Learning and Growing

Hola Everyone

It has certainly been a week that has stretched me. I said my first talk yesterday and I´m giving a 10 min. lesson in our District meeting today, all in Spanish of course. I won´t be able to say all of the words that I want to say on my own, but I am growing and learning more and more each day.

We have the opportunity to have a baptism next week and we are super excited. His name is Emanuel, pronounced Manuel, and he is 9. The rest of the family is baptized and they didn´t baptize the youngest for some reason. That´s ok by me. We have gotten the chance to get to know his family, which consists of two older bothers and their dad, their mom unfortunately died at a young age. They are a really nice family and one that is certainly very close. They are a strong family and they try to learn the Gospel as much as they can.

We have also been able to do some service this week. Not anything huge but we helped a less active with her wash and we helped a member prepare food for her family. I know that they both really appreciated it.

I´m going to talk a little more about the culture this time. It is a very interesting culture. They actually listen to mostly American Music, which does not help me with being of the world but not in the world. They also have graffiti everywhere. Some of it is really cool and they took a lot of time on it and others are basically the name that was written quickly in spray paint. They love Disney and PacMan. They also love Fútbol, which is nice since mostly everyone is watching the World Cup right now. They have humungous speed bumps, high enough that it will/could scrape the bottom of your car. They are also some of the nicest people that you will meet. They will give you their clothes off of their backs if they could. They live in houses/apartments that are two bedrooms, usually, and one bathroom with a giant room on the main floor for your kitchen and living/dinning area. You do your laundry outside. Cleaning is interesting because they use brooms for mopping and for sweeping. It has been a little weird to try and figure out how to mop with a broom. There are dogs everywhere, but they are usually pretty nice. Also, the people will feed you and feed you. Like in Italy they would always ask you if you wanted a drink until you said yes, it´s basically the same here except with food. Well I think that´s about it for the culture for now.

Love you lots and my sister said that she might have the blog up by today. If you would just like to receive the blog posts then let me know and I´ll get you off of this email list.

Hermana Trevino

World Cup Pride, and she found Kinder Eggs!