Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Hola everybody!!!

This was a pretty great week.

First off, Philippians 4:13 and John 14:15 are the best scriptures everrrrr.
Also, Mexican birds are fat.  I'll try to send a picture, but yeah.  Survival of the fattest out here.
Mexico is SO COLD.  I have not taken off my jacket this whole time.
The other day at lunch we had delicious Oreo (legit Oreos!!!) cheesecake things.  They were yummy :)

Speaking of food, I love cantaloupe.  Pretty sure that is my favorite fruit.  Why didn't anybody offer me any growing up?:) They usually have it at every single meal so its awesome.
Oh and we also had these weird curly fry things!  curly fries!  they were cold and mushy but so so good.
So in a Zone, which is bigger than a district, they have assignments like Zone Leaders, Executive Clerks and stuff. My companion and I were assigned to be Sister Training Leaders!  It's not really a big deal.  All we do is write little happy notes to the girls in the zone and help them if they have any questions.  Honestly, nothing has changed.  But we will be the Training Leaders for the rest of our time here. So I guess that's pretty cool.  When they announced it in sacrament meeting they had us stand up and guess what my Branch President called me?  Drum roll... SISTER SMELLY.  Will the torment never end?  So so far I have been called Smiley, Shmolley, Chiquita, and Smelly.  Yaaaay.  Haha it's cool though :)
OH! The other day I choked on a lifesaver.  I CHOKED on a LIFESAVER.  Oh the irony.
We had our third earthquake this week.  It was during breakfast and breakfast is very important to me. So instead of leaving all the food, I picked it all up and brought it outside with me!  They all laughed at me but guess who didn't have soggy fruit loops? That's right.
Oh yeah!!! So Dear Elder works for us.  I have never used it but I think you go on Dearelder.com and start an account and you can email missionaries. But instead of me getting an email, which I can only do on Tuesdays, they will print it and send it as a letter, which I can get every single day!~ I think it is free for most of Central America and if it's not it's like 14 cents.  So then I can get those any day and also I can send letters any day.  If I had US stamps (dear mom, send me US stamps) I can send letters through pouch and they take like 2 days!  Workin' the system :D
Okay I can't think of anything else.  I love you all!  But mostly I love what I am doing :D
Jane
PS  Today marks my halfway mark in the CCM!  Crazy how time flies huh?

one last one of me at the temple this morning :D  im wearing a shirt i borrowed from my companera

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

First e-mail home

Hello! I am here in the MTC or CCM en espanol :)
The flight was good. long and stuff and I´m so glad to be done traveling! Mexico City is so cool! It{s pretty much exactly how you would expect it to be. Super spanish, super cramped, super graffitied, super hot, but SUPER AWESOME. You guys would hate it here. Everything is really cramped and stuff but I love it! I love everything lately! One thing mom would like is that there are tons of volkswagen bugs everywhere and all of them in pretty good condition, as far as paint jobs go!
I am so glad I came. I kinda feel like there was a lot working against me to keep me off my mission and now that i{m here I feel so VICTORIOUS! eat it satan.
I don{t really have a lot of time and im hungry and stuff so ill have to close up. I love you guys! MY pday is >TUESDAY. sorry for the weird typing. this keyboard is MESSED. watch this: ñ Ñ. cool huh? just a regular key. all the punctuation is mixed around. silly mexicans!
I am taking tons of pics for you guys and making so many friends. we are all growing together really quickly! it{s so much fun. seriously i am so happy right now! Tell pres. carpenter that he is da bomb diggity wiggity. Also tell everyone that i will write them on tuesday. i don{t have time right now and i{m only allowed to email my parents right now.
I love you guys SO MUCH. YOU DON{T EVEN REALIZE. Also i love investigators. even though i have gotten like 10000000 weird looks today. i love them :)
But i love you more! Tell sam that that book is above his level.
love you!
Hermana Smalley

And she's off!