Welp...good afternoon. Im sitting in the good ol Arvin library typing my email to you. Thanks for the emails every week. I know many missionaries that their families dont send them an email every week and i think I would maybe be really sad if i didnt get an email. ANYWAY. so thanks :) I kinda feel like sleeping right now haha sooo if this is kinda scattered brained you know why.
Im excited to see the pictures of the kitchen and from mariahs graduation and party and such. So much stuff is going on! Did Jamie and Jeff show you pictures from their trip? I bet they were awesome! That sounds like a lot of fun.
I got a letter from Vanessa like last week and she told me she was going home to Las Vegas and I just sent her a letter yesterday so she should get it soon. You should invite her over for games or something. Shes probably super busy though. Have you seen Lori too? Hey also..speaking of my friends could you ask Blakes Mom to give you his address so I could send him a letter? That would be grrreat. We can write in spanish :) yay. Also have you been forwarding my emails to my MTC compy? kay.spiller@myldsmail.net thanks.
Well the work here in good ol Bakersfield is HOT just like the weather, I love it. Thats so cool that Grandpa has heard of tahachapi...I LOVE that town...we only go there once a week but its sooo pretty there and they have like a billion windmills there. Its pretty cool and the drive is lovely...and I get to drive it. Ah how blessed are we to have cars in this mission. It really is a huge blessing. Speaking of blessings...we also get fruit..ALL THE TIME because that is where all my people work..in the fields. We have recieved watermelon, cantelope, grapes...grapes...grapes, plums, ext. Its awesome.
We have a couple people preparing for baptism here. One named Rodrigo, he is pretty awesome. Like he just went and asked his boss for Sundays off. Members who have had the blessings of the gospel for YEARS are afraid to do that, even when we promise them blessings and Rodrigo just went and did it with out being asked. Its awesome, he will be baptized next month.
The Lord is really blessing us to meet wonderful people here and is teaching us how to teach. love, and care for his children. Its amazing and I have absolutely nothing to do with it. I think that might be one of the main things that I have learned on the mission is that I can show people scriptures, and saw a few good words, but God and the spirit and these amazing people do everything else.
My companion is wonderful...6 weeks younger me in the mission...still freaks me out, but her spanish is wonderful and so I never have to worry about that and shes a really hard worker.
So I guess some funny stories from this week would be good....haha so here...its straight up Mexico...I mean there are dogs...EVERY WHERE. every where....anyway. So we always like make a lot of noise with the fence before we walk into a fenced yard. Well we walked in to this one yard, turn around the corner of the car and there is this HUGE dog sitting there and my compy was in front of me and she was like BIG DOG....and we booked it. Oh man it was funny....and terrifying.
Also so...we were home for lunch and there is a soda machine in our apt complex (yes we live in apts) and I felt like a soda...not often but I wanted on...so I had changed my shirt while we were home because I was cooking something so I had this HUGE unlv shirt on with my long gray skirt and my hair was on top of my head in braids (ill have to send you a picture, someone told me I looked like I was from germany so thats what inspired it). So I asked my comp to stand on the balcony to watch me and I went...and I was like I dont care if I look like a red neck...anyway so I ran across the parking lot looking like a fool...put in some money and it didnt WORK. Iwasnt happy. But I still push all the buttons every time I walk by haha.
Oh yeah...so the story I wanted to tell you all last week. I have been studying the maps of this area so that I can get all the roads down (im sure youve google maped it all and can see all the towns are nice and small). Well I saw a Newton road and i was like I WANT TO KNOCK THAT ROAD. So we FINALLY got the chance to knock it a bit and we ran knocked into this english family (of course) and come to find out hes a member...has been through the temple...was in the bishopric but hasnt gone to church for like 7 years. Hes a convert, Hes remarried and his wife is a doll and wants to learn more about our church. He even told us he knew it was a miracle that we knocked his door, hes hasnt seen missionaries in a really long time..ext. It as pretty awesome, even if we had to give them to the Elders. I know she'll join the church and he'll reactivate.
Oh and don't worry about looking up the music, I really dont need anything, Im good :) promise.
I dont know what else to say except the work is moving forward, sorry I dont tell you about every single person Im teaching..but thats something I want to do because they are what matters to me here and the only thing I really think about. So I will do better with that. I love the mission, its so awesome and I am so happy I get to go to all these different areas and learn spanish. There are so many amazing people in this world to get to know and Im glad I have double the chance to get to know people because I can speak to them in English and in Spanish!!
LOVE YOU ALL TAKE CARE!
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