Week 2

Hola everyone! So I've now survived 2 weeks and I think I'll be able to survive 18 months. This week was very interesting and so much fun!

Wednesday- Today was service day, so we had to wake up super early to meet up with the rest of our service group. When we got there, we had to do a service orientation with one other district while everyone else started on the service. They just told us that we were cleaning classrooms and whatnot and then went on to tell us some rules that we need to abide by in our own classrooms. But it came to the point where they realized that they had enough people doing the service. And since the other district was only going to be here for one service project, they got to do it and we got to go home early... Kind of sad... But it gave time to get to know our district a little bit better. We also had our 3 class periods. I had a really good personal and companion study with mi companera. Then we had 3 hours with our regular teacher. And remember the investigator we had to teach last week? He's now my teacher... But he's great! :) His name is Hermano Toledo. He's super strict and only allows us to speak in Spanish. But it's such a great help :)

Thursday- We did a lot of studying today. They have this language study program on the computers called TALL and me and mi companera spent most of our study time on that. It's really beneficial and I learn things that my teachers have not yet taught me. Hermano Toledo's class was really fun too. It was actually warm outside, so he took us out there and gave us vocabulary word for the random things he saw out there. And Hermano Lounsberry gave a really good lesson too. For all of those future missionaries out there. Read Alma 37. Good read :)

Friday- I've survived 10 days! I had a very effective study and now we are learning how to teach the first lesson. We're going to have times where nuestras maestros will be investigators and we have to teach them, so this is important to remember. We got to play volley ball with the elders in our zone that will be leaving this week. They've become like brothers to us, so it's sad to see them go :( We also had a sick Hermana in my district and I got the chance to help take care of her. It was fun and I got to get to know her a little bit better :)

Saturday- Today was like any other day. We had our classes and played a lot more volleyball. That's become our favorite sport to play during gym:)

Sunday- Today we were able to listen to Music and the Spoken Word. It got a little emotional because most of the music they sang was music I had the chance to perform in Chamber choir senior year :) Relief Society was great! And Sacrament was awesome. I got to lead the music :) We also had a very good district meeting about enduring to the end. Then he had a devotional about loving the people you are serving in your mission. It was an incredible talk and I got lots of notes :) I also had the chance to watch the Joseph Smith movie! Unfortunately we didn't get to see the ending.... :(

Monday- It was so bare here... Around 100 missionaries from west campus left last night. But we had our classes and me and Hermana Young taught Hermano Toledo for our "investigator/teacher" lessons. I think it went really well. And I didn't have ANY notes! The gift of tongues is real! :) There was no one around to play volleyball, so my district played foursquare and I went on the machines for a little while. I felt so good after :)

Today so far I have been able to go do a session at the temple and we kind of toured main campus. The temple was such a spiritual experience and I can't wait for next week to go back. It's going to be so great! And also I would love to hear from people. Mail is something every missionary looks forward to :)

Sister Annekke Walker

APR14   MEX-OAX   Unit 827

2023 N 900 E

Provo, UT 84602

Anyways... I'll write again next week! Hasta luego!

Love Always,

Hermana Walker