Email Week 6

Hello!

3 MAS SEMANAS left! I got called on to talk for sacrament. The three of us are the only sisters in our branch so the odds weren't good. But only two people get called to talk on a week out of the 100 people in our branch so I was crossing my fingers. But I totally had a feeling from the moment I woke up. It's evil they call on you to speak, at that moment he was like "And now we'll have the pleasure to hear from...Elder J and HEERRMMANNNAA NOORTTOOONNN." Noooooooo!!! I was terrible, I'm 98% sure my talk made no sense and I was shaking. Not cool. But at least I'm safe for the rest of the time in the MTC.

Okay here are some funny things...

We had a TRC and it was supposed to be a role play of an inactive member that we were teaching. We were telling her in this life we need to do five things (Faith in Christ and the Atonement, Baptism, Repentance, Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End **bottom) so we were comparing it to a cake and how without all the ingredients it doesn't work. So we started to say it's like a "Torta" (this is all in Spanish) and we asked her what ingredients she needs to make a "torta" with. She starts saying meat and cheese and bread and se we were really confused...and we think she is kidding so we were like oh ha ha, but no really. What do you need in a cake/ "Torta" and she starts saying "Um...mayonnaise?" And we said, "No, how about flour 'flor?" So she stops the role play and asks in English "What are you trying to ask me?!" LOL - so we found out in different countries "torta" can mean either sandwich or cake, usually it's sandwich...so that was a good laugh...

Then in another lesson, Hermana K kept saying how through the Atonement we can be clean from our "Pescados," which means fish. She meant "pecados" for sins...so Hermana R, the teacher we were teaching and I were all trying not to pee our pants because she kept saying that sentence.

Another lesson we were asking an inactive member why she had stopped going to church and she kept saying something about "fume." About an hour earlier we had learned "fumo" or something like that means "lame." So we thought she kept saying, "I don't want to go to church because it's lame, I feel bad because it's lame." We were speechless. What do we say to that? I'm sorry you think it's lame but it's true and you need to suck it up? So we sat there in silence for about a minute before the teacher asked us if we comprehend. And we said, "Yeah, she thinks its lame and we just don't know what to say!" And she said, "What? Oh! Fume means smoke - she smokes and that's why she doesn't want to go to church, she feels bad." AHHHH!

Let's see - you will be surprised to know that I am in the MTC choir. Clearly this is not my choice. And my companions can't really sing either so I'm not really sure where this idea came from. I think it all boils down to the fact that we get better seats for the devotional and choir practice gets us out of class. But it's kind of intense...LOL considering most of the people have a singing background. So we walk in the first practice and this guy asked us "Are you soprano, or alto or..." Another option I don't remember? (Not gonna lie, I have no idea what that meant) So I shook my head in like five different ways mixing it up with sideways and ups and downs...and he handed me the music. So I have discovered that I am a soprano, all the other parts made me want to cough, they were so low. So we sang for the devotional last Tuesday...once again, no Prophet...and the camera zoomed up on my face about 4 times because I was right in front of the instructor - not cool. But since there are not many sisters they put us in front and center. Really hoping instructor/ conductor dude can't hear me...pretty sure he can't because he keeps saying the sisters sound like angels. So we perform again today...really hoping for no camera action and for an apostle or Prophet to come, I could really use one.

Spanish is coming along. We are only allowed to speak in Spanish now. if the name tag is on, then Spanish is on. It sucks. I'm pretty quiet because I'm too lazy to look up every other word in the dictionary. Then in turn whoever you are talking to doesn't know what the word you looked up meant either so you have to wait for them to look it up too - it's not worth it. We pretty much play charades all day. As a district we can us 75 words of English a day...that may sound like a lot but they go pretty fast. We're out of English words by 11 o'clock. It's all stupid words too like, "just" or all those filler words you don't mean to use.

K I'm out of time - most of the letters this week are going to be short. I don't have a lot of time today.

I love you and I miss you!


Kaitlyn



*See also the 4th Article of Faith.