Proselitismo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sent: 6/13/2013 10:45

Ok first off I can't print off pictures but thanks for sending them. Also daughter in Spanish is hija (pronounced long e then ha)  The weather alternates. Some days its chilly, other days its way hot. At night its way humid. My hair is going to be curly my whole mission.

 

This week was way crazy! So like 15 minutes after I got done writing you guys my last email we had a meeting with president before the new people arrived. They were splitting the districts. And my companions and I were moved to this new district. It is called Moroni! And I love it but I miss my old district a ton! We have new teachers and everything! Its hard but I know it will be good too. In my new district we only have 8 people! So the teachers have more time to help each one of us individually. My Spanish has definitely improved this week. I can actually form sentences in my brain and use them while teaching my investigators. I still love my old district though, and really there are not very many missionaries here in the CCM. We are really one big family. Everyone knows everyone and its awesome. I wouldn't get that in the Provo MTC.

 

To add to changing districts, we got new roommates. Well that was definitely interesting. Two Latinos!  One Hermana from Chile, and  another Hermana  from Uruguay. Each room has a room coordinator and our room coordinator is  the Hermana from Chile. She thought that the only time that we could shower was in the mornings so she made a list of when we were allowed to go to the bathroom in the morning. Neither one of them speak English and our Spanish is no bueno. So this sign that she put up gave each one of us girls three minutes to shower, go to the bathroom and get ready. My companions and I didn't know how to respond. But during our companionship prayer that night we cried because we didn't know how to tell them that we could shower throughout the day. Anyways they are really awesome girls. And now looking back on that day we all laugh. 3 minutes in the bathroom. Can you imagine? We laugh now and being in a room with them has helped me with my Spanish BIG time! They are super willing to help.  The Hermana from Uruguay will sit down with me and help me write my talks in Spanish, and if I don't know how to say something she will figure out what I'm trying to say, and then say it in Spanish, and then have me repeat it in Spanish. Way awesome of her.

We like them. We also play basketball with them. its funny because they don't know how to play and neither do we. hahahaha its great fun!

 

So proselyting!!!!!! Holy cow that was eye opening. I am very sheltered here in the CCM. When I'm in this building I sometimes forget that I'm in a different country. Well for proselyting we get on this bus that the church rents and they drop us off literally on a corner and say have fun and we will pick you up here at 5. We proselyte from 11 to 5. They give us a map of our little area and then that's it. So the three of us girls are out proselyting with really no knowledge of Spanish and it was definitely eye opening. DOGS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the area that we went proselyting in was a higher class area. One lady that we met on the street while she was waiting for a bus kept saying that this place was like Brooklyn in the states. And that it wasn't very safe. Well nothing bad or even scary happened. And I'm not exactly sure that is what she was really saying in Spanish. They speak way super fast!!!! Well we rang doorbells on gates, and got doors slammed in our faces. You hear all the time about that happening to missionaries, but  got to experience it for the first time last Saturday. Way different. We had talked to people but we didn't have a whole lot of any success. We had one more hour left and we were about to start walking back to the corner the bus dropped us off at when we walked by this lady. And she turned around and stopped us. The three of us companions were kind of down in the dumps because we hadn't much success. This lady was on her way to pick up her daughter from a catholic school. She was super super nice. Ha ha. We told her about the gospel. And we were able to do it in Spanish. She understood us and we gave her a book of Mormon. I was the one who got to bear testimony of the truth of the book and she almost reverently held the book after. She promised to read it and she also got our face book information. hahahahaha so if she tries to add me accept her. We gave her the address to the church and our names and it was just amazing!!! Definitely worth being denied the whole time. She gave her name and number and email. I loved her. Well as we were walking back to the corner we passed her again when she was about to walk into the Catholic Church to pick up her daughter. She had the book of Mormon in her hands, facing towards everyone else. She started to walk into the church like that. We walked by and kind of just laughed. Hopefully no one really paid attention to that.

 

Something I didn't mention was that I kind of had a bad attitude about moving districts. Well I  was reading my scriptures during personal study and was praying to have comfort. Well distinctly in my mind I kept thinking "forget yourself Tiffany" I was still angry. And  I kept thinking that I was just thinking things in my head. And I kept praying. Well I thought it again and this time I distinctly in my mind thought to open my scriptures to Alma. So I did and this is the scripture I read. Alma 34 verse 38. READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Slap to the face for Tiffany! GOD IS REAL AND HE KNOWS ME!!!! haha and my stubbornness.

Some other small thoughts. If they have these things in the states you have got to try them! Alfajores!!!!! Oh my, heaven on earth. They are the closest thing that they have here to candy bars. I don't have as much to write this week, but one sister has stamps and she said that I could have one. So I will try to send you another letter sometime this week. I don't know how long it will take to get there!

I love you guys. I want to hear from all of you! Love you all tons.

Sorry this letter isn't as long as the first one. But I love you and the gospel is true and being a missionary is amazing!!

 

love, Hermana Ross