November 26, 2014

Momma!!!

I am doing so good! I cant believe this is my last week here! That is so crazy! My CCM time has gone by so fast.  Im super scared to leave but im way excited at the same time.  This time next week i will be in Piura!  We leaveyway early in the morning on plane so it should only take an hour and then i dont exactly know what will happen so itll definitly be an adventure after that......

 Im suuuupppppeeeeerrrrr sad i cant help put up christmas stuff hahahhaha.  But dads super good at it so we just have to leave it to the master.  Good job dad! Im sure it looks amazing as always! :)

 Thats crazy about the Shipps.. Ive been thinking about them a ton this week! I know a lot of people here have too.  I really hope everything goes good for them! Keep me updated!

So tomorrow is thanksgiving and usually they dont do anything for the american missionaries but this year presidente is making it special for us so im pretty excited about that :)  Im not exactly sure whats going on but our zone leaders say it should be way sweet so yeah im way excited haha.  All i know is that we get to watch a movie or something and maybe well get to eat something other than chicken and rice hahahah :)

So my week..... okay i need to start out with the funny story first. you guys probably wont get it because im really bad at writing emails and telling stories but whatever.  So anyways we had to take district pictures with the CCM president and his wife this week and so we all gathered in the front of the CCM and took the picture and thought everything was great and whatnot.  But like 2 hours later Presidente comes into our district and tells us that we all need to go meet in Hermana Gonzalas office (his wife) to talk.  So all 10 of us are crammed in this little office and she gets all serious and tells us something is wrong with our picture.  She is like dead serious so we have no idea whats going on.  So she pulls up the picture and in the back row 2 of our elders are just making the stupidest faces ever.  Like i wish i could describe them.  We are all trying so hard not to laugh.  And then she zooms in on them! So then we all just lose it and were all laughing and shes still super serious and now she hates us and wont give us our pictures but thats okay.  One of the elders was Elder Sampson so that makes it even better hahaha.  It might not sound that funny but it was probably the funniest thing that has happened to me here so far haha.

The rest of my week was actually super lame.  Well not lame.  Just the same as every other week.  Spanish is super hard!! They have so many rules!! I feel like i am a ton better than when i came but i still feel like i know nothing. People can kinda understand me but im still not the best at pronunciation. I am going to be so lost next week haha.  I am going to need some major help.  I am praying that my first comapanion is a latina so im forced to learn it haha.  I mean i can understand so well now.  When we went through the temple today i could pick up everything but speaking it is a whole different story.  But ill pick it up right? There hasnt been a missionary that hasnt learned their language has there...? hahaha

So there are only 24 other english speaking sisters here!! How crazy is that! And probably about 60 elders give or take... and right now theres only 8 latinas and maybe 20 latinos? This CCM is super tiny!! You get to know EVERYONE super well so when people leave or when its your turn to leave its so sad! Im going to be way sad to leave! But thats okay.... Im really so excited to finally be out there!

Im so glad you got to talk to the Coxs! Will you please send me Sarahs email??? That would be so great!

Im so jealous about your thanksgiving! It will be my first one not home! Thats going to be so weird haha.  I hope you guys have a good time! It doesnt even feel like thanksgiving here.  It just feels like summer or some hot season like that because its always hot. 

Oh and mother if you could send me that lotion grandma gave me, those little spanish CTR rings, a zip up hoodie, and like a spanish plan of salvation card or one of those puzzle things like nate had that would be super awesome.  If not thats fine too :) Thanks momma!!

Well I am running out of time but i love you guys so much!! I wont be able to talk to you next week because i have to skip a pday because ill be in PIURA! But i think my pday will be in a week from monday? Maybe? I honestly have no idea.  I think you should hear from my mission president thought.  Or maybe me.  I have no idea whats going on haha. Wish me luck...  But i love you guys and i miss you! Have such an amazing thanksgiving! I think about all of you all the time!!

Love, Hermana Mitchell

November 19, 2014

MOTHER! Japan sounds like it was amazing!!! I am so happy for you guys!!  I love the pictures! Keep sending them :)

This week was super crazy!! But i loved it! :)  My spanish is coming along! Very slowly but i can definitly see myself improving! I can talk lots in our lessons now and its super fun :)

It was one of our elders birthdays this week so me and Hna. C made him a cake out of oreos and nutella hahaha.  It was super funny but tured out pretty awesome.  Our district is just so great and so fun.  Im gonna miss them all so much when we leave! And yeah i leave the CCM in less than 2 weeks now.  HOW CRAZY IS THAT!!!!!  Im super excited but super nervous. 

Okay now for the best part of my week... WE HAD AN EARTHQUAKE!!! It was the best thing thats ever happened to me hahahaha.  We were just sitting in class and all of a sudden everything just started shaking really hard and our teacher is this little inteligent peruvian guy who is super awesome and he was just like ´´oh, an earthquake´´ and then started laughing and then told us to go outside in the safe circle and it was just super awesome hahaha.  It was a 5.8 i guess.  I dont know how strong thats supposed to be but it felt pretty strong to me!

On sunday Elder Evans from the first quorm of the 70 came and talked to us and it was AMAZING!  It was probably the most spiritual day ive had here so far and thats pretty hard to be because EVERY DAY IS SUPER SPIRITUAL.  I love it so much :)  But he like talked about my mission a ton! He just got to Lima from Piura the night before and he said to take a picture of the city and the paved roads because you probably wont be seeing those for about 17 months haha.  He said when were walking home in the dust to think about what he said hahaha.  He also said that the mission president and his wife are super amazing.  Im SO EXCITED to finally be there soon! Gosh time is already going by so fast!  Im almost been here for a month!!

Also this week a bunch of my favorite elders and sisters left!! I was so sad!  I cried a lot actually so now im scared for what ill be like when i leave!! I really have gotten so close to everyone here and its so hard when they leave! I already decided that im going to all of the elders homecomings! Okay probably not but maybe hahaha.

Todays pday was the best one yet!! For some reason the temple today was just super amazing.  I am finally understanding everything in spanish so its so great to go and understand it in a different language! Hey parents when you come to pick me up we have to go to a temple session in the Lima Temple!! Like for real.  :)  We also went to Garajes and Tottus and I bought some stuff i needed.  They have those little clementines here and they are super cheap and just really good so i bought some of those and some coke zero :)  I reallly love p days :)

Well that is all for my week this week! I wish i could send you pictures! I will when i get to Piura thought. 

And Mother, next week i will buy a couple of those nativity sets! They are all so cool and pretty inexpensive so i will get a couple and send them when I get to Piura.  I hope theyll get there before christmas and i hope they dont break!!! And the skirt and shirt fit perfectly! Thank you SO MUCH.  I had stuff i wanted you to send me but i forgot what haha. Ill think about it and tell you next week :) OH YEAH! Could you send that oil and some more pictures of president monson and those little CTR rings possibly? Thatd be great :)  Oh and if you find my scripture marker refils those too. I might have them but i couldve left them home haha. 

I hope you guys have an amazing week! I love you and miss you all so much!  Be good :)

Love, Hermana Mitchell

November 12, 2014

MOTHER!!! That is so crazy that youre in japan!!! That sounds so cool!  I loved your pictures. Dads still a dork and i love it!!! :)  How did meeting dads mission president go? A crazy coincidence happened with this other hermana today.  We were at the temple and randomly this guy who doesnt speak any english comes up and asks for a Sister Mendlove and she was with us.  He went on to tell us that he was one of her dads companions!! Crazy right?? He served in southern peru i think.  I just thought that was super cool :)

Thats so crazy about the race! Way to go amber!!! Im super jealous.  That sounds like a race id actually train for hahaha :)

So last week was the only week we could send pictures! Which makes me so sad! We technically werent supposed to because theyve never let anyone but the guy who was monitoring us said we could so i think it was just kind of a miracle that we even could that one day which i am super greatful for.  We can defintily still recieve pictures though so send as many as you would like :)

I am doing so great! My room is pretty much like a college dorm room.  It has 3 sets of bunk beds and 6 closets.  Were not allowed to take pictures in the room or i wouldve sent one. Ill try and sneak one though :)  There are 5 other girls in my room and i love them all so much! Most are from utah but one is from hawaii and one is from rhode island.  Theyre just the greatest.  Im going to cry so hard when i leave here and dont get to see them anymore.  They are all going to Cusco besides me and my companion.  The showers are alright.  Theyre just like showers in stalls but they work :)  The laundry system is pretty good too.  They just have a bunch of washers and dryers to use so it goes pretty good.  My clothes arent destroyed yet :) Yes i see mckenzi all the time! Shes in my zone so every prep time and physical activity we have together.  And yes i got your package!! Thank you so much!!! Im so glad i brought so many clothes actually.  You go through them so fast!!! Thank you so much really! And tell grandpa the pine nuts made my whole day! It reminded me so much of home :) Ill try to write them a little note and tell them but just tell them again for me :)

Tyler is doing great! He says he probably has a baptism coming up!! And he might get to be the one to baptize her!! So cool right???? Gosh i love that boy! Im super excited for him :) 

So this week was pretty much just like last week haha.  They dont ever differ too much.  I had class all day every day haha :)  We are continuing to teach our ´´investigators´´  and im getting lots better at it! I can teach a whole lesson in spanish pretty much now! Its super rough sounding but at least i can get some points across haha :)  Gosh i just love peru :)

I wish i could read brittons blog! I for sure will once i leave the MTC but i cant while were here which i dont enjoy... So is he doing better? I put his name in the temple today. 

We get to go to the temple every week and it was temple was so good today.  Its so cool listening to it all in spanish. We have the option of listening to it with a headset in english but its funner in spanish. I can pretty much understand everything too!  When you guys come pick me up we should stop by in lima and do a session :)

So they have this place called the temple store and they have nativity sets!!!! They have so many different ones though!!  Should i just buy a couple different ones and send to you? Theyre all so cool but i dont know which one i like the most! Theyre not too expensive either.  Maybe like 40 soles which is like 15 bucks? It just might be hard to send them to you but i could probably figure it out :) Just let me know!!

Well that is pretty much it down here.  The CCM is such an amazing place.  I love it SO MUCH!!  Oh and a member of the first quorm of the 70 is coming on sunday! Im really excited for that.  I actually joined the CCM chior for it too so thatll be fun i think :)  I am having such amazing experiences here. I LOVE IT.  Im gonna miss it but im so excited to get to Piura! Im half way through my time here so its coming soooo fast!!!

I love you and miss you so much!!! Keep me updated with everyone because my brothers arent the best at writing me emails hahaha :)

Talk to you next week! Love you tons!

Love, Hermana Mitchell

November 5, 2014

I cant believe youre going to Japan as im writing you!!! So crazy! Have so much fun. I hope its not as crazy as peru is hahaha :) and McKenzi just got here and so ill get it from her tonight! Im so excited!!!

Well this week went by soooo fast! I cant believe im already email you again! I honestly love it here so much.  Its so cool! and i tried sending pictures but im not sure if it worked or not but i hope it did!

Classes are going good.  I still suck at spanish but its okay i guess haha.  Im pretty good at gospel stuff but thats about it.  This week we also went to interpol and migrations and it was CRAZY! The drivers here are terrifying! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! But it was super fun too because we didnt die :) We sat at migrations forever just doing nothing for like 5 hours then we finally just went in and signed a paper and it was over in like 2 minutes so that was pretty stupid but its all an adventure :)  At interpol the next day we sat in the freezing cold then this lady checked our teeth which was weird.  Then we just had to give fingerpints and stuff so i felt kinda cool :)

I love my district and my teachers! My teachers only speak spanish so i can now understand most spanish things but i just cant say any haha.  Thats really it for class. its pretty boring.  We are also teaching a lot! Which is awful because i cant speak spanish haha but im slowly getting better.

The food is actually really good! Its kinda weird how good it is haha.  Me and my companion have to run everyday because of how much they give us! Weve started asking for a lot less though but then they look at us funny and still give us a ton haha.

Today was also Pday! I love pday!!!! We went to this place called Grajes which is just a bunch of garages with people selling stuff haha.  I got 3 soccer jerseys for 60 soles which is about 20 bucks! I was pretty happy about that :) We also went to tottus which is like target and i bought some fingernail polish remover becasue i forgot it haha.  The buses are awesome! I think that its my favorite part of this whole thing so far haha :)

So i woke up with a fever this morning and was feeling awful but im already over it! Im a blessed missionary :)

I feel awful about Britton.  Ill put his name in the temple next week.  Keep me updated.  I cant believe that happened at sadies! I bet those girls feel so bad.  Miracles can happen though.  Ill for sure be praying for one this week. 

Im glad you went to see Wendy! How are they doing??  And yes please send Tys stuff as soon as possible! Thanks momma youre the best :)

I also cant believe that Mae is getting chubby! SEND ME PICTURES!!! I miss you all so much! Ill try and send pictures at the end. 

I miss shadow and ender too.  Get him undepressed for me haha :)

Sorry its so short! Ill try and do more exciting things this week!