So my birthday was great. All I could have ever dreamed my 20th
birthday in the MTC would be. Plety of people were suprised I was only
turning 20. I got sung to I think ....7 times. yes. Latinas know how to
celebrate somebody. Sisters were coming up giving me hugs who I don´t
think I´ve ever talked to before. I got two hostess cupcakes stacked on
eachother with a used non-lit candle in the middle. My distict also made
me a card and wrote little notes in it. My roommate made me a balloon
squid/octopus thing, that was nice. And the Devotional movie was super
good too. It was Elder Holland talking about missionary work and the
improvment with pmg and other stuff. I really really liked that
devotional.
I am almost done drawing pictures in my district´s book of mormon
inside covers. Only one of my teachers left (good thing too, because my
brown pen is almost out of ink)
There is a strange obsession with rasins in the food here. My
district complains about this weird rasin feddish because they all hate
raisins. I don´t have any problem with them in my rice, and banna bread,
and stirfry and...yeah.
the girls in my district also have a strange obsesssion with ice
cream. we can get an icecream after lunch and dinner (if they still have
any) and they always look forward to the day the ice cream shipment
comes. A girl yesterday said that she was more excited for choco-conos
than emailing home. priorities.
also, we are so excited to go to walmart tomorrow. the things that
make missionaries happy.I figure we will be very easy to please by the
time we get home.
So deportes is always fun and exciting. The other day a girl in my
district rolled/sprianed her ankle on a water drain. She is on crutches
now and is doing alright. she is super independant and stubborn, but I
can be too. Right after it happened I carred her up the stairs into her
room. She couldn´t walk at all, she was secretly appreciative, she is
just so sweet, and stubborn. I carry her bag around for her, I asked her
today if she wouldn´t mind leaving the cinderblock at home next time, I
have no idea what makes that bag SO heavy.
Also at deportes. one of the teachers challeneged all of the girls
in my district to do a 3 minute plank (an exercise where you hold a
position similar to a pushup) I haven´t done one of those since hs I
think. He offered a giant chocolate bar if any of us could do it. All
but me and one other girl did it. However, he also challenged us to "max
out" on the leg lift machine. He couldn´t even do it (but he is
guatemalan) I could do that 200lb lift easily. He was impressed, most of
the other girls couldn´t even do it once. We all have different
strengths.
Also at deportes. Since someone accidentally threw the volleyball
over the fence...again. we kind of ended up talking with our teacher and
chillin in the rain the other night. I asked deep spiritual questions
like "what is a great contributing experience to your testimony" or
"where/how do you feel the spirit expecially strongly?" and so on. so
for every three people to answer my question, they would ask me a
not-so-spiritual question like "what is your most embarassing moment?"
Any of my friends would probably think my questions are just the
"classic deb" kind of questions.
I got a 40 personal coaching study the other day. it was great.
Hermana melgar (the one in the picture that is not attached to this
file) is so great. I feel like we have been good friends for years. We
talked a lot about the first week compared to this week and how far I´ve
come. It is really neat to look back and see the growth.
last night for the sunday evening devotional we watched an old
missionary devotional with elder ballard. But one of the special musical
numbers was david archuletta singing "the spirit of God" It was funny
to see all of the girls ooo and ahhh over him, on a movie devotional. it
was quite hilarious actually to see those sister missionaries be
soooo...ya know.
We watched, a couple of nights ago, a mormon message with elder
holland talking about the book of mormon and the testimony people have
of that great book. It was a really neat experience.
mom and grandma and grandpa, I know hermana Brown from Paige. ps.
since yesterday was fast and testimony meeting, I got up to bear my
little spanish testimony. It was really good, I was nervous, but it was
good. That meeting was nice, I could understand a lot of what was being
said.
Susan thinks I sugar coat everything...so for susan....We sit in
class a lot, plan lessons a lot, struggle with spanish a lot (solo
español), we get bug bites a lot, we are tired a lot, computers don´t
always work and there is never a keyboard with two good little lifty
things in the back to make it tilt up ( a pet-peeve of mine). we go to
the baño a lot. we pray a lot. so yeah. life of a missionary at the CCM.
The people around me are amazing. I just love them so much, I am
sure going to miss them a bit when I get out into the field. The kids
here are adorable, they are so polite too, I got a hug from a little boy
the other day with the look on his face of "I´m only doing this because
my mom wants me to" but it was adorable, he was probably 5 years old.
I am really growing into the CCM life, so i guess since I´m getting comfortable, it´s time for a change.
field here i come in 2 weeks!
"if ye love me, feed my sheep" It´s time to leave the old life
behind and start a life of service in behalf of the lord. I am grateful
for the blessings of the gospel in my life, I am excited to share the
joy.
with much love, Hermana Hutchins
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