"La Gringa es Super Grande!"

This week a little boy in the street looked up at me and said ¨¡woahhhh este gringa es suuuuper grande!¨ so I said ¨gracias! Yo comí mis verduras, entonces...¨ and he looked  a little startled and said ¨Y linda tambien!¨ 

Martes: We went to Santa Rita and our zone is the smallest in the mission. I talked to the only other gringo in my district a lot and I always feel guilty because we almost always talk in English. And I was messing around doing southern accents and he was critiquing me and telling me which state I sounded like I was from at any given time in the sentence. Like I honestly couldn't tell the difference from someone from Georgia and someone from Louisianna... Oh and the dude at the chinese restaraunt where we ate lunch is a homie, he gave us free watermelon with our meal!

After we got back to our area, we walked and walked around but didn't contact a single house. We made baleadas with H, she's so sweet. Every flour tortilla turned out hideous, but it was good to visit with them.

Miercoles: "Por lo pronto no podéis ver con vuestros ojos naturales el designio de vuestro Dios concerniente a las cosas que vendrán más adelante, ni la gloria que seguirá después de mucha tribulación" Doctrine and Covenants 58:3

We went to go chop the bark off of those sticks again in the morning, we had an appointment with S and L but we were like "these kids are teenagers they probably won't even notice", but we talked to S later and they actually waited an hour and a half  that morning. I felt super bad and when we talked to him later it was in front of all his friends and I felt bad again, poor guy. We only contacted one house today and I was so nervous we didn't even leave a pamphlet or set up an appointment, we just invited them to a church activity. Like sometimes I just want a nice suburban street where I can just go door to door and it's all neat and organized. I was so desperate for a lesson today that I taught that drunk guy again. And later I actually contemplated setting up a teaching appointment with a guy that was obviously just trying to flirt with me. It's bad. 

Buuuut I was approved by the catrachos y catrachas in Maria's house that si, puedo hacer las baleadas. That was a little satisfying. And afterwards I went to Hna I's house to make another tres leches cake but I don't really trust the recipe I used but oh well. And we had to leave before they were done cooking...  

Jueves: ¨I wish from the inmost part of my heart, yea, with great anxiety even unto pain, that ye would hearken unto my words, and cast off your sins, and not procrastinate the day of your repentance.¨

Well flip the rapunzel of Morazán told me that her mom doesn't like our church and that she's been attending a different church anyway. It sucks when an investigator breaks up with you :( 

¨Si no cuenta con el Espíritu, nunca tendrá éxito, no importa cuánto talento y habilidad tenga¨ (If you don't find the Spirit, you'll never have success, no matter your talents and abilities". 

I just want to work. I like giving lessons, I like trying to get people to understand, I like learning from them. I like trying to help them. But the hard part is finding them!

We taught this guy and he told us how his wife just left him and I didn't know what to say... And another señor is in pain and old and feels helpless and I was just like "well ya gotta know the bad to recognize the good amiright?" Definitely need to work on that....

As a church activity we set up a projector and watched Forever Strong. The movie made me a little baggy but it was really inspirational and I think everyone liked it. My tres leches cakes that I made turned out a little dry again. I gotta work on that.....

¨En el mundo tendrés afliccion. Pero confiad; yo he vencido al mundo¨Juan 16:33

Viernes: We challenged L to get baptized today. I was doing all of the talking but then I remembered the first 12 weeks training that I was supposed to be doing with my comp so I made Enriquez do it and she was like "nooo I can't" and L was actually like "yes you can!" It was funny. I've never seen the investigator encourage the missionary to ask them to be baptized like that. 

They joked about S being able to baptized L because his baptismal date is before his but like legit that would be really cool. They're both just young men but I've taught S my whole mission (not very much time) but he's changed a lot, I even talked to his teacher at the high school (he's a church member) and he told me that he's changed a lot in these few months. 

Oh and I have a cold again! woot.

Sábado: So I probably could have left and worked today but I felt really sick and it was raining outside...But I did do all of my laundry and studied and worked on our paperwork for our area....still not sure if I'm a good senior compaion or not. At 5 we went to the house of some of the investigators of Elder Alfaro and Elder Tarqui. And the two Bolivians (my kids) made a plate typical of Bolivia called 'Pique Macho'. It's basically just  fried, beef, chorizo, hard boiled egg, and raw onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. But it was good :)  But I was still sick haha

Domingo: We got to do divisions because almost all of the youth in our ward went out with us, it was great. We got a lot of work done that way. And at the end of the day we got to have baleadas at Hna M's house and her house is like my second home here she always treats us real good and has plenty of catrachan wisdom for us hahha. 

This week definitely started out rough but I feel a lot more hope for the next week, I know that everything is possible if I just throw myself into the work... I feel like I've been holding back until now. 

Anyway hope you have a great semana santa and remember that HE LIVES! and you can too ;) 

"Mamacita" Emily

So this was my first week as a teenage mom. 

I have gemelos, or twins. A boy and a girl and they're both from Cochabamba, Bolivia. One is the hermana that I'm training and the other is the Elder that is also being trained in my district in the mission. Since I'm the senior hermana in my district, he's my "kid" as well. yeah it's weird I still don't know why they're so into the "family thing" in the mission. 

But sometimes I forget that not everyone knows what I mean if I said my mom just died. In the mission, everyone understands that that means my trainer just finished her mission and is going home. But my new companion was very concerned when I told her this. 

Jueves: When we were walking en el centro a guy passed by and said "mira, que elegante...you make elegance" probably the most original that I've gotten in a while. 

Okay so I'm trying to be real prayerful because I really need God's help right now. I think my new companion, Enriquez, has found out by now that I have no clue what I'm doing. This was her first day in the area. And we were laying on our beds with the fans on us talking and all of a sudden she stops talking and yeah she fell asleep like mid sentence. I didn't know what to do but I guessed that she was tired from all of her traveling so I let her sleep. 

Then we went out and every. single. appointment. fell. 

And I feel like a less than awesome missionary and I'm trying to not get discouraged but let me tell you it is sooo much easier when someone is just telling you what to do.
But now I have to plan everything and sometimes I feel like a bad trainer because I find myself wishing she was a gringa just so she wouldn't be able to ask so many questions! So many questions! I don't know! But really she's being super patient despite the fact that the gringa taking care of her knows next to nothing. 

Viernes: Okay so cultural difference: taking out handfulls from the cereal box instead of pouring it. 

We taught S and L and I really enjoyed it. And Enriquez is super good about doing her parts of the lessons. 

She's not afraid to speak and that's awesome.

Afterwards when it was lunch time I tried again probably for the 100th time that I usually don't cook anything for lunch I just have a snack and then use the extra time to rest or study.  Literally I think she talked about what we were going to cook or what I wanted to cook or what do I usually cook . . . like calm down my child it's just food. 

I was so proud of our recent converts R and H, when we visited them we sang Soy un Hijo de Dios and they knew almost all of the words! 

We went to help out at the english class that the elders have and Elder Hanson directed it so now all these Hondurans are going to have a southern accent. Mercy me. 

Sábado: The morning was nice, all we did was help out at our abuelo's house and I kiiiinda felt really bad because I broke her broom I guess I got too excited with all that exciting sweeping. And I also kiiinda felt like a "boss" because towards the end I started helping chop the bark off the leña so my lil' companion wanted to try but the poor thing is not used to manual labor. 

Domingo: So "S" actually woke up and went to church! He only needs to attend one more time and he's elligble for baptism! I don't really want to rush it, but it has to be in this transfer because the Assistents to the president told us that we have absolutely no excuse to not have a baptism this transfer :/ 

We taught Hno U and I don't think he understands most of what I say because of my poor spanish but when I bore my testimony of Jesus Christ and said "El vive" I could tell it stuck, and that was pretty cool. It's actually really cool to think about that Jesus does live and He's actively working in this church. 

In John 6 when Jesus feeds the five thousand it says, "aqui hay un muchacho que tiene cinco panes de cebada y dos pescados, pero que es esto para tantos?"

By itself, not much. But with Christ, it was more than enough. Whatever we have to offer, he can magnify. But we have to offer it first. We can't bury our talent in the ground just because it's one little talent and it won't amount to much. If you think that what you have to offer isn't enough to work with...then you have no idea who He is.

I've learned that we just need to give him something to work with. 

PS. I got the care package! Lindt's can't even handle being in our air conditioned house in the states.They got really melty and messy and the bag tore so there was chocolate on most of the things in the package. Yes they're my favorite but I don't think they're up for the trip hahah. 

 I did take a photo of the chocolates just because it was one of the saddest things I've seen in my brief life

Iguana anyone?

Martes: Absolutley do not love shopping here. It's like the exact opposite of the restaurants, the people are wayyyy attentive and all up in your business like worse than Buckle. Like I know what I want and If I need help I'll ask you and it'll be easy because this store is so tiny you literally could not be more than fifteen feet away at any given time!
Also we waited more than ten minutes for a liquado of just banana. Literally just banana. Like at Jamba Juice, I'd wait for like five minutes and they would think I was crazy if I said I just wanted a banana smoothie. And not even yogurt, just milk. whew.

We talked with an investigator and he asked if someone outside the church, if they were a really good person, could have the priesthood. So I tried to explain priesthood authority and how that works but he didn't get it. I need a primary lesson book or something because I don't know how to teach kids at all but the some adults here are like kids. You have to use examples and really basic words. 

Afterwards we talked with one of our recent converts and it took her a few guesses but she identified the picture of Joseph Smith as Joseph Smith! poco a poco. She's super pilas.

Then we went to Hna I's and my comp made a chinga de tortillas de maiz bien ricas. I just cooked the scrambled eggs and turned over the tortillas as best as I could. Those catrachas make it look so easy I don't know why I expected the pan that we were cooking them on to not be so hot. But it was very hot. Very hot indeed. And poor Hna "I" didn't have any, just soup and a slice of bread because the doctors told her that her Honduran diet is finally catching up to her. But I think that if she starts following the word of wisdom more closely she'll really be blessed. I need to work on that. But I love me some hot fresh corn tortillas with scrambled eggs and cheese and frijoles. Luv it. And fresco de tamarindo.

Miércoles: My first time doing yard work with a machete and I'm all beat up with blisters and gnarliness. I'm glad we could help this old couple though. They're my abuelitos here and they're so cute. 

We went and taught señora O and her daughter and she is so nice but she said that she can't leave her church, she's catholic and all of her friends are catholic. So it's like okay do you want the truth or do you want to be comfy?

Oh and now I have like one of those stories of weird things I ate while I was on my mission. Iguana eggs! and a little bit of iguana meat too. I told Calpa that we just ate a family and how does that make you feel. But yeah actually pretty tasty. They were boiled. yup. Iguana eggs.

Jueves: We taught a guy while he was drunk and he tried to hug me several times and he smelled real bad.

But it lifted our spirits when we talked to one of our investigators con fecha bautismal and I went over the baptismal questions with him and he has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and he really wants to change, he's great. He just needs to go to church.

I've gone like a week without peanutbutter or oatmeal and it's killing me. 

Hna M fed us a turkey that I've nown since December, he was tasty. But was a lil sad. Also I've decided that I want to make topogios for the rest of the summers of my life. They make so much more sense than popsicles. 

Viernes: We went to go chop in the yard of our abuelos again and ended up sitting there for a long time waiting for the elders and we ended up also eating pan and tea and we also ended up chopping some wood by ourselves until they finally arrived and we made some baleadas. Well I made tha masa and like three or four hideous baleadas and Calpa made the rest. In my defense the hornija was realllly hot and that affected my baleada making.

We visited a family that hasn't gone to church in a long time but their daughter has started going again but by herself! We made macheteadas and had them folded with chimol and frijoles inside. And we talked to them and they told us that the reason they don't go to church here is because we don't have a church! Well I mean, we don't have chapel. And they said that they feel uncomfortable going to someone's backyard for church, the mom said that she feels like God deserves better. But I was like ummmm where was Jesus born?? Well I didn't actually say that but I guess I can understand what they're getting at, it's definitely different sitting in sacrament meeting and there's a stray dog walking down the aisle. 

Sábado: So this was the day that two of the missions in Honduras, San Pedro Sula Este and San Pedro Sula Oeste, got together to listen to Elder Niel L Andersen of the Quorum of the twelve apostles, Elder Dean A Davies of the presiding bishopric, and Elder Maynes but I can't remember what his position is. There were more than 500 missionaries in this really big chapel in San Pedro, it was so awesome to see! And I got to see my compaion from the MTC and the two elder that came with us, I was soooo happy to see them and especially Hna Haight my old comp because I haven't seen her since last year. I took a lot a lot of notes at this conference. But the focus was Jesus Christ, and how we can't teach about his sacrifice for us until we recieve a personal testimony of repentance. We just cant. Not effectively anyway. 

Elder Niel L Anderson, in his french-influenced spanish told us that if we want to be successful (like okay yes please I'm listening) we need to memorize 10 scriptures to use in our lessons. 5 in the new testament and 5 in the book of mormon. So I'm really excited to do this and if anyone has any suggestions of scriptures that are really good for missionary work and explaining effectively the principles of salvation, diga me! 

The whole meeting went by super faast and I feel like I hardly got to talk to my baes from the CCM at all but we managed to get in a picture and my hair was ratchet. Oh and I keep trying to explain the word ratchet to my dad in the mission but he's not getting it. 

We got pizza as a zone afterwards and it was really good but the poor baby gringo in our zone is so lost. And his dad in the mission is already losing his pacience a little bit! But I know first hand how hard it is being new, but you gotta be humble or no one is going to want to help you. Oh and by next month, there's only going to be 5 gringas in the mission! Oh and at the conferencia I saw the Hermana from Georgia whose blog I was reading to prepare for the mission! Oh and on the way home from San Pedro we drove past an actual swim meet and it made me a little baggy.

Domingo: My companion gave her last discurso of her mission! My papá in the mission gave his last discurso in morazan. I cried a lil bit. 

After church I helped one of the girls prep guineo, avoided teaching one of the girls piano, and talked with the other missionaries for a good while.
One of the newly baptized members, (she's only 12!) went with us on 3 citas and she was sad when we had to take her home because it was getting late. Then we went to an investigator's house and had realllllly good baleadas and made friends with an iguana. 

Lunes: We went to the banks of the river cuyamapa with some of the elders and ate doritos and talked about transfers. And that's when we got the call that I was going to be a trainer. Right after I had just finished my own training! We spent most of the day saying goodbye to the members. 

Martes: I got to the meeting for the people that are going to train and I got to see my fav, hna Haight! We were both the trainers with the least amount of time in the mission, only 3 months in our areas! But yeah we endured the long meeting and at the end they told us the flights got canceled for the incoming missionaries. So we had to go back wednesday morning to pick them up because the next flight would bring them in 10 tuesday night. So since Hna Haight's area is super far away I got to take her back to Morazan with me and we had a little sleepover and I miss her as my companion so much. I hope we get to be companions again sometime in the next 14 months.

Oh and we had too many going away dinner for my companion we almost died of overeating #honduras

New Companions!

Miercoles: I had to say goodbye to Hna Calpa. And that was really hard. I learned so much from her and I really have never relied on someone so much before. But after that I got to go pick up my hija, and her name is Hermana Enriquez and she's from Cochabamba, Bolivia. She's a convert and she's so cute and she should be really tired, I don't know what's wrong with her but literaly the first thing she wanted to do was go proselyting. I think her energy is going to be really good for this area. 

Oh and a little moment of orgullo for me, so we got two new elders in our district, one is new just like my comp and he's from cochabamba as well, and the other is from Florida. And I was talking to the one from Florida and he has a little more time in the mission than I do and he asked me how many months I had in the mission. So I asked him how many months he thinks I have and he said I would think about 14? And I was like try almost 4 months. But yeah! I was super nervous about my spanish with my new comp but so far we have been able to understand each other pretty well! And I've been trying to act confident like I know what I'm doing (fake it til you make it, am i right) and I think it's been working a little bit! And she's really excited for pday for some reason and she keeps telling me that she's going to make me food and I'm like well I can't complain. So yeah we're gonna see how this goes. I came to the realization durring lunch that in my district, I have the most time in Morazan out of everyone. That's a little scary.   

God Loves His Children

This week this guy in one of our lessons used the "tú" form with me and I was like "excuuuuuse me????"

Everyone's latin country is different but ya gotta watch your forms of addressing, people! 

In Paraguay, they use the "vos" form for everyone but here and in Colombia as well, you only call people 'vos' if you're really close to them or know them really well.
Lil' spanish lesson...

"Grandota"

Martes: We didn't have a district meeting but we did meet up with my DL and his comp for carne asada and they checked our carpeta de area. I'm still so bad with all the paperwork of the mission. I feel like there's so much I don't know and I can never remember what I already learned.
Also I'm getting a little tired of being called "grandota" by random people. Also all I've had ganas for lately is fresh corn tortillas and frijoles and quesillo and eggs or hamón. All I want. Just that. I could eat that probably everday. errrday. 

Miercoles: Reunión con Elder Duncan de la Setenta. It was really good. we got real macheted but it was all good. I learned that I need to change. If I want different results in my work, I need to do something different. Also, as children of God, we live beneath our priveleges. We could have so many blessings but we think that living our way is better or maybe that we don't deserve better. But we do. He also told us that the people that we teach and baptize should have a vision of having an eternal family. 

And that as missionaries, we should look at our wards or branches and envision them as stakes. He said that we should try and set a goal to return to our areas in 15 to 20 years. Check!  Basically it all comes down to if we're going to fall into the pace that the Lord is setting for his work or continue in the pace and manner that we feel comfortable? Basically, do I want to actually be helpful in this work or am I here to be comfortable? Bam. Sin excusa. 

Sometimes when we are expected to do things,  you can't ask "do I WANT to do that?" You gotta ask yourself "Am I ABLE to do that?" 

Those are just some of my notes of like six hours of Elder Duncan along with little thoughts and additions by our beloved presidente Klein. My head was finna explode by the end of it all. We didn't get home until like 6 and we left the house that morning at fiiiive. 

I got to talk to my favorite elders Crosgrove and Glines for like 10 minutes and take a picture with them so that was great.

I also like this quote a lot "[Remember] without ceasing, your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ" 

Jueves: Let's talk about how we don't have a toilet in our apartment and how we have to go next door to use the facilities. On second thought, let's not.
 My companion thinks that we should look for an apartment closer to the main street. 

We had a noche de hermanamiento at a recent convert's house, we played games and made macheteadas and one of our investigators told us that he wanted to be baptized but only if his soccer team won the game that was playing on the tv at that moment. And we told him that's not how it works, but we're still working with him to prepare him for batism. 

Viernes: Wedding day! Fam R got married finally. But yeah look at me, ma, my comp helped me make a three layer wedding cake with cherry frosting in between the layers and I was super proud of it :) 

We talked a lot to our investigators about having a desire to change. It's hard to talk about change in a country that has been eating basically the same thing for breakfast lunch and dinner for hundreds of years
 but we're doing it! 

We tried this new restaurant and it was really good we had sopa de marinera but the lobster was overcooked I think. The weird thing about restaurants here is that they always have a ton of tables but no patrons. I feel like I've said this before. But it's true and it's weird. And they don't know what service is which makes me feel really american and a little indignant sometimes haha. But it's not part of their culture. 

More quotes: "Can the spiritual strength that results from consistent obedience to the commandments be given to another person? The clear answer...is no" Elder Bednar

"Las personas que viven en el pasado no tienen mucho futuro" E-z B

"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" 2 Tim 3:7

Sábado:

I was so anxious for today and now it's over. We basically just had topogios for dinner. We literally have like no food in our house and we haven´t for a week haha. We got to go to the baptism of fam R and it was so sos osossososooooo great! This family has gone through so much to be ready to make this beautiful promise with our Heavenly Father. 

Domingo: We did divisions and I went with two girls, one was just recently baptized. I'm still no good at the small talk in the lessons but let's be honest I was never good at that in English either. 

And that's the update!

I still don't know everything, but I know God loves his children. 

Have a good week and know that I love you!

"Life in a Nutshell"

I finished reading the Book of Mormon this week. In Español! 
I don't remember when I started but it was some time early last month. 

Martes: We went to Santa Rita for our district meeting but my package still hasn't arrived yet= sad Nelson. Talked with my district leader on the ride home about home made bread and Lady Gaga. Had Pollolandia (fast food chicken) as a district and it was almost too much for me. It was the first time in a while that I haven't picked every bone clean. I gotta stop eating so much! After lunch, Elder Mendieta asked if there was an ice cream place, we were like yeah, like 5 or 6 blocks that way. But he actually wanted to get ice cream! So we were like okayyyyy and Elder Ashton thought that the cheesecake icecream had queso in it and he was real confused for a hot minute. But yeah, after that we taught our lessons for the day and we went to Hna I's house and she fed us and afterwards we had..... more icecream! Not quite as good as the cone I had earlier though. But while I was eating my ice cream I was thinking about the last time I had ice cream in a cone and it was in Denmark in that fishing port, Hanstholm, with mom and dad and Nick...and before that in my favorite city in the world Bergen, Norway.  So crazy to think that was September! My how things have changed :) 

Miércoles: One of the members went out with us but our appointments fell, so really we only had her for one and this guy was saying that Jesus appeared to him and talked to him. So that was interesting. These people are very religious and it's great, but some get so confused. 

Jueves: Heydi and Rosa (they just got baptized in January) went with us on two citas. They are so good and trying to change for the better, it's great. Right now I have to say stuff in our lessons even if I don't really have anything to say. Before, it was only when I really wanted to say something maybe I could get a word in. But now I have to talk even when I don't have anything to say like during our lessons I'm always searching for promptings from the Holy Ghost because if I'm just talking because my comp wants me to, I feel like the investigators aren't getting anything out of it and I'm not really sure how to make the lesson progress. I also feel like I've been having more problems with the language this week maybe because I'm not as careful because I'm not as scared to speak. But I'll have more time to study Spanish because I don't have to do my "First 12 Weeks progress" stuff anymore, now that it's been more than 12 weeks in the mission field and we're done with all that stuff, yayyyyy. 

oh and today I went out on a limb and made rice with onions, chicken, brocoli, and carrots and I only burned it a little! 

Oh and here's a thought. What if in the mission: if you didn't obey and do what you agreed to do, you woudn't be allowed to go home and see your parents? That would be crazy right? I think almost all of the missionaries would try super hard to be good. Well, that's this life on earth in a nutshell. 

Viernes: Lesson learned during contacting: if you cant think of anything to be grateful for, be thankful for running water and the fact that you can read because you had the opportunity to go to school. 

We went to family "M" and we made baleadas but I mixed up the masa, the member that we brought with us is getting ready for her mission and she helped us make the baleadas. We also made fresco de avena and we used the banana flavored oatmeal and I thought it turned out really good. 

Afterwards we visited family "L",  I missed part of our lesson because I was in the bathroom. But something that I thought was pretty cool, while I was gone, Calpa casually said that the oldest daughter should read sec 76 of D&C because she would be able to find a lot of answers there. And later towards the end of the lesson I told her that she should look in sec 76 and study that. Without knowing that Calpa had suggested it earlier. But yeah it's real difficult with this family because they are having a hard time receiving answers to their prayers about the veracidad of this gospel. 

Sábado: We talked to a couple that said Jesus is our father spiritually and we were like okay cheque, but then they went on to say that Mary is our mother spiritually. okay no cheque. And apparently they have problems with the idea that Mary had other kids after Jesus, they really don't really like the thought of that. 

Then we talked to this dude and his wife for a long time and one of the many things that he said was that the forbidden fruit was figurative and that it actually meant the body of Eve. So that was different. 

Domingo: So we were fasting but when we went to the family  "L" house to bring them to church they gave us some pan and leche. The pan had hormigas (ants) on it and one fell in my milk. But like the little hormigas, and those things are basically everywhere like it's normal to talk to someone with one or two ants crawling on them like it's not even worth saying anything. 

Church was gooood. Lunch afterwards at Hermana I's,  frijoles y mantequilla and rice with peas, raisins, hamón de pollo and corn tortillas in case you were wondering. 

Later we went to a less involved member of the church's house and we shared a message about self sufficiency and boy is that a difficult word in Spanish. But yeah right now the church in Central America is focusing on spiritual and temporal self-sufficiency. So we're giving calendars to our contacts and the members, that track FHE, tithing, fast offerings, daily prayer and scripture study, and family history work. It's a lot! As a missionary I've yet to pay my fast offerings. I need to get on that. ANd on Mondays when I have access to a computer all I want to do is write my family and friends but it's a new rule in the mission that we should be doing family history work as well. 

Oh and I had tamarind straight from the tree for the first time and it was pretty tasty. 

Pacaya

After that we went to Hermana H's house and made baleadas! I only made two tortillas but these two took me a hot minute to make. the Hna told me that one of these days she is going to make me do all of the tortillas myself and I told her that she wouldn't be eating until midnight if that was the case! Oh and she wanted to take pictures and I was like "frick" because I was wearing the same outfit I wore to the baptism in January when we took a bunch of pictures. Also, I took some pictures of a plant that they call pacaya, we had it with pasta this week and it looks like alien fingers or something.  

this quote was my favorite this week 

'Well, promise me that I will come to You at the last!'

He smiled sweetly and tenderly and replied: 

'That will depend entirely upon yourself.'