No
just kidding, okay where to begin...hmmm... Language study is good,
still learning haha. So funny story of the week: We were teaching Ramon
our investigator (another one of our teachers) and the lesson was on
"The gospel of Jesus Christ". So in the lesson I told him that "because
of Christs atonement we can be clean from our pescados". Not peCados. So
pretty much I told him we could be cleaned from our fishes not sins
haha I died laughing. Well the Haitians went home this week :( Super
sad, but they are going to be amazing in Haiti. We just got a new group
in as well! They are all Latinos so I'll hopefully get to practice my
Spanish for realsies! We also got 2 Jamaicans in and 1 kid from Belgium
going to the West Indies mission Dutch Speaking. He's from like
Argentina or something so he isn't originally from Europe. He was
suppose to go to the Provo MTC, but he had a visa mishap apparently so
now he's here. He speaks fluent Dutch, Spanish, English, and French I
think. Anyway lets just say if he can learn that many, there's hope for
me just learning one. So we got to go to the University last week! It
was amazing. Our "real" investigator fell through because she had class
and wanted to meet with us the next day, but that was the only day we
were going to be at the University. It's okay though. I DO have a
interesting story though! So we were handing out pamphlets and Book of
Mormons and my companions and I were making our way back up the hill and
decided to give a pamphlet to this random like late 50's early 60 year
old man. So we gave him the pamphlet and shared with him a short message
when he then asked if we were all married. So we told him no because we
were on a mission and then quickly left. So we left and were walking a
couple blocks in the opposite direction, went to use the bathroom,
quickly decided after going into the bathroom that it probably wasn't
the best idea. So we had about 15 minutes left and 1 Book of Mormon so
we stopped by this guy who was sitting down and started talking to him.
Then another guy and girl came up to Hermana Bradford talking about our
message and THEN this guy taps me on the shoulder and the same 50 year
old man came up and was talking to me in spanish saying "Novia Novia"
and so I said "I don't know what your saying" and then in English he
says "I want to be your boyfriend, here's my number" and I told him I
don't have a phone and if you have a question about the church there are
phone numbers on the back of the pamphlet we gave him and pulled out
another pamphlet to show him. I then turned around and right across the
street was one of the teachers that works at the CCM watching from the
distance. I thought I had a handle on the situation so I said in Spanish
again "No, I don't have a phone, no thanks" and moved closer to one of
my companions who we were origionally talking to. Pretty much at this
point we were split up a little bit in three different conversations. So
my companions had no idea what was going on. So he kept bugging me,
finally I turned around and looked at the teacher across the street and
mouthed "help" so he came over and hopped in the conversation talking
about the church and what not.My teacher then looked at me because I had
a pamphlet in my hand and looked at me like I was crazy because I
wasn't talking to him. Anyway my teacher found out really quick that he
wasn't interested in the pamphlet. #stalkerstatus. I'm so glad he was
there though to help us out. Our companionship definitely learned
something from that experience.
It's
as amazing here as usual! We got to visit with President Douglas the
President of the area I'll be in! He told us a little about our mission
area and answered questions we had. He said that there are programs
there that some of the missionaries do to help people learn english! I
SOO hope I get to do that! So in two days I'll officially have been here
for a month! isn't that insane!? I don't want time to slip through my
fingers and am using all of my time and energy to be a better friend,
sister, person, and missionary. The people here are amazing and in 1
week I'll get to go out, meet, and serve them! I'm soo nervous and
excited at the same time! Tomorrow I'll get to go out with "the real"
missionaries and go proselyte! Can't wait!
Well
I think that's about it! Thanks you so much for the pictures and
letters. ESPECIALLY THE PICTURES! I love seeing my cute little nieces
and nephew's. Okay love ya'll SOO much!
BIG HUGS!
Hermana Van Woerkom
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