I´m really really excited to be able to see you all and talk to everyone!! I really miss you guys, I haven´t had a huge breakdown or anything but it´s been so long since I heard from the kids and Dad...is there any way you could motivate them to send me an email? That would really make my day.
I will pray for Hanan Rose, and I fasted for Grandma and Grandpa yesterday too. Please keep me updated I really want to know how he´s doing.
I realized after just reading what you wrote about Cinco de Mayo that I haven´t really said anything about the food here!! Sooo I thought it would be like Mexican food...well it´s really not. We are given rice, chicken or beef, and these fried plantain things...not really sure how to spell that. The people here cook really well. I've never had so much rice before in my life. My diet is missing vegetables, everything else I definitely have plenty of. So Hermana Molina and I cook our own breakfast and lunch. We usually have something small for breakfast, like eggs, toast, and an apple or a mango. Then for lunch we have potatoes or sandwiches. Recently we haven´t been eating much of anything except for mangoes...I really like mangoes....understatement...I loveeee the mangoes here. They´re really good. I've learned that when mangoes aren't fully ripe yet all you have to do is add a little bit of salt and they´re amazing. What I don´t like is when the mangoes are too ripe cause then they´re kind of slimy and that´s not so good. Sometimes I like the fried banana things and sometimes I don´t. I don´t like them when they're cold and slimy and really sweet, but I do like them when they´re crunchy and hot...they taste kind of like french fries. You use canola oil, cut up the banana, fry the banana, and add a little bit of salt. I've never actually done it myself but that´s what I was told when I asked how you cook them. Maybe you can give it a try and let me know how it turns out!
Yesterday we had dinner with the family that we´re living with...we´re living in a house right behind theirs in their yard...and the mom said that I've lost weight.
That´s really crazy about Brother Johnson...I hope he´s okay! That´s really good that there are experienced health professionals that were able to help him!
That´s awesome that you were able to understand all of that Spanish! I sure hope that when I get back I´ll be able to understand too! I like to think that I´d be able to now. For the most part I can understand everything, it´s just when people talk really quiet, really fast, or with a really strong accent that I have no idea what they´re saying.
As far as gifts go, I´m not really sure what gift of the Spirit I have...any ideas? Hopefully the gift of tongues....I've been saying some really crazy things though. The problem is that I've gotten to the point where I´ll just open my mouth and the Spanish spills out. That´s bad because I´ll mess soooo many things up...for example, yesterday Hermana Molina and I visited a less active family. We taught them about prophets. I had my Ensign with me so I opened up to the page that has all of their pictures and I pointed to the pictures and said, "Ustedes son profetas,"....I´ll let you figure out what that means...you probably already know...[you are prophets] so yeah pretty bad...
Once again I wrote down something that you said: "Little children can find happiness so easily. They can be good examples of letting even little happy things cheer them up." So I've been so good about this while I've been here...finding little things that make me happy. I haven´t had a single day where I was down in the dumps. Whenever things go wrong Hermana Molina and I find ways to make it funny, to laugh at ourselves if we have to. We´re planning on having a really great amazing successful week this upcoming week. I really think it will be the best week so far.
It´s supposed to be the rainy season now but it hasn't really even rained yet. So apparently it doesn't get colder when it rains, it actually feels hotter because when the water evaporates there´s like hot steam rising up...not so much looking forward to that.
Lots of love,
Hermana Koehler
Also! I forgot to tell you I have changes! My trainer is going to become a zone leader so she needs a companion that can be a zone leader too...anddd since I´m new the president has decided to change me to a new area. I have no idea where I´ll be sent. A few sisters had an emergency change so for all I know I might be staying here...but I was told I have changes so I guess I do. I´ll let you know what happens.
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