Hola familia y amigos!
To explain the subject line (might as well
start there jaja)- here in good old Trenque Lauquen, the youth have a
tradition of going every Sunday night to the house of Gillé to make
argentine pancakes :D They’re
crepes with dulce de leche! Talk about delicious! It´s just great. And
it´s really fun to hang out with the cool kids! It´s awesome that they
do things together cause they want to :) Keeps them out of trouble and
keeps the branch together! Anyway, making a joke about English, Gallito
said "Puedo hacer pancakes" (panqueques) que=what and
pan=bread in Spanish, so, being the happenin kid that he is, translated
it to "I can make bread-what-what". The room of kids moaned at
the terrible joke, but I thought it was hilarious... so there you have
it! Bread what what.
I love Trenque Lauquen :) My companions,
Hermana Burgos and Hermana Boyce are jems. I can´t imagine being here
without the both of them. Knowing that any one of us could get transferred
at any time is a little sad, cause we balance each other out and I have
learned a ton from each of them. Hermana Burgos is from Peru :) It´s
great to get to learn Spanish from her! It keeps me from falling in to
speaking English during those moments when we´re not talking to people
on the streets. That has helped me a ton! I´m going to make it a habit so
that whoever I´m with, I can keep learning tons of Spanish. Like I’ve said
before, if I want 100% of blessings, I´ve got to put in 100% effort. "What isn´t part of due process won’t be
part of due product"-Presidente Pareño. Hermana Burgos has taught
me a lot more than just Spanish though. She´s very loving and humble and
relates the scriptures to the lives of the people around her like a
boss. I hope I can learn to do that better! Hermana Boyce is from
Holiday Utah, and she too, has taught me a ton. She´s a great cook, and
loves a clean floor (so I sweep a lot, a happy companion is a happy
companionship). My mom would be
so proud! Mom, I don´t leave dishes in the sink (I can just see you now,
not believing me or thinking it´s a miracle. yeah... it IS a miracle).
Hermana Boyce is super strong. She doesn’t take no for an answer. Not
only that though, a car literally ran over her foot, and she walked
around for like 3 hours before asking us to go back to the house to ice
it. What?! Yeah, sometimes her strength is pretty freaky.
To close, I want to talk about patience. It is
CRAZY important, and it´s something I really want to be better at. When
you don´t think you have enough faith or knowledge or blessings or
whatever, have patience. Pray for it- it´s a hard thing to have
sometimes. But I know that practicing patience will definitely bless
your lives!
Search the scriptures, seek ye the best books,
pray, go to church :) Sorry that this wasn´t really the most spiritual
of letters, I´ll work on that... ;) Love you all tons and tons and tons!
I hope that all is well with you! Write you more soon. Have a wonderful
week!
Besitos!
Hermana Hill
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