Week 3

Okay, sorry i have a hard time remembering what I have wanted to tell you about but ill try. and I actually have issues with the spanish keyboard, but then i decided to just type normal and let you take the time to discern what it says so i don{t have to spend extra time to stretch my fingers out and make it right. I get to go to the temple every other week and my spanish is getting better becuase today i actually understood quite a bit of it, and i wasn{t making up any words like i feel like i did last time. so yup spanish is slowly but surely improving. I do get to see mexico city as we´re driving through it on the way to the temple, but i have a hard time getting pictures when were moving and the windows are tinted, cause we got a fancy tour bus, its actually kinda a bummer, i never thought i{d prefer a school bus.  The hermana teachers can go out and go sight seeing but they have to take an hermano with them.

I am actually doing really good, my companion is very positive, diligent, responsible, she likes soccer so who can complain? and she puts up with my energetic and competitive craziness. (the craziness i have when i am energetic and competitve) particularly during gym time.

Um. . . mary kay? i havent recently cause i got lazy, but i do have plenty for a while from what aunt Jane stocked me up with. although i´m not sure how much more maskara i have. I use waterproof avon mascara, and yes it NEEDS to be waterproof, cause it rains every day, and its been raining in mcallen just as much.

I´m supprised dad is taking three days off for hunting, is he spending the nights at the cabin? that would be really fun! I think it would have been nice to take a few days off to go hunting, maybe then I would have actually been able to get myself to do it when i had tags.

That´s a bummer about Rachel not being able to run, but for me, soccer in highschool was fun, but i´ve realized that i enjoy it a lot more playing here or with our ward. I prefer it when it isn{t competitive. I love being competitive but i like it when the game isn{t a competitive one. . . does that make sense? maybe Rachel will enjoy her own thing better, or something completely different. I think soccer or horse riding would be an excellent substitiution for running.

This last sunday was mexican independence day! that saturday night we got to watch the benemito alumni dance group perform, it was great! and then sunday night we watched the grito, we had permission to stay up late and watch tv. we also learned the Mexican national anthem, well kinda, sorta. We somewhat know the tune when all the mexicans are belting it out.  and we followed along reading the lyrics.

Well i´m not sure what to tell now.

But I love you all so very much!

--Hermana Nielson