Week Dos - Go Team
Hi guys! currently sitting here trying to do laundry with 900 other missionaries. my comp has so much laundry we had to put it in her suitcase to get it down here. 100% serious lol.
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| Hermana Curtis and companion Hermana Bronson |
SECOND P-DAY ALREADY how crazyyyyyy. this week has been full blown roller coaster. i still love it but some stuff hit me hard this week too. Haven't really had a breakdown yet, and everyone keeps telling me its coming, but the closest i got was a sister teacher telling me that i need to let myself forget about french in order to learn Spanish. up until then I've been reading the same chapter in the book of mormon in English, then French, then Spanish every night so i can teach myself and not forget what i already know and kind of compartmentalize all the differences between french and spanish so i don't get them so mixed up. anyways, realizing that i need to just drop this language that I've spent the past seven years studying about broke my heart. abandoning so SO much effort and time and studying for a language that i never asked to learn? yeah that was a very humbling realization. and kind of the one part of me that i thought i would get to hold on to and use while I'm gone. BUT that being said, its worth it. somebody needs to hear about the gospel and the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints from me and apparently they speak Spanish. so now I'm just going to hit Spanish so so hard and kill it hahhahaha.
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| with good friend Sister Daryl Kafusi |
Speaking of Spanish the investigator that we've been teaching is now officially our new teacher and the best part is my companion is seriously head over heels in looooove with him so she about died when we walked into the classroom and he was there in a suit and tie as our teacher HAHAHHAHA. plus all our elders know that she loves him too so all of us were dying trying to keep straight faces the whole time. shambles. the weirdest part is that he just barely got home from his mission and runs cross country at BYU, so we are nearly the same age and sitting there with a name tag on as he teaches me how to speak Spanish and teach people as a missionary feels bizarre cause it just feels like we would be homies in a different situation, you know??
Still adore my district. this one kid, is literally named ELDER BATMAN!
Anyways he is just kind of out of it all the time but we love him dearly. he announced yesterday that he just found out he has been using sunscreen instead of shampoo ever since we got here. like, SUNSCREEN. I'm worried about him surviving in Argentina. also he followed a complete stranger to the gym yesterday thinking it was his companion. even though he has been living within the same square yard as his comp, elder peterson, for the past week and a half. hahahha loves. the other sisters are kind of super emotional so that is a bit of a struggle but Hermana Bronson and I love our elders. they are all straight out of high school and say the most bizarre things but we are a full blown family now and we go on little walks together when we have time to kill after dinner and we found a bird nest that they all feel the need to watch over.
ps guess who made a surprise appearance ELDER BEDNAR EVERYBODY!!!!!! most wonderful night yet. we were at our Sunday night devotional watching his character of Christ talk, which you returned missionaries will remember, but it is only shown in the MTC. anyways after the video finished all of a sudden he walks into the room and 2500 missionaries instantly, silently, stand up for him and it was SO GREAT. and then he just answered our questions for like an hour and we all got to skip our other night time activities and just listen and we all died. i wish i had my notes with me, but he was wonderful.
In other news, I JOINED THE CHOIR. hahha please care. never thought this day would come. but my comp loves singing and dragged me into it and it is actually awesome and we are apparently singing with the national tribute band? Nashville tribute band? no idea. but tomorrow for pioneer day its going be televised. look for me and my poofy hair. making my debut as a world famous singer lol. also we literally sound like a southern baptist choir in deep Alabama or something I kid you not.
My absolute favorite part of every single day is 9:30pm. Not because that is when we finish class but because we step outside and that is the sole time that every missionary is outside at once, and everything is dark and quiet and then campus just floods with thousands, we apparently have 2500 right now, thousands of missionaries. all these teenaged kids who could be about a million other places on a Friday night, doing a million other things that nearly every other 18, 19, 20, 21 year old would choose. but instead we are in shirts and ties or skirts and we are wearing name tags with the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on it and we are studying languages we have never heard and practicing teaching people we have never met and there is just such an incredible spirit in the air. it's crazy. super excited for fast Sunday tomorrow because we've been told its the greatest thing in all of ever. because literally everyone here is endowed and fasting and that is powerful stuff people.
wow i gotta go but i adore all of you, thank you a million for the notes you guys have sent it means the WORLD
hermana reagan curtis
AUG24 CAN-VAN
2005N 900E UNIT-177
PROVO, UT 84602
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