I cannot believe that I am actually in Mexico! it is like Maddy when we were in Hawaii for a month, and she was like, wow, its like we are surrounded by water on all sides and we are on an island... um yeah, we are in Hawaii! But it feels like I am just in a little bubble, but I cant wait to be out on the real streets meeting and helping real people! I learn so much everyday but by the end of the day, my brain is practically fried! Sometimes my teacher asks me a question, and I cant think in Spanish or English! The other day my teacher came up to me and my companion and said, Es un hippie? and I was like, Yup, sure am! And then turned to my companion from Colorado and said, Es una vacera? and she said, I guess.. And then he said, A hippie and una vacara juntos?????
Also another funny thing that happened in class was we were role playing, and our teacher was the missionary, and me and hermana Hauck were the investigators. And my name was Olga, of course! And her name was Helga. And he was asking us if we needed anything to be blessed in a prayer he was about to say, so Hermana Hauck told him about how our younger sister was very sad and needed help because we had previously told him about how our parents had died 9 months earlier in a car crash in Greenlandia... and then that her name was Illga. So in his prayer he said, ¨ Por favor bendice Illga¨ and it was muy chistoso!!!
Also Hermana Hauck was in the lunch line and wanted to say more than just Gracias. And was trying to tell the servers that they were the best, which is mejores, but actually said ¨ Uds. son los mujeres¨ which means you are the Women, which is really funny because they were ALL men! I was laughing so hard when she figured out what she had done, after my companion told her what she had actually said!
Since I am super talented at being in really awkward situations, the other day my teacher asked me for my name tag, and it is a magnet one, so you have part on the front of your shirt, and part inside your shirt. So I took off the front, but the back part fell down my shirt, which was tucked into my skirt.. so he was waiting for the back, and it was trying to inch it up my shirt from the outside, but of course that was not going to work, so i had to awkwardly turn around and reach inside my shirt, get the magnet, and then hand it to him, like he really actually wanted it after all of that !!! but its only awkward if you make it awkward right??!!
There are lots of funny things that happen, especially everything is funny after studying for so many hours, but the best part is all that I am learning about Heavenly Father, and his love for all of us. And that only because of Jesus Christ can we be able to return to live with God someday. I love each of you, and love hearing about all your adventures!
Oceans of love,
Hermana Barton
PS-- (to Mom) One of my favorite stories this week in a devotional was from Elder Bednar and he said that he was going to help a man who he didn't know, and when he saw him he whispered in his ear, "Jesus sent me to tell you that you CAN do this!" and I love that. And he then said to us, the same thing. And I know that Heavenly Father will help me on my mission and make all things possible.
Also there is an Hermana here named Sarah Anderson and she also had super curly hair really similar to mine, she is awesome, like seriously I could spend all day talking to her, and we could be best friends because we have really similar sense of humor, and her companion is an art major and is like someone you would find at a book store in downtown Santa Cruz, or in New Leaf buying dried cranberries, just because that is the first thing that came into my head.
Yeah anyways, Oceans of love,
Hermana Barton
ps sorry my punctuation is terrible! I don't know how to use this Spanish keyboard!!
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Here are pics:
Elder Lunt ( Arizona), Elder Barrus (seatlle Washington) Hemana Hauck (Saint George), Hermana Ylst ( Salt Lake Area), Hermana Harmon ( Colorado), Hermana Bomby ( Santa Cruz!!!!) this is the order of the top pic. And one pic is when we went on the roof of a building, don't really know if we were supposed to... but there is not a rule for or against... and there was a view of the whole city so we did! And then you see the view of the houses I love to see everyday from the CCM.
Mas pictures! The first is right next to the bathroom, and I think the Mexican lady's face is hilarious!
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