Hello everyone!!!
First of all, shout out to my baby sister LIDDIE JANE who is turning 10 today!!! Welome to the double digits sista!!! I love you!
Im sorry if any letters got lost because of the other address or because the MTC here loses lots of letters apparently.
Time for an update on the past two weeks! Still adjusting to the fact that I live in Guatemala. It is so beautiful here. Every day is a new experience, and they always remind me that I am definitely not in the United States any more haha. I have never had to wonder if I would have power in the morning or running water. It has definitely made me more grateful. I am actually super blessed to live out here in Esquipulas. Our apartment is pretty nice and has warm water in the shower. The other hermanas in my zone were like whhaaat?! you have warm water?! haha. One of the hermanas from my district in the MTC said that they were living in a house for a week and a half that only had cold water, no flushing toilet, and it was infested with geckos.
So last Fridady was a zone conference with the mission preident Watts and his sweet wife. They are the BEST!! The meeting was really great and inspiring and gave me a lot of encouragement and all of the other hermanas were just really uplifting. Afterwards, hermana Watts gave us all cinnamon rolls that she made!! A little taste of home : ). Sunday Pres and sis watts came out to Esquipulas for church at our branch. We had a family that we have been teaching FINALLY come to church with us that day and also less active members galore!! It was awesome!
Sunday night we went to stay in Chiquimula because we had zone pday the next day and we were going to the Castillo which is 3 and a half hours from there so we were leaving at 5 in the morning. It is about 40km from the coast! It was so beautiful there and sooooo humid! I loved it! There is a famous singer that made a music video in the castillo if you want to check out where i was on youtube. The singer is Ricardo Arjona and the song is called Fuiste tu. One of the pics i sent last week is from the castillo.
We now have 4 baptisms set for this saturday. they are all cousins and from inactive/reactivated families. The oldest one is an 18yr old boy named Bryan. He never sists in onthe lessons with us so we were super suprised when he asked us if he could be baptized. He wants to go on a mission too so that is exciting.
Thursday was my comps birthday. we went to our commedor for breakfast which we usually never do, and the cook, mama lili, made us pancakes! And hot chocolate!! I thought she was asking me if i wanted my hot chocolate with milk so i was like YES! but she was actually asking me if I wanted avena con leche which is oatmeal-like stuff but better. Anyways, I would have said no because i was already so full but out she came with the avena con leche and I was confused at first. I said to my comp, that is for you right? hahaha nope. so I was soooo stuffed. Then for lunch we went to a members house with the elders because the family wanted to make my come a honduranean meal. It was a bunch of fried stuff and some root that they love which i forgot what it is called. They love this root, like they put it in fried dough and with salsa and in tacos. It is no bueno. Elder Davalos bought 3 huge strings of fire crackers so we set those off, it was pretty fun. He is crazy. He knows a little bit of english and he learned funny words when he worked in the mission office so he calls me cankles, flowers, stinky, fool, and grumpy. It is so funny to hear with his accent and nobody else has any idea what he is saying. That night we got pizza and cake and the Elders smashed my comps face in it so that was fun! hahaha.
Anyways, that is my life these days. We are having a workshop on Friday for the leaders in the Branch because none of them want to help us with the work and we really need to be united as a branch if we want to see success.
I am trying to take note of the tender mercies of the Lord every day. It is amazing to see his hand in every aspect of my life. I love the people here. I can hardly wait for when I can actually express everything I want to say to them in Spanish. It has been hard for me to stay positive in that aspect so thank you to everyone for your love, support and prayers. I am so grateful to have so many people that love and care about me. You all are wonderful!!
Hermana Bender
First of all, shout out to my baby sister LIDDIE JANE who is turning 10 today!!! Welome to the double digits sista!!! I love you!
Im sorry if any letters got lost because of the other address or because the MTC here loses lots of letters apparently.
Time for an update on the past two weeks! Still adjusting to the fact that I live in Guatemala. It is so beautiful here. Every day is a new experience, and they always remind me that I am definitely not in the United States any more haha. I have never had to wonder if I would have power in the morning or running water. It has definitely made me more grateful. I am actually super blessed to live out here in Esquipulas. Our apartment is pretty nice and has warm water in the shower. The other hermanas in my zone were like whhaaat?! you have warm water?! haha. One of the hermanas from my district in the MTC said that they were living in a house for a week and a half that only had cold water, no flushing toilet, and it was infested with geckos.
So last Fridady was a zone conference with the mission preident Watts and his sweet wife. They are the BEST!! The meeting was really great and inspiring and gave me a lot of encouragement and all of the other hermanas were just really uplifting. Afterwards, hermana Watts gave us all cinnamon rolls that she made!! A little taste of home : ). Sunday Pres and sis watts came out to Esquipulas for church at our branch. We had a family that we have been teaching FINALLY come to church with us that day and also less active members galore!! It was awesome!
Sunday night we went to stay in Chiquimula because we had zone pday the next day and we were going to the Castillo which is 3 and a half hours from there so we were leaving at 5 in the morning. It is about 40km from the coast! It was so beautiful there and sooooo humid! I loved it! There is a famous singer that made a music video in the castillo if you want to check out where i was on youtube. The singer is Ricardo Arjona and the song is called Fuiste tu. One of the pics i sent last week is from the castillo.
We now have 4 baptisms set for this saturday. they are all cousins and from inactive/reactivated families. The oldest one is an 18yr old boy named Bryan. He never sists in onthe lessons with us so we were super suprised when he asked us if he could be baptized. He wants to go on a mission too so that is exciting.
Thursday was my comps birthday. we went to our commedor for breakfast which we usually never do, and the cook, mama lili, made us pancakes! And hot chocolate!! I thought she was asking me if i wanted my hot chocolate with milk so i was like YES! but she was actually asking me if I wanted avena con leche which is oatmeal-like stuff but better. Anyways, I would have said no because i was already so full but out she came with the avena con leche and I was confused at first. I said to my comp, that is for you right? hahaha nope. so I was soooo stuffed. Then for lunch we went to a members house with the elders because the family wanted to make my come a honduranean meal. It was a bunch of fried stuff and some root that they love which i forgot what it is called. They love this root, like they put it in fried dough and with salsa and in tacos. It is no bueno. Elder Davalos bought 3 huge strings of fire crackers so we set those off, it was pretty fun. He is crazy. He knows a little bit of english and he learned funny words when he worked in the mission office so he calls me cankles, flowers, stinky, fool, and grumpy. It is so funny to hear with his accent and nobody else has any idea what he is saying. That night we got pizza and cake and the Elders smashed my comps face in it so that was fun! hahaha.
Anyways, that is my life these days. We are having a workshop on Friday for the leaders in the Branch because none of them want to help us with the work and we really need to be united as a branch if we want to see success.
I am trying to take note of the tender mercies of the Lord every day. It is amazing to see his hand in every aspect of my life. I love the people here. I can hardly wait for when I can actually express everything I want to say to them in Spanish. It has been hard for me to stay positive in that aspect so thank you to everyone for your love, support and prayers. I am so grateful to have so many people that love and care about me. You all are wonderful!!
Hermana Bender
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