Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Hello!
Hope you're all doing well! Cath I am so jealous you are in Hawaii. Have lots of fun
but remember to not die......you know what I mean! [Probably referring to Cath's sky diving adventure...] That will be so fun for you
Mom to be in Ohio
too! Tell everyone in Boise and Ohio hello from Hermana
Hooke!
I'm at the west campus MTC which I like because 1) everyone
here speaks (or is learning) Spanish, and 2) it's so pretty! It's in an
apartment complex with a little river and stuff. I suppose my visa has
come...there was a problem with getting my flight itinerary because they still
have it in their system that I'm here for 6 weeks (thank heavens I'm not, I
might go crazy) but they are fixing it so I will fly out the 8th or 9th.
My companion is Hermana Velazco, from Mexico
City but now she lives in Idaho.
She is going to the Iowa Des Moines Mission. She is really nice and funny and
we get along well, and she is also very patient with my Spanish which is a
plus! My district is really funny, we all get along well.
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| Hermanas Hooke & Velazco |
Today is Preparation Day so we don't have classes. Which is
a nice break from 9 hrs of class a day! We went to the temple this morning.
On Sunday we went to a devotional and guess who spoke? Bro
and Sis Holzapfel, who were Jon's mish pres for a while when he was in Alabama! We also watched
Elder David A. Bednar's talk called "Character of Christ," which was
the most powerful talk ever written I'm pretty sure, and recommend that
everyone watches it!
On a normal day, we get up at 6:30,
get ready and eat breakfast, go to class for 3 hrs, eat lunch, do some
sort of exercise, have 3 more hrs of class, go to dinner, have 3 more hrs of
class, go home and pretty much just go to bed. It's pretty much like spiritual
boot camp, and at first I was struggling with wanting to not sit in class doing
personal study for 3 hrs at a time, for example....because I like to do fun
things...but it's getting better now and I'm learning to make my personal study
times more meaningful. I think a huge part of this life is using the Atonement
of Jesus Christ to become a saint from a "natural man", and a mission
is forcing me to progress faster by not letting me go to the beach, take naps,
etc. But it's good. It's been a lot of ups and downs but I like it and I'm
doing well.
At first I didn't think I could teach anyone anything but we
have had I think 5 or 6 lessons already, and while I'm definitely not good at
teaching anything in Spanish I'm improving I guess. I feel so bad for the
missionaries who had to learn a language from scratch, because I thought I knew
Spanish but I now I feel so inadequate at it, but that's just because I'm
comparing myself to the native speakers around me which isn't good.
Thanks Mom and Tommy (I mean Bradley) for the letters!
Hmmm what else...I don't really know, there's not too many
exciting things happening in Provo.
I'll try to attach a few pictures if we can figure out how!
Love you all! All mail is welcome! :)
Best regards,
Hermana Hooke
Pensamiento de la semana: vea Mateo 4:19
- la unica diferencia entre un pecador y un pescador es Jesucristo. [A play on
words in Spanish--pecador is a sinner, and pescador is a fisherman...the only
difference between a pecador and a pescador is Jesus Christ.]
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