Week 10 Letter

Dang! Yeah, that’s right. I've officially lived and survived to tell the tale of living in Mexico for a whole month. No big deal.

But seriously, this week was just another normal week. Nothing really exciting happened. I’m learning to understand everyone a lot better but I still freeze up when someone asks me a question directly and I always have to ask them to repeat it and say it slowly. But it’s a process. And my speaking skills are still horrible and I talk like a baby.

Quick funny story, we have this member in my ward Ivan who is a ward missionary and comes out with us all the time to visits. But he’s wanting to learn English and I’m of course learning Spanish so in the street when we are walking to appointments (which is always) we talk back and forth to each other, him in broken English and me in broken Spanish. I find it really funny bc we both speak horribly in the other language, but we have so much fun with it and he makes learning Spanish fun and less stressful.

I guess something new that we did this week was we organized a noche de hogar (fam. home evening) with the ward on Sat. night bc we are trying to get them to do more activities together as ward to get them to become more united. But anyways in the beginning the bishop’s wife (who is a little crazy) was like "we want to hear to speak Spanish! speak Spanish!" so they sat me down in front of everyone and they all asked me questions and I answered to the best of my ability but it was really good for me bc they were so nice to me about me not knowing to speak and they all helped me and kept encouraging me. So that was a good night. And we also played mafia and signs and then we went home. It was really simple, but a lot of fun. It also made me miss my home ward. To you all from the Noblesville ward who are reading this: I miss you all and just know that the Noblesville ward is the best ever! Help strengthen each other and love one another. Doing so, I can promise will bring the spirit of unification which is what a ward needs to be- unified.

And one last thing, then I’m done. We had divisions today with the sister trainer leaders and for the whole day on Friday I had a Mexican companion and I was freaking out Thurs. night and all Friday morning bc I didn't know how I was going to go a whole day with someone who doesn’t speak English (yeah, I know I’m spoiled to have an American trainer) and I was praying like crazy. And I can testify that Heavenly Father really does know your worries and concerns bc honestly that day went by so fast and I barely noticed that I hadn't spoke any English that whole day and I survived! So just know that when you need something just ask and Heavenly Father and he hears you and will help and aid you in all things.

Assignment of the week for you all: read 2 Nephi 4. It’s a really powerful chapter and you all need to apply it to your life cause it’s amazing. And yeah, that’s all.

Oh, accomplishment of the week: I finally figured out how to sleep on my stomach in my hammock!! I’m so proud of myself.

Love you all and have an amazing week!

Hermana Perryman

(no pictures this week)