ma, can you forward this to everyone? takes too much time to type in everyone's address and I only have 27 min left! thanks to ma, jmag and sis. mangum for the letters! and thanks jmag, for the email and photos of *bgp. she is so cutie!
not sure if you got the snail mail letter i sent--i wrote it on the morning after i got here, but didn't mail it out til later, i think. anyway, life is good! we are kept busy--super busy. we taught our first lesson EN ESPANOL to an "investigator" yesterday (that would be our second full day of being here). and we have a follow-up lesson with him today. (he's an actor, i think? and a good one, too. you would never know that he wasn't a real native speaker and not already a member.) nerve wracking. but, this teaching method is so inspired. we must teach even though we don't have the language skills to really teach--so we learn humility and faith real quick. plus, we are more motivated to learn! there are so many resources available to us, though. preach my gospel (PMG) is awesome, and they really utilize technology here. we have time everyday to go to a computer lab and do lessons in grammer, vocab, phrases, speaking, doctrine--all in our language, and all based off the lessons in PMG--and we can choose the lessons based on our needs and go at our own pace. this really helps to supplement the instruction we get from our teacher. we have also learned to pray in spanish and all our prayers are to be in spanish. right now, mine are mostly a funny mix of spanish and english, but i say what i can. i am really grateful i have the companera that i do. (maybe a photo next week?) hermana andrus and i are a good fit. she is very motivated to speak spanish as much as we can. between the two of us, we have the most spanish experience out of everyone in our district. it's fun to be able to help the others with what i know. we do everything with our district (10 of us)...classes, workshops, planning, meals, gym...all of us are going spanish speaking. 4 to salta, and the rest to ft. lauderdale and phoenix. the elders are definititely 19 years old, but funny and not intolerable. (i just helped one with his laundry. "...hermana? can i wash this towel with my whites? how do i turn on the washer?") funny.
when we got here, we got a lot of teaching/language materials from the bookstore free of charge--scriptures and PMG en espanol, a more recent edition of that red book that i left (grammer, phrases related to PMG), a spanish/english dictionary, a spanish grammer book, pamphets in spanish and english and a water bottle with a filter! (just those going out of the states got that.) it's all pretty heavy. i am going to be in trouble. i have to use up at least 8 pounds of shampoo and sunscreen and toothpaste before i leave the mtc.
sorry this is kind of scrambled. i forgot my list of stuff to tell you. if you want to write while i'm here, dearelder.com might be the best way to go. we can read mail everyday after 9:20 pm, but can only email once a week (for 30 min). and dearelder is faster than regular mail, i believe. anyway, something to look in to. today is only a fake p-day. normally, my p-day is on thursday. i see jansen's younger brother a lot in the cafeteria. he's going to russia. looks like he's doing well. my watch broke yesterday. i only owned it for like a week. and i'm totally lost without knowing what time it is. we're on such a tight schedule and our classroom doesn't have a clock. i'm getting lots of practice saying, "hermana, que hora es?" the bookstore can change the battery for a pretty low cost. good thing. got fingerprinted yesterday for our visas. next week we meet with the argentine counsul so he can sign our visas. not sure what that all means, but sounds important.
ma, i need to have my original yellow immunization card for my yellow fever shot. (just the one for yellow fever.) can you please mail that to me?
my time is up! love you all! i know that Heavenly Father is aware of us and wants us to be happy. i know that if we put our faith in him, we will be blessed. there is power in the scriptures!
hermana mag
*bgp = baby girl precious (a nickname for Savannah)
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