So I made it! And man what a week it's been. Lots to tell! On Tuesday they got us from the airport and hauled us to Arcadia where they learned us all the things about riding bikes and driving and safety and all the boring things like that. Presidente Villanueva is the mission president and he's super cool :) he's great. And my companion!! My mom's name is Hna Evanson and she's super awesome. She's from Minnesota and has roughly 3 months left on her mission. And I'm her first kiddo :) Also up until Friday we were in a trio! Our third companion was Hna Luau from Samoa and she was hilarious and adorable :) Being in a trio was fun, but now she's back on her island. We didn't do much my first night here though. We had dinner with a member and I had no clue what was happening. Lots of Spanish.
Our house is itty bitty. We live in number 1029 1/2, which I think is hilarious! It makes me happy :) but yeah, it's teeny. All good though :) we have everything we really need here and I don't have to shower with a bucket.
Wednesday! Our first lesson included the law of chastity. That was great. Yeah... it's rough here because I can speak Spanish pretty well, but I don't understand a lick of what they say to me. Sooo that'll just take time and practice I guess. We had dinner with a sweet old member named Hna Enriquez. She's got a really interesting life story (apparently--I didn't understand a word of it). But I also had a raspado! It's like Mexican shaved ice kind of. It was yummy :)
Thursday I met my district! There're only 4 of us. Our district leader, Elder Ricks, is Superman, so that's neat. And then there's Elder Penrod. He's only been out a month longer than I have. Also I ate beans!!! And they weren't awful! I was so proud of myself (if you can't tell). Also we got to go to the LA temple and visitor's center with one of our investigators, Rodolfo. It was super neat and I really loved it! The LA temple's so gorgeous and it's HUGE. It was a really neat experience for all of us. There's also a brand new Nike store here in East LA and it's super neat :) we got to check it out today and we love it. Also it rained! YAY! Cali needs the rain so many...
Friday we had to get up at 3 AM to take Hna Luau to the airport. Bleh. I slept in the car the whole way there and back (of course). It was really cloudy all day, but we spent a lot of it doing weekly planning. weekly planning takes FOREVER. We taught the Restoration too and even though I didn't understand anything, I was still able to help teach it, so that's good :) Oh, and I learned today that I'm in the most dangerous area of the mission that hermanas go to! :D neat huh? Apparently there haven't been two white hermanas together here in a very very long time... We do have to go in an hour early every night though and also we have to use the car after 4. I don't feel in danger though :)
Saturday was a whole lot of contacting because the investigators they had before I got there weren't progressing for the most part, so we have to drop a lot of them. But I had my first street taco and it was SO YUMMY!! I'm in love <3 and it even had guacamole on it. My goodness what's happening to me?? ;)
Sunday was hard. I wanted to take a nap so badly but couldn't :( darn. We had dinner with the Tzarax family. They're from Guatemala and they're adorable and they're all so so tiny. I love them :) Oh, and Rodolfo came to church! Yay! It was great :)
The work is hard and it's confusing and I don't understand Spanish at all, but it's okay :) I'm learning to love the people and I'm figuring out how to do all this. But the Lord is with me. I know that :)
Hope you're all doing well. I know I am :)
-Hermanita Johnson
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