Week 11 Letter: Just one more week and its been a whole transfer!

Wow, can I first say what an amazing family I have. Seriously, mom and dad you are the absolute best ever. you guys look after me so well and I can feel your support and love all the way down here in Mexico.

So I’m first going to tell you what happened this week, and then I’ll answer your questions from your emails that you sent me this week.

So not much really happened this week. Let’s see. You know from my pics that I got to climb the pyramids this week. Me and my comp decided for our morning run to go to the closest pyramid and take some pics. It’s about a 5 min jog from our house and we climbed the make shift steps which was a really good leg workout. And we took some amazing pics as you all have seen. So yeah, that was fun.

Aber, we had interviews with the president this week and mine went well. It was all in Spanish, and I understood really well. My problem is actually being able to speak it. Like I can now understand what people are saying, but it’s when I have to talk that nothing comes out and I can’t even think of anything in English to say. It’s a problem, but something I’m learning to overcome. And praying for tons of help in. and it’s still a struggle for me to read the Book of Mormon in Spanish bc speaking and reading are two different things and then on top of that the Book of Mormon it like really proper language so it’s really different. Kinda like how it is in English with all the big old words. But I know that if I keep reading in Spanish that the language will come faster. That’s a promise given to all missionaries. That if we read the book of Mormon and preach my gospel in the mission language that we will be blessed even more with the gift of tongues. But yeah, interviews weren’t that big of a deal bc our mission president is really cool and not all that intimidating.

Let’s see, we have no progressing investigators even though we have 13 with a baptism date. It’s a really big struggle to get them to come to the church. bc in order for them to be progressing they have to keep their commitments (read, pray, etc.) go to the church for at least 5 weeks, and have a baptism date. And no one ever comes to the church. It’s a struggle. And the ONE investigator that we have that comes won’t accept a baptism date. So we are going to be working on her like a ton this week bc our district leader thinks she can be baptized this Saturday. Except we have this problem of no baptism font... but we will work that out. bc I know that Heavenly Father provides a way, esp. if it involves the salvation of a soul.

Then today we had a forever long multi zone conference in Merida and I got to see Hermana kite again! I was soo happy and we got to catch up on these past 3 weeks. And we talked about how before we know it it’ll be Christmas and we will get to talk to our families and then before we know it we will be companions (I hope) and then we will be hopping on the plane to go home. Seriously, I love her to death. She really is an amazing girl. And Heavenly Father has blessed me again in letting me sit and catch up with her.

So some cool news that I literally just found out. My comp, Hermana Smith, her dad knows Bishop Gibbons, I guess. His name is Jeffrey Smith and he lives in Gilbert, AZ. I guess he lived in Kenya, Africa for a while and knows the bishop. That’s pretty cool huh?

Anyways, everything is going good. I’ll let you know when I get your test package mom. Thanks for trying to send me something! Can’t wait for it. So today I got a letter from Richard!! It made me so excited, I almost started crying. He sent it to me with my MTC address, but they forwarded it to my mission home address and I just got it today. It was the best thing ever in the whole entire world to get a hand written letter.

So yeah, that’s all for this week. Love you all and can’t wait to hear from you all next week!

Hermana Perryman

Here are some pics of my wonderful zone. Yeah, were kinda a handful. It took us probably a good 15 mins to take this picture. It's like an awkward family photo...

Another zone picture.

I helped cook some fried something with some members. It was actually pretty good what we had. can't remember what it was called but it was only good bc it was fried in oil, which is what they do with EVERYTHING here. They go through oil like it's water.

So last Sunday, I told you dad the story of when we didn't really have any food so we called the Kus for some food bc they told us that whenever we wanted food they had us covered. So this is a pic of my happiness of such good food. Seriously I almost cried, it was so good. That's about as close to Americanized Mexican food I've had since being here.

So this is me one morning this week watching the sunrise ON TOP OF A FREAKING PYRAMID. Yeah, not going to lie, that was pretty legit. It's about a 5 min run from our house. So me and my comp decided to run there for morning exercise and we did some step workouts when we climbed it. How cool is it that I get to say that I do my morning exercises on a bazzilion year old pyramid??!!! I don't know how old it is, but its still the coolest thing ever!

Selfie on the pyramid at sunrise!

Yeah, I'm pretty cool. No big deal that I'm exploring Book of Mormon history at 6:30 in the morning.

Me from afar on the pyramid

I felt on top of the world climbing this thing

And just one more, I swear of me on the pyramid

Just a random pic of me during the run to show you guys that I'm practically living in a jungle here. Nocho Libre didn't prepare me at all for Mexico...

An investigator we are teaching have the cutest little chicks. They were soo adorable! Everyone here has animals.

This is a pic of me that my comp took when we were walking home from our long day. It was late and bc we have to drink like a gazzilion water bottles each day I had to go pee so bad and she was saying something that was making me laugh and I was trying so hard not to pee my pants. I had to stop for a second to make sure that i wasn't going to pee and she thought it was the funniest thing in the world. So she took a pic and this is the result. Yeah, we are pretty crazy.