Hola mi familia y mi amigos!!! que pasa?!?
These keyboards they have are throwing me off
pretty hard core cause they are different so i don’t know how to add
punctuation and i don’t really want to try all that hard with the little time i
have.. also.. the computer is set to Spanish so it says every single word i
type is mis-spelled so i don’t really know what to do about that so i guess I’ll
just keep typing and hope that mom corrects it before the blog!!! ha!! :)
thanks mom!!!
So this week flew by, crawled by and was super
awesome!!!! We have been doing a ton of Spanish like always!!! siempre siempre
siempre (always, always, always) which is every single teachers life motto i
think! but its pretty chill!!!!! so I’m thinking in spanglish so i apologize if
none of my sentences are making any sense!!! haha!!!! so i flippin love sundays!!
They’re in english!! yay!! and we have the coolest flippin meetings!!!!! so
luckily i didn’t get called up to speak in our Spanish sacrament meeting....
they randomly call you out on the spot so you never have a heads up as if you
were doing it in our future wards where we get no warning... however, i think the
bishop might be nice enough to tell you before the meeting so it was pretty
great i didn’t have to give my talk because i wrote it in English and then
translated it word by word with the dictionary to Spanish...and although i may
have learned a ton of new words (which i forgot all of them already.....oops)
none of it made sense because with Spanish you do not translate it straight
over to English so it was all over the place and i had one of the nice Spanish
speakers read over it for me to make a few corrections and she was like... uhh....
where do i even start?? Haha—lol!!!
We’re supposed to prepare a lesson for district
meeting but we completely spaced it this week so of course when we get in there
we’re called up to go first!!! So once
again on the spot teaching!!!! But, lucky for us this one was in english so we said
a prayer in our hearts and got up and started speaking and teaching and the
spirit was so dang strong it ended up being 20 minutes long and it was
incredible!!!! I’m so glad the spirit was with me while i was teaching because
it felt like i just opened my mouth and the words came out!!
I read some really cool things in preach my
gospel this week that was like, don’t try to think of a response while someone
is answering your question, but listen to them and the spirit will fill your
mouth... so i tried really hard not to come up with an answer before and incorporate
what they said into my answer and it was really great!!! Loved it!! and i
loooove so much feeling the spirit every single day!! the spirit is my BEST
FRIEND!!! And when I’m feeling down, i
cuddle with my platypus stephen and say a prayer and i calm right down which is
great!! The book of Mormon is THE BEST!!!!!
i don’t know how i kind of didn’t realize this to the fullest extent i could
have before but I’ve made a goal to finish it while in the CCM and its been
such a blessing!!! It’s so dang cool that you can literally apply every single
scripture to your own life!! what a blessing!!! wow!!!!! you guys neeeeeed to
read it with a sincere heart having real intent and the truth of it will be
manifested to you!!! It is actually my second best friend right after the
spirit and i love it so much!!!
The sisters here are so dang great!!! However,
tons of them left this morning because they were either two week Latinos or the
six week nortes (North Americans) so their time was up here and it was way sad
to see them go!!!! i basically have
learned spanish from them since i got here and they have so much patience with
all of us hooligans that can’t even speak a bit of their language!! They’re nice
and sweet and sincere with everything!!! Talking with them.. (well at least
when the spirit is there so we can understand each other because if not.. we
just sit across from each other and stare at each other while I’m trying to do
charades in english and trying to explain it using a billion different spanish
words that none of us know!! ha!! life is great!!)
When we really get talking, it’s incredible
what these girls have sacrificed to be out here!!!!! tons of them are the ONLY
member in their family and their families don’t support their decision for
coming out here!!! Tons of them don’t have the money to afford a mission and can
barely be out here with the Church funding and all of them are so grateful to be
out regardless of the support back home, the money they have, the struggles
they go through or the difficulties at home!! yes!!! at home!! like one sister
got here, and then four days into her mission, her dad killed her mom and then
himself, leaving her nothing, like absolutely nothing to return to and yet here
she is!!! Ahh so incredible and my testimony grows each and every time i talk
to them!!! i am so blessed to have such incredible family and friends writing
me and showing me support!! They say- why do we need 1 hour of writing time?...
and, i am like -do you have enough time to write everyone? and they say, “I
only have to send one email to my mom and she never replies” how sad is that?!
so i gave them my email and i promised that i would write them because that is
so sad!!!
We take sooo much for granted in the USA. They
are having a hard time even having clean water down here and we get upset if we
only have 3 hours on the tv, wii or computer or if the wifi is acting up!!! How
blessed we are!!! We went on another temple trip today and it was incredible as
always but we also took a trip to the mall down the street and it’s just sad to
see the poverty these people are living in… yet, inspiring that they are still
so happy!! every single person we pass, they are so happy to see us and they
are so dang nice!!! haha! even though i struggle talking with them, they are so
patient with all of us and it’s so great to talk with them!!! and the little
kids are all so skinny!!! It’s SAD!!! so i super super feel grateful for
everything i have!!!! We went to the
mall and they have lots of American food and it was a pretty good sight to
see!!! also since we eat so many beans in the CCM, it’s nice to see good food!!
still, we aren’t allowed to have food in the CCM so we could only buy what we
could eat there!! We saw a pizza hut today that sounded good, but i probably
will get some later on!! I think whitey (the white car that was my age with
over 300,000 miles on it) would be a pretty nice car down here!! So many of the
cars are beat up and have huge chunks missing out of them and not many of them
have any lights in them!!! ha!! its super weird!!
Guatemala is so dang humid!! It’s either
pouring like insanely or its super hot!! We go outside to play sports, and even
though i have sports at night when the sun is down, i still work up a pretty
good sweat from everything that I’m doing!!! its crazy!! i swear i didn’t sweat
this much in the US... oh wait... i didn’t!!
We watch some of the awesome devotionals that are given in the Provo MTC
and those are all so great, and we also watch a bunch of the Mormon movies
and those are awesome!!! The spirit is so unreal!!! i cant even believe it!!!
ah!!! its so awesome to feel the spirit here!!! We watched the Joseph Smith
movie the other day and i flippin loved that!!! the spirit was unreal the whole
time that we were in that room!!! i know that we've watched all of these movies
before in the past, but it seems way different to watch them as a missionary...
i think the main reason is that i come in with a better attitude…like before my
mission when my mom would come up with the next movie for us to watch.. i was
like great.. we have to sit here and watch this when i could be doing so much
more with my life, but now, i go in like ahhh!! what a treat to watch a movie!!
I’m so excited—that’s where the difference comes in— its so dang awesome to go
in with the right mind set!! i can’t believe how cool they are!!! ah!! The prophet Joseph Smith is so incredible and
the inspiration he brings is the bomb diggidy!!! ah!! i love this prophet—and
all the prophets and apostles!! they are so incredible!!! each one of them!!
they are the bomb!!! Hermana Stoddard and Hermana McGee and Dosela and Chira say
hi! i flippin love these girls!! i told them kayla’s lame farmer jokes and they
love them and i get in trouble for telling jokes in English, but none of them
understand!! They are not funny!!!! but
i don’t know how to translate farmer.
Sadly my
time is up but lastly, i love you all so much and I’m grateful for all of my
many blessings!! Thanks for the love and support!!!! Te Amo
Love,
Hermana Josie Morris
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