Buenos Dias!

Ay yay yay!

 

That's what I say all the time here. Spanish is coming along great! We learn literally triple the amount then I ever learned in any spanish class! It's fantastic. I am so flustered after FINALLY finding out where Seth is going that I can hardly think about what has happened this week to tell you all.. HE IS GOING TO GUATEMALA! SPANISH! I am soo happy. Luckily I made a small list of things to say so I wouldn't forget. First I wanna say thank you for the packages! Mama they were fantastic! You know how I love caramel popcorn and those charity quotes were perfect! The skirt was better than new! Stop doubting yourself! It is perfect! And thank the Gehring's for the yummy treats! My whole district has been enjoying them. :) I am soo grateful for you all. Sometimes it gets hard like right now I wish I could have been at Seth's mission call opening and then I think about all the things I am missing and get really homesick. Plus Leann is gone now to Texas and so I won't get to see her anymore when I start to get nervous or upset.. But even though I feel a little sad right now I know that the Lord is with me. I can literally feel Him with me as I type comforting me. I have never felt that before. It doesn't necessarily take the pain away but it reminds me that I am not alone and that I can do all of these things with His help.  

 

Leann is gone now. :( Which is really hard for me to grasp. I only saw her 3 times but it was amazing every time. It hasn't really hit me yet because we only saw each other every few days but I am going to miss it.. But I know she is doing great things and she is going to be a great missionary and I can't wait until we get back from our missions and can sit in my room and watch netflix (except we will be so productive after this we probably won't wanna be lazy and sit around watching netflix anymore.. Who am I kidding, yes we will). We will talk about all the miracles we experienced and the people we were able to help and bring unto Christ and it will be the best conversation and time spent together that we have ever had. She has been such a strength to me these past few years. But you don't need to send her boots anymore mama because I will just have to send them back. :(

 

I left my camera in the classroom last night so I can't upload any pictures today because I would have to get all dressed up to go to the classroom and there is no way. It's PDAY! I am wearing my GAP comfy hoodie(the one me and Sara both have) and some black jeans and my cozy slippers! Feeling real good! So I am not about to go change to get my camera. Sorry! Next week I will just add a few extra photos although it's really annoying because I can only send one picture for each email because apparently they are too big.. But I'll do my best for ya'll. P days are so nice. They are so relaxing and we get to go to the temple which I am so excited about. It is wonderful there. And I can't remember if I said this or not but somebody sent me some names to do endowments for.. I have no idea who they are but the elders are helping because there are a lot of male names. It was pretty cool to help someone who needed them. I can't believe it's been 2 weeks. It seems like we have been here forever but when I think about last Sunday it FLEW by. It is really great here. I have never in my life felt so productive, and the growth is huge. My testimony has tripled I swear, my faith is so much stronger, I feel like I can do anything. Also as a person, I am nicer and more productive.. It really already has been so great I can't imagine the difference the next year and a half of my life will make. I know it's because I am literally letting the Lord shape and mold me into the best me I can be. There are no distractions to keep me from progressing it's wonderful. Well, there are distractions.. But WAY less and I am able to forget about them and move on which I am sure most of you know, I don't move on easily.. Haha a funny/bad thing that happened yesterday.. We were playing a game of trashketball while practicing spanish yesterday and I got REALLY competetive.. You guys know how I get when I lose.. Haha so I definitely have stuff to work on. But you will be happy to know that my companion Hermana Moberly won and I was happy for her! Which was a miracle. Haha just kidding. But really it is so wonderful to see myself progress. I never want to leave because I dont' want to stop getting better and I feel like my growth rate is so much better here! Because the Lord is my focus. I wish I would have realized this kind of stuff before. I guess I did a little but not really. As human beings we limit our growth but if everyone could just understand that they just have focus on the Lord and let Him help them and teach them it would be wonderful! Especially myself. I am determined to continue growing especially after my mission. I know I can with the Lord's help.

 

We have a new investigator! He is a 16 year old boy named Randy. His girlfriend is a member but he isn't sure that he believes in God.. So it's a little tricky. But he wants to become a better person and change. So we have our second lesson with him tomorrow. We learned a new model of teaching that we are going to try which is a lot simpler than what we have been doing and helps involve the investigator a lot more. By the way I keep writing words in spanish as I write and spelling things wrong. Like investigador instead of investigator.. No bueno. I have to erase and rewrite so I don't have as much time! Pero, esta bien, porque Yo aprendo much espanol. That's probably not correct sentence structure but I am getting there! One day I will write a whole letter in Spanish it will be GREAT! Another thing I wanted to mention. My district is soo great. I love them all. We are like one big family. We all got along so well from day one and it has been so amazing. Funny story, you guys know how I am shy at first before you get to know me.. So we had this absolutely AMAZING testimony meeting the other night. Just with our district. No teachers or any leaders at all. It was after the devotional. It was just soo amazing to see how much we had all grown since we came here and it strengthened us so much as a group. I am so proud of all of us! But during Elder Stanworth's testimony he said something like this, "We have all grown so close and progressed together it's been great. Hermana Garrett would hardly say two words to any of us that first day and now she's all LOUD." Hahahaha so you can see I am able to be myself here. :)

 

Lastly, I only have a couple minutes left so I have to hurry. I LOVE the Book of Mormon. I really want to finish it before I leave here. I am in Helaman and it's kind of hard because even during personal study you are always thinking about your investigador to study for. So sometimes it seems like it's not for my own personal testimony, but as I have been studying it no matter what for my testimony of that book has grown so much. I KNOW it's true. I KNOW the things it teaches are true and it CHANGES lives. I believe that 100%. If any of you are doubting the church at all I promise if you will read the Book of Mormon and really study and ponder what it teaches the spirit will speak to you and teach you something every time. It's crazy! I go through all my phases of reading those self help books and try changing my life for the better, and those are wonderful and they really work, but when I study and read the Book of Mormon and apply its teachings to my life, it changes me more than any other book I have ever read. I know it can help us through pruebas(trials)through challenges, tiempos deficil(difficult times), or even just getting a better outlook on life or getting along with your family or friends. It is amazing. I absolutely love it. It has so much power. I really want all my family to read it with me every day and study it and help me to learn things that you see because everybody learns something different and I see that in my district how many different interpretations we can get through one verse because everybody has different outlooks or situations. I gotta go. I love you all so much!

 

ESCRIBAME! write me :)

 

Hermana Garrett