Well... how do I put this - I like the city. Now, before yall start wondering where on earth Hermana Reeve went, lemme explain - I like the opportuniteis that come from serving in the city around SO MANY people!! Honking horns aren't music to my ears, but the sound of sharing the restored gospel IS! I also like walking so much... because I'm losing all that chub I got from the pasta in the country ;) so there are some very good things about the city! fun fact... la palabra "caseros" means "homemade". So I am serving in a homemade city! Haha! My comp is AWESOME, we get along fabulously and teach together in a harmony that is crazy good. Also, our apartment complex has a roof that we go on to do exercises in the morning sometimes. There are few thingsmore relaxing than stretching and yoga and headstands on the roof as the sun rises. Luckily, I bought fleece lined leggins to keep me warm :)
I don't have many teacing stories this week, but something really cool did happen. I was walking down the street and a random paper flew in front of me. It had the name "ELISA" written in caps. I don't know why, but this name really stuck with me for the rest of the day. Later that night, we knocked a random door of this lady. She was sad, and we found out that her husband of 63 years had died recently and she just wanted to be left alone. I started carrying a book of mormon in my hand whenever I'm out proseliting (i can't remember how to spell anything), and so I held up the book and told her that when my dad died, i found comfort in this book. She watched me for a while and said "this book REALLY helped you?" I nodded and said "and I promise it will help you." she accepted it and agreed to let us come back at another time. Guess what her name was....? Elisa. Yeah, God is real, and he is directing our eyes, feet, and thoughts to lead us to people. I know it!
Sunday was really great! I was asked to share my testimony in the ward because I'm new, and I had a bunch of ward members come up after and ask how long I had been here. When I told them two months, they asked how long I had studied Castellano before the mission. And when I told them I didn't, they didn't believe me!! One lady was like "well ok then, you definitely have the gift of languages, no doubt about that!" Then after this little 8 or 9 year old girl came up and started talking to me and was all shy... I told her she had beautiful hair and she said "no, you do! yours is soooo rubiacita (blonde... even though it's definitely light brown :p) and your eyes are such a different light brown color! que linda!!" haha I just love people here!
Anyway, I'm about out of time, but I love the poeople here, I love being a missionary more and more every day, I have an INCREDIBLE COMP!! The other day we were laughing about something, as usual, and she said "I haven't had this much fun with a comp in 9 months!" and I am so grateful for the help of my Heavenly Father in learning this language!!
Love you all so much!!
my view from the pench!
MY FACE!! I decided I'd send one picture of myslef a week so I can look through them all after the mish and see how I've changed!
Hermanita Reeve-ita :)
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