Monday, June 15, 2015

12th Email

This week was nuts!!! And it feels like forever since last Monday! Okay so I have a new companion! Hna Betacourth, she is from Honduras and this is her last 6 weeks before she is done with her mission too! Yeah... She is really awesome, short and a little ball of fire! She was in my district before so I know her which helped with the transition. But I guess now Heavenly Father wants me to speak better Spanish, or something. Its not bad though I can communicate just fine with her, except for my feelings really, like emotions more than just tengo hambre or I'm tired or happy or whatever. I think though is that Spanish is in my brain just not in my heart. And she knows a little English I'm teaching her and we practice but she's pretty good. Andshe is really good in our lessons, (its like hna Johnson never left! ) She is a little more loud and direct I guess you could say than Hna Johnson in our lessons haha its really hard not to compare I love them both...  But yeah...
Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday were really hard, We had been focusing so much on getting Hna Johnson ready to leave and I was focused on her and how she was feeling and I mean yeah I was nervous and scared to have a new companion and to have to teach the area and all that but other than that I didn't think much of it. But I forgot to prepare myself. We went to the Stake center to do the changes and things the last few days and this day were moving so so fast I got a little chocked up when we said good bye but then we had so much to do. So after things settled down after she left I was so sad. I couldn't feel anything else I was so sad.I was hungry and didn't want to eat I felt so sad (that only happened once for a moment, don't worry)  I missed her ( I still do) so much and I cried a lot, I physically could not hold back my tears. It was so weird I have never felt so much sadness. But I wrote it all down and I saw Hna lundberg a lot so I talked to here even though she really didn't understand I talked it all out and really its like the grieving process after someone dies. And then Thursday I was struggling so much I said as much to my comp as I could in Spanish and cried a little , it was just... hard then guess what happened. Hna Johnson called me! from the office. But she called me I was so happy and she was so sweet and oh I just love her. She wanted to make sure I was okay and it was awesome. And she made me tell her how I was feeling and everything and I cried more... (lots of crying buy I'm better) Hard but awesome! So that is what has filled most of my thoughts this week! But I am so much better now that I have had the chance to talk and write about it! And get to know Hna B better. so yes. :) I don't know how other people feel when this happens but que pucha chera it was dificil y te! ( some guarani Spanish and English for ya no idea if I spelled it all right)

Oh we had a baptism too! Piti the 9 year old. It was really nice! His brother Ivan who is 10 I think gave an amazing talk on baptism before and it was really imprecionante for a 10 year old! And Sunday he bore his testimony and was amazing! The family is progressing really well and growing spiritually more and more and its so cool to watch. (They were less actives before) Oh and just before that we had an activity with the stake like we did before where we wen tout with the youth and taught and contacted. This time in Palma loma the area of hna lundberg, and there were not very many youth so Hna b and I went together. so that was fun but exhausting and then had our baptism and it was a long day. But good.


Well we've been doing a Libro de Mormon reading challenge with our mission and its interesting because I can understand pretty well in Spanish! Woo!
And yes its all very exciting! and estoy mejorando, I CAN TALK ON THE PHONE IN SPANISH!!!  that is like a huge accomplishment for me! Woo! yeah okay. y si. :) Sorry I cant really remember any spiritual things except for even though it seems like no one understands how I feel about Hna Johnson leaving I know Christ does and He has helped me so much, when I couldn't talk to anyone else I prayed and my burden was lifted. The atonement is real and we can use it for anything!!

Love Hermana Sarah

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Hermana Collins and Hermana Betacourth


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The boy who got baptized

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A typical Paraguayan lunch! 

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