith that next Sunday they will come and we are going to pray and work as hard as we can for them this week. We also found two new families and several other promising new investigators that were really excited about so we´re happy. Oh! L. received a calling this past week! She was called to serve as the second counselor in the young women’s presidency. It’s basically perfect for her :) It’s kind of funny, two weeks ago we were planning her baptism in Ward Council, and yesterday she was IN ward council! We are really excited for her. (Also, I haven´t been told anything about pictures and names on blogs...I think putting up the pictures should be fine and just the first letter of their names)

 

I can´t believe all that’s happening at home! I am so excited for Amy and Troy! And also Whitney! 

 

And Dad, that’s crazy all that is happening at your school! I will be praying for you extra hard tomorrow. I know you will do great :)

Mom, good luck with Preschool starting, I want to know how it goes and also how everything goes with your new job at Windsor!

Jess, thank you so much for your email. I can´t believe you are a big high schooler now! I LOVED what you told me about your experience with the word confidence. It’s so true. You are a confident beautiful young woman who is going to do amazing things. Remember that, yeah?

Emily, thank you for your email too! Jr. High huh? I am glad to hear you are making new friends! I want to hear all about it! I know that you are going to do wonderfully too.

Abby, I am glad that school is OK :) and that you get to sit by your friends! That sounds way fun! I love the book Serpent Tide. How do you like it so far?

Kylee, ahh! I am anxious to hear about your call! What else are you up too?

 

I have received three letters so far. One from Spencer, a pouch letter from Ashley and a wedding invitation from Katie (my roommate from last semester. Ashland’s sister :)) I am still waiting for the ones from my family! :)

 

Well, I love you all! Good luck with everything that is going on this week and with school. I am sorry I don´t have time to respond individually but I tried to at least a little bit above. 

 

I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! Send everyone in the family my love, OK? If anyone asks tell them I say, ´´Te Quiero Mucho!´´ (I love you lots!) Thank you for all your love and support. 

 

 

Con mucho amor,

 

Hermana Shelton