Welp hola there mi familia and others reading this letter!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! so this week since thanksgivng is on thursday we get like a pday and a half... today we only have till 12 to get all our shopping and emails done and then tomorrow is like our pday minus the shopping and emails. and speaking of shopping yes i have done some. I honestly dont know how chris has only spent 7 dollars and whatever cents... but then again he had completely everything he needed for north carolina. it is seriously SOOOOOOOO COLD HERE!!! yesterday we hit 20 degrees and wearing a skirt with the wind and everything is sooo not fun. I am sorry that I spent so much I was trying to be really good but winter clothes are not cheap. We even went on a sale day where stuff was an extra 50% off the already marked down items. My winter coat...if I could use two words to describe it it would be...sleeping bag. That is exactly what it looks like.A gray poofy sleeping bag. awfulness. but it should keep me warm and thats what matters. I will send pictures when I wear it :/.. and now I definately dont need to do anymore clothing shopping. Im good and set to go. I also had to get some ear muffs and more leggings and thicker tights because this wind is NOT my friend. I seriously have no idea how Im gonna survive contacting in this FU-REEEEzing cold. I am missing Az heat sooooo bad.
Oh and on Monday I had my first encounter with yes a TORNADO! they have these sirens that go off when there is tornado and well they went off, the branch president called and told us to get to our apt and hide in the bathroom. the district leader elder trujillo told us to get our mattresses and put them over us--which I dont know how much of this actually helps if the tornado actually does hit the house... anyways me and hermana layton quickly went and cleaned the toilet just in case we had to grab onto the toilet we knew it would be clean...the weather was the weirdest thing. It was soo windy and by the looks of it it should have been reaallllllly cold. but instead it was like 66 degrees and the wind was hot. then it was raining all of the sudden out of no where like huge rain drops and the tornado hit like 20 minutes away from our apt. good thing I got my protection shield in action...
What was really funny about it all was that just that morning after our district meeting all us missionaries went to lunch and while we were at lunch one of the missionaries just happened to say--a Jewish man prophesied that in the year 2010 all of Illinois would be destroyed by tornado and we were all laughing and thought that was super bizarre and funny ha ha ya and then 2 hours later boom! REAL tornado!
Other than that we have taught some awesome lessons this week and I feel like I am understanding little by little more and more spanish. My dreams are now being in spanish every now and then--for the past 3 days they have been and I am finding it hard to remember the english words for some of these words like pero, entonces, y, sí, pues, gracias etc etc... so hopefully this means good things..
We have one investigator jose gonzales-- who is 80% sure he wants to get baptized and hes already asked one of the elders to do it so we just got to get him to that 100% surety....ahhhh! Its so crazy when they are so close and you know that this gospel really does bring so much peace and helps life in so many ways that sometimes its hard to say.
Congrats on the engagement Brett! thats pretty exciting! what a way to come home eh?! :) :)
Oh and mom with the rhyming thing..its been pretty funny cause we have texting here with the older elders and people in our zone and in all my texts for some reason Ive been on a rhyming rhythm thing and so now some of them have become jokes within our zone...like this one have a good night, sleep tight known you did aight by choosing the right and bringing people to da light...
I hope your thanksgivings are wonderful and enjoy the crazy! and I cant wait to hear from you again! I love love love you all!
xoxoxo Hermana Maughan
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