Hiiiiii MMMoommmm!!!!!!!

Belated happy saint Patricks day to you too!!!!! I did wear green!! I
stole my comps shirt.

I'm still super excited that Michelle is pregnant too!!!!! Except that
she has been pretty sick. But that just gives me a better excuse to go
over there and help her more. :) Also they finished their temple prep
classes!! I'm so proud of them.*tear* Now Max just needs to get the
Melchizedek priesthood and get their recommends and they can be sealed
for always!!! Yayyy!! They asked Elder Summers to stand in for baby
Maxi. This probably doesn't mean anything to you, but Summers has been
here even longer than I have so he has been a huge part in helping the
Gomez family. He sang with us at the funeral and has helped us teach
them, so he is super close with them too. Haha they told me before
they told him and it was SO hard not to tell him because I was
ridiculously happy about it. When they did tell him everyone was
crying.

I love your service club thing! Not only are you helping others but
you are helping the children learn how to give service too!! Qué
lindo!! Which is a combo of nice, beautiful, and cute all rolled into
one.

I finished el libro de mormón!!!! I'm so pleased with myself haha. Our
stake president asked everyone to read it in the month of March. I
even finished early! I give it a ten out of ten stars. It was so good!
The perfect mixture of action, spirituality, and heartfelt sorrow. It
was so cool to read it that fast in Spanish! I still don't understand
all the words, especially in the Isaiah chapters... But I did learn a
lot of new words! It's so cool when the prophets repeat a word like
five times and then on the fifth you're like ooooohhhhhh they're
talking about robbers!! Or something like that. It was also cool that
a lot of the scriptures made sense just because I've read them in
English so many times. I guess reading the Book of Mormon a million
times was good for something after all!! Haha completely kidding.
Broma! Broma! In order to complete this goal I had to be reading at
any possible moment I could while still keeping on top of everything
else I had to do. This was really hard! But it was good for our
companionship because I think it made her realize that I probably
shouldn't be the only one washing the dishes, calling people, and
updating peoples teaching records. *no bitterness* Plus I lost weight
because I didn't have time to eat. So all in all a good project, but I
am looking forward to being able to clean more often and make gifts
for all the children again.

Somewhere in preach my gospel it quotes a promise that if you read the
Book of Mormon in your mission language you will be fluent. Still
waiting..... Nahhh my Spanish isn't that bad. Still can't understand
my bishops Panamanian accent though. We were teaching this boy named
Eric who is 17 and his mom in Spanish because she doesn't speak
English. But she decided she didn't want to be taught anymore. I guess
he felt bad? Because he has been helping us find more people to teach
in his neighborhood. Anyway, the point of the story is that we were
walking around, me biffy and Eric, and we were speaking English with
him because he speaks that better than Spanish. He had never heard me
speak English before and he told me before he thought my sentence
structure in Spanish was weird because it's not my native language but
now he realizes that I just talk weird no matter what language I'm
speaking. He said maybe you have your own native language? Thank you?
I didn't really know what to say.

We had a really cool ward missionary activity!! It was a tad stressful
because it was all planned last minute but it turned out great. We set
up an obstacle course and put a rope through it that was the "iron
rod". Then we all went to the chapel to talk about what he had learned
about the trials that life brings us. Super insightful! And definitely
helpful to the investigators there! One of ours that was there is
named Alesandro. He is super funny he soaks up everything we tell him
like a sponge. Everything that the members talked about he was just
like YES yes ysysesyesss. He wants to be a better father and person so
badly! His new favorite movie is the one that we gave about the
restoration. He thinks it's super chistoso or funny for some
reason.... And he made his family watch it seven times. Oh dear.

Love you!!!!! Tell Phin happy birthday from me. Hope you are doing
well and staying happy. Mwah!!

Ohhhh and transfers happened but everything is staying the same.
Almost my whole zone is the same! Yayyyyyyyyyyy garden grove. Everyone
at church was like are you leaving???? No???? Ok when do you want to
hang out. And we had a celebration dinner at Gomez complete with made
up song about president Bowen thinking we still have so much to learn
from each other and all that jazz.

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