No puedo

Hola a todos! No puedo escribir mucho hoy, tenemos permiso para escribir manana. Todavia estoy viviente. 

[Hello everyone! I can not write much today, we have permission to write tomorrow. I am still alive.]

Dejame Paz y otros cosas mis compañeras dicen

Hola a todos!

The past week or so I’ve been waking up with headaches and going to bed with headaches, nothing too crummy, but wow I feel so wiped out and my brain wants to explode sometimes. I think this might be my brain yelling at me for living, breathing, and sleeping in a foreign language. Who knew it would be so hard to just casually start living in another language. 🙂

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Mother’s Day Skype Video

Madeline is able to talk with her family twice a year.  Once on Mother’s Day and once on Christmas.  This Mother’s Day, that meant a Skype video call for an hour.  It was a great call and we had a great time.  We recorded it and the link below will let you share it.

Keep in mind that this is an hour long video.  Also keep in mind that as it should be, her video is the largest and our family self-view is very small.  There isn’t much to see there other than the misspelled abbreviation of hermana.  Alicia made a banner above us that said, “Hma Thelin.”  Madeline’s first words to us after “Hi” were to help us understand how to abbreviate hermana (Hna) and make sure I knew “pero” meant “but.”

Mother’s Day Skype Video Link

Since the file is so large, it is hosted elsewhere.  In my testing, it should not require a login or downloading anything.  Let me know if you have any problems with it.

Brett

Este Vaina

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Busy week here in Carolina, PR, full of a lot of contacting. Wow, pero wow. We’re trying to find a lot of new investigators right now. We’ve got lots of hope and hard work going on. We have a lot of members helping us out with little things but we’re still struggling to get member presents. We hope by buttering them up with lots of homemade cookies we might be able to get some member presents this week.

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El Juego Gripe

Hola a todos!

Sorry in advance that there are no photos this week. We’re in a new place typing and there’s a rule that we can’t plug our cameras in. Don’t worry though, we’re typing somewhere else next week so I can send them later.

But to formally introduce my new companions: I’m in a trio right now with Hermana Antonie de la Republica Dominicana (who fears iguanas more than death itself) y Hermana Montoya de Mexico (who loves to sing hymns with me in the calle loud and proud). They both struggle with English, as in they don’t speak any English, so it’s been a little crazy trying to communicate everything in Spanish. It’s been literally a week since I’ve spoken any English and my head hurts. Lol. President really wants me to learn Spanish quick.

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