From 3 to 2....

My wonderful family!!

Oh how I just love you guys and miss you soo so much! Sounds like its been another great week! I feel like so much more has been going on since I left! Haha - thanks mom for the letter and pictures. A wedding?? Wow, I definitely didn’t expect that this fast! I am so excited for you guys, and make sure you send tons of pictures! Also, so so cool that the boys are still washing windows and making so much money! Did you mean $500 in a week or in a day? Ill have to catch up with you guys when I get back cuz it sounds like you’re gonna be getting some pretty good skill :)

Another week down at the CCM. Its been good, but full of change! On Tuesday (the last time I emailed you guys) the new district came in and the old district left. The incoming district had 7 boys and 1 girl. Haha - I have never heard of that before!! We were all surprised that only one girl was coming in.. kind of wondering how that was all gonna work out, but obviously she needed a companion. President Duvall (our CCM president) was the one who had to figure out how to make that work, but since I’m in a three some, it makes sense that one of us would go with her and Pres. Duvall assigned me to be her new companion. It was honestly pretty hard at first because our companionship had been going so well and we had become so close. My new companion’s name is Hermana Nielson and she is very sweet as well. She grew up in Utah and also went to BYU, so more connections! I figured that this is good practice for me when I have to change companions in the field and luckily I still see Hermana Wise and Weaver quite often. How it works... since the new Hermana is in a different district, different classes and level of Spanish, I still am in class with my old district and old companions. Then, for everything else, I’m with Hermana Nielson and sometimes both, so I’m with 1, 2, and 3 companions at different times. Haha we sure get creative when planning. I also teach our investigators (our teachers who act like investigators) with both companionships so I get double the lessons. Ha, I guess I needed extra practice with teaching and Spanish because that’s sure what I’m getting. Because of that, I don’t have much down time to study and go over what we’ve learned, but I sure am busy! (Did I mention that I love being forced to go to bed at 10:30? I sleep so well!!)

This week I was also asked to teach Relief Society on Sunday to all the North American sisters here. Ah it was so nice to teach in English again! I based it on the talk by Pres. Uchtdorf, "Forget Me Not" which was so good for me to read and get to study in depth. Teaching to a bunch of missionary girls is so great because there were so many great thoughts and comments. We actually only got through 2 1/2 out the 5 points because so many people had things to say. It really helped uplift my spirits to talk with girls who were all going through the same thing and all have so much faith about what we are called to do.

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week we had a different general authority come and speak. Apparently that’s really rare, but I loved listening to their testimony about missionary work and what we can do to make the most out of this year and a half. One of them talked a lot about our call and how even though it says the exact same thing in all of the letters, those blessings are personal and specifically for us. 

More rice this week, LOTS of food! PERFECT temperature. And when it rains, it feels like you’re walking into a mist machine. We teach our "investigators" everyday (or more than once a day). The language is still hard, its still harder than I thought it would be, (probably because I didn’t think about that aspect too much), but I hear time and time again that the Lord will help those who work hard. We watched a devotional from Elder Bednar and he said that many people don’t understand the lessons anyway, so the Spirit is what you need :) More classes, more running, did I mention more rice?! There were also a few times this week when I got homesick. I think that’s something that I’ll always have to go through because I just love my family so much, but there were also many times where I realized that this is exactly where I need and want to be.

Thank you so much for your letters and Love. I’m going to try and send a few pictures and exciting news... I get to write again on Tuesday!!

Love,  Hermana Yorgason