Well fam damily, I finally made it! I am here and as loopy as ever
due to major lack of sleep, feel like I¨m going back to my night shift
days. First time in my life I couldn´t sleep on a plane, probably cause
the man next to me smelled SO horrible! It feels so surreal... When I
was at the airport with 20 million missionaries I was just thinking to
myself, wow, I´ve never really traveled outside of the country with
other people except for one with my family. It´s always been just me! So
that was weird, but we are here at the Spain MTC for 10-14 days while
they do paper work. It´s super weird sitting in class again!! But it´s
fine, the thing I¨m super stoked about is that we get an hour of gym
time again and there is a huge track, soccer field, basketball courts,
tennis courts and todo!!! I am so excited to lose the 45 pounds I gained
in Rose Park.... FINALLY have a new companion, even though Sister
Johnson is still here with me. I miss her already. Sister Cokewell, she
will be serving in Madrid with me and also was a visa waiter in the SLC
mission! I have a roommmate from Argentina and is going to Milan
Italy... to be serving with the one and only Laurel Simkins. How cool is
that!! Anyway, it was a pleasure talking with all of you today on the
phone, maybe that was like 2 days ago, but seems like today. Got to get
used to the 8 hour difference!! I am pooped and I just fall asleep
standing up, even when people are talking to me. Basically sleeping and
writing this email. My pday will be on thursday again while I¨m in the
MTC, so if anything needs to be mailed just mail it to the Madrid
mission office, seeing as I will be in the field shortly.
Favorite experience on the place, two blacker than black home boys
from Georgia were behind me on the plane with an elder in between them.
They were coming over here to watch their brother play basketball. The
Elder started talking to them about being a missionary, the rules and
everything. They were just to funny about it. They were like, "Whoa whoa
whoa wait now, you can´t even twitter or tweet or nothing like that?
And all yalls first name is Elder now? Why can´t you all be unique and
have different first names, why do they have to give you a new one...
cause now when I say hey Elder and they all gonna start lookin at me and
none of ems gonna know who I was talkin to, heck I won´t even know who I
was talkin to" Then when the elder asked them what they knew about God
they said, "Well, this is all I know... that there is God, Jesus, the
Holy Spirit and then MY MAMA... and that´s all this world needs." The
elder brought up the book of mormon and read some of it to them, then
they were like, "man, don´t give this book to my friend David who´s
sitting right over there cause I know some how he´s gonna use it to try
to pick up girls" But my favorite part was when the guy was like, "so,
you are going to be here for 2 years but do you even talk spanish? Cause
all I know is hola... heeeeeey..... como estas?" Just some excellente
entertainment that I enjoyed on this flight of mine.
Love you! And you'll hear from me in a weeeeeeeeeeeek or so. The
weather is so lovely here, and I just cannot wait for this awesome
adventure!
Paz y amor,
Hermanita Gordita
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