Yeah family! I love you all SO much!
So this week has been pretty much chill chill chill and not much has happened. I still haven´t gotten any packages, even though I have been told that I might have one in the office (at least that's what one of the AP´s said, but he doesn´t remember saying that) but it hasn´t gotten to me yet. Hna Torres said they might be waiting until this Thursday to give out packages since this Thursday is the day we have interviews with the Mission President. This has been a super uneventful week. We knocked a lot of doors, and talked to people but nothing exciting. It has been a really normal week, and the most uneventful one so far. One of our investigators is going to be baptized this Saturday but we´ve known that for the past week, so not really a “this week” event. I got some crazy cat calls this week, but I’m starting to get used to that seeing as the fellas here like to use the little English they know to say things to me like, ´hey sweetheart’ and ´hello, how are you´, that's pretty much all they know how to say. I know, being a white girl here is rare, and they´re all what is this white girl doing here? I’m the only north American girl in my zone, but there are 4 other north American elders here, so at least I have someone I can actually understand and talk to sometimes.
Sorry this letter is so short, but this week has been uneventful. Next time I write I´ll have more to say, seeing as I’m getting transferred next week....as the rumor goes, but it’s a pretty plausible rumor. I´m not sure if we get to write next week or what, but I will write you soonish and I love you lots and lots. I hope all is going super well in the many places that you all are, and I keep you all in my prayers.
Con todo el amor en mi corizon,
Brea
From Padre Wells- FYI, We received a letter from the Mission President informing us that Hermana Wells had arrived safely in El Salvador. Since it took so long for the letter to get here, I have realized what a blessing email is.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Happy Anniversary- February 15, 2010
Hey Mom and Dad, Happy anniversary!
As you can probably see, I have a new email address because myldsmail was updated and sorta merged with Google so my new email is like my old Gmail and I have a new email. That’s why this letter is just to you, because I cannot figure out how to send the same email to more than one person. I´m working on learning how to do that. (chiste, I figured it out! yeah me!) This week has been pretty fun. Last week Monday is when we went to the DS and got some sweet garments. Apparently if you go down a size you don´t need a tall or a petit...or at least that worked for me seeing as they didn´t have my normal size. This week while in my personal study I was reading in Alma 36 and I’m pretty sure it’s my new favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon, for now. It’s all about Alma and when he was destroying the church and then an angel came and struck him down and he repented. It a great chapter on repentance and how easy it can be to repent of our sins and receive the joy that God wants us to have.
Funny thing, so we get our mail on Thursdays because that’s when we have our weekly planning session and district / zone meetings and apparently this Thursday is when they got the dear elders. Well, Melanie had sent me a dear elder my first week at the MTC and accidentally sent it here instead of to the MTC, and guess what! I got it! Yea, I finally got a letter while here, so I got one from Mel and one from Steph. (no I haven´t yet received the package you sent dad, but I’ve heard from one of the APs that I have a package waiting for me in the office, so I think I have to wait until Thursday to get it.)
So Max now has a baptism date, which is super exciting! It’s for the 27th, and that’s our last weekend here, so good thing it’s not latter. I think Hna. Torres and I are getting transferred this next time (I think she has tried to tell me that, but I’m not completely sure.) Our area is crazy crazy small, as in it has two streets, and then the pasajes (I think they´re called that) so we´ve almost tracked the whole area, and have to do street contacts (I do not like street contacting!) So that is exciting news.
Today we had "secret friends"; we were assigned them last week, so we exchanged gifts today. I had an elder, so I got him a pretty cool watch. I got a volleyball and a bar of chocolate from Elder Robinson, he´s the zone leader. Next week we´re getting Jersey´s and they´re sweet looking and are from the University of El Salvador. Hopefully I can figure out a way to email pictures.
Yesterday, at church, I forgot to wear my name badge and it was completely weird. I´m not used to going out in public without it, and Hna. Perez (the mission president´s wife) was there and it was weird. ha-ha, but it made for a crazy fun time trying to hide from people the fact that I didn´t have my plack on. Oh and Sunday was also Hna. Torres´ birthday, so happy birthday to her. WE don´t really do anything crazy, I gave her a card with my Michigan Quarter in it (she´s collecting the US State quarters and thats one she needed)
Saturday we did service with the AP´s. We cleaned the storage area´s in Hna Nidia´s house (the house we live in) They were crazy cluttered because she has a LOT of stuff and that took all morning but it was fun.
Life here is crazy but it’s good when it busy. I love you all so very very much!
Love, Brea
As you can probably see, I have a new email address because myldsmail was updated and sorta merged with Google so my new email is like my old Gmail and I have a new email. That’s why this letter is just to you, because I cannot figure out how to send the same email to more than one person. I´m working on learning how to do that. (chiste, I figured it out! yeah me!) This week has been pretty fun. Last week Monday is when we went to the DS and got some sweet garments. Apparently if you go down a size you don´t need a tall or a petit...or at least that worked for me seeing as they didn´t have my normal size. This week while in my personal study I was reading in Alma 36 and I’m pretty sure it’s my new favorite chapter in the Book of Mormon, for now. It’s all about Alma and when he was destroying the church and then an angel came and struck him down and he repented. It a great chapter on repentance and how easy it can be to repent of our sins and receive the joy that God wants us to have.
Funny thing, so we get our mail on Thursdays because that’s when we have our weekly planning session and district / zone meetings and apparently this Thursday is when they got the dear elders. Well, Melanie had sent me a dear elder my first week at the MTC and accidentally sent it here instead of to the MTC, and guess what! I got it! Yea, I finally got a letter while here, so I got one from Mel and one from Steph. (no I haven´t yet received the package you sent dad, but I’ve heard from one of the APs that I have a package waiting for me in the office, so I think I have to wait until Thursday to get it.)
So Max now has a baptism date, which is super exciting! It’s for the 27th, and that’s our last weekend here, so good thing it’s not latter. I think Hna. Torres and I are getting transferred this next time (I think she has tried to tell me that, but I’m not completely sure.) Our area is crazy crazy small, as in it has two streets, and then the pasajes (I think they´re called that) so we´ve almost tracked the whole area, and have to do street contacts (I do not like street contacting!) So that is exciting news.
Today we had "secret friends"; we were assigned them last week, so we exchanged gifts today. I had an elder, so I got him a pretty cool watch. I got a volleyball and a bar of chocolate from Elder Robinson, he´s the zone leader. Next week we´re getting Jersey´s and they´re sweet looking and are from the University of El Salvador. Hopefully I can figure out a way to email pictures.
Yesterday, at church, I forgot to wear my name badge and it was completely weird. I´m not used to going out in public without it, and Hna. Perez (the mission president´s wife) was there and it was weird. ha-ha, but it made for a crazy fun time trying to hide from people the fact that I didn´t have my plack on. Oh and Sunday was also Hna. Torres´ birthday, so happy birthday to her. WE don´t really do anything crazy, I gave her a card with my Michigan Quarter in it (she´s collecting the US State quarters and thats one she needed)
Saturday we did service with the AP´s. We cleaned the storage area´s in Hna Nidia´s house (the house we live in) They were crazy cluttered because she has a LOT of stuff and that took all morning but it was fun.
Life here is crazy but it’s good when it busy. I love you all so very very much!
Love, Brea
Life is coolio!- February 8, 2010
Last Monday was coolio. After writing you y´all we went home and the bus rides were loco! Let’s just say that on one of them I had to sit on some random lady´s lap because there weren´t any more seats. Ha-ha, but I sent letters on Thursday, so the fam should get one and Will too, sometime within the next two weeks or so....I’m not sure but let me know when you get them. I sent them out on Thursday. Things had been pretty chill, mostly just appointments where I sit and listen and try to understand and keep myself from day dreaming...but somehow I day dream a lot. Not good, but I’m working on it. On Thursday (Thursdays are our days to plan and meet as a zone, or a district normally) we had a multi zone meeting, so there were a lot of missionaries there and we went to Apopa for the meeting. President and Sister Perez were there and so were the AP´s and they talked to us about a lot of stuff...mostly I didn´t understand but I think I got the jest of what they were trying to say. They went over rules and how we need to not eat crazy food or we´ll get sick. It was fun, I got to talk to some of the other gringos and like everyone they just told me to be patient with the language.
As of Friday Hna Torres has decide that I need to start being the senior comp and learn how to do all the senior comp things in case I get a newbie in a few weeks. I doubt this will happen but she wants me to be prepared for it, meaning we do better at planning so that I know what the lessons will be about and so that I will always have a part in them. Also, she made me do the nightly report one time, which isn´t that bad because the DL speaks quite a bit of English. I also I have to do most of the knocking on doors, and sometimes Hna. Torres will so to the other side of the road and knock, which I don´t like to much only because when people to come to the door (or the window, normally the window) and answer me, I have no clue what they´re saying or how to respond. Maybe that´s something I should work on for language study. This morning as a zone we had a water balloon fight which was pretty cool. We´re going to get zone jersey´s, not really sure why but I’m stoked for them. And for Valentine’s day we´re doing secret friends, meaning we each have someone else in our zone who is our secret friend and we get them something and give it to them next pday...at least that’s what I’ve gathered from the Spanish I can understand. Apparently sometime this week the zone is going to take a trip down to the distribution center so that we can buy some garments because apparently they will be on sale, a set for a dollar. That’s kinda exciting. Yes, that is the excitement in my life. Not much else is going on in my life. It consists of appointments, knocking doors and being really confused but it’s all good. I will continue to pray for all of you! I wish things were better at home, but life isn´t perfect. I love you all so very very much!
Love, Brea
As of Friday Hna Torres has decide that I need to start being the senior comp and learn how to do all the senior comp things in case I get a newbie in a few weeks. I doubt this will happen but she wants me to be prepared for it, meaning we do better at planning so that I know what the lessons will be about and so that I will always have a part in them. Also, she made me do the nightly report one time, which isn´t that bad because the DL speaks quite a bit of English. I also I have to do most of the knocking on doors, and sometimes Hna. Torres will so to the other side of the road and knock, which I don´t like to much only because when people to come to the door (or the window, normally the window) and answer me, I have no clue what they´re saying or how to respond. Maybe that´s something I should work on for language study. This morning as a zone we had a water balloon fight which was pretty cool. We´re going to get zone jersey´s, not really sure why but I’m stoked for them. And for Valentine’s day we´re doing secret friends, meaning we each have someone else in our zone who is our secret friend and we get them something and give it to them next pday...at least that’s what I’ve gathered from the Spanish I can understand. Apparently sometime this week the zone is going to take a trip down to the distribution center so that we can buy some garments because apparently they will be on sale, a set for a dollar. That’s kinda exciting. Yes, that is the excitement in my life. Not much else is going on in my life. It consists of appointments, knocking doors and being really confused but it’s all good. I will continue to pray for all of you! I wish things were better at home, but life isn´t perfect. I love you all so very very much!
Love, Brea
Friday, February 5, 2010
Life in El Sal- February 1, 2010
I love, love hearing from you! Just so you know. This week has been pretty good. More knocking doors, talking to people and trying to learn Spanish. I´m understanding a bit more, but figuring out ways to answer questions is crazy hard. I can´t even imagine what it’s like when the language has a completely different alphabet. We found some more investigators and one of them seems really ready to hear about the gospel. Oh, correction from last week´s email, the area I’m serving in is Ayutuxtepeque...or something a lot closer to that than what I said last week. I´ll tell you about a typical day here. We wake up at 6:30, go for a jog with the dogs that live at our house with us (yea, I’d forgotten that I’m slightly allergic to pets...which just means that I’m kinda extra tired and have a runny nose so it’s not too bad) then we go to get breakfast at the house of the lady who makes us breakfast and lunch. Then we go back home and shower and prep for the day, personal study time and companion study and then we´re off at 10. We tract or go to appointments until 12:30 when we have lunch and then we have an hour to study or do things that we need to (for me that is sleep due to dogs) and then we´re off again at 2 for more appointments and tracting and such until we come back. We have an hour somewhere to eat dinner and we´re back to the house by 8 for an hour of language study and then planning and then whatever until 10:30 when we go to sleep. That is the typical day in the life of a Mormon missionary.
Oh and this has nothing to do with the above, but whom ever has the packages that I mailed from the MTC, could you look in there and find the one letter from Marie. In that letter it tells me what Lauren´s address is and I would really like to write a letter to her, I’ve just had trouble getting her address. Also, the reason the BYU t-shirt is in there is because I love it so I do not want it to get ruined here in El Sal so I sent I back so it can be safe. Just so you know.
Oh an exciting thing that happened this week is that one of our investigators wants to be baptized! I’m not completely sure when this will happen, seeing as he has trouble with smoking, but it’s exciting news. I feel like there isn´t much more that I’ve been up to. I really love hearing from you and last week when I said that you all write a lot I didn´t mean that in a bad way, its soo good that you write a lot. What have ya'll been up to? How is seminary going? How’s the new bed? How’s college life? How’s work? How are the callings in church? It’s your jobs to figure out which questions are for who. Oh, question for ya’ll, does Andra have an email address yet, or no? I feel like I never hear from her or hear about her life. How is she? How’s school and such? I want to know! Love love love, Hna B. Wells
P.S. If any of you get this within the next 20 min. feel free to reply and we can have a short back and forth. Love ya!
Oh and this has nothing to do with the above, but whom ever has the packages that I mailed from the MTC, could you look in there and find the one letter from Marie. In that letter it tells me what Lauren´s address is and I would really like to write a letter to her, I’ve just had trouble getting her address. Also, the reason the BYU t-shirt is in there is because I love it so I do not want it to get ruined here in El Sal so I sent I back so it can be safe. Just so you know.
Oh an exciting thing that happened this week is that one of our investigators wants to be baptized! I’m not completely sure when this will happen, seeing as he has trouble with smoking, but it’s exciting news. I feel like there isn´t much more that I’ve been up to. I really love hearing from you and last week when I said that you all write a lot I didn´t mean that in a bad way, its soo good that you write a lot. What have ya'll been up to? How is seminary going? How’s the new bed? How’s college life? How’s work? How are the callings in church? It’s your jobs to figure out which questions are for who. Oh, question for ya’ll, does Andra have an email address yet, or no? I feel like I never hear from her or hear about her life. How is she? How’s school and such? I want to know! Love love love, Hna B. Wells
P.S. If any of you get this within the next 20 min. feel free to reply and we can have a short back and forth. Love ya!
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