Sister Samantha Ahlmer: Singing Companion

Hola!

Well we finished our first week together in Bahía and we are soooo tired! I have never walked around in circles more in my life. I so did not appreciate the blessing of having Utah mountains all around me before. Yes, we still have no idea where we are going, but I am just learning to not stress. That is one thing that has really started to change in my personality. I just can't do everything perfectly and our day almost never goes the way that I planned but its okay, because the next day we just wake up and try again.

Hermana Gimenez is really quite, but I am learning how to break her out of her shell. She really wants to learn English so i have been teaching her some of her favorite songs. This week we started with some Justin Bieber. She had been practicing the song all week and was doing super good so this week when we were with some people from our zone I told her that she should sing it for them, AND SHE DID. It had to be the cutest thing I have ever seen. We have also been learning how to pray and it literally melts my heart, she is so dang cute. I have also been able to learn a lot more Spanish, a lot faster. On top of Spanish and English studies, my comp is teaching me the second language of Paraguay its called Guarani I am sure I butchered the spelling on that but its super cool.

Another thing, we will be headed in the wrong direction or something and Ill say Dang! or Oh my freking heck and then later she'll say ¨´Hermana Ahlmer, what does heck mean? SO then I had to explain to her how in Utah we have Mormon phrases that we say when we get mad. So now she says them too. Someone will call and cancel on us and she'll hang up and say, oh my dang, or freaking heck. Its cute she always gets them mixed up. Don't worry I we are also learning how to pray in English which also melts my heart, her cute accent just kills me.

As far as success goes we are going to be struggling for a while it looks like. The missionaries in this area really just haven't had much success in years. Bahía is just a rough place. But its okay, after Sunday and talking with some of the Ward members I feel a lot better.

One thing that I do love about being on a mission is that we have an hour a day set aside just to study what we want. There are SO MANY things I want to read. Its kind of overwhelming. Right now I am reading Our Search for Happiness and the BoM in Spanish. Then I want to Read Jesus the Christ and the Bible, and then there is also D&C and JS History...never going to run out of things to study thats for sure. We do have zone meetings every week here and I really like my zone. I am confident that my comp and I can find the people that need us, its just going to take a lot of patience.

This week our zone was chosen to help with a Capilla Abierta in the Bahía Blanca Stake. We gave brief overviews of all of the things that we do here in the church and it went really well. Our church really is the same all over the world, and that is pretty neat.

Well there isn't too much else to tell but I hope everyone is having a good week!

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