Well everyone! This week was interesting. I am almost positive that Sister McBride and I's life, or any missionaries for that matter, should be on reality TV. It is amazing the people you meet and talk to on your mission. Also, we took lots of fun pictures so if you don't read my whole very long email, at least scroll down and take a look at the pics! (P.S. I'm sure you're going to wonder at the end of this email what is so weird? Well, everything, also, lots of things I didn't say because they were just weird... just imagine a reality TV soap opera and that is how this week went)
Monday: Monday we went to the Peña's house and they fed us dinner but then they helped us with our Spanish!! So nice of them. They served us fresh mozzarella with dulce de leche on top! Don't knock it until you try it. It was soooo good! They come to our English class every week and it is really nice to have a trusting relationship where we can correct and they can correct our pronunciation and grammar!
Tuesday: Today we had the typical district council which was nice. Then we filmed a Facebook video for the ward councils that is honestly, pretty cheesy. We had a member missionary help us with it and.... yeah it's honestly hilarious. I hope the ward councils take it seriously. But, we tried :) Sadly the Stewarts canceled on us because Sister Stewart wasn't feeling well, so we stayed in and made a bunch of contacts by phone!
Wednesday: Today was a good day! We did service with the zone. We cleaned up this section of the highway and man, it needed help. In two hours we managed to fill a whole dumpster. A really cool company does this every two weeks so I have a feeling this service project will become a regular. We also went to youth group and the girls are finally opening up to us! They were all chatting and we had a blast getting to know them. Ari came and made some new friends too. Today we also had our interviews with President for the transfer!! We just got to chat and he asked me if I was comfortable enough to train a new missionary in a transfer or two..... Ah! Everyone keeps telling me I will train and I'm starting to get nervous! Hopefully I stay in Blanco so I know how to get places!
Thursday: Today we had the BEST lesson with Josiah! He really opened up to the bishop in our ward and is now reading the Book Of Mormon which is huge! We taught him the law of tithing and the law of the fast and he really seemed to understand. Also today we went out to dinner with Sister Adling who is from Wichita Kansas!! (idk how to spell it and I don't have google) It is always so fun to talk to her. She has the cutest baby Avery, pictures are below. She told us she is moving back to Kansas in the Summer and that we should visit when we get home! Today at Centro Hispano one of the adult leaders gave a spiritual thought and talked about Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith. At the end he pulled out a box and in the box were exact replicas of Joseph and Hyrum's death masks (for those who don't know what a death mask is, in the 1800's people would pour plaster over a dead persons face to conserve their facial features, that is how all the statues of Joseph and Hyrum are made). We got to hold them! I put pictures below. We also had English class with Marcos and he is so funny! We taught him some idiomatic expressions and he really enjoyed it.
Friday: Today we did exchanges!! I went to Sister Boyer's area and it was a really cool experience. I am glad I got to go on exchanges with her because I learned that we are very similar and that she and I will probably be super good friends! It is usually hard for me to get along with girls but so far on the mission I haven't had a problem with anyone being mean, which I am sooo grateful for. I did also learn that street contacting is wayyyy awesome when it isn't in Rhodes Ranch! It was so fun to talk to people and we even got a few service referrals. Turns out Sister Boyer loves smoothies as much as I do so we got smoothie bowls for lunch! Overall it was a super fun exchange!
Saturday: Today was a pretty slow day, but, we did have a good English class with the Peña's we also did a lot of service and we actually did all of our studies! We did correlation with the Ward Mission Leader and he made us an amazing breakfast!
Sunday: Today was super busy as per usual! Sadly the Vasquez family had a game tonight so we didn't get to go over, but, Josiah came to church and the whole ward was super nice and he looked like a member of the Ward. We also talked to our friend Joel, he is an older guy and he is hilarious :) We ate with the Califf family and they are literally the best! They made us tostadas and a chocolate tart. We also visited some returning members, the Gibbs and had a blast playing play dough with the kids.
Ok picture time!! There are some pictures including fun selfies, my favorite breakfast, Avery and Sister Adling, Sister McBride photo bombing my picture of the beautiful trees that are blooming here, more pics with the Peñas.
Enviados abrazos celestiales,
Hermana Sellers
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