Ok, I was kind of sad not to have an email or snail-mail or anything this week. Not to guilt you or anything.
This has to be brief. I don't have much time.
The city where we live is called Carpentersville. It's a small community, and I'm not exactly sure why it's here. We have a lot of outlying areas in out mission, but with limited miles on our car and very little bus service (each stop only gets hit twice a day) we spend a lot of time close to home.
We share the local Spanish branch with another pair of elders (One of which is a gamer of a flavor similar to mine. Yea!), who cover the Elgin area, and are overlapped by a pair of English elders who are also our district leaders. (No, I'm not sure how that works; there may be another pair of elders I've not met yet.)
As of right now, I'm lucky if I can understand one word in 10 that the investigators say. I have no problem understanding Hermana Secrist, so I'm hoping that I just need to get accustomed to the accent.
I finally fell down the stairs. I strained my neck, and it's taking a while to heal.
Christmas is almost here, so we're planning on going caroling with some members. From what I understand, caroling just isn't part of Hispanic Christmas tradition, so sometimes they don't really understand what to do.
Food is great, salsa is better, and I'm hungry right now.
I miss you all, and wish I could be home for Christmas. I want to see Tegryd open his presents.
Love you all,
Hermana Maren Jones
This has to be brief. I don't have much time.
The city where we live is called Carpentersville. It's a small community, and I'm not exactly sure why it's here. We have a lot of outlying areas in out mission, but with limited miles on our car and very little bus service (each stop only gets hit twice a day) we spend a lot of time close to home.
We share the local Spanish branch with another pair of elders (One of which is a gamer of a flavor similar to mine. Yea!), who cover the Elgin area, and are overlapped by a pair of English elders who are also our district leaders. (No, I'm not sure how that works; there may be another pair of elders I've not met yet.)
As of right now, I'm lucky if I can understand one word in 10 that the investigators say. I have no problem understanding Hermana Secrist, so I'm hoping that I just need to get accustomed to the accent.
I finally fell down the stairs. I strained my neck, and it's taking a while to heal.
Christmas is almost here, so we're planning on going caroling with some members. From what I understand, caroling just isn't part of Hispanic Christmas tradition, so sometimes they don't really understand what to do.
Food is great, salsa is better, and I'm hungry right now.
I miss you all, and wish I could be home for Christmas. I want to see Tegryd open his presents.
Love you all,
Hermana Maren Jones
