Well the loves of my life,
To begin, I’d like to first say, I’m grateful that I have a wonderful family. Now I’d like to say Que the freak Pasa?? I need letters yo, this is the first wee bit in the field, and let’s face it.. it’s hard and I need you to love me. Haha
Well my comp is sister Ramos, she’s from California and her parents are both from Honduras, so she is a native speaker. She has only been out in the field for three months. So like they say, babies training babies. AND I am 99% sure that at the end of this twelve week cycle I will be training, because the amount of Hermanas is doubling. Ayayaya. It’s crazy, I am just hoping I get it all figured out by then. Sometimes Hermana Ramos doesn’t really know what to do with being a trainer, and I feel bad, but I have no idea either. She’s great, she says thinks like more better and adjectives after the verbs like any native Spanish speaker should, I enjoy it. I was really excited to know I had a native speaker, and I still am very glad.
So I decided I would pick an investigator and kind of just carry you guys with me through the process, but the one I picked dropped us yesterday. SOOO… Ya. My first drop. So I guess I will chose this family called the Menedez family, which is kind of risky because we haven’t even taught them yet, but I have high hopes. Last week we were trying to find the Ortiz family who is less active, and we stumbled upon Maria de la Luz. She said ya come on back at five (We thought we didn’t have a dinner appointment). SO we missed it. We had an appointment that ended at 8:30, so we were contemplating what to do for the last half hr and said a prayer, we would have gone right back, but sister Ramos doesn’t like to waste the miles if it doesn’t work out. BUT anyways I was like, man I just feel like we should go. Well this family, Samuel, Maria, and there two kids, seem PERFECT.. They wen’t to the temple dedication in Kennewick like ten years ago and really liked it, and they made sure they set up an appointment where they would both be there. I’m really excited about it, but I also am nervous.
OK, so to explain my first area, it’s Basin City or The Basin. It is farms, brown, flat nothingness for miles and miles and miles. We cover three units, two English speaking and one Spanish, however all of our appointments and everything are usually Spanish, we just eat with white people. We tract the trailers quite a bit because that’s the only place where they have a couple houses. Mainly there is at least five miles between everything. So I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t get a bike.
Sister/Hermana Ramos told me she is going to start bribing me with treats, and she thinks it’s pretty crazy how much I eat. I think it’s pretty crazy how much she doesn’t eat. But really, we barely bought any food last week because I thought we were going into Pasco today, so I think I will be out of food in a couple days, so that should be interesting. I’m always hungry as you know, but here it’s worse and I think Hermana Ramos should really start bribing me with treats to be a good little Jr. comp, I wouldn’t mind.
Hmm we live with the Riries, they talk with us a lot. The other day we came in at like 920 because we were with an investigator and Brother Ririe is sitting there with his arms crossed over his chest waiting. haha so no worries, I’m taken care of (minus eating) .
I love and miss you all so much. Write me.
Love,
Hermana Hannah Holladay