Hello,

     OK, so this week I got called fat twice! Yay for blunt people! I presented the Book of Mormon by myself for the first time and it went good! Hna. C. said that she was super proud of me and that my Spanish was super good! We taught 28 lessons and they were amazing and we really saw the hand of the Lord in our lives this week.  We are finally seeing a lot of progress in our investigators and menos activos and we are so happy! Also we had a goal of 25 lessons as a zone so we worked really hard to complete it! We were both wanting pizza so bad and we talked about how that night we were going to go buy pizza and guess what? In our 25th lesson after we accomplished our goal, they had just ordered pizza right before we got to their house! Heavenly Father gave us pizza for accomplishing our goal!!!! We just looked at each other and laughed! 

     Oh yeah I was in a lesson with a family and they told me that I looked taller and fatter than normal.  I didn't understand at first, so just to make sure I understood they told me in English! Yeah... we also had a ward member tell us to stop eating.....so that was great.....

      We went to the touchdown Jesus monument today! Way fun! I'll send more pictures! Also we walked all the way up to the platform and it was really windy and my dress flew up to my hips.....in from of my zone leader...that's probably just about the most embarrassing thing EVER. Yeah garments and all for my whole zone. We also met some people from Cartersville, GA and that was funny! This lady is pregnant and smoking living in the DR with her soon to be Dominican husband who she can't really communicate with because she doesn't speak a whole lot of Spanish.  She has a  pierced daughter who is getting married and can't talk to her fiance because he's in a Dominican prison! Yeah, so they were really nice and cool...we made some new friends! Anyways running out of time, love you!

Leah

Talking to Leah on Mother's Day was wonderful!  She looked great and she bore her testimony in Spanish and it sounded amazing to us.

Hi mom! 

      I´m so happy that I got to talk to you! Aunt Allisen said you were impressed that I talked to boys? Jeez Mom I did interact with people before my mission at work! Ha ha. But yeah, we both know not that much! OK.

     Things I forgot to tell you! I want a recipe for cinnamon rolls, Aunt jessica´s Pb cheesecake and dinners that are cheap and easy! Yay thanks! I learned how to make Frito's and Dominican spaghetti this week! Whoo hoo! I can also finally light our stove with a match and the gas! Big step!  Oh yes, in the package I want my castor oil, some of my t shirts, and nice smelling bar soap...like the peppermint kind from B&B, perfumes I left and lotions. I'm not talking alot but a little variety.

      As of this week, everything that has happened I pretty much told you about on Sunday!  I am going on splits three times this week which is terrifying! Once tonight but that's not a big deal because its only me and a member staying at the chapel for a meeting while Hna. C. teaches. Then tomorrow with a member I get to go and teach people! I'm so scared! I´m probably going to go teach the menos activos which is where I'll do the least amount of damage...=) Hope it goes good because the day after that I'm going on intercambios with my sister leaders...which will be interesting...because I'm staying in my area and will have to get us from point A to point B. AHAHAHAHa.....I still can barely navigate our area. But the part we´ll be in should be okay, but I'm nervous because all of our appointments for that day are with contacts so I sure hope they´re actually there or else I don't know what I´ll do. Oh well I'll just pray alot and prepare for the worst but do my best!

      I love you SO much and you look so good!!!!!!!!!!!! I do too by the way! HA HA another cut and paste email for you!

Love,

 Leah

Dad,

     I loved talking to you! It was so nice to hear your voices! I'm really grateful that you guys are doing good! Its weird to think that you guys have just kept going in your lives while I'm here though! Of coarse I knew that but still it seems weird! It was so nice to have just a real conversation with you guys! I love you so much! You are such a wonderful example to me and I think about all your mission stories while I'm here having crazy stories of my own! I even tell them to the other Americans and we all laugh and laugh and laugh! Ha ha though I think my mission is winning on the gross factor! Love you! 

Leah

Pics of Hna. Calderon´s Birthday! We made cake and got ice cream!

Hello Everyone!

     We have a family that is prepared for the gospel! They came to church and we were in charge of the baby and their SUPER energetic 2 yr old! Finally we took them out and let the two year old run outside to tire her out and then found a classroom and I just picked her up started rocking her and singing to her until she fell asleep. I held that girl for about an hr and a half! Yeah, finally after she was out I sat down and everyone was super impressed that I put her to sleep. Ha ha... kids I can handle! 

     So everyone here makes fun of me because I have a high pitched voice....also that I´m short...it´s kind of funny. I´M DONE WITH MY FIRST TRANSFER!!!!!!! That´s super exciting!!!!! Not much else happened this week. I´ve had some killer blisters because there were some big rainstorms and in wet shoes that's fun=) I am still having ear trouble and you can't just buy a box of decongestants here at the store like you can in the US so that's kind of hard. Also I'm getting sick... no fun but other than that its been an amazing week, my trainers trainer who lived in our house with us ended her mission today so that was way sad! Love you!

Leah

Mom,

     Mom I freaking love you so much! I also love peanut butter  and mint oreos and sweet tarts, and GOLDFISH!!!! And they aren't the wheat kind!!!! Yay go Mom! The half tank tops are amazing! Loved all the food!  

     This week was good.  I impressed the elders in my district by putting a crazy 2 yr old to sleep, go Leah! So I hope you liked all the pictures! I sent you practically every one I had! OH MY GOODNESS BEFORE I FORGET ! I get to talk to you guys on skype on Sunday! I will be on skype at 5 pm my time! DON´T YOU DARE FORGET ME!!!!!! Super excited to talk to you all though! Love you!

Leah

Dear Mom,

      Okay I'm so sorry about last week! Hna Calderon got some super bad news from her family so it cut things a little short, but she's doing really good now! This week has been so full! MOM I HAD TO CLEAN RAW CHICKEN NECKS. Like that were from chickens killed that morning.  Just the necks too, all floating in a tub/bucket outside.  So there were oogies in the water floating and I had to pull feathers out of the necks and then pull the throat out of those stupid chickens. I hate chickens so much...and Chihuahua's. Ha ha packaged chicken? Try chicken that is still bleeding!!!! Ugh... now THAT is a memory.

      I also got to go to the temple! Which is a big deal in the field! Hermana C. has been out for a year and this is her first time to go in the field! 

     Guess who I saw in the CCM? KATIE HOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She freaked out when she saw me and cried and I've never been hugged so tight in my life! It was so cool! We couldn't talk for long but just to see someone that I know was really amazing!  (Katie is one of Leah's oldest friends from Pittsburg CA.  They have known each other from birth and are two months apart.  Katie will be serving in the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission)  Then I saw a girl that was in the CCM with me but left after my first two weeks! So cool to see her and her trainer is Katelyn Olsen, as in the Olsen's from the Castlewood Canyon ward! SMALL WORLD!!! That  was the best day ever! 

      Hna C and I waded through a brutal rainstorm this week, like through rivers in the streets! We were soaked! And eww... the water was dirty!!!! Ha ha so I have a knack for dying my clothes in this country! Don't worry, only my yellow Colorado shirt is now orange. I don't even know how it happened. Then my down east yellow shirt is a different shade of yellow every time. I just keep changing the skirt I wear it with depending on what color it turns out each time! 

     

     We went to a waterfall yesterday and it took all day.  It was really pretty.  Anyway, my time is pretty much up! 

 I GOT ALL THE PACKAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! 

Love you!

Leah

Dad,

      Guess who learned how to send pictures from an Internet center! This girl! And I sent a lot too, so that should make up for missing yesterday and also the shorter time the week before!  A couple weeks ago we had our grumpy old man investigator tell us that we couldn't come back and teach him anymore. It was really heartbreaking because I know he felt the spirit! Man...agency...after we left I just cried. It was pretty hard. But we do have a family who is completely ready for the gospel and it was way cool to see how Heavenly Father set this up for us! 

Love you!

 Leah

Leah and Katie