3-8

I can’t believe I haven’t written anything in 4 days. Anyways I’ve been staying pretty busy a lot of the time. Bringing the kids to school, constantly brushing up on my Spanish, helping cook meals, and allowing my self time to play games with the children in-between. None of it has become monotonous yet. I’m really having a great time. I won’t lie at times the noise gets a bit much. The other day I got a pretty bad headache from all the yelling and crying. The sisters here are so awesome. They offered me everything to make sure I got better. An Advil did the trick.

I try to set aside a little bit of time each day to practice my Spanish. I think I’m getting better every day. I’m pretty sure I’m comprehending more and more. The pronunciation is still kicking me in the butt though. Usually if I don’t pronounce a word precisely correct the kids won’t know what I’m trying to say. So I look it up in a dictionary and they say:

“Oh, (insert word here)!”

“That’s what I said”

haha

Today was awesome! I was able to go with the sisters to Guadalajara. There was this get together of all the convents of Our Lady of Sorrows in Mexico. It was pretty cool. We went to Mass with all the sisters and a lot of the families came too. Mass was beautiful. They didn’t have the biggest Chapel at there convent, not nearly as big as the one in Tepa. This was the first Mass that I’ve been to in Mexico that they gave the Blood with the Body. Which was cool!

After Mass there was the big meal where there was all kinds of great food and Deserts. I had some really awesome ice cream called Guabana. I was able to meet lots of new people. All of them assuring me that I’m coming along with my Spanish very well. Haha. I don’t know if they were just being nice . A cool thing was that I was able to understand a lot of what people were talking to me about. I met this really cool Postulant, Maricela, she very sociable and was talking to everyone there. She reminded me of a certain some one(*cough* Angelle *cough*) . Oh by the way Angelle she wanted to tell me that she’s sad that you didn’t write any letters for me to bring to her. She told me that she says Hi to you, Brooke and Taylor. Send me a message if you want me to tell her anything back. She’s really funny. She asked if I would want to go with Roberto and Jorge to Tepalpa during their vacation. I think I saw some pictures of the town on your blog. If that’s the place it’s beautiful.

After the lunch there was this really cool information session thing. I didn’t understand everything but I caught bits a pieces. Basically a sister would get up and talk about where she was from and where she worked at. Their were sisters that worked in Brazil, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, United States, and Mexico. It was so awesome to see how worldly their order is. Very beautiful and made me feel so good about our Church!

Before I left I was talking to and young little girl. I think she said she was 10. She asked me if I spoke English. She seemed really fascinated about that. But other than that something really beautiful she talked about. I asked what she wanted to do when she grew up. She said she wanted to be Sister. That really touched me. So beautiful. This girl looked up to the sisters around her and they inspired her. That’s so awesome! Being here in Tepa and being involved with the sisters has really given me a new found respect for them. They way of life is so beautiful and humbling. I get nothing but a great since of joy in there lives.

Welp I think this is a plethora of stuff for now  Talk to you soon!