Segunda Semana

Hola Everybody!
      Que paso? Wow this week went by sooo much faster than the first! We finished our discussions with our first investigator (Jorge) who is now our teacher, whose name is Hermano Silva. He's kind of adorable. He's super nice, but whenever we are in his class we HAVE to speak solo Español. Otherwise he puts a mark next to our name and calls them pecados (sins). It's kind of funny. I don't have a picture of him yet, but I'll try to get one of him and Hermano Rogers, who is my other maestro (teacher).
      Sorry for the Spanglish. Spanish is going pretty well, I really need to learn how to focus better though. But in my defense, to sit in a classroom 8 hours a day is a pretty miraculous, even if I start to zone out a couple of times. And there's a piano that's constantly calling my name. Even though I don't have hardly anything memorized, (except for that song from Pride and Prejudice) I always have to fight the temptation to just play during an hour of language study (when the teacher isn't there of course :]).
      The food's iffy, I'm not sure if it's getting better...it goes up and down, but I've been able to eat a lot more. And guess what I found in the tienda... STRAWBERRY FRIGGIN MILK. It was good too! I get 120 pesos a week, and everything is super cheap. I bought a Himnario (so you guys don't need to send me one) and a big pack of cookies that taste like Chips Ahoy (don't worry I always share) orange soda, and 5 pieces of paper, so I can print out your emails, so that I don´t use my precious computer time reading them AND THEN responding to them. SO now I can focus on really writing to you guys which is nice. I know I said I'd be on at noon, but I meant noon my time, and I´m still an hour earlier than that, but when you have to get up at 6:30 in the morning, and your laundry is done by like 10, you get a bit anxious. And "a busy missionary is a happy missionary". I just don't know what I'm going to do till 6. Probably language study, or exercise. (Yes, I know, it's a miracle)
      Now we have two "investigators". But because of time, we only get to do one a day. Both of our teachers act like investigators. Hermano Rogers in the morning (who pseudonym is Mario) and Hermano Silva in the evening (whose new fake name is Daniel). We taught Daniel, who according to Hno. Silva, is based on a girl investigator he had named Danielle. So when we were talking to him, I just couldn't get it into my head that we were talking to Daniel, not Danielle. So when I asked "Danielle" if she had a boyfriend, I was asking DANIEL if he had a boyfriend. That was embarrassing. (I knew I'd have my moment sooner or later though)
      So what's going on at home? Please keep me in the loop with your daily lives. School projects, work problems, funny youtube videos you can describe, I don't care, but I just want to know! Just a note to everyone, don't bother sending me a letter just yet. I just got one from the Bentleys yesterday that they sent the day BEFORE I left. So yeah. I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO SOOO MUCH! AND I MISS YOU GUYS A TON! But really, I'm already almost 3% done with my mission! 
Con todos mi amor,

Hermana Sarah Mohun

P.S. Here's my district! (Well some of them; I don't like technology.)

Elder Brand

Elder Snyder

Elder Barnes

And a few more pics:

HUGE cockroaches!

Hermana Porter, 
mi compañera

At the temple, 
looking fabulous. ;)

Semana #1

HOLA MI FAMILIA Y AMIGOS,

      Well I have Prep-day on Tuesday as it turns out. And every other Tuesday we go to the temple, which we did this morning. I only get one hour on the computer every P-day, but I´ll try to be as detailed as possible. 

      The food was a bit deceiving. Every Tuesday is pizza night, and it wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either (it's ordered). But everything else (besides the bread) sucked the first few days. I thought you gained weight at the MTC, haha. But I´m getting used to it now. The first few days though were really rough on me. But my branch presidency is awesome, and so is the MTC president, they helped me, and so did the temple today, so I´m honestly feeling great now. So don´t worry, I´m already over that hill. But still, prayers of comfort and peace on my behalf are always appreciated.

       We've got our first "investigator"; his name is Jorge, and he's supposed to be 17 (investigators here are just teachers acting parts). We've had 3 lessons with him, and we've got him to commit to be baptized, but the real challenge is getting him to read the book of Mormon, AND getting his parents' permission to join and be baptized. 

      It's raining pretty hard outside right now. Harder than I've ever seen it before. It usually rains around sunset for about 10 minutes. It is so pretty here! But when we had to go through the city to get through the temple, you can really see the poverty these people live in. But they don´t think they are poor. It's interesting, to say the least. You can always hear fireworks at night, which gets kinda annoying when you're trying to sleep at 10:30. I live in a casa with about 4 other companionships, but we've all got our own rooms. And we're not in the same districts, so we don't talk very much. Hermana Porter es muy amable. We're the only girls in our district. The elders are pretty nice. (Oh no, they're hot!) But, even though they're missionaries, they're still teenage boys and the majority of them do not like to focus. But they are nice to us at least, and I really do like my district. Spanglish and all.

      Funny Story: Since a lot of us have never taken Spanish, they really don't know how to pronounce much. And one elder, when teaching Jorge, mumbled his Spanglish "pookedemormon" and Jorge thought he said book of Pokemon! Another elder accidentally had Jorge turn to the wrong scripture, when he was trying to make him understand why he should read the Book of Mormon. The verse was supposed to be about getting blessings, but the verse he had him read was talking about war and dying. So that kinda scared Jorge, haha! I can proudly say that we have not made such mistakes, but I'll bet we'll have our fair share.

      So yeah, first few days were as slow as molasses, but they say that it just flies by after the first Sunday (others say the "first Christmas" [aka P-day]). I think that's true, it's already the end of Tuesday practically. And it feels like it should be Sunday. 

      How is everyone? Miss me as much as I miss all of you guys? I doubt it. I pray for ALL of you guys every night and every morning. (in Spanish) I LOVE YOU ALL AND I MISS YOU GUYS SOO SO MUCH!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Sarah Mohun

It Began as You Might Expect...

With a mission call... :)