1/5/11

Hi Family and Friends,
 This week really has been fantastic.  My hardest day was Monday.  I was just feeling really down on myself not feeling like the language was ever going to start making sense.  I just have to have faith.  It will happen.  It's nice that all the other Elders in my zone are constantly encouraging me telling me it will come.  Some of them have only been in here for 4 weeks and their Spanish is already sounding incredible. I'm still having issues with my "r's" but they too will come with time.
  I feel like I have been here for ever.  It feels like the next seven weeks are going to take forever before they come...Watch I'll blink my eyes and it will already be here.  We have been practicing teaching each other all week.  On Saturday we have our first realish lesson with an investigator.  We have to walk into a room with a ton of people in it. Greet them and introduce ourselves in Spanish. Then we teach in English.  At the end of the lesson we testify of the truths in Spanish.  I'm excited and scared at the same time.  I'll talk to you some more next week
  I love you all.
Love,
Hermana Ricks
P.S The Elders in the Zone think I am a God sent.  I'm fun, spontaneous, start singing random songs, laugh with them all the time, and I can play the piano.  I'm playing on Sunday in Sacrament Meeting.  I'm pretty sure it will be my new responsibility. xoxoxo