July 30, 2012

HOLA FAM.

so last preparation day we went to parque guell with a bunch of the hermanas. we saw the greatest thing ever.... so you know like nun punches? every time you see a nun you punch your companion. well me and cruz changed it a little bit when we were together and have carried it on with each one of our companions since. ginger punches and dred punches. so parque guell this past week and there we only saw the greatest thing of our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was the ultimate punch--a ginger that has dreads. it was basically the best moment of my and cruz’s lives. we all stood there shocked that one of them existed. of course we got creepy stalker pictures.

this past tuesday was THIS TIME NEXT YEAR I’LL BE HANGING OUT WITH MY MOM DAY. hermana dalton got me my very own box of trigo (my cereal obsession...i eat like two or three boxes a week) to celebrate the day. it was the greatest gift ever to only celebrate the greatest day ever. HEY SEE YOU GUYS IN PERSON IN LESS THAN A YEAR.

so i guess you want to hear about what I’ve been doing and stuff in my new area....well let me tell you what hermana rejon and i do every single day. we went through the ward list and old investigators that we found in the area book and we grouped them together by the metro stop that they live in. so each day we pick a metro stop for a chunk of time and we stop by people on our list. we walk, we get lost, and then we get rejected (I’m convinced that this is god preparing me for the dating world when i get home) then we come home, go to sleep and for some reason we get up and do it again the next day. seriously in hospitalet all i had to do was get up out of bed and everything happened by itself. here i expend so much energy and effort and nothing. BUT. this past thursday i received an answer to all my prayers. mother dearest, your package. elder garces called me telling me a package came to the office for me and told me he would bring it by my piso for me. (he now has the privilege of being chosen as my district boyfriend for this kind act of service) but not only were there friends quotes and the wedding invitation of my hot ex-neighbor (seriously what a shame that we lost another good one to the bonds of matrimony) but there was a talk in there that was a direct answer to all my area problems. seriously jefferey r holland addressed the same exact questions i was asking god in my prayers.... why can’t our successes be more rapid? the church is true, why don’t people just flock to the font? oh.em.gee. and then he told me all the answers to my questions. i knowwww it sounds so stupid and small but i know this was the workings of the lord because office elders don’t drop off packages to missionary’s apartments...so why this one time did it happen like that?? TELLLL ME WHY.

this past tuesday i told carolina that i would make brownies cause she was feeding us lunch. lesson learned don’t offer up skills you don’t have such as cooking. it was indeed an epic failure as you all could have guessed. i not only ruined the brownies, but also my hopes and dreams of finding myself a husband after the mission.

right now hermana rejon is in her six to sexy...as in she goes home in six months and has to get sexy hence six to sexy. we wake up early to run every morning. we just get to go running through plaza espana up behind this HUGE castle looking thing through montjic overlooking the whole city of barcelona. like NBD or anything. just living in spain. plush also secretly hoping that rejon’s six to sexy helps me drop some pounds too.....awkward. all the fattys in the house say yeah..... YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH. this past week was rejon’s year mark in the mission so we celebrated with hermana cruz and hermana wilson with a mexican lunch of fajitas. VIVA MEXICO. and listen to how cute natives are... i may or may not still use the phrase "bih"...as in i still do. (I’m so sorrrrrry mommy...that habit hasn’t been dropped yet. I’ll eventually get to fixing it) so with spanish being hermana rejon’s native language, the word bih is pronounced bee. bee in spanish is abejita. so now we are each others abejitas. move abejita get out the way. and pooping is referred to as aborting your child. excuse me while i got abort the baby. ABORT THE BABYS. and guess what i did the other day for hermana rejon in companionship study....she made the mistake of asking me what my favorite part of the restoration dvd is (its the twenty minute one) BEST. MOVIE. EVER. seriously i never knew it existed until i was with hermana cruz and we watched it one time with an investigator and i was like on the edge of my seat the whole entire time. you watch it and you literally can not deny that joseph smith was a prophet and saw heavenly father and jesus christ. i am too the point where i can basically quote the movie for you. i hate the movie line game. HATE IT. but could school anyone with movie lines from the restoration dvd. so rejon asked me which part was my favorite and there it happened...she was privileged to watch me reenact the whole first vision in spanish complete with song and everything. it was beautiful. i played the role of joseph.

my favorite thing about the area is the JAS center. it serves as the jas center for the barcelona area, hospitalet, and sabadell area, and its right here in our chapel! i have learned that if you "stop by" at the right times you get free food. like legit meals....one time i had hot dogs and the other time i had pancakes. AND i get to see people from hospitalet. it is wonderful. plus free internet preparation days.

well that is all i can think of as of now....TALK TO YOU NEXT WEEK.

love you. miss you. stalk you.

love, michael ann