Week Two

HEEEEEYYYY!!!

I'm surrounded by elders in the laundry room right now but your email made me laugh so many times out loud they keep staring at me.

I'm so glad I got to call you! I'm sure I'll be able to again on tuesday. I have 27 hours of traveling to do after all. Ewwwww...

I did go to the morning dedication. It was really special. And I was in tears during "spirit of god" singing with all the elders. I felt like everyone was lacking in "vigor and vim" for the shout too. 

Ahhh! I have so many things I wanna tell you. This will just be a quick mixture of stories:

1. Sister Doraiswamy is from India and the other day we were eating roast chicken and she mentioned how she felt awkward eating it with a fork and knife, that she was used to using her hands. I thought she meant hold with both hands, bring to mouth, so I said it's fine if she did. She jumped right in and using ONE hand shredded the chicken off the bone, not even looking at it, and ate it like that. it was INCREDIBLE!

2. We got all our "investigators" to commit to church this week. I'm learning so much from practicing our lessons. And Sister Nakatsuka is so nice and lets me practice them in italian to her, I just provide both ends of the conversation. But it helps to have someone to talk at. Last time we taught our teacher Sister Allen she tricked us and had the whole class watch our lesson through the mirror/window in the room. Ahhh! Very intimidating.

3. Sister Phagwah made me laugh really hard in class the other day. Firstly cause she's only like 80 pounds and secondly because when we were practicing the word of the wisdom lesson the other day sister fullmer was teaching her and asked what her name was (we always make up new names when we role play) and she said "tobacco."

4. I keep thinking of the part in Nacho Libre when he says something to the effect of "We keep losing because you have not been baptized!" "We keep losing because you are fat!" Words of wisdom.

5. I leave the MTC at 8:00am on tuesday. My flight from salt lake is at 11:00.

6. Yesterday was in-field orientation all day long. It was exhausting but we got to go to lots of workshops about finding, keeping high expectations, working with members, having faith... I realized I have no idea how I would start a conversation with someone in the airport or on the bus. But I am PUMPED!!!

7. A little bit about my zone- they're mostly from other countries and i just love them all. i can't rememer if I mentioned this already but the girls in my room are from bolivia, philipines, guyana, brazil and japan.

-Elder Anofils is a haitian from florida who loves to go on long spiels that sound like this: "we are HERE, to preach the GOSPEL, and bring SOULS, unto CHRIST..." he can't say his r's so it's extra hilarious.
yesterday he was spieling about lazy and obese americans and i said "OH YEAH!" and shoved a Huge bite of pizza into my mouth. and then almost choked from laughing so hard.

-Elder Ardeche is our frenchie whose french accent is hilarious, everything you would expect and wish for. He's big on manners, telling us yesterday you should never lean over your plate, but bring the fork back to your mouth to which i responded "and thats when you spill all over your cute outfit". as he continued his etiquette spiel i brought my cereal bowl to my mouth and very loudly slirped my milk. and then had to keep myself from spitting i was laughing so hard.

8. i forgot to mention my first day i heard one of the elder's names was cajun. dang it.

Well, next time I email I'll be in my beloved ITALIA!
I'm so excited! you might think that i don't know a butt-load of crap about the gospel, but i doooo.

LOVE YA,

Sister Cajin Rain.