Week 15 Letter

​How is it already Pday?? It feels like I was just writing you guys last week! Good news: I’m writing from Merida, so that means I have super-fast internet which means pictures!! Yay, you get to see my super sweaty face...

Anyways, this week was good, I guess. fue mas o menos. ​We had a lot of lessons with current investigators, and when that happens, it feels like you sometimes aren't really progressing bc we didn’t really find any new investigators.

But first I have to tell you about this lady we found to teach. She cracks me up. So this is how the story goes. We were out 2 Sundays ago with a member and we passed his cousins (Carmen) house (in Izamal, everyone’s family lives there) and we talked to her and set up a return appt. so, fast-forward 3 days and we go back to her house to teach her and she has her neighbor over and we start to teach Carmen and her neighbor Maria. And it quickly becomes apparent that we were sent to Carmen’s to teach her neighbor. We start to ask her the typical questions to get to know her better and it turns out that she’s been investigating for a church to go to for a while now. She likes our message and accepted a date and I can’t wait to go back with her this week! I’ll keep you updated on her.

Let’s see, some interesting things happened this week. There was a huge scorpion in the house on our little table in our bedroom. It was so big and black and disgusting. And I may or may not have screamed super loud when I saw it. Mind you, I have never seen a real scorpion in person before, let alone, crawling all over my belongings. Ugh, it was so disgusting. So it ended up crawling up under one of the legs of the table and right then our district leader called us so we had to talk with him for a while before we could get the chance to kill it. So my comp was in the other room while I kept going back and forth between rooms to check that the scorpion didn’t move from its spot. But then one of the times I went back to check on it, IT WASNT THERE UNDERNEITH THE TABLE. Right. I know. IT DISAPPEARED. We looked all over the room and in the bathroom for it, and we STILL don’t know what happened to it. I was freaking out and barely got any sleep that night, I was so stress out about it crawling all over my stuff and laying little baby scorpion eggs in my clothes. Reason 42 why I love sleeping in a hammock. Bugs don’t crawl all over my bed. Yeah, so that was stressful.

Then we had Stake Conference this weekend and it was really good and uplifting, but we didn’t have any investigators come, even though we were supposed to have Lucy and Manuel come. They both didn’t show up. Frustrating, but we are working on it.

Then, yesterday, we were out and a car pulls up to us and its two Japanese looking couple and they try and ask us where something is in broken Spanish and the show us the picture of the Catholic church on their phone. and so my comp and I are trying to talk to them in Spanish and are using our hands and arms to try and communicate (it was quite embarrassing) and they aren’t understanding at all and the girl in the passenger seat says a word in English, and my comp and I at the same time go, "you guys speak English??!!!" and they were like, yeah, of course! We are so happy you guys speak English. Long story short, we got in to the car with them and showed them where to go. they were both from Japan, but lived in Texas bc they were both studying and getting their Masters in Teaching English as a second language and decided to go to Cancun for vacation and decided to take a trip to Izamal. So we shared with them who we are and what we do and they accepted a pamphlet. I probably won’t ever know what comes from sharing just a little part of the gospel with them, it was still cool to speak with some tourists. They even offered to take us out to dinner, but we couldn’t accept bc we had previous appointments.

So yeah, that was my week. Sorry it was so long.

Pics are coming soon. Thanks for all your support!

Oh, and tell Mariah, I said congrats on her mission call!! I’m so excited for her and she’s going to love it! And I’m happy she’s speaking Spanish!!

Hermana Perryman

Decided to try and be artistic with our pics bc its soo stinking pretty in izamal. i actually look good in this one, but that's probably bc its not a close up of my sweaty face haha

Last Monday, it stormed when we got home and bc it felt soo good we spent like a good 10 mins playing in the rain, and we decided to take some pics, of course

We stayed the night Saturday night with these sisters in our zone for Stake Conference. it was fun, it was like a sleep over and we slept with our hammocks bunk bed style. i slept under my companion while her hammock was directly above me. it was a lot of fun actually.

So dad, you wanted to know how i sleep on my stomach in my hammock. well this is how... haha not really.