heeeeyyyyy everyone,
so the computer i'm on doesn't have a great relationship with the space bar, so excuse any lackof spacing in this letter. merry christmas! i hope everyone's day was absolutely lovely. as for me, the best present ever was gettingto skype with da fam. loved every secondof that. i loved seeing everyone's smiling faces--it's so good to see something familiar! i definitely missed eating chicken salsa soup on christmas eve though, but don't worry--i definitely ate well here, as usual. on christmas eve we were at the babou's house, and we ate "raclette", which is like...fondu. with potatoes and meat. andit was soooo good. except i burned my mouth off because it was so good i couldn't wait like an adult to shove it into my mouth. on christmas day, we ate and ate and ate, and skyped. i told everyone this on skype yesterday, but whateveri'm going to repeat myself--i ate oysters for the first time last week. they were...gross. i tried to swallow as quickly as possible so as to have as little taste asp ossible in my mouth. but number one, i was creeped out by how it looked. number two, smelled funny. number three, slimy. but, i ate two and called it good. now i can say i did it. uhn.
so my brain is a little bit fried right now because i spent the day HIKING IN THE TROPICAL JUNGLE. ooohhh yeah. we were supposed to hike up to this waterfall, but when we were twenty minutes away from our final destination, everyone was like "nah i'm too tired let's go back." andi was like "what??" but no one wanted to keep going. which i personally thought was....the stupidest thing ever, you might say, but whatever. the tail cannot wag the dog i guess. in any case, the hike that we did was awesome. there was one point where i kindof just laughedto myselfbecause i was like "dude. i'm hiking in the jungle right now. i just picked some wild fruit off of a tree and ate it, and I'M STILL ALIVE." it was legit. it's nice to have real pdays now that the missionary choir thing is over, so we can actually do stuff. hopefully i can discover more cool things.
anyway, missionary work during the holidays isn't ideal, because no one is home and everyone says they're too busy to talk to you. so this past week has been kind of slow, and it's hard to keep your chin up on days where most of your lessons fall through. but, we're still trying to be effective. hopefully after new years things will be able to pick back up. but we have one baptism set for this week--the brother of the 15 year old boy that got baptized in november. he's getting baptized on the 31st and confirmed on the 1st--he said he wantedto be the last for the year and the first for the new year. so we're excited for him and hopefully things will go well this week to prepare him for the blessed day.
welp, i don't have too much more intelligent things to say. love you and miss you! happy new years, everyone!
love,
soeur hansen
so the computer i'm on doesn't have a great relationship with the space bar, so excuse any lackof spacing in this letter. merry christmas! i hope everyone's day was absolutely lovely. as for me, the best present ever was gettingto skype with da fam. loved every secondof that. i loved seeing everyone's smiling faces--it's so good to see something familiar! i definitely missed eating chicken salsa soup on christmas eve though, but don't worry--i definitely ate well here, as usual. on christmas eve we were at the babou's house, and we ate "raclette", which is like...fondu. with potatoes and meat. andit was soooo good. except i burned my mouth off because it was so good i couldn't wait like an adult to shove it into my mouth. on christmas day, we ate and ate and ate, and skyped. i told everyone this on skype yesterday, but whateveri'm going to repeat myself--i ate oysters for the first time last week. they were...gross. i tried to swallow as quickly as possible so as to have as little taste asp ossible in my mouth. but number one, i was creeped out by how it looked. number two, smelled funny. number three, slimy. but, i ate two and called it good. now i can say i did it. uhn.
so my brain is a little bit fried right now because i spent the day HIKING IN THE TROPICAL JUNGLE. ooohhh yeah. we were supposed to hike up to this waterfall, but when we were twenty minutes away from our final destination, everyone was like "nah i'm too tired let's go back." andi was like "what??" but no one wanted to keep going. which i personally thought was....the stupidest thing ever, you might say, but whatever. the tail cannot wag the dog i guess. in any case, the hike that we did was awesome. there was one point where i kindof just laughedto myselfbecause i was like "dude. i'm hiking in the jungle right now. i just picked some wild fruit off of a tree and ate it, and I'M STILL ALIVE." it was legit. it's nice to have real pdays now that the missionary choir thing is over, so we can actually do stuff. hopefully i can discover more cool things.
anyway, missionary work during the holidays isn't ideal, because no one is home and everyone says they're too busy to talk to you. so this past week has been kind of slow, and it's hard to keep your chin up on days where most of your lessons fall through. but, we're still trying to be effective. hopefully after new years things will be able to pick back up. but we have one baptism set for this week--the brother of the 15 year old boy that got baptized in november. he's getting baptized on the 31st and confirmed on the 1st--he said he wantedto be the last for the year and the first for the new year. so we're excited for him and hopefully things will go well this week to prepare him for the blessed day.
welp, i don't have too much more intelligent things to say. love you and miss you! happy new years, everyone!
love,
soeur hansen
