MEXICO!!!

                           I am in Mexico, after traveling for over 20 hours (I don't even know what sleep is anymore) and I just got done with a crazy taxi ride (as in, broken windshield, hatch totally opened with suit cases in the back, and doesn't obey any of the street laws haha fun stuff!!) and my first companion speaks only Spanish, yay! so we have been carrying around our Spanish and English dictionaries and pointing at a lot of stuff to converse with each other, planning lessons will be really exciting haha.

I would have to say Mexico is very different from the US but It is pretty cool. There is a preschool in front of our house and they do a ton of Zumba there in the night so I guess you hear music from there all the time. I walked in on Gangdam style, have not heard that for a loooooong time haha. It will take a little while to get used to everything, but I am excited for it. 

                  Well I do not have to much time today I will try to write you all next week, I get to go meet all the members in my area now it will be interesting...I still don't understand that much Spanish...but it will get there! Love you all! Have a great week!!

Love,

Hermana Orison

Spanish Spanish Everywhere!!

             Only seven days left!! Whoow!! Time is counting down haha it really doesn't feel like I've been out for a month.

 So this past week I had to go pick up an international missionary for our new district, but when I went to pick her up there were two other international sisters that had no one to show them around (their sister training leaders didn't come for them) So I adopted them for the day. One was from Porta Rico, another from Spain and the other from an island I have no idea how to pronounce or spell (same with he language) so we had three languages going on at once it was pretty fun haha.

 Oh it was cool we got to teach through Skype this week, it is so weird! And a little hard to figure out what they were saying, but it went really well :)

            It is getting a lot colder here! Which sucks because I packed mainly for Mexico and not too much for Salt Lake haha but I only have one more week here. I'll probably be complaining about heat stroke next week, haha stay tuned!

               Funny Story: we were teaching are teacher (pretending she was an investigator) about baptism, and I showed her a picture of my baptism and she asked who I was baptized with.

"Mi Hombre!" I said and realized that I meant hermano and not hombre. My companions busted up laughing as well as my teacher.

Yes, apparently I was baptized with MY MAN instead of MY BROTHER haha sorry Luke ;)

              

                             Herma Day was about to depart to we had a S'more party in our PJs :)

              Verse: 2 Nephi 10:20- When life is just not going your way and it seems that you keep hitting more and more road blocks just remember that God is leading you to something better, it may not look like it at the time but when you have faith in Him it will all turn out for the best.

                I love you all!! I'll write you from Mexico new week! Whoot!!!!

Time Flys By With Spanish

Hola!

Whoot! Week 4! It feels like time is flying by fast! My favorite district (okay besides mine ;) ) just left to Mexico this morning, I', a little sad because I'm going to miss them a ton! But I'm also excited for them because they will do amazing work! :) So now we are the oldest district in our branch, it is so weird, I don't feel like I've been here that long.

But awesome news! We have been teaching our investigator Hely, for a little while now and she accepted our Baptism invitation this week!! Such an exciting moment! It was honestly the best lesson I have had the opportunity to teach, even though our Spanish was not that great, the spirit was so strong!! I've never felt it that strong before, it was truly amazing :)

Yesterday, our leadership roles changed, I am still the sister training leader but now two of the elders in my district have become Zone leaders and another is a district leader. So on Sunday's pretty much my whole district is attending meetings (SO MANY MEETINGS!! GAH!!) but I am really proud of my district, they are the best!! :)

Haha funny story, we made a goal to not  say the word hate in our district, instead we should replace it with love, I guess we took it a little seriously because everyone is now screaming I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!! throughout the halls and classes haha all the other districts look at us like we are crazy (okay so we are a little crazy...) haha the best is when I yell it at the Elders when they are being realllly annoying!! (many times in the day haha) Fun stuff :)

Quote of the week:

We started singing in choir when-

Sister missionary: "Shouldn't we say a prayer before starting?"

Choir Instructor: "I like to warm us all up before praying, because then I know how much I need to pray." haha 

Scripture of Week: 2 Nephi 8:12- (read it!) when the lord is on our side, we have no reason to be afraid. He is there to guide and comfort you through all of your trials, have faith in Him and you can accomplish all things!

Love you all! I'm praying for all of you!

Another One Bites the Dust !!

Hola Todas!!

It has been a really weird week, I really think all of our elders are dying off haha. One elder got a really bad sprain in soccer and his ankle swelled to the size of a big golf ball. another one has back problems and another one has a reallllllly bad cough and they are all sick. I feel really bad for them 

:( I still don't know how us sisters are doing well. 

We watched the restoration in the Korean language yesterday, to be honest it was like watching a very badly dubbed anime, don't do it because you will probably be laughing through the whole thing and be getting glares from the missionaries learning Korean (that may have happened...)

First fast Sunday was not bad at all, I thought I'd be starving but I felt perfectly fine :) I guess when you fast really hard for things, you don't feel that hungry, that's some advice to you all! :P We also got to listen to Elder Nelsons wife, it was awesome!! :)

Funny Story:

One of our Branch presidents councilors asked me to pray in Spanish, and I guess to him I messed up on some of the words (I swear I didn't!) and he told me how to fix it in front of my district.

So in our next meeting they called on me to pray again (I'm the only girl in our meetings so I guess they just like me a lot or something...) and I emphasized on all my "corrections" in my prayer really loudly to prove him that I was saying it right. They were all laughing at the end of it and congratulated me on giving a good prayer , I know I'm a brat ;)

Well, Love you all! And I hope you are all doing well!!