Week 11

o my goodness... how is everything?? 

 

i have so much to tell and so little time to tell it.  if this email is completely fragmented... sorry.  how is good old utah? 

 

okay here it goes.

last pday, we played soccer, ate burritos, and went bowling. it was a lot of fun.... except the elders really dont talk to me.  english or spanish.... why? am i that scary?  i dunno. i guess i am going to have to force them to talk to me today. muahahahaha.   o yaand a member bought us some bolivian pizza. it is not the same, but it was still hackin delicious.  the food is actually really good here.  i really enjoy it.  yum yum.  i havent really run into anything that has been gross.  if i do... trust me... i will let you know.  but ya it has been good.  i handwashed my clothes.... boring and lame.  but ya i am sure i will get used to it.  it is the little things that i miss about the u.s.  today we are playing soccer again because none of us have money because it is the end of the month.  and then the hermanas have lunch with the mission presidents wife at the mission home. i am so hackin excited.  i got to go to the temple last week and the cochabamba temple is soooo beautiful.  and then i got to hang out with my old companion from the mtc. because hermana fuentes was in a training meeting.  it was a lot of fun..  but one of the hermanas from chile that came with me. got really sick.  she couldnt even function while she was here in bolivia.  and i just found out that she went home... o man i am sooo sad.  she was really amazing.  we dont know why she got sick... but ya.  ugh...

 

so i had to buy a backpack, so i dont look like a tourist.  so naturally that blew all of the money that i had for this month.  ugh....  my companion and i may or may not have borrowed some toilet paper from the church because we have no money left... haha.  i only got a portion of my budget this month because i was not here for the entire thirty days.  but have no fear.  the end of the month will soon be here.  my comp doesnt have any money because she had to go to the dentist this month.  so we are just living off of what we have.  it is a lot of fun. and i am now learning how to budget my money.  yesssss.  my companion is really good. this is her first time training so we are figuring things out together.  she is really patient with me.  she is pretty new to the area too. so we dont know anyone.  it is like we have had to start from scratch.  but we got a new ward  mission leader and he is ready to work.  he helped us come up with a plan, and he is really trying to get us more references.  we knocked doors all week. because we had to drop our two investigators because their mothers didnt want them to recieve the lessons.  that was a downer, we are tryng to find new people to teach. 

 

we found a family yesterday that has a lot of potential.  we taught them the restoration and they seemed really receptive.  i couldnt really add much, but we had a member there. so he helped my companion explain everything.  the father prayed at the end of the lesson, and it was so awesome.  i didnt understand all of it, but i could definitely feel the spirit.  so my area is pronounced hi- why- ko    by the way. hahaa.  the people are really good here.  it has been really good.  o ya and guess what. i had to intorduce myself and bear my testimony in sacrament yesterday.. .i think that it went well.... i dont know if they understood me.. but whatevs.  our ward is really cool. 

 

tell aubrey and artem good luck with everything. i hope that everything works out with cadets and lifeguarding.  o ya and valedictorian.  for realsies?? awesome.  thank you for emailing them back and saying i cant go to graduation.  hey i am just glad that i know for sure that i am graduated now... yesss.  well, i hope that everything is goin great.  i gotta go.  i love you so much!! good luck this week

 

hermana milne