Familia y Amigos,
Pues. Muchas cosas. I entered Washington on New Years. That was probably the best New Years ever because I was in bed my 9:30.
Mi nueva companera se llama Hermana Andersen. I'm so blessed to have been given the best misionera as my trainer.
We have a lot of investigators. A lot more than I expected. We even have a baptismal date set for one; for Claudia. I've only met her once, in passing, but she's so great.
I'm having this problem that when I meet people, I just want to be like, "Hola, soy Hermana Miller," and shake there hand, but that's not the Hispanic culture. I'm not used to hugging and this kissing on the cheek. It catches me off guard every time.
One of our investigators se llama Mari. She's from Spain, and she returns there next month. She is so great, and is so close to setting a baptismal date, but ella todavia tiene dudas.
Ummm... The first dinner with a member? We had this kind of soup with noodles in it, and they passed around this... stuff that looked like curry, but it wasn't curry. They said, "Tratarlo, es picoso."
Pues, no supe que es picoso, so I put the same size spoonful in my soup as Hermana Anderson (like, a full, large spoonful), who LIKES picoso (spicy) stuff. That soup was sooooo spicy. Oh my goodness. And it was a really large bowl. Like, if I had bowls like that and one day was like, "Hmmm, yo quiero sopa," I would only fill it half way. But it was full. And spicy. And I had to eat all of it.
The other dinners have been fine, just a little spicy.
Church yesterday was fine. There are four companionships in our branch, and Elderes Wagner and Crowley taught the Principios del Evangelio class. I am so jealous of their Spanish. I can understand mostly all Spanish now, when people don't speak in a whisper (en serio, por que do they do that?), but I don't feel like I know enough Spanish to just rattle it off like that. Hermana Andersen says she's jealous of my Spanish, that I know so much more than she did when she entered the field, but her Spanish is so good ahora that that doesn't make me feel much better.
Entonces... Hoy es mi primera P-Day en el campo, and not too soon, I might say. We made sure to do laundry before we left, but even still, it's getting close. AND, we've had almost no nutella since I got here. How can I be a nutella obese butterfly without nutella?
I'm sorry this email is so all over the place, more so than usual. That's how I think, remember?
But I am so blessed that Hermana Andersen is so great. I don't even stress too much, because I know she knows what she's doing, and she's not going to just let me fall by the wayside because I don't know anything.
We had Taco Bell and frozen yogurt the other day!! That's what I've been waiting for these last six weeks. (:
It's really cold here. Like, colder than Mexico was (surprisingly, Mexico was cold). Pero esta bien, porque tenenmos un coche. (: Y we listen to music! :D Entonces, familia, si vosotros quiere, you can go through my... I think the green box in my closet, find my Amy Grant, General Conference 2012, Dirk and Bennie (the church one, not Bennie's new CD Strike Down. That would not be good.), What Heaven Sees in You... and the other churchy (but not VeggieTales) CD's I have and send them to me with that dictionary. (: We're allowed to listen to anything that makes us think of Christ, but aren't too not-missionary-y, so with the Any Grant CD, I can listen to all the songs but Fat Baby. (:
Ummm.... No mas. Oh! So, the address we gave out to people at my farewell that we got from my handbook? It was wrong. So, if you want to write to me, please to not send it to my mission president's home address, send it here:
Hermana Karolina Miller (make sure you put Karolina in there. Or Lina is fine, too)
Washington Everett Mission
P.O. Box 13390
Mill Creek, Washington
98082
The packages address was fine, but if you still have questions, it's:
Hermana Karolina Miller
Washington Everett Mission
16124 35th Avenue Southeast
Mill Creek, Washington
98012
Amor,
Hermana Miller
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