Happy Almost Birthday to Me :)

Dear Family and Friends,

So how’s it going? This week I still have the same companion but 8 more missionaries are coming tomorrow (no big deal that we are already past capacity) so I’ll probably get a new companion tomorrow or at least it’s a possibility, and then Hma. Leavitt (my current companion) will be leaving next Wednesday to Ukraine.

So proselyting this week was really good. Scary and stressful as always but whatever, it’s kind of what I signed up for. I was paired with one of my old roommates who I absolutely adore! She was the spirit and I was the mouth (surprise, surprise). It really was incredible how she would suggest we go down dark and creepy alleys and I would just go along with it and then we would end up walking next to a woman and end up giving her a Book of Mormon, or one time she pointed two girls who were smoking and looking all rebellious and mad at the world and whatever and said we should go talk to them. I knew we would get shut down but let’s face it you’re pride as a missionary goes right out the window the first day of proselyting so whatever I just went along with it. They were so curious, we talked to them for quite a bit and gave them a book of mormon, they began to flip through it so excitedly that we gave the other girl a copy too. We gave away three other books and like 30 pass along cards but in the interest of time and your attention span I will save the details for my journal.

Conference was awesome! We were able to watch the morning sessions live (6pm our time) then we watched the Saturday Afternoon and Young Womens sessions for church on Sunday and then we are watching the Sunday afternoon session for devotional tonight.

Today for P-Day our excursion was to the Real Madrid stadium. It was amazing! We got to go down to the field, through the hall of fame, into the locker room, into the press room, etc. It was a pretty cool tour.

So now I have three new investigators (I imagine I mentioned in my last email that both of my old investigators committed to be baptized). You might be wondering (but probably not, that’s just a transition) why I have three investigators this time. It’s because they also want me to teach with Hma. Leavitt so she has the experience of preparing and teaching a lesson with a real companion and not just teachers. It’s actually really nice because we teach in English since she doesn’t know Spanish and I don’t know Russian. It makes me so jealous of English speaking missionaries.

I am so sad to hear about Gus. I love him so much and I am so happy to know that he is running around in heaven seizure free.

Well I have to go, sorry this email is so short but I’ll hopefully have more time next week life is just kind of packed. I really appreciate the letters and the email I’m sorry if it takes me a little while to reply back but I promise I am reading them. I also don’t have time to send pìctures but maybe next week.

Make it an awesome week!

-Sister Taw-tel (how every spaniard pronounces my name)