March 26, 2012

my gooodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL. i printed off some of your emails to read later so i dont waste time on here. but her is is my week.....

so as everyone knows i had a breakdown last week of wanting to come home cause im homesick...blah blah blah. so heres my fix...the most overread verse in the book of mormon 1nehi1 vs1. (yes i know this is so cheesy but just go with it cause sometimes its the only thing that gets me through the day right now.9 but here is nephi this great person who had to deal with so much crap and didnt complain once about his afflisctions....so now im forcing myself to look at the brightside of days. at the end of each day no matter now much i missed home or how many people canceled appts or how bad i suck at spanish i force myself to write down the milagros of the day.....so now for my weekly update to you guys im going to give you the milagros of the week( i cant figure out how do an exclamation point so just imagine it) so here they arë:

1. mother you are going to be most proud of this one....i budget my own money now!!! i have a sheet and everything that i write my expenses on and im proud to say that i didnt go over this month either. who would have thought michael ann can keep track of money ( question marks i cant figure out either)

2. presidente hinckley and hermana hinckley....k i love them. they are like my favorite couple ever. i went into to talk to them about my homesikness and they are amazing. let me tell you how perfect president hinckley is for me (side note real quick its so wierd sitting in his ofice one on one cause i swear everyonce in a while i have to do double takes cause i swaer he looks like his dad. im so cool.....just hanging out with the prophets son) k so hes giving me tips and things i need to do on how to not be homesick....one of them is to make a list of why i love spain....he asks me Hermana oslund what are some of the things you love about spain (my answer is going to shock all of you please dont judge...it was a time of hardship...) i said NOTHING: i told him i couldnt think of one thing that i loved. I KNOW IM THE WORST PERSON EVER. but he leans in and says wel Hermana oslund have you tried the choclate nepolatanas yet???? OMG PReSIDENT HINCKLEY. seriously hes perfect. DUHHHH chocolate nepolatanas are the best!!!!!!!!!

3. ENGLISH CLASS. me and hernama cruz teach english every wednesday night. ITS MY FAVORITE THING EVER. its just funy cause everything im teaching them how to say in english i dont even know how to say in spanish. rofl. im so funny. but this lady named doris walked in. and shes like is this english class? yes. then from talking to her she was saying shes only been here in spain for two weeks and and is trying to learn english. ME TOOO. ive only been here for two weeks and im trying to learn spanish. instant connection. and shes from peru. (peruvians are freaking impossible to understand......lush.....) BUT then after class we got her number and information and called her up and now we are teachng her. shes so precious.

4. alhzimers (please correct the spelling on that) lady! omg shes my favorite. shes a menos activos so we went by to leave her with a spiritual thought after church yesterday) shes crazy. remember in the MTC how i had a lesson with a fake investigator where i just started laughing and couldnt control mysself and just sat there and laughed the whole time but it didnt matter cause it was all fake. IT HAPPENED AGAIN BUT WITH A REAL PERSON: im going to heck. we are sitting there singing a hymn and people shes like blid so watching her struggle to erad the words and then her voice.....i couldnt handle it.......i finally know what its l ike to listen to me....i just busted up laughng......im horrible....and then i was saying the closing prayer and in the middle of the prayer it happened again....i couldnt even finish the prayer......then i got chastized by her for not taking prayer seriously.

5. FREDDY AND LOURDES! freddy got baptized on friday. he was the one who was having huge doubts about the alw of chastity. that i had the pleasure of helping his dudas........lucky me. leo baptized him. but lourdes is his friend who didnt want to be baptized but attended freddys and came up to us afterwards telling us she wants to be baptized also. she has a date for this friday.

so yay for milagros!!!!!! ill send pics home sooner or later. i think leo sent a picture to sam of me him and hermana cruz.....if you all could look at that then let me know if i look fatter or not that would be greatly appreciated......

I LOVE YOU MUCHOS. thanks everyone for your words of helpfullnesssss. talk to you next week!!