CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL!!!

 

I got the BEST present in the mail the other day...a CD of Mom, Dad, Camille, and Scott singing! I haven't stopped listening to it... :) My new companion, Hna. Wilzbach doesn't mind, she is very easy going and fun, I love her lots. But the CD so far has been my favorite, as I haven't opened anything else. OH!!! But I did open the white package and I ate some pennitone last night and mangos. :) Thanks Dad! Everything else is under the little "who" tree, that's what Hna. Wilzbach calls is, and I am so excited for Christmas morning! I'm going straight to my stocking and presents!!! Christmas is so much more enjoyable when you have been deprived of constant communication from your family and friends for almost 9 months. It's a good tactic. I think that's why they do it, it's all for the eventual Christmas experience. I have missed y'all so much lately. Blake should be bursting through my apartment door any time now to shout Merry Christmas! I will miss very much sitting in the family room to listen to Dad read Luke 2 and sining Christmas songs together. But I singing along with the home CD so it's close! I heard from 3 different sources today that Camille sang beautifully in church, Mary's Lullaby, I wish I could have been there to play for her. I bet it was great though regardless! I am just so excited to see everyone's faces tomorrow!!!! No one is allowed to make fun of my fat face....

 

Some awesome things happened this week. I got my new, lovely companion, Hermana Wilzbach! She is from Missouri and is a ball of CRAZY. We get along quite well. :) She is a transfer ahead of me and she has studied Spanish for 8 years prior to the mission. It's nice, I am learning lots from her. I love her lots already, she is very "patient"(no pun intended...) with all of my medical stuff. It already feel like we've been together for a few weeks, it's always nice when you click right off with a companion. She is great and I love her! We had a fun experience this week...we were driving down S. Post Oak, just passed Court Rd. when we see these guys(like 5) on horses riding in the median! What does my crazy comopanion do? She flips around so fast and yells as she is laughing hystarically, "Get the camera!!"...of course I got out my camera. :) She put the hazard lights on and I tried to take a picture but they stopped and posed for us...and asked if we wanted a ride...then we drove away and my picture was blurry. But it was still fun!! AND...MY SPANISH MIRACLE!!!! I had a doctors appointment this morning right? Right. So I am waiting to go into the radiology and the radiologist guy was having a hard time speaking to this lady in Spanish. She was trying to ask questions and he just kept saysing, "aqui once(11)"... They lady turned to me and ask, "Hable espanol?"...I spit out, "Si!"...and all of a sudden I was translating back and forth and it was so flippin cool!!!!!! I felt really proud of myself. I offered a prayer of gratitude and i learned a lesson, I am actually learning Spanish and I need to be more kind to myself about it. It's a slow process but there is change and progression and I am so excited about it!! Another amazing thing happened, the Diaz family came to chruch!!! The boys were unable to come for some reason but Hna. and Hno. came and so did Hno.'s mom! They loved it, I was playing for the Christmas program so I couldn't sit next to them but they were smiling the entire time! It was so great. They will be patized soon, I can feel it!

 

Well I just can't wait to see y'all tomorrow!!! I love y'all so much and have fun at the sleepover(that better still be happening!)!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

 

All my love,

Hermana Florence