As a Sister in Zion: Week 37: A happy first week in (Sagrada...hehe) Arboleda 3

HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY SAM!!!!! I had to put that first to let you know how important you are to me :) I can’t begin to believe that you are old enough to go to dances. It’s killing me. I can’t wait to come home and chaperone one of your dances, haha.

Well, it was a pretty good week that we had.

First things first, MY AREA IS SOOO TINY!!! Literally, I am so used to working in a small town, but where our appointments are usually spread out in every which direction and we are always having to speed walk/run to the next appt, but here, literally we can walk the distance of our whole area in like 10 mins and that’s regular speed walk. It’s pretty weird for me to be able to do it, but I’m adjusting to it. And that here there are a lot more cars and the ppl don’t just sit outside of their houses during the day and night. It made contacting a lot easier in Izamal but here no one is outside of their houses.

But yeah, we have been beyond blessed with miracles this week.

1. We totally found 2 gold investigators this week through our own efforts. Their names are Jose Castro and the other Marlene. They aren’t family or anything like that. But in the first lessons that we had with them we taught how families can be together forever and its possible through baptism and not even kidding you they both basically asked us what they need to do to get baptized and how long the preparation is. Yeah, it’s the first time that’s ever happened to me, to have someone actually ask us what they can to do be baptized, it was a pretty amazing experience.

2. WE ARE GOING TO THE TEMPLE TOMORROW AT 4 AM!!!!!!!!! Literally I am soo pumped to go. the conditions to go is we have to bring a less active or a recent convert to the temple that have family names to take, so we found a less active that is starting to come back to church and miraculously (I have no idea how to spell that word...) she’s been doing her family history work on her own and has a lot of names to take to the temple and we asked if she would like to come with us at 4 in the morning tomorrow and she said it was perfect. Honestly, I have no idea how it worked out so perfectly, but hey, that’s how heavenly father works. He knew we really wanted to go to the temple and even though we don’t know ANYONE here in the area, we somehow found this less active that has been doing her family history work. So yeah, WE ARE SUPER PUMPED TO NOT SLEEP TONIGHT AND GO TO THE TEMPLE TOMORROW!!!!

And yeah, that was my week this week.

Today we totally went to Walmart and that was super fun. It was soo good. It was like walking into America when we walked into Walmart. Felt puurrty good, not going to lie.

We are still living with the other sisters in the other area below us so we are having a lot of fun with that. And we constantly are taking pics and messing around. It’s been a long time since I’ve had this much fun, and I’m really enjoying it.

Well, when I write you all next Monday I won’t be a little teenager anymore!! bc I’m turning 20 and will finally be a big girl, haha

Oh, we just found out today that we aren’t allowed to play any type of sport here in the mission. Soccer, volleyball, anything. Even with other missionaries or with the ward. It’s bc we had an elder die here from a heart attack while he was playing soccer with his ward for an activity. I knew him. He was in my zone my first 2 transfers. He was pretty funny and had a cool elephant tie. But yeah, it pretty much stinks now that we can’t do that anymore, but hey, I guess that just means sleep time on pday, haha

And yeah. that’s about it, pics are coming soon!!
I love you all and have a wonderful week!!!!
Hermana Perryman

Comp selfie of the two most beautifulest Hermanas in Mérida!!

Yeah, the plague came AGAIN to Arboleda. They are these nasty grasshopper things that come in swarms and they fill the sky. *shudder*

WALMART ADVENTURE!!

WE TOTALLY ATE AT BURGER KING TODAY!! It tasted like normal cruddy Burger King, but hey, when am I ever going to eat at a Burger King in Mexico again?

It's my generation! We are all in the same Zone here in Mérida and we were all in the same group in the MTC at the same time, so we are loving being together!