September 7, 2015

HELLO!!!!!

GUESS WHAT???? I HAVE A BABY!!! AND SHE IS FROM UTAH!!! LIKE 15 MINUTES AWAY FROM MY HOUSE!!! She is awesome! :) Her name is Hermana Gividen. :) She actually speaks really good Spanish for only having 1 week in the field! She got up and bore her testimony yesterday and the whole ward was so impressed with her braveness and her Spanish! That's my baby! ;)

Hermana Gividen likes to run, so we are going to start to run... Maybe I will lose some of the weight I have gained from all of the rice and beans! Yay! We are also going to wake up an hour early every morning to read from the Book of Mormon in Spanish together out loud. :) This is great! Having a baby who speaks English and likes to run is going to help me lose weight and learn Spanish even more! Bonus!

I was pretty scared to be a trainer... But now I am just really happy. :) It is helping me remember all of the little rules and obey them more, work on my Spanish more, remember what I learned at the begining of my mission and try the new ideas again, patience, humility, love, faith, asking for help from my Heavenly Father, and we are having a blast. :) Christ always taught us to become like little childern. Being new in the mission is like being a child, and I am learning from Hermana Gividen's example and trying to become like a little child again as well. :)

So far, so good! We cheat and talk in English sometimes, but it helps me explain things really well so she doesn't have questions with other Latin companions later. But we are still working on Spanish, no worries. :) I still miss Hermana Montepeque, but I have the best new companion in the whole world! It's just a little scary for her that I am her mom... Hopefully I only teach her my good qualities and not the ify ones. ;) I am trying super hard not to be bossy. :) Hahah

Well be excited to hear about all of our fun adventures and spiritual experiences in the future! Everyone makes fun of me for being so short again... My last companion was like 4 inches shorter than me. But  Hermana Gividen is like 10 inches taller than me...BUT! I am finally a redhead again! :) Now that they can see her blonde hair and have something to compair my hair to, people are finally asking me if I am a redhead instead of just assuming it is blonde! Exciting! :) I am me again! :)

Have a super great week! I love you all! Enjoy life! And be good!

Love,

Hermana Markle. :)

On our shopping trip - one Elder got stuck in the back with all the groceries!

We went on a big shopping trip with Sister Hayes, her daughter, and the office secretaries!

My name on Coke bottles! (Everyone here pronounces my name "Marco")

These are the trainers waiting patiently for their babies to be done with paper work... Look! It's Hermana Bratt!

Hermana Montepeque and I very sad to say goodbye . . . :(

My new companion discovered Mamon Chinos! Yum!

Here is me, my sister, my baby, and my mom all in one photo! Family reunion!

My new companion! Hermana Gividen!

Trainers and new companions! Yay!

So excited to serve together!