09/25/2017

Hey everyone!!!

Wow. What a week! Went by way too fast, but it was definitely a good one!

So update on the weather: it's cool! Well, it's like 85-90 degrees,
which is super cool here and it feels so good. The wind is actually
cold? It's like I forgot what cold wind feels like. The wind before
was like a blow dryer.

So yesterday was interesting! It was Sunday, so we went to church and
did the normal studies and everything. Well my head started hurting a
little bit and I was like yeah whatever it has happened before it's
not bad. Gotta keep doing the work! Well, my head just started hurting
worse and worse. We had two lessons back to back in the Visitors
Center and by the second lesson I was like ok wow this is bad! And I
noticed that during the second lesson my vision went a little blurry.
I was still happy and talking and doing the best I could during this
whole time though!! But I hardly ever get headaches. Like ever! And so
maybe it really wasn't that bad and I'm just a wuss, but I thought it
was bad and when I got home I just went straight to bed. I was so done
😂

I went on exchanges with one of the zone leaders (because my companion
is a district leader, i need to go on exchanges with the zone
leaders). His name is Elder Kelly and he's from Ireland! He doesn't
have much of an accent though. He's pretty soft spoken. Well, this
exchange was interesting! Very interesting. Everything turned out
well, but weird things happened and I was definitely EXHAUSTED after
that day too 😂 ugh what an exhausting week it was.

My companion has started "My Plan", which is something that all
missionaries who are about to go home do. I've been out more than a
year. I'm basically there! So I decided to start it too. No I'm
totally kidding 😂😂 maybe that wasn't funny to you guys but I found
it hilarious. But yeah I just have to sit there for like an hour, once
a week, with him while he does it. So I usually just study Spanish.
Can't ever study it too much!!

Oh yeah, so something I've found out on my mission is that I really
like learning another language. I find it really fun and fun to study.
Idk why! I never thing English class was fun so I thought I wouldn't
ever like to learn another language. It's funny though because I can
explain more stuff about Spanish and the components of a sentence and
why things are the way they are, but I can't do that at all in
English! I just speak it and I say it the way I do because it sounds
good! That's all! But with Spanish I don't have that wonderful gift of
just "knowing because it sounds good". So I've studied it a lot! And I
think I can say about 10 words now! No jk hahaha I know like 12. Jk.
That wasn't funny to you guys I know but whatever. Fake laugh anyways.

Another thing I haven't mentioned!! So, since the majority of the
people I talk to are hispanics, I've had a lot of people who can't say
my name! I mean you can't blame them. My name is hard to pronounce and
I sometimes have a hard time pronouncing things in Spanish. So it's
totally valid! But I've gotten to the point of when people try to say
it I just nod my head and say yeah that's right! Even if it's not even
close. Because it's hard and I know they aren't going to remember it.
The majority of the people recognize my face, but not my name. I'm
just "Elder" 😂


Well that's all I got for this week!! It was interesting and we'll see
what the next one brings me!

Love you all!

Elder Hepworth