Amy's week #2 - June 9, 2015
Guatemala City CCM
Things are good down here in the Promised Land. The CCM is great,
each day gets easier and easier.
This week was mostly the same old same old uplifting, spiritual,
life changing stuff. You know. We did get to watch Elder Perry's funeral on
Friday, it was so good to hear from our general authorities and President
Monson. Elder Perry was a great man who did a lot of good in this world.
The language. Man. It's coming! Sometimes it's crazy difficult to
have to work so hard to understand everything that's going on around me, but
I'm doing pretty well for just a couple weeks here. My companion, Hermana
Thompson, can understand a lot and speak pretty well, her mom's from Cuba. So
if ever I don't quite catch what's going on she's caught most of the jist.
We practice teaching with the Latina missionaries, which is
sometimes an adventure. This week we were teaching the Restoration to a couple
elders from Mexico, thought we had totally nailed the language and the
doctrine. Hermana Thomspon asked them a question and one of the elders
responded, and then turned to his companion and whispered he had no idea what
we had just said. It was pretty funny. Sometimes the language barrier is so bad
we all just laugh about it.
The Latino missionaries are only here for 2 weeks, so the ones who
came in with us left early this morning. I couldn't believe how hard it was
saying goodbye to those sisters. They are some of the most amazing people I've
ever met and its crazy to know that I'll never see them again in this life. I
especially got close with a few of the sisters from Honduras, they taught me
some Honduran lingo and are excited for me to be in their country. They told me
I'd become a Gringa Catracha and I told them that would be my greatest honor.
We taught them some English phrases and they loved that.
Today for Pday it's only been the North American missionaries
since the new ones don't come until tomorrow. We got to go out and take a
tour of Guatemala City which was so cool. It's gorgeous here, so lush and green.
It rains every day like flash flood for hours, since it's the rainy season. We
got to see a really cool cathedral at the plaza in the center of the city, and
also eat at Wendys. Que Bendicion.
Then we went to this crazy market with so many people, and little
booths and things all together. It was nuts! It was really neat and also scary
because we all thought we were going to get robbed. Then we went out to the
plaza and tried to place some Libros de Mormon, but my comp and I had no
success. Luckily we found an Evangelist woman who began to preach to us in fast
Spanish that we didn't understand. All in the experience, I suppose!
Every day with the tag is a good one, I feel so grateful to be
here with so many amazing people preparing for the best work I could be doing.
I hope you're all doing well, you're in my prayers.
LOVE YOU. Mwah.
-Hermana White
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