Mission to Paradise: March 3, 2015

Mi Familia!!!

Les amo muchísimo!!! Another great week! And really busy... Hermana Wilkinson told us we needed to move out of our house Friday night, and that we had one day to do it because Sunday was the start of a new month! Well that didn't happen because we were in the hospital with other missionaries all Friday night and Saturday. And Monday as well... So Saturday night we looked and looked and looked for apartments and we had about 5 good options. We looked at them all again with the other set of Hermanas and prayed and then looked again and then prayed again... Finally we narrowed it down to two! And after more praying the other Hermanas chose the apartment closer to the chapel and we chose the apartment closer to the park. They are both still within a 5 minute walk of each other. And they are WAY nicer than our last place!!!!!!

Yesterday we were at the hospital in the morning, ran home, packed up, signed new contracts and paid rent, and then moved houses, and then ran back to the hospital before an Elder went in for surgery. And it all worked out perfectly! We are still working on unpacking, but its all good. :)

Today we were talking to a member and it turns out that she knows both families who we are renting from! And she loves them both and trusts them both! She said we made excellent decisions! They are both safe, clean, and cute. :) I will send pictures next week after we unpack more. :)

Oh the owners of one of the apartments is actually a devout Jehovas Witness, but he was really excited to rest to us because he knows we are good people! That was pretty cool!

In other news... Last week during our District meeting I was part of an object lesson... I had to do 35 pushups and my whole district got doughnuts... (Girl pushups, don't be too proud dad). And then for the next 4 days my arms and chest were killing me! And they still hurt today, but not as bad.... I think I should probably work out more.... It was really really pathetic.

Also, There is an Elder here who was born in 1997. What???? That is 2 years before my baby sister was born??? And he is serving a mission??? How did that happen??? I was born in 1991 and there is an Elder who was born in 1997!!!!!!!

I was in the hospital this week with an Elder and found a German lady trying to communicate with the nurses, but failing. She knew English okay, but no Spanish. So I helped translate everything for them and got to talk to the German lady about the gospel as well! It was great! Who knew that learning Spanish would help a German lady!

Well. All is well here! Still working hard and loving every minute of it! I hope you are all doing amazing! You should come visit me in Costa Rica!!! :) Yes??? :) Okay! Love you! Chao!

Love,

Hermana Makensey Beth Markle. :)

Items of business...

1. GOOD LUCK Kami on the ACT!! Tell me what you get!!! And just tell me more stuff in general! You stopped writing me... And Katie and Madi and Brandon.... Weird..

2. We are SOOOOO happy to move out of the nasty house we were in. The landlord crazy and it was disgusting! Ewwwww.

3. Katie someone just saw a picture of you and asked if you were my twin! So that means people have said Katie is my twin and Kami is my twin and Madi is my twin. It's like we are sisters or something... Weird... I guess that means none of us were adopted. No one has ever said anything about Brandon being my twin though....... Oh and I like the box a lot! :)

4. It is March already!!! Holy cow!!!! The semester is almost half over!

5. LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!