Mire!
Mire a nuestro nuevo caro! Se llama Jeep Jianie. Yup, all the elders
are jealous of us. We actually found out that we were gonna get it the
night before and so we called our district leader to tell him that we
were going to McAllen (we're supposed to ask for permission technically,
but mostly just tell them that you need to go) But he asked why were
going and Hermana Hunt said " to get our jeep, we're gonna get a jeep"
but then he said, "why are you really going to McAllen?" He ligitlly
didn't and wouldn't believe us so we told him that we were going to get
Hermana Hunt's medical card (for the missionary medical insurance). He
accepted that answer and we later found out that he was talking to the
zone leaders and said "the sisters told me they were gonna get a jeep,
as if I'd believe them" then the zone leader said. "they are getting a
jeep." It was pretty legit. Super funny. We honestly did try telling him
multiple times, but he didn't want to believe us. But yup, it's a jeep
compass 2014. Enserio, a bran new car! with 101 miles on it when we got
it! So we were having lots of fun in it. And having fun teasing our
district leader with it as well. Oh yes, and I actually drove our old
car before we retired it, we did exchanges and Hermana Bettinson went to
the STLs area, so I was the senior companion in the area, so I drove,
yup and it was super scary and weird, especially cause any time it's
been a while since I've driven I start again in Manti, small town that I
know super well, but this time it was in a big city (the first time I'd
been there in my life), going on the freeway back to our area where I
still didn't know where anything was. And on top of that it was dark.
(luckily the Port Isabel is the STLs old area).
Oh yes, and those are my companeras in the picture. pos si.
I guess I'm done talking about cars now. maybe.
As far as the area, it
takes a while for me to know people, I'm still trying to reconect with
the area, I feel like I'm doing pretty good since I've only been here
for two weeks, but that's a third of the transfer. I don't think I can
ever be in an area for only one transfer. I need more time to feel
comfortable at all. especially knowing the area. Hermana Bettinson
thinks that she's gonna leave and the two of us are gonna stay, pero
qien sabe.
There's a young man named
Jerry (and he has a cat named thomas (tom), ha ha) but we set a BD with
him, but then when we were texting him to set up a time we can have
another lesson, he told us that he wanted to stick with his church.
Well, we had a super boss restoration lesson with him in which he had
said that he felt like it was all true, so we are not done with him yet,
especially since his mom, we found out, is a member. She's less active,
I guess she was offended and I think hurt that no one has come to visit
her, and I don't blame her. I feel bad that we didn't know she was a
member, we found out when Hermana Young (the STL) pointed at the house
and said there was a Less active that lived there, and so we went to
visit, but she didn't seem very happy. The second visit was better, we
got her to talk about her baptism and she even went and got her pictures
to show us.
So we are definately
working with this family. I feel like it'll be a one at a time thing,
but it's happenin. One problem though, which is very specific to this
mission, is that the mom only speaks spanish. So easy peasy we just
teach them in spanish right? well kids here grow up speaking spanish,
but then when they go to school they learn english (which I think is
super awesome and my kids will be bilingual!), but the problem is: some
kids prefer one language over the other. There was one family in
Edinburg where the kids prefered english and so the parents learned
ingles tambien, there's a family here where the kids are good with
either, they are teaching their parents english and so their parents
understand ingles but can't speak it, but the kids speak both inglish
and spanish. Well with Jerry the situation is that he prefers english
but will talk to his mom in spanish because she doesn't understand
english, but he only wants to talk to us in english. So it's super hard
to have a bilingual lesson. Cause he thinks we're only talking to his
mom when we talk in spanish, so we have to address him in english, but
then his mom is left out of the loop. So, yup. But it'll get there.
Anyway, I'm doing great! Hope you all are as well!
Con amor
Hermana NJ Nielson
Two more pitures, this is of the Edinburg Dirty Dozen zone, in seniority
order. and The Liga's from Edinburg, can you see the personality of the
little boy, Santiago?
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