I Have the Small Talk Abilities of Clousseau from Pink Panther

ah! literally feels like i just wrote to yall! thanks again for the emails, but im afraid you´re mistaken: 

i am NOT limited on time to read! we print emails every week! 

1 peso a page! 8pesos = 1dollar and i read the emails all day long! hahaha enserio. all day long. hahaha we´re only allowed to read/write letters on monday, so i read and reread yalls letters! 

FALSE DOCTRINE THAT I'M LIMITED ON TIME! 

WRITE YOUR LITTLE HEARTS OUT ALL OF YOU! hahaha seriously though! i love them!!!! 

write me like its your job! [see sidebar of the blog]

as yall know, i cant wait and so the only waiting i do is i dont read them until were back at the pension (living quarters) and then i INDULGE i read and reread! hahaha 

and then i try to explain to hna musmano why I'm laughing--

like at that thing with pobrecita maddy and her chiggers! haha i was like, "ITS FUNNY CUZ SHE ITCHES! BUGS!" 
needless to say, the message didn't translate well, bahahaa 

but my spanish is coming along. i haven't heard english in so long it's weird! and i kind of think in spanish so that's bomb! whoever said ´´if you want to hear english yuou have to speak it yourself was CORRECT! hahaha but tis fun!

anyway this week! so good! difficult! this area really is hard. if we´re being honest. our president de mision said so too! 

BUT VAMOS A VER MILAGROS! 

hna musmano said something really powerful and perfect: ´´some missionaries are put in people´s lives to plant seeds and some are there to harvest´´

i know i can and will do both with the help of God, but right now we´re doing some mean plantin'! 

haha one day i got a wee bit down. last monday actually, then i started singing papou´s,

 WHATS A MATTA YOU EH! GOTTA NO RESPECT EH! WHADDAYA THINK YA DO? WHY YA LOOKA SO SAD? ITS A NOT SO BAD, ITS A NICE A PLACE,

OH SHUDDUP A YO FACE!!! 

so papou, if you read these, thank you! and i love you and miss you! 
(you should post a clip of that song on my blog haha)

anyway, never fear! i was not down for long, cuz like that one 90s song with the whacko chorus, 

´´I GET KNOCKED DOWN, I GET UP AGAIN, 

AINT NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!´´ 

repeat until you feel better. hahaha

first of all! i have SUCH a strong testimony of revelation while reading the scriptures its insane! its like everytime i study, its like 
BAM THIS IS FOR YOU! or BAM THIS WILL COME IN HANDY LATER WITH AN INVESTIGATOR! 
i love it!!! 
I LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON!! so yeah, we had suchhhh a good study time and so many things came in handy later that day. also, i was teaching a lot! we did a good job switching off and ah i love the feeling after a lesson! soooo satisfying!!! but yeah theyre teaching this girl, she´s 14 and her she wants to be baptized sooo bad and she carries her book of mormon everywhere and reads it all the time its the greatest! anyway, she accepted a fecha earlier and this day she was going to talk to her mom, who was really against the whole thing and the church. anyway, she was super nervous, like shaking. but we said a prayer with her then went to talk to her mom. and ended up teaching the first lesson with her mom!!! 

AND SHE WAS LIKE, I LOVE THIS AND I'D LIKE YOU YALL TO COME BACK AND TEACH MY WHOLE FAMILY! so obviously, we got the permission from her and it was sooo coooL! full-fledged MILAGRO [miracle]!! 

while i was on splits, hna musmano and the other hna found this family! a mom, and two daughters around 20! and first lesson the accepted FECHAS!! how sick!!! ah! so that is the coolest thing ever!! 

AND THEY ARE THE FIRST TO ACCEPT 
A BOOK OF MORMON IN OUR AREA 
THE ENTIRE TIME THAT 

HNA MUSMANO HAS BEEN HERE! 
(3 or 4 months) 

loco, no??

anyway oh! i have a date for returning!!!! november 3 2k15!! already seems too soon, but there you go! and cheers, familia cuz i wont miss Christmas twice :)

OH GUESS WHAT I FOUND OUT! hahahaha the word for ´´chew´´ in spanish is MASTICAR! hahaha,

 ´´half-masticated cow rolling around in your wide open TRAP!´´ 

NAME THAT MOVIE! hahaha miss congeniality!! agh! 

also, me and hna musmano bonded over the movie parent trap! haha in spanish it´s called ´´El Juego de Gemelas¨ or 

the twin game hahaha too sick, right!!

also the music here is hilarious but guess who i can't escape? pharrell and his song ´´happy´´ its played all the time!!! ahhhh youd think id be far enough away!! hahaha

oh the game! LA COPA DEL MUNDO! [World Cup]

also VAMOS ARGENTINA!! fue ayer! ah! too bad we lost but AR-GEN-TINA AR-GEN-TINA!

yeah fue LOCO! we were told not to leave the apartment after 3:30 yesterday. so we had a lot of time to study and stuff. i wanted to get out there though cuz it was such a gorgeous day! it has been sooo cold! but these last two days its been GLORIOUS! PRIMAVERA EN MI ALMA HAY! hahaha anyway, yeah it would've been way crazier if we'd won, but todavía, it was loco outside! everyone was already drunk, so they were just going crazy out there fiestaing and playing futbol and launching fireworks that they'd already bought --it was insane!!!'

but anyway, this week was great! ah i love everything! oh also hna musmano needed something for her stomach cuz it as hurting and so i gave her tums but SHE LOVES THEM! she was like where do you get these! how much to they cost! she was going to town on my tums and so i had to hide them!! bhahaha

so mom, i relate to you cuz i was sick this week too! 

but never fear! the elders gave me a blessing on sabado and im all good now! 

hna musmano is the greatest caretaker ever bahaha shes from buenos aires obviously and the way she describes it and the way she is, it sounds like buenos aires is the new york of argentina. so she´s very short tempered and impatient (but in  a good way) like for instance i was sleeping and woke up to the smell of breakfast! (breakfast isnt a big thing here. siempre tea and crumpets hahaha) and so i go over to the cocina and hna musmano looks like shes about to kill something and im like ah! what is this! and she´s like "PANCEKES PARA USTED! COMO GRINGA!"

 hahaha but she doesnt know how to make them, so they were floppng everywhere and burning cuz she couldnt flip em and so she was stabbing them with a spatula cuz the middle woulndt cook--it was hilarious needless to say haha! 

OH! ew! so me and hna musmano were home cuz i felt horrible and we called the other hermanas and were like, ¨do yall have a thermometer¨ and hna roa was like yeah! and so i put it in my mouth for like 5 minutes. no idea how it works. so we gave up. LATER hna roa has me use it and its AN ARMPIT THERMOMETER! #ew #sicknast #sicknast 5mil!!! agh! 

how gross, no!!! hahaha 

well. ya win some, ya lose some. haha

OH! and did yall know that toms are from argentina! they totally have an argentina flag on them and come with a flag... 

i feel tanta for not knowing that hahaha

oh mom! did you know that president thomas s monson was the mission presdient of toronto canada??? google when! how sick is that!!!! i was like SHOUT OUT TO MY MOMMA! hhahah too legit!!!

i realize that i keep on forgetting to actually respond to yalls comments. so shellfish. lo siento. 
[insert overheard seafood joke here]

SELFIE TIME

me infront of our living quarters! hahaha why so awkward! haha it as supposed to be like a oo looky here! but its kinda like ´´is this where i live?´´

oh yesterday! we had the best empanadas ever!!! this family cooked a billion and six! i literally had stacks on stacks of empanadas! and not the highly popularized version of the word ¨literally¨where you're just really excited and feel like misusing a word--no! like i LITERALLY HAD STACKS ON STACKS OF EMPANADAS! RICO A FUL! AH loveeee ittt!!!!

but yeah, the work is great. my spanish is getting there. i have the small talk abilities of clousseau from pink panther... ´´lovely weather we are having.. 

i hope that the weather will continue´´´

bahaha enserio i say that all the time!
 love you all!

bon o bons are the greatest candy in the world. i would have a hard time trading my kidnapped husband for my case of bon o bons 

love you all more than i love bon o bons.. maybe! ahhaa familias pueden ser eterna! Jesucristo vive, porque de Su Expiación, podemos volver a Su presencia.

i love you all with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns

paz y bendiciones

ciaocito!!!!

hna dascanio