HUMP DAY

June 1, 2015

Hola Mamacita!

That's so exciting that Ashley got married! I'm so happy for her! My shoe size is usually 8, sometimes 8 1/2. I have not received a package, I could ask the people in the office if they've seen anything. I occasionally get emails from other people, it's not bad. Yes, you do have to pay for the iPads, they say that they work it out with the stake president and our parents. You have to pay $300 initially, then $80 at the end of my mission if I want to keep it. I'm pretty sure the stake pres should've informed you or something... I don't know. :P

We had our mission wide conference and it was really awesome! We still don't have iPads, and it wasn't really a training about iPads, or at least they told us not to think of it that way. :P It will be interesting to see when we get them because the Modesto mission will not have iPads. So if they give them to us before the mission split, all the missionaries down south will only be able to use them for a few weeks. Haha lots of rumors are flying around the mission about when we will get them, but no one has a clue! We're having another conference this week, so we're hoping to hear more info. It's going to be a 6 hour meeting, which means free LUNCH! haha we're excited. 

Yes, I reached my hump day. Bah! It went by too fast! that's okay, I try not to think about it and my day goes great! For that day we celebrated by doing service and going to get ice cream. It was a good day.

Then we had interviews! I love having interviews with President Jardine! He is so great and I always feel uplifted when I talk to him. I feel like every time I talk with him, he talks to me about transfers and the mission split. I asked him about whether I should eat with the Burgoyne family and I told him that I thought no, but I wanted to be reassured by his thoughts on it. Well, it does say in the white handbook, that visits from friends and family are against church policy... so he told me no as well. He asked me how I was doing in Carmichael, being so close to Folsom. I told him, that I really wasn't having too much of a problem with seeing friends or family. Then he made me a promise that if I am obedient, I could serve in Folsom and I wouldn't have a problem with that or focusing on the work. Wow. The spirit was very strong, it was amazing. Then he asked me what my thoughts were on the mission split. Well, I'll go where the Lord wants me to go. I want to stay in the Sacramento mission, but then I've never even been to the Modesto area while on my mission. There is a huge population of Hispanics in the Stockton and Lodi area. Modesto will definitely be a big mission for Spanish work, but I love Sacramento. I don't know, I'll go where he wants me to go!

Well I have to go, our zone is having a water balloon fight/capture the flag for zone sports! I love-a-love-a-you!

Para Siempre Dios este con Vos

Con Amor,

Hermanna Twitchell

pics:

-selfie with Sister Schow!

-Sister Schow's "no more cookies!" note :)

-mangos from the elote Ladie that rolls around a cart in the apartments, honks her horn, and all the Hispanics come out! just to buy her corn and mangos! They're everywhere in South Sac

-Hna Burke and I eating at a member's house, they made us eat chiles de arbol (basically jalepenos)