Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Cara's first e-mail !!!

Hello family!!!!
So how's it goin everyone? This is crazy, I feel like I have no time at all to write! Where do I even begin? I don't think I've ever had so little time to think about everything in my whole life! You seriously don't have any time to think about anything but the gospel! It's insane! I think I like it though :) I get up every morning BEFORE 6:30 because remember how it takes me forever and a flipping day to get ready? That hasn't changed, but I have decided showering at night is the thing for me! I've learned so much here already. I have really awesome teachers and awesome companions. Well, I actually have only one now because we got a new hermana in our district and a new elder so now we have 8 in our district instead of 6. We miss our six though. Our new hermana really nice, she only came yesterday so we're still getting used to her. The elder is fine though, he's really nice and funny. My branch president's name is Elder Romney. He's so cool and he's so so nice. I think I forgot to tell you where my companions were going. Hermana Erekson is going to Puerto Rico, Hermana Jesperson is going to Oakland California and Hermana Hayes, our new Hermana is going to Paraguay. All of our elders are going to Argentina so I might see them when I'm there. We all leave at the same time so that will be good for me because I haven't met ANYONE yet who's going to my mission. I've heard there are two other sisters and one elder, but I have no idea who they are. Sometimes I get frustrated at myself because I feel like I should be better at this. Better at the language and better at teaching the gospel. I realized yesterday that I know spanish, like Mexican spanish, but Argentina spanish is NOT the same. So I basically don't know anything! AGH! It's okay though because I have good teachers who are trying to make us the best missionaries ever. Hermano Hernandez, one of my teachers said, "being fluent doesn't mean knowing every word, it means knowing how to communicate correctly." That made me feel a little better. I wish I had my notebook with me right now so that I could tell you all the cool stuff I have learned, but I will write a letter and tell you all of that stuff. I can only e-mail family so tell everyone they can use dearelder.com. I'll have to write Carly and give her my facebook information because like a flipping idiot I gave everyone the wrong address and they don't have the full one that was on that white card. I put 200N instead of 2005N on my facebook so tell her to write me so I can have her address so I can give her that info k? Thank you! I have like 5 minutes. I just wanted you all to know that I know I should be here. My companions and my branch and everyone I have met have made me realize this is where I am supposed to be right now. Heavenly Father has blessed me so much that I would be so ungrateful to not serve him with everything I have. We had an awesome discussion with our district the other night about families and oh my goodness the spirit was so strong. Our district is so close and we have a lot of strength. I love you so much and I couldn't ask for anymore blessings than I have right now. I have everything! Have a good week! Mom tell Steve my knee's doing awesome and I'll talk to you soon! Paz fuera!
Hermana Shumway

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