HOLA Y'ALL!!!
I'm in Texas now!!! But rewind a little bit. So our last week in the MTC was basically just me crying the whole time haha I love my district and my zone SO much. It was so incredibley hard to say goodbye to everyone. We sang "Army of Helaman" and i played piano, and everyone was straight fire singing. And then we sang "God be with you till we meet again" and WOW I was bawling literally the ENTIRE song. So then Monday morning my district/zone all showed up the travel office at 3:30 am to send us all off, and I was bawling the whole time. Especially saying goodbye to my hermanitas (SHOUT OUT to Hermana Cancienne and Runyan for being the best companeras!!!!!) So then we got on the bus and made our way to the airport. I said bye to more people at the airport and lots more crying. On the plane ride to Lubbock the elder next to me was throwing up the whole time, so there wasn't much sleep haha. When we flew over lubbock I started bawling, cause like there's nothing here, and I was like "Wow I'm stuck here for 16 1/2 more months..." then we met our President and wife, and WOW they are one in a milllion. LOVE THEM.
I found out some pretty devastating news my first day. They shut down the spanish speaking areas for sisters, so I will be english speaking my entire mission unless otherwise noted. I was HEARTBROKEN. I was crying so hard and felt like my mission call didn't even apply anymore. (I know so negative) but then I met my trainer (hermana melendez) and she's an ANGEL. and then we realized we're in a TRIO. haha so she's training me and Sister Judson. Me and sister judson knew each other before the mission so it's been a party haha. We've been adjusting well and just visiting lots of people here in BROWNFIELD. Brownfield has a population of about 9000 people and the name of the city should describe how it looks haha. But everyone is related here, and not gonna lie, it's kind of sketch.. haha but it's super fun. I'll send some pics of our less actives houses. Oh also, brownfield is the home of SKIP-BO. So everyday we play skip-bo at the rehab center, and it's a party. Service is so fun ;) but we work with hospice patients, and it's kind of depressing hearing people die everyday... but haha it's just an opportunity to teach the plan of salvation! Oh while we were driving my trainer ran over a bird, and the bird EXPLODED. no joke, the feathers went everywhere, so we pulled over and had a memorial service, it was honestly so sad! but I have never laughed so hard in my life.
On Saturday we had the special opporunity to hear from an apostle of the lord ELDER RASBAND. We had a mission wide conference with him, so we had sisters spending the night at our place on friday and then the whole mission got together to hear him speak! It was such an amazing talk!!! and!!! I got to see all of my friends in the mish! (Maddie Seamons, Trevyn Zobell, Ryan Smith, Dustin Hansen, Shelby Kirchoff, Jessica Petersen) it was such a party seeing everyone haha. But we all got to shake his hand and it was awesome!
I'm adjusting well to the missionary life and I'm loving it so far! My trainer is awesome especially for training 2 new greenies. Our area is so fun and the members are awesome here, I love the people here already! I love the spirit that is felt too while teaching, there's just something so powerful about it. I miss everyone so much, but as long as I keep remembering my purpose I never get discouraged! LOVE AND MISS YOU ALLL.
con amor,
hermana neilson
ps. here's my address
907 E. Reppto Apt. C
Brownfield, Texas
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