We had two devotionals this week like usual! The one on Sunday was special because we had the person that is in charge of all the international MTC's speak to us, and that was cool! The one on Tuesday was special as well because our whole district sang in the devotional! We sang the EFY medly that is on my blog a couple weeks ago, but half in Spanish and half in English! Everyone at home knows I don't sing unless it's country music, but y'all best believe I got up there in front of the whole CCM and sang haha! It actually went really well! We were all super nervous but everyone said we sounded amazing so that's a good thing! An hermana that we didn't know came up to us yesterday and told us she recorded it, and then sent it to us! It was so awesome!
Tuesday was such a stressful day... we woke up in the morning and were going to try and practice our song, but couldn't find the elders and had to be dressed and at the reception office by 7:45 for information about leaving next week, so we just stopped trying to find the elders and went back home. Then we went to the meeting, and I got told we have to pay for both our bags, and that our carry on could not weigh more than 22 lbs, so that definitely threw a curve in my plans because we literally received 15 lbs of Spanish books, and my carry on was already 40 lbs when I came... soooooo we had to stay up for so many hours Tuesday night and pack because we had to weigh our bags before Thursday.. but don't worry, I have figured things out by now and now I'm just living out of my suitcases for a week! Also on Tuesday, our district got the opportunity to welcome new missionaries and it was so fun being able to be the old missionaries this time and help the fresh meat with any questions! So yeah, Tuesday was a long and very busy day!
Remember a couple weeks ago when I said all I wanted was some Andes mints, ice and coke?? Well, I have yet to find any more mints, but last week Elder Cluff pulled some strings and got ice for Hermana Carlson and I, and this week WE FOUND COKE. Funny story! So on Saturday, Hermana Towery (also going to San Antonio) and Elder Ahlstrom (New Jersey) broke two of our coat hangers in our room, so Monday one of the workers from the CCM came into our room to fix them, and he started talking to us and asked us if we liked coke, and he told us THERE IS SOME IN THE CCM. Apparently the room next to where we do the laundry on service days has coke in the vending machine, and he told us we could buy some after 6 because that's when the workers go home. HERMANA CARLSON AND I WENT AS QUICK AS WE COULD. Now the only stuff I want is some good BWW and Andes Mints haha.
Wednesday Hermana Carlson had our first "fight" or whatever you would call it haha so it just didn't start a great day for me because I had to weigh my bags in the morning and they were over weight, so from then on I was super stressed and Hermana Carlson has been having a rough time with another hermana in our district, and she's just been taking it out on me but I kind of got sick of it, so anyways most of the day we didn't talk very much, and after dinner she was super upset about something but wouldn't talk about it so that upset me even more than I was from everything else that day, so I told her we needed a companionship inventory and we did our second one for the whole six weeks we've been here (oops) BUT we are all better haha I think it was just a stressful day for the both of us, but it's all good now! I'm not sure if I put this in my last email home, but last Friday on pday, Elder Ahlstrom was bouncing a soccer ball like a basketball and I stuck my foot right under where it would bounce (not thinking it would do much) and it shot straight off my foot and nailed Hermana Carlson in the face... it was super hard and I felt soooooo bad, but now she holds it against me kind of as a joke haha so once she joked about that again, I knew we were good again haha.
Yesterday we had so many fun activities and teaching opportunities! We went and did service at the laundry room again and it wasnt as fun this time because the elders weren't there because they took them to make beds in other houses, and it's so sad because they are working so hard to separate the girls from the boys :( We taught Angela for the last time also (:/) but it went really well! We also had TRC and we got to teach 2 times even though we were only planning on one! We taught an older couple from Mexico over Skype and it was seriously so fun! Then we got to teach our teachers brother! Hermana Vargas is honestly the best and her brother was so funny too!! He told us our Spanish is so good and that we are ready for the field so that was cool!
Today we don't have much planned other than emailing family, playing volleyball and probably taking pictures with lots of people!
Mi pensamiento espiritual este semana es 3 Nefi 13:8 y dice, "Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him." I love this scripture because it gives me hope and peace whenever I am having a hard time because I know that God has a plan and knows exactly what I need in the moment, and I know he truly watches out for his missionaries and I have felt his love for me so much more this past month and almost a half than I ever have!
I love you all! I am doing great and am so excited to go to Texas!! Thank you for all the emails full of love and support! Next time I'll be in Texas, so until then!!
Much love,
♡ Hermana Griffin ♡
WE FOUND COKE!!!!!
They NEVER get off their phones....
The BEST district!!!
Our BEATLES picture!
We took POLAROIDS!
Our District!
He's the BEST photobomber, hahah!!!
We all have matching shirts!
Our P-DAY, watching a Volleyball game!
Our awesome STL's!
Hermana Harold from Highschool!
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