Mission to Paradise: August 17, 2015

Hello family!!!

What's up? Besides going on two family vacations without me!!!! It's okay, we will just have to go on a mega-family vacation when I get home! Wahoo! :)

Guess what I did last week?? Went laser-tagging! Guess what else? I wore jeans for the very first time in over a year!!!! They kinda still fit... Almost... It was weird.

Also! Tomorrow is my one year in Costa Rica mark! Wahoo! :) And now I speak Spanish like a boss! But I still should probably study more... We don't quite get our hour every day to study.. Sometimes my companions still looks at me with a blank stare... Oh well. :)

Currently I am being eaten alive by bugs. I can feel them biting my legs and they itch really bad. Probably just flies though, not mosquitoes because we are in a building using internet... That's a lie. I just found it. It was definitely a mosquito and now I have like 16 bites... I tried to kill it, but it flew away...

Oh yeah! Happy Mother's Day mom!!! Saturday was mothers day here in Costa Rica. So we made little boxes and filled them with chocolate to give to all of the mothers in our ward! Yours is on it's way mom! ;)

This was a pretty bad week... My investigators called me old and fat all in the same lesson.... And they were being completely serious too... I asked, 'How old do I look?' and the 14 year old said, '27! or maybe 28!'....... And then at the end of the lesson the mom asked, 'Do you really walk a lot every day? It doesn't look like you walk very much at all... Be careful, because if you stop walking, you will get even fatter!'...... It was pretty sad... So I cried while eating a tub of ice cream. ;)

Good news! We found an adorable little girl who wants to be baptized! She is 13 and adorable! Her aunt is a member and she loves coming to church with her and going to Young Women's. :) We are trying to teach her mom too, but she's been pretty busy. But we will try again. :)

That's about it for this week... My companion was sick so we stayed home for two days and then had to work really hard for the other days to make up. But it all worked out. :) I hope you all enjoy starting school again! Have a great week! :) Love you!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

Items of Business.....

1. Kami, your hair is WAY better now! Thank you for changing it! I am happy now. :)

2. Congratulations on getting your license!!! You can drive! Wahoo! Are you taking over Brandon's car now that he's moving out??

3. Madi is a giant mermaid! ahh!

4. Brandon is moving out of my new bedroom!

6. I think my intestines are finally catching up to moving to Costa Rica... I haven't had many problems with the food at all until now... But now my stomach is hurts lots every day, and other not fun stuff. It hates me. The food here is NOOOTTT healthy.... Oh well.

7. I miss you all and love you lots!