Week 12 = Week 8 in the field.....good times in Ramona

July 12, 2015

Our investigator has a date for the 25th...it's cutting it close, so

we might have to push it a little, but if we see him enough we can do

it! He's funny! He's an old man who lives in a van. We teach him at

the church with a member.

My comp and I are complete opposites, but we get along really well and

I've yet to get super annoyed or angry with her. She probably has with

me---ESPECIALLY this week. I don't blame her though....I made the

dumbest mistakes. I would be mad at me I got pulled over for the

lights (new cars have day and night lights and I didn't know that)

Annd I locked the keys in the house. I know what you're thinking : oh

Scarlett that isn't surprising at all. And you're right. It isn't. But

we get along pretty well and we make videos on the iPad about our

experiences. She thinks it pretty funny after something really dumb

happens. Did I mention she's from Seattle? I'm her first companion

that hasn't been from Utah, so I'm pretty special ;)

We got the area book planner app and yesterday we tried to use

it....so confusing. But I think we are getting the hang of it

now....so that's good. It's pretty cool, but everytime we get a

referral or set an appointment we are going to have to whip out our

iPads instead of our agendas so that's going to be awkward. Maybe I'll

just get a little note book and write it down. Then I can just enter

it in at the end of the day. Right now we have to enter all our area

book records into the iPad. And if you ask any missionary they'd

probably say that's going to take forever. We have to do every record

that's ever been made from the past 2 years (and beyond if they were

taught a lot).

This week was pretty good though, other than all the dumb stuff I did.

I'm getting better at sports! I have to since I'm forced to play the

mornings we don't run and p day. It's pretty fun, actually. I enjoy

it. So yeah I'm getting super cultured out here on the mission.

Look up chucharon in a jar and imagine me eating a piece of that.... 😷

I eat so much Mexican food it's ridiculous. And their serving sizes

are huge so it's a good thing I have to run a lot and play sports and

be active. I would be fat otherwise.

Did you watch the funeral for president packer? We got to watch it and

it was very good. I actually learned a lot. The cool thing about

funerals is that it's one of he only times we get to hear an apostle

pray. It's so cool.

Cool things I learned from the funeral:

Let the pending items pend (always be willing to wait for the council

and inspiration from The Lord.)

Study of doctrine will improve behavior quicker than a study of

behavior will Improve behavior--Elder Packer

Cool things I learned during studies:

" Refrain from repeatedly thinking or saying negative words about

yourself--there is a clear difference between humility and

humiliation. Identify and use your unique talents rather than dwelling

on your weaknesses" this was from a talk and I have been dealing with

feeling really inadequate but this has really helped me. I've just set

really high expectations for myself and my comp always tells me that I

need to be ok with being a beginner. So, I'm learning. Slowly. I have

my days, but it's not as bad as it was at the beginning. Yesterday was

very hard and I was thinking that way, but I need to realize that I am

a beginner and enjoy it. I don't even worry about Spanish anymore. I'm

far from fluent, but I'm pretty advanced for how long I've been out.

I'll reassess in a month and see if I need to fix anything but

yesterday my comp said I speak like I've been here for 6 months (which

is still not very good, but I've only been here for almost 2 months.)

so out of all the things I'm stressing out about, that is not one of

them. At first it was but then I few weeks ago, I don't know what

happened. I just realized I'm a beginner and it will get better.

Tomorrow is my 3 month mark!!!! Woot woot!!

Time to email president! (We do that every week)

Love,

Hermana Lapp

Sent from my iPad

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