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| "[S]uper swollen and purple" finger |
July 21, 2014
Hola familia!
First and
foremost, thank you for all the tips. I got teary eyed while reading
through them because it is amazing to have such a supportive family at
home. Thank you for giving such thoughtful answers, and I will do my best
to apply them! I am happy to let everyone know this week was
BETTER! I am nowhere close to being comfortable, but slowly but surely,
things are getting better! Yay! This is the first week where I’ve
actually started to fall in love with Uruguay and the people here. Little
by little, we’ve been seeing some miracles! We’ve started teaching a
really cute family (a mom, a dad, an eighteen-month-old baby named Dillon, and
a baby on the way)! We found them on the street one day, and we’ve been
visiting them a lot since. They live in a one-room house and Hermana
McMurray and I have to share a chair when we teach them, but I love it.
My whole leg fell asleep one lesson because I was leaning on it so I wouldn’t
fall off the chair, but it’s all good. Anyway, since they are a new
family, they (especially the dad) are super open to everything we’re
teaching! We invited them to come to church and they didn’t end up coming
yesterday, but we are still so excited!
Okay, now
I’m just going to write bullet points of things I love about Uruguay and some
funny things that have happened!
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I love the rain
here. Sometimes it kind of stinks because when it rains, it POURS, but it’s
kind of fun to dodge puddles and look out into the flooded streets.
·
The little kids here
are so cute and are hoots! This little boy in our ward is super aggressive,
but it’s funny. One day when we were eating at his family’s house he
threw a chewed-up orange piece at me and yesterday during ward council he
reached up and scratched my face with a wooden block, but it’s all good!
·
We played basketball
last P-Day, and I jammed my finger. I didn’t think very much of it, but
the next day, my finger was super swollen and purple. I will have to send
you a picture sometime soon!
·
Everyone here wears Crocs
and I love it.
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I love looking up
every night at the sky and seeing the stars!
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I love how generous
people are here!!! I have never had so much torta (cake) and hot cocoa in
my life because whenever we visit people, they love giving us little treats.
·
I just realized the
other day I am the first new sister missionary my ward has ever had! They
love that I don’t know Spanish very well and joke around with me a lot.
It probably should bother me a little bit, but I just think it’s funny!
·
I have been making a
lot of sweet treats these days! We give treats to ward members when they
go out with us and to investigators or to random street contacts.
·
I love how much
members of the Church here love the Lord!
I have to go, but
I love you all so much. Once again, thank you for the advice!!!
This is by far the hardest thing I have ever done, but I know hard things are
always worth it.
Until next week!
Hermana Dixon
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