April 6, 2015

Mi Familia,

Hello! Funny story for the week.... One of the Sisters in our ward finished her mission and is going home tomorrow. She was sad to leave and was crying. She got embarrassed and Sister Yorleni (our cook) said, Don't worry, all girls cry a lot! Well... Except for Hermana Markle... I don't think she cries... Hahah! I wasn't even there when she said this, so she wasn't just teasing me, she meant it! Hahah We are at there house every day to eat lunch, but not much more. I didn't know I was supposed to cry during lunch time to be considered a normal girl! My bad. :) I will work on my crying skills.

Our Zone reached our goal for baptisms and we earned breakfast with President! Wahoo! Sister Wilkinson makes the best banana chocolate chip pancakes in the whole world. And that is saying a lot because I don't even like pancakes. So I am pretty excited. I know we are missionaries, and we should be helping people have their baptisms because we love them and want them to receive salvation and blessing from God, but food helps too. :)

Conference was amazing. I loved it. :) I remember falling asleep during conference, or painting my nails, playing conference bingo, or coloring pictures while listening before, but now I don't think I could do that! My conference notes are pretty awesome, you can read them one day if you want. And if you weren't able to listen, don't worry, its online and you can go listen to it right now! :) I will ruin the surprise, there were lots of talks about family and marriage, and I was tempted to come home and get married again... Family is important and amazing and I LOVE MY FAMILY!!! :) One day, one day, I will come home and get married and have my own family. I hope... :)

My companion and I are still doing awesome together in Escazú! We have found several new people to teach and 3 of them came to conference with us! Fernando is closest to being baptized. We shared the First Vision with him yesterday and it went way good! He is 14 years old and has the same questions as the Prophet Joseph Smith, so he immediately prayed with us to know if it was true. He is awesome. I have a feeling he will be an excellent missionary one day.

Well, that's about it for this week... No cool waterfalls this week, but I think we are going to Pricesmart for grocery shopping today? Maybe I will paint my nails and clean our apartment? Exciting stuff! I hope you all have an amazing week! LOVE YOU!

Love,

Hermana Maquensi  (that is how Hermana Munguía spells my name... I like it.)

Items of Business....

1. Brandon, you need to write me. You have waited long enough. Tallllkkkkkkk to meeeeee...

2. Katie, if you want to get married before I get home, I give you permission, BUT you have to get married in the Costa Rica temple. That way I can go. Thanks! :) I am sure nobody would mind coming to Costa Rica to watch you get married. It will be easy to convince people. You just need to win the lottery first I think to pay for it.... Or do you have a super secret marriage fund that you have been saving for years for in case your sister was in Costa Rica during your wedding??? That would be cool.

3. Madi, stop being a baby you baby. You will be fine in your apartment alone without Katie. Especially if you have other roommates. Are you friends with them? Or do you ignore them? Awkward.... Take Suki to the apartment for the week. Suki loves the apartment, it's her favorite!

5. Kami, HAPPY SPRING BREAK!!!!! No school! Wahoo! This is a good time to bug Brandon about taking you out to learn how to drive!

6. I get scared to walk in the streets at night now. Everyone we talk to says, Be Careful! It is dangerous out there! And then we go walking around in the dark for a few hours anyways. Oh well. 

7. The package hasn't made it here yet... But the whole Country shut down for Semana Santa (Holy Week) for the Catholic holiday... So the post office was not open. Maybe tomorrow! :) It is close enough to Easter still!

Our new pet. I discovered that we have these things living on our windows! They make funny noises. I thought the noise was from birds outside, but no. They yell all night long... but they are cute. :)