week uno HOLA
Guys!!! Hi! First things first this keyboard is bizarre so
please excuse my capitalization and grammar and punctuation errors ugh.
Where even to begin.... MTC is good. Great so far actually. My
companion is darling, she quotes New Girl to me and we laugh all the time but
she works hard and teaches me Spanish so that is for SURE a blessing. We are
super sleepy at all times and super frustrated with translating lessons but we
have a good time... and we are both going to the same mission which is crazy
cause there are apparently only 8 Spanish speaking sisters in Vancouver at a
time!
PS octavia et dina je vais envoyer une autre message et
expliquer un peu pour vous.....
SPANISH. Oh my. I have to remember that I’ve only been
studying this language for three days cause I hate not being able to
communicate. Baby steps. I can bear my testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints and I can pray and I can do baby sentences and conjugate
some stuff and I have actually 300 vocab words to memorize in the next week,
plus all of the first vision plus some other passages in ESPANOL but my biggest
frustration is I feel like they don’t really teach us... we just are kind of
thrown into Spanish situations and have to figure it out. Which I understand
the value of, I just would be thrilled if someone would tell me how to
conjugate verbs instead of me begging Hermana Bronson to teach me before bed
lol. Plus I kid you not I accidentally respond in French all day long. With
little words especially. Or if I don’t know a word in Spanish my brain thinks it’s
a better idea to plug in the French one instead of just asking. I MISS
UNDERSTANDING WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING TO ME!!!!!
Speaking of Hermana Bronson,
just to explain how thoroughly mentally and emotionally compromised we are
(seriously you’re not going to find this funny) somebody accidentally said in Spanish
that Christ can help us overcome all of our fishes instead of sins and that
resulted in us laughing so hard that we both had to excuse ourselves from the
classroom because we were in ACTUAL TEARS. Shambles.
There are homies all over
the place here, I had lunch with Shae Mod today, I see Lennon Fotu daily,
Brittain Bettridge, Elder Andrus, Tatum Hafen, Mason Lichfield, Tyler
Thompson, Electra Cochran, and about a billion others. It is honestly the
BEST.
Sweetest moment here so far would be our cute little district
leaders telling us (sorry cant find quotation marks) look, by definition, we
are angels.
angels.
How cool, I get to be somebody’s angel. It made me think of
the sign I saw one day in Paris that basically said that every time you see the
sun reflected in the window of a building, it is an angel. Loveliest thought
ever, angels all around, especially in the MTC I’m sure. And now we get to walk
with them in British Columbia, in Taiwan, in Germany, in japan, honestly all
over the place.
Also the other quote I wrote down from that first zone meeting
was (ugh I feel like nothing makes sense without semicolons and quotation marks
BEAR WITH ME POR FAVOR) you can be friends with the elders without touching
them. ha seriously the hardest part is seeing these kids that you know and love
and you’re all doing this crazy wonderful hard thing together and just shaking
their hand!! lol I want to die every time. I'll get used to it though.
I still
kind of feel like I’m playing dress up, putting on my name tag every morning
and my skirts and calling everybody Hermana y Elder but I haven’t for a second
thought that maybe this was the wrong idea. It is hard, of course. I am on my
feet by 630 every morning and the next sixteen hours consist purely of studying
Spanish, scriptures, other gospel stuff, and brief meal breaks, but its all
gonna be worth it.
THANK YOU THANK YOU to sweet Annie (Sister Hayward)
and Kami Cullimore for the letters and my darling fam for the package and
DearElder notes. Seriously the best part of any day.
Food is awful,
weather is great, roommates are chill, and companion is awesome. I’m happy and
so SO excited to get better at all of this!
SO MANY LOVES
PS somebody
tell me if these pics work
S
sister Reagan Curtis
AUG24 CANVAN
2005 N 900 E
Unit 177
Provo, Utah 84602
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