8 months down 10 to go!!!

Hola Mamacita!
Well this week has been pretty great!

Last P-day I went to dollar tree and bought some blow-up mallets and as you can see in the picture, Hna. Burke and I had fun :P

On Tuesday, Hna. Greenfield wasn't feeling well, so we took Hna. Burke out with us for the day. Haha I think we had a little too much fun in our trio, but we still got work done and we got some referrals for the English missionaries. 

We also did service for a catholic church helping with feeding people. In turn they gave us 4 bags of marshmallows. Of course we had to play marshmallow zombies! We also made spam misubi (I have no idea how to spell that :P). 

We had exchanges last Friday with our STLs in North Sacramento. So I got to go there with Hna. Cuesta and Hna. Shawcroft came to Carmichael with Hna. Flores. Because of illness and Hna. Shawcroft forgot her license :P, we had to cut exchanges short at 3 in the afternoon. So we tried it again this Friday. This time, however, we drove to North Sac instead of the STLs coming to pick me up in Carmichael. Well we don't have a GPS and our Thomas Guide had pages ripped out, so we were relying on the directions of other missionaries and we got lost... We ended up in the Oakland mission far west of West Sacramento. :) So we turned around and after a bunch of time and several miles, we made it to North Sac! Haha it was fun :) 

Something fun this week is that we celebrated Hna. Flores' year mark! Wooo! She's so old! Haha we burned one of her skirts and brought marshmallows to roast (yes from the service project). After burning the skirt we thought better about the marshmallows and just ate them uncooked :P 

We also got to participate in Mormon Helping Hands! We went to the south side of the American River in Rancho and worked on chopping down black berry bushes along a fence in the park. Man! Those bushes are mean! but it was a lot of fun and we got free food afterwards. It's always worth it when you get free food! haha 

Later that day we went to the temple with some of our Recent Converts and less actives and had a temple tour! It was super great! I love to see the Temple! Then we went to a Taqueria and I got tacos de Lengua... tongue tacos! They were pretty good, a bit chewy :)

some temple pics :) Jose doesn't like taking pictures so he is hiding behind his brother Eusebio. haha they're funny :)

Yesterday we went to the farewell of Leslie Calderon. She is so cute and so ready to leave for her mission on Wednesday. I'm so excited for her! She's going to be great! Our ward was packed full of YSA members yesterday for her farewell talk. Haha she gave it in Spanish so half the congregation was wearing translation headsets as one of our Elders translated. She did such a great job!

Carromiguel is doing good... he keeps telling me that I'm speeding but that's okay. Haha I drive all the time because Hna. Flores doesn't have a license. Oh I guess I forgot to tell you about her. She is from North Carolina, but she was born and raised in the Philippines until the age of 12. So yes, she can speak Tagalog! I'll just keep the bike with me.

our district! Haha yep there's only four of us and I think technically the ZLs are in our district too. The Elders are in an English ward. All the spanish missionaries are in different districts, but we still have fun!

 I might get transferred; it's always a possibility. I'll tell you what happens and how will skype and stuff like that next Tuesday. You probably know just as much about the mission split as I do :P

Well I love you the most and I'll email you next Tuesday!

Para Siempre Dios este con Vos

Con Amor,

Hermana Twitchell