Missions are great!

This week had its ups and downs. Im not really any better at speaking and understanding spanish. I have to teach my comp english too so its a little stressful haha. What weve figured out is english is really hard to pronounce but spanish grammar is really weird. They arent specific when they talk. For example to say he, she, or it, its all one word, le. So its depending on the context of the conversation. So if you dont get the context you dont understand anything! Also everything is opposite and it confuses me all the time, Ex, Mission Leader is Leader Mission. 

Lots of people talk to me in English if they know a little bit and Ive gotten to the point where when they speak english I dont understand becuase I think theyre speaking in spanish haha its so difficult! 

Everyone says it takes about 3 months to understand/speak well. A few take 5-7 months..yikes. My comp tells me all the time that I will be fluent in 3 months. One hna. in our district my comp says speaks Perfect spanish and she has been here for 5 months now but really starting speaking well at 3. My comp says Ill be exactly like her becuase I try to talk as much as possible. Since she says that all the time It makes me stressed becuase I feel like if I dont speak well by 3 months Im a bad missionary and people will think I dont work hard. Also, I dont know how Im ever going to get there because I dont speak well at all. I know I shouldnt stress over that but I am. Everyone says my pronounciation is perfect its just my grammar haha.

Carlos was to be baptized Saturday but very sadly he wasnt. Hes having a lot of problems with family and he doesnt feel good in his heart. A lot of pain I guess from something but he wont tell us and he doesnt want our help. It was really hard becuase he said I helped him and thats why he wants to be baptized but now he doesnt want to nor wants our help. I dont know what happened. It was like 2 days before Saturday and he was SO happy before. It was like a night and day difference in his personality. Ugh the Adversary...but we have another baptism this week on Saturday with a family. Elizeth and Hector. Very kind people but Hector has law of chastity problems and were praying he divorces his other wife and marries Elizeth before Saturday..Yeah its a big mess. Really sad but itll happen. 

We were in the park yesterday doing a bunch of contacting because NO one was home. So we just contacted to hourssss. Very tiring. Anyways we saw this young boy and we went up and talked to him, His name is Abraham and hes 16. Hes a really cool kid and we had a good conersation with him. But he still was really hesitant to meet with us again. So we left our number and got his and started walking away and contacting other people. Like 2 minutes later he came running up to us and said I dont know why I didnt tell you this before but just recently I had a dream about you two. Not specifically us two but of two missionaries like us and he doesnt know why. So we invited him to church and everything and were really hoping he comes. It was really cool. 

Lastly, I had an interesting week with food...aha but the worst was definitely on Friday. A sister in the ward fed us and it was so much and I was about to explode. Then she says oh do you want more and I was like no no Im ok. But then she says do you want this stuff. I dont remember the name. Anyways I was like uh no Im ok but she gave it to me anyways...It looked like fried brea. Like really old crusty bread with a chunk of meat attatched to it. It was weird. So I bit into it and it wasnt too bad...Then I asked what it was...ahaha I almost threw up. It was pig skin with the muscle STILL attatched...Oh my I honestly dont know how I kept that down. Then she kept offering me more and more to try it with different things and seriously it was a miracle I could keep it all down. Finally she kept saying oh have more have more and I was like Im sorry I my stomach cant take any more. If I had eaten one more bite I literally would have thrown up all over the table right there. It was so gross and I was so full haha. It sounds like youre eating a mouthful of rocks! Ohhh its bad haha. So that was interesting. 

We are BROKE. literally broke haha. We have to walk Everywhere becuase we have no money and our area is Huge. So I walk around 10 or more miles everyday this past whole week. Its so hard. We get home and were just exhausted. It has been in the 100s almost this whole week. My clothes are just soaked with sweat and my drips with sweat. Its nasty. Its difficult to get up in the morning becuase my body is so sore and then I have to exercise for 30 minutes haha. Ugh its difficult but we get money this wednesday so yay! We have had no food also. Its been so hard. And we dont have any water in our house. Its yellow. I dont even dare. I cant take a water bottle with me while we walk becuase it gets burning hot in about 15 minutes. So I think Im losing weight haha. I dont drink unless in a persons house and I dont eat unless in a persons house haha. Its fun..haha ok we have a little food its not like Im starving myself but its like a little bowl of cereal and some jello. Weve had jello for dinner for the past two nights haha. But we will make it to Wednesday!

Missions are great! haha. Cant wait to see some of you over skype!! Hope this week is great. 

I know this is where Im supposed to be. I know that as long as I am faithful and obedient I will witness miracles and my testimony will grow leaps and bounds. I love this Gospel! So much! Everyday I learn something new and it just amazes me.

Love you all so much!

Hermana Grover