AHHHH! GRAMS AND PAPA CHUCK ARE THERE!!!! HOLA HOLA HOLA
GRANDPARENTS!!
I am so Jealous! Why didn’t they come to El
Salvador for Christmas?
Oh wells, tell them that I love them sooooo
much!! Hopefully they have a
Christmas card from me waiting at their house when they get home.
To answer some of your many many questions.....
I think you need to be logged in to Skype for it to ring. But just keep it open about 15 minutes
before 10:00 your time just in case I’m wrong. Let’s be real... You are probs gonna be sitting there
waiting... Right? Ha ha ha
I am so excited to skype y’all... I get to see
all of your beautiful faces!!!
Okay for my birthday box... Idk what you should
send. I have a Walmart here so I
can pretty much get everything that I need and I don’t really need
anything. I just haven’t been able
to find hair-cutting scissors. I
need to trim my hair. So scissors
would be nice. I do want MORE MORE
MORE MORE PHOTOS!!! And you guys
can write me hand written letters…from everyone. I just want things from you guys... like little notes or
drawings. If you could send my
polaroid photo albums, and take some Polaroid photos of you guys... don’t go
crazy….but take some nice ones of you guys. Please don’t send the camera though, just the photos.
Okay now for this week... so our showers are
freezing cold. Like ice cold! But it’s okay because we couldn’t even
shower for like 4 days because we had NO RUNNING WATER. Our pipe busted and we couldn’t find
someone to fix it for 4 days. But
it was okay, we had a bucket of water so we washed our hair once. Lol Hermana Patterson washed my hair for
me. She’s the best. Now all is good. We have WATER!! It’s been such a blessing to have
running water again. We can cook
and clean now.
I have been showing people the little photo
book we made on artifact.org
and, oh my gosh, people love it. They
all love you guys!!! They think I
have such a beautiful family. Which I do! But
I love showing it to them and they just love seeing you guys, which makes me
feel good, but then they ask if that’s really me in the photos. I look so pretty in the photos and a bum
in real life! The STRUGGLE IS REAL! Well, when you can’t shower for 4
days….it’s a little rough to want to get ready in the mornings and to look
cute! Lol
THE BUSES HERE are crazy. Seriously crazy! It’s so bad ha ha ha but I love it. I had to go to town 2 times this week
for immigration and then for a devotional last night. YIKES!!! I am going to try and describe this to y’all...
Put it this way, the buses in Hawaii are like a limo compared to the buses
here. Ha ha ha It’s so crazy, yet fun. The bus pulls up and you already see it
is full and then you pack 10 more people on and you literally have no personal
space. You are stuck in between
like 30 peeps. When people have to
get off they just push you against the chair or the window or another person
you don’t know. ha Then when its
your turn to get off.. OH BOY!!! I feel like I’m in a football game. You have to like ram through! Poor Hermana Patterson is so small. I go first and make a path and then she
follows. It’s funny. I like it, it’s like playing sports
everyday! Ha ha ha But... I don’t
like it when you have creepy old men by you. Then I just want to scream and do
some Manti Te’o moves but oh well.
All is well.
This week I am so grateful for my district
leaders. They are awesome. I know
the spirit is strong with them. First of all, they come to some of our lessons and every time
they do the spirit is so strong. They are so guided by the spirit! I love it. They also save our lives. The first time we had to go to town
we got on the bus and then realized we were totally lost. Then out of the blue, our phone
rang. It was Elder Morales, our
district leader, he asked where we were and told us to get off of the bus right
away and that they were going to come with us to town to help us. He told us that he had a strong feeling
to call us right away so he did and the first thing he did was ask where we
were. I’m so grateful that we were safe and that our district leaders listened
to the prompting to check on us.
The other night we were in our house and we
heard gunshots! We heard like 15
gunshots! We were a little
scared because they were getting closer and closer to our house. We think it was right behind our
house. The streets were silent
except for the gunshots. The
elders called us during this time to get our numbers and we were like freaking
out (more so Hermana Patterson hahahah) like on the floor… all lights off… kind
of freaking out. They elders said:
“Hermanas, don’t be scared. Just
get into bed and I promise you wont hear any more gunshots.” So we did... and he was right. No more gun shots. It was so awesome. I am glad they help us so much. Both of our district leaders only speak
Spanish so that has helped me learn Spanish faster and helped Hermana Patterson
polish her Spanish.
Earlier this week we were going to visit David,
who is a less-active member. David
lives up a kind of scary street but we really wanted to visit him so we
went. His street has A LOT OF
DOGS!! We start walking and we see
this cute little boy and we say hi to him and keep walking. Then when we get by the dogs they start
going nuts! They really don’t like
us! I don’t think I have
ever prayed so hard!!! Seriously,
we were so scared. These dogs are
crazy. We passed the first group
of dogs safely. Then there is the
second group... and they are even scarier! We really wanted to see David but the dogs just wouldn’t let
us. We prayed super hard but they
weren’t backing down. We tried picking
up rocks and holding them over our heads like we were going to throw them at
them like everyone says to do but nothing! So we were like fine, we won’t go see David. We slowly back a way from the
crazy dogs and head back down. Once
we were in the clear we were so relieved but then we get to the gate and its
locked! You have got to be kidding
me. There was no one around and
the houses had dogs in front of them!
So we are like great, now what?
Then we see the little boy laughing at us. We ask him to open the gate but he keeps saying “arriba
arriba” and wants us to climb over this 10-11’ gate in skirts! Yeah, NOT going to happen! OMG!! I WAS SO ANGRY. Hermana
Patterson was a lot calmer than me. She was like “its ok its ok”. SO… we started walking towards the dogs again and they start
to get nuts again! We had nowhere
to go! A gate behind us, and crazy
dogs in front of us! Literally all
we could do was to pray and beg our Heavenly Father to help us. When we finished praying we opened our
eyes and looked around and we saw this little path leading into the jungle that
we had not seen before. All of the
other paths into the jungle are covered in barbed wire but this one
wasn’t. We aren’t supposed to go into
the jungle but we see no other option.
So we take it and it leads us back onto the street! It was a miracle and a blessing
from our Heavenly Father! Now we just
need to figure out how to see David!
Okay now don’t be scared Mom because REALLY I
am totally safe! But the gangs here
crack me up. We were out
contacting at like 7:30 one night and we heard gunshots. I didn’t think too much of it because
that’s normal here and we are getting used to it. I can now tell the difference between gunshots and fire works.
Lol Then as we are talking to this
old lady a line of cars comes driving by and thank goodness Hermana Patt was
facing the lady and only I saw but the cars were full of gangsters. They must have been looking for
someone! It was trippy. They all had their heads sticking out of
the cars staring at us. I didn’t
know what to do so I just smiled at them. Ha ha ha But yeah, I’d say they are my friends. (sarcasm)
I have a really good ward here. Everyone is so nice. Apparently the sisters before us weren’t
very nice... So we have been trying really hard to get the ward members to like
us… and I think they do. We have so many dinners scheduled, it’s crazy. It’s such a blessing! For the 24th, which is when
they celebrate Christmas, we have 4 dinners scheduled! I might just die... so pray that I will
be able to eat A LOT. But yeah, my ward is awesome and everyone is so nice and
loving. Funny story…the ward had a practice for Christmas caroling and
they invited us. We went thinking
okay yeah we can sing.... then once we got there they told us.... No, your in
charge! We had to come up with
songs and arrangements on the spot!
But it was fun. The youth love us.
They just laugh at me all the time. Probs because of my Spanish. But I don’t mind, I just laugh with them. lol
Another funny thing that happened…I forget what
was happening but one night Hermana Patt started singing... CHLOE'S MOM HAS GOT IT
GOING ON... and it was so funny. Cuz
she’s my mission mom....right… anyways… I guess you had to be there! It really was funny!!
Okay I’ll see y’all on the 25th!! AHHH I LOVE YOU ALL!!! I CAN’T WAIT!! Hug everyone you see for me. Thanks.
Okay mom can you get these peeps addresses for
me?
Tatiana I. Lexee. Mariel. Morgan L.
Thanks! I have letters for
them.
Love you!!! FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!
--
--Hermana Kava--
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