April 7, 2013

une grande sieste kanaki.

Ma chere famille, 

Bonjour a tous! Hello All I hope that general conference was good for errbod! I'm SUPER jel, cause we have to wait another 5 and 6 days to watch it. They watch it the next weekend here, altogether. (Is that one word or two? that looks weird.) But I think I'm doing pretty good at my English still, cause Elder Dymock just asked me how to spell "wand." He's been out for awhile... Anyways, yah, I'll getta watch it in a bit. Which I'm stoked for. I LOVE CONFERENCE. And! The best news of all, we, (all the American mishs) getta watch it in English. Which I'm stoked about cause french is great and all, and I could probs even understand it now. But, it's better in English. I like there voices. Oh! Speaking of which. If someone wants to send me an Ensign for conference in English Des que when it comes out, that would be great! I like reading the talks again. I actually read all of this last ensign. Every single talk. And it was good!

Well, this week was good. We did lots of teaching, the gospel and English, and we had exchanges! Which were fun. I went on a 24 hour adventure to Magenta with Soeur Hall, who was one of Soeur Lamb's old companions. It was super great! I wanna serve in Magenta, it's beautiful! The ocean is right outside of their apt. You just walk out of the parking lot, turn left and bam. Right there. It's gorg. I died! But yah, it was good. Soeur Hall was also in the MTC with Elder Santos, so that's kinda fun, cause he just went on exchanges with Elder Porterfield, who was in the MTC and even in my district for his last week there with me. The second picture is Soeur Hall and me trying to cook the night we were together. But here's the blague joke. We only pretend to cook. It's usually Soeur Madsen, her comp, and Soeur Lamb, my comp, that do the real cooking. But! Merci Père Céleste thank heaven, we didn't burn the place down. It was great though! And the thing that mostly freaked me out was that I was the oldest. That's never happened before... And it felt weird. But I like it! It's just weird to think I'm as old as I am, mission age. And it's about to happen a lot. Cause we're getting at least 3 more Soeurs this transfer, right after my bday, and two more the transfer after that. So I may be training by June. Which kinda freaks me out, mais on verra. but we'll see

Before I forget, pics one and three are me budgeting!! Soeur Lamb showed me how! And the third one's me and my bff, Soeur Kailiponi. I love that crazy. We have way too much fun together.

Anyways, this week was good. And I really like teaching English in french! It's quite fun. I got to do that a couple times this week, but the first time was actually mostly teaching English in English. Because I was teaching Fanny, who's from France, but she already speaks English really well. So it was easy. But the cool thing with her was that I started teaching her English, but we started talking about the church! Specifically Sundays and church and all that jazz. And it was great! So we talked about that for about half of her lesson. Soeur Lamb was sitting just a few feet over teaching her little girl, Clea. She also has a little boy, named Sasha. But I love her and her little family! They're adorable! And Soeur Lamb and I are hoping that we'll be able to start lessons with her in the next month. Because she's sooo great!! Oh I love her. She actually kind of reminds me of a French version of Tamie Ard... I dunno why. But yah. She's fantastic!

Oh, subject line's a quote from church. Kamalu actually mentioned it in his email, so I'm wondering if it's pareil chez lui, but EVERYONE and there dog takes a sieste here. Like EVERY DAY. Things just close in the middle of the day so that people can take their naps. It's KRAY KRAY. And I'm never taking a nap when I get home again cause I don't like it so muchhh. 

Anyways, times up, but I hope that you are all doing well! I love you family! And happy Birthday this weekend mom! I'll be thinking of you! And watching conference to celebrate! Yay!! I love you all! Sachez que vous êtes dans mes prières!! Know that you are in my prayers

Je vous aime!!

L'evangile est vrai!

Love, Soeur Santos