The Struggle is Real

MAMSITA!

I´ve  been waiting for 30 freaking minutes for this stupid thing to load. HOW ARE YOU????This week has been one of the craziest, coolest, hardest weeks of my life.  A couple facts about my life as of today:

- We haven’t had a warm shower this whole week. I´ve been sticking my head under the faucet to wash my hair, but I haven’t had a real shower all week. Its too dang cold!

- I don’t shave my legs anymore...I need all the insulation that I can get!

- Last night, I tried chuños for the first time. I really cannot adequately describe how they taste. They look like moldy black toes....and taste kind of like moldy, black toes. FEO. GROSS.

- Today, I ate a soup with a hot rock in it.... cally karapulcra... I think that’s how you spell it.... all of the elders here love it. It was actually really good!

- I had my first intercambios this week. It was fun, but weird. I wasn’t used to being with anyone but Hna Torres.

- This has been the hardest week of my life. But at the same time, I have learned so much and grown so much. There was a day when I really wanted to go home.... I was frustrated with the language and with my teachings, but Heavenly Father always  knows whats best. I was SO GRATEFUL that I was able to fast yesterday. It renewed my spirits and my faith.

- I gave my first talk at a baptism in spanish!

- Kayla would HATE Potosi.... my hands are always so dry. Sometimes to the point that the bleed.

- My companion is the greatest person ever. I learn so much from her.

- We are teaching this family who is amazing. They even came to church! I tear up whenever I teach them because they are so amazing and want to be baptized but their father won’t let them. We pray for them every day. They come to all the activities, and love the gospel. The boy even goes to seminary!

- I love the son of my pensionista to death... but one night he deleted all of my pictures on my camera. That was a bad day... I cried...I´ll admit it.  It had all of my pictures from the CCM.  A guy in our ward is looking to see if he can recover them today. I HAVE FE!

Questions

- Which mission is Stanley going to again? My comp is from Peru, and she tells me cool stuff about it all the time.

- How is Kirk?

- When is Emily Nashs wedding???

- How is everyone doing?

I’m going to send this off and write another one after I read some of yours.

AMOR!

Hna Routsong