My trainer just went STL (basically a girl version of zone leaders)
and now I have a new companion! Her name is Hermana Crider and she's
so awesome. She is 24 and from Maryland. Her mom is from Guatemala and
her dad is from Louisiana, but he served his mission in Argentina so
she grew up speaking Spanglish in the home. She has been out 14 months
(and I have 14 left!!) We get along very well! She is awesome and we
are doing great things out here in Ramona! We are getting the
youth/young adults involved in missionary work. We got this super shy
18 year old to come with us yesterday and she really got out of her
shell. She's going on a mission, she just doesn't realize it yet. my
companion also will just randomly switch the conversation to Spanish
and that is really helping a lot. It's hard to speak Spanish always
when you're in the states.
I already can't remember life before the mission and I've only been
out 4 months. I'm such a baby in my mission too! I think I'm the
youngest full proselyting Spanish sister in the mission! Woot! Im
never the youngest in anything so that's pretty exciting stuff for me.
we had to go to San Isidro (the border of Tijuana Mexico) for a
baptism in my comps old area and so we have no miles left....actually
we have 200 but for missionaries that's not much. We had a couple
walking days so I felt like a legitimate missionary.
I don't know if I told you this yet but In our mission we have
American Sign Language, Arabic, Laotian, Mandarin Chinese, Tagalog.
Plus the native languages, English and Spanish (it's about 50/50 down
here, I think. Ok that's probably an exaggeration.)
The food here is ridiculous sometimes! it's picoso Mexican food that
makes my mouth sweat, it's so picoso. All the members think I can't
take the chile, but I can! Actually sometimes it makes me want to die.
The other night we had this pasta that was just COVERED in picoso
chile salsa. Oh man I though my mouth was just going to explode.
Let's see what else.......Sunday was the worst day of my missionary
life. It was pretty bad. This happens sometimes. You just have a day
where people hate you and they don't want to see your face anymore.
People are rude and reject you, people tell you they are catholic
(story of my life). But you keep on trying! You keep going and talking
to everyone, spreading the gospel and being an instrument en Los manos
del señor! It's such an amazing experience and it's already going by
so fast, I neve r want to leave! Luckily I have 14 months left, so I
don't have to worry about anything yet! It's just crazy how fast time
flies when you're a missionary. It still feels like the first month
sometimes, but then I realize I'm in my 4th transfer (1 in the CCM and
one in the field.) and that's a crazy feeling! It definitely flies by
way too fast.
There's not really much else to say....same old same old. Right now we
are teaching a 13 year old girl and she accepted a baptismal date, so
we'll see how that goes. I'm pretty excited and we are hoping she goes
to mutual tomorrow to meet the other youth (since we are a branch it's
combined with one of the wards). The young women's president is one of
the coolest people ever, so this girl will probably just love her and
love mutual. It'll be a great opportunity and then hopefully the other
girls can help her to attend church!
There's not much else to say! Write letters and all that! Love you!
💕Hermana Lapp💕
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