Sooo... I LOVE MY NEW AREA!!!!
And...my new companion is the BEST!!! Her name
is Hermana Favela and she is from Washington! But her parents are from
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Mexico so she speaks Spanish fluently and English! She is so much fun and
we just laugh and talk all day! Hopefully after her mission she is going to
apartment in the city! and with 2 other sisters who are hilarious!!! they
are always making up dances and doing random things, I love it! Oh and our
bishop here (Yes... I have a ward here!!!) he hunts alligators and makes
cool leather things out of them! He is pretty rich too and feeds us all the
time! They feed all 4 of us sisters Sundays and they drive us to their
house in a car!!!! Anyways I don't even know what to say about my new area
but I love it!
Let me start off with the beginning of the week. So Tuesday we went saying
goodbye to the members and investigators, and taking lots of pictures. It
was kind of sad, and really hard to say goodbye. Then I packed that night,
and I don't know how but I have collected more things (I think mostly more
books) and it was really hard to put everything in my suitcases... But I
did it! Then the next morning we took a taxi (one of our baptisms) to
Asuncion. I found my companion and put all my stuff under a tree. There
were so many missionaries in the office and it was really fun to talk to
them all! Then I had to wait with a group of missionaries to go to the
immigrations office. After we signed a bunch of papers we went back to the office. BTW, the Office Elders have vans
that they haul us all around in. Then after, I had to wait for an interview with President. Every 3 months we get interviews
with President, and since I was going to a new area I had to have mine while I was at the office. It was really good to talk
to President and a motivation! I also got a HUGE package from my wonderful mother, which just made my day!!! After
the interview my companion and I took another taxi to my new area.
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We live in this cute apartment above a
business. I unpacked quickly then off we went to
work. We had some really good lessons, and I love
the investigators a lot here! I feel like my Spanish
has improved a lot and I felt a lot more comfortable
meeting new people. We have to take a bus to our
area though, but it is still a really nice area!
All the members are great here, and cook really
good food! Everywhere we went we were
given food! I think Friday night we had a bag full of
freshly baked bread and we were riding
a bus home, and we saw this skinny little boy
trying to sell some type of card riding the bus. My
companion and I felt terrible and ended up giving him the bread! This little boy shoved the
bread in his mouth as fast as he could. So sad, but it
is really neat to see how the Lord works in our lives. We had received a lot of food that day,
which my companion says is unusual. And because of that we were able to give fresh
bread to a little boy. It was such a wonderful experience.
Sunday we had 2 investigators come to sacrament meeting. Our building is
also the stake center so it is pretty big! Everyone was so welcoming and
made me feel part of the ward. I also got to share my testimony during
sacrament. My comp. and I also taught Sunday school, which was a new
experience for me, but I actually really enjoyed it. Then we went to
Bishops house and they fed us a ton of food! and cake!!! yum!
Rewind to Valentines day... we had a ward council meeting that night at
bishops house, and after they fed us a ton of food! that was my highlight
of Valentines, that and spending more time with the other sisters! They are
so funny!
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But we had to wait for the elders to play a
game of soccer first, so we spent the
time before practicing volleyball and kart wheels. for some reason the hermana's
don't know how to do them, so that was funny teaching them! But volleyball was
pretty fun, and I got to play with my new volleyball!! yay!!!
So pretty much everything is going well! I love you all and thought lots about you on Valentines! I have the best family
and friends! I hope things are starting to warm up there! well... have a great week! LOVE YOU!!
Love,
Hermana Sanders
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