HOLA MI FAMILIA Y MIS AMIGOS!!!!
So Hereford, Texas...... Well haha it is a LOT different than Eastland. There has been elders here for the past 10 YEARS basically, and we are the first sisters, so we are white washing. It is so hard! Haha we got to our apartment on Tuesday, and oh my word (imagine the song "Murderer" in the movie pyscho) we opened the door and it was horrendous! Everything was broken or not clean or missing, so we spent the first 3 days just cleaning our apartment. It was SO bad. And then we looked in the area book to get information on the people here, and it hadn't been updated since APRIL! I about died. Our mission president pulled me and my companion aside and told us that this area would be hard, because it's basically dead and me and my comp need to resurrect it. Oh boy. So we have been working as hard as we can!
A little background info on Hereford though, it's the beef capital of the world. Aka there is seriously cows EVERYWHERE. so everything smells like cow poop. No joke. BUT 90% of the people here all speak spanish!!!!! only spanish!!!!! So it has been amazing to be able to teach in spanish and find and everything!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH I'm in spanish heaven!!!!!! The branch is half english half spanish, so i, along with our branch mission leader, am in charge of translating sacrament meeting, teaching gospel principles (in spanish), and translating relief society. I am getting this language down! haha
We went out knocking on Thursday for 6 hours, and we found 2 new investigators! so that was good. But we are trying to find other ways we can find people, just cause knocking is only fun for so long ;)) The members here aren't really fans of the missionaries, just cause elders have burned bridges in the past, so we are working a TON on gaining the trust of the branch back. Cause missionary work is kind of miserable if the members aren't in on it (hint hint be nice to your missionaries). This place just has lots of damage control, so we are going to fix it!
Ok something to lighten the mood. So on Wednesday, when i went to go shower, i could find the nob to turn on the shower head, so i asked my comp, and she couldn't find it either! So i found this weird switch behind the toilet and it didn't do anything, so i just kept flicking it. Well we walked outside to go ask our neighbor what to do, and she was like "Y'all keep setting off the alarm!" and we were like "What alarm???" and she said "This used to be an old person apartment complex, so there are switches behind the toilet in case they fell and couldn't get up!" bahahahahahha i had set off the apartment alarm like 7 times! It was too good.
Anywho, my new comp is Sister Linford, and she is awesome! We are laughing all the time so we get along great :)) She's from spanish fork Utah! All my comps are from Utah out here haha but it's good. We share the some love of missing cafe rio and swig ;))
Thanks for the emails and updates! I love and miss y'all mucho! Eat some in-n-out for me :))
hermana neilson
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