Hola!!!
Primero, a million THANKS to all the birthday emails!!
Getting online and seeing all the emails from people was the best! So tell
everyone thank you so much! And I´m sorry that I don´t have time to write much
but we only get 45 min. to read emails and write our families and I had some
computer problems, so I have to hurry. But thank you to everyone!!! I loved
it.
Wow, I don´t even know where to start. So much to tell and
so little time.
Okay, let´s see. The basics. My companion is Hermana Najera,
she´s from Honduras and is great! I´m in El Salvador in an area called Juayua,
and our area is Orquideas. It´s beautiful! The weather is actually perfect
right now. My companion told me it was cold where our area is, but it´s not ha.
By cold she meant it cools down at night to about 65. So I´m loving the
weather! The next transfer is right before Christmas so they aren´t doing
transfers then, so I´ll for sure be here for about 3 months at the least.
Me and mi companera
The conditions people live in are crazy. It reminds me of
all these pictures that I saw from Trevor from Cambodia...but
seeing pictures and living it is a whole different story. But I´m learning to
ignore the conditions and focus on the people, because they are absolutely
amazing!! So it´s been a good experience.
How I´m feeling right now? Well I´m loving this experience.
It´s crazy and nuts, but I´m laughing my way through the disgusting shower, the
bugs, and random things. It´s like I´m living in a movie, but I´m loving it. To
be honest the first 4 days were LONG. They felt like weeks and I was having a
good attitude, but to be honest at the back of my mind I was thinking,
"Wow, 18 months is going to be a really long time..." But I worked on
ignoring that, focusing on the work, and for the first time last night and today
I´m feeling stoked about this experience. It´s just so different and so many
changes, but I´m adjusting and am really loving it.
Spanish is coming along. I can understand most things, but
it´s harder for me to talk. But it´s getting better everyday and I know I just
need to be patient with myself.
Funny story for the week. We have to go outside on our
little patio into our bathroom. Well above our patio there has been this GIANT
spider and web every day. Well one day I noticed it wasn´t on it´s web. Then my
companion pointed out that it was on the wall. Sure enough, there it was...but
it wasn´t just on the wall, it was laying it´s eggs on the wall!!! Gross!!! I
was grossed out and told my companion we needed to kill it or we were going to
get a million giant spider babies in our house (obviously). She didn´t say
much. But I remembered we had a can of bug spray so I told her I was going to
use that. We went outside and I sprayed that spider and it´s nest like crazy!!!
I felt a little better, knowing that I would be able to sleep. So I was feeling
pretty good at this point. Then my companion then looked at me with a
disappointment look and said, ¨What do you think Heavenly Father will think of
that and what I did?" And at this point I thought...no way! I guess she
just has more Christlike love than I do,
because I want to powerspray and kill every living
thing that is in our apartment and around our house, and it doesn´t even phase
her. But if that´s the worst that it gets, then I think we´re going to get
along just great!
The disgusting spider that I murdered.
I´m learning so much and learning to rely on the Lord for
help each day.
I wish I had more time to write but I don´t. Love you lots
family. I´ll try to write more next week.
Love,
Hermana Wright
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