ha ha oh Jackie, I can just see that whole story playing out in my head, too funny. Sounds like she is super fit! Jackie and alex both look so good in that picture and of course caite and jordy are as adorable as ever, my family is so attractive! And I really would love to read the Elizabeth Smart book when I get home so save it for me, she is the coolest lady ever! I got a letter from the McReavys and I loved it, it was so funny! please tell them thank you so much for me. Also, I sent some recuerdos home with Lloyd Sleight. He lives up by Steve and Andy by your bank so let me know when he gives them to you. Sadly we had a member of the Brighton crew go home but its okay because we just replaced him with a new one the very next day, GO BENGALS! Dani Giles entered the one and only Reu mission this week and guess who her trainer is? my trainer hermana Sanchez!! I played volleyball with them both today and had lunch with them and told hermana Giles how lucky she is because I love Hermana Sanchez so much, she is a wonderful human, it was really good to see her. Hermana Giles went to Brighton and albion but she was one grade ahead of me, she lives up by Jam Vertner. It was super fun to talk to her today.
Well this week was really really hard and suckish, but thats okay because now its over. We had changes this week and I stayed here with hermana Prince so I will have 6 months in my area. Our zone didnt change much but we did get a new zone leader. He is from Utah and lives like 10 minutes away from me. He is full blooded mexican and is so so good at soccer and he knows like every member of the brighton boys soccer team. The mission world is so small!
So this week was really dumb and we didnt find any new investigatores three days in a row (thats really bad) and we lost like the only 3 real investigatores we did have within 2 days. So by saturday we were so sick of walking down the same old streets getting rejected so we went out to the boonies to meet some new people. My area is like super tiny but we do have this part that is far away so we dont go there a lot but it is like seriously in the jungle, it is so gorgeous and cool! The people there are super super poor and no one ever wears clothes and they all dont have a bathroom so you just see them doing their business behind trees and stuff and everyone showers outside in their pila with a bucket and everyone is super nice and friendly. So we walked past a house and before we could even introduce ourselves we each had a tostada with beans in one hand and some gross drink and the other and were celebrating a birthday party Guatemala style with like 25 Chapinos who are all related. So we got to know them and then we shared a lesson and they all sat there and payed attention and were interested and all the chaos off all the little kids stopped while we taught and then they all went nuts again right when we finished the prayer. it was so awesome! They were super cool and they treated us like we were famous because they said they had never seen white people before. So we took a picture with the kids and we are going to print it out and give it to them, I will send it to you. Tell dad I looked really hard for a monkey while I was up in the jungle but I didnt find any. not even little tiny ones to have tea with me.
Well this week kinda beat me up but this morning we played soccer for four hours with another zone, las Palmas. and las palmas has like 4 of the best latino soccer players in the mission so it was a super crazy game and by the end I had blood covering my entire leg and I litterally rang my clothes out because I was so sweaty. So that totally took all of my stress out and I feel super fabulous now! i loved it! Also hermana Sanchez and my best friend in the mission, hermana phillips are both in Las Palmas, so I really like las palmas.
alright well that about wraps it up for now! I love you to the moon and back! keep being awesome and I will talk to you next week!
Love,
Maren Marie
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