Attacked...With the Sweet Word of Christ

SQUAD: 12 Hours before flying off to Mexico!!

HOLY NUTS I am loving it here. It's so hard but it's the happiest kind of hard. Also, hi, I forgot to tell you that Thursdays are my P-day and also I only have one hour to write and the computers are really slow and in Spanish so it feels more like 30 minutes and I'm going to try to answer everyone but if I can't I love you and I will catch ya next week!!!

ALSO something that's way awesome is that you can go online and go to missionarypackagemx.com and send me letters or donuts or whatever your heart desires! That way I can read your letters beforehand and be able to use my computer time to write instead of read. #protips

OK so flashback. It is senior year and I am having a school night slumbie party at Kate Blaser's house because Mom and Dad have abandoned me, once again, to galavant across Europe. Also because slumber parties w Kate were always 100 100 100. Well, I fall asleep on the floor, only to be woken up a little later by Kate shoving as many candied almonds as would fit into my mouth. Classic Kit. This is kinda how the CCM feels. It's a lil' overwhelming because from the moment you wake up at 6:30, you are being attacked with knowledge and doctrine and lessons and the sweet word of Christ. But at the same time, it's awesome because your best friends are shoving sweet lil' nuggets of Spanish wisdom into your brain and you just love them for it.

HUGE NEWS! I have taught myself how to whistle! I know about four notes and I can whistle that lil' doo dad diddy that happens every time you turn on BYUTV. I consider this one of my greatest accomplishments since being here at the CCM. Which is saying something because I am also completely kind of almost a little fluent in Spanish. Rock and roll.

Mi compañera is Hermana Andersen and she is also going to Santiago East! There are only three of us here. She's from South Jordan, Utah and we are about as opposite as you can be and I love her. BUT she doesn't even know Meet Me Halfway by The Black-Eyed Peas OR Glamorous by Fergie. So sad. But we are havin' a grand 'ole time learnin' about the sweet word of Jesus Christ together. We are the only hermanas in our district and our branch and maybe also our zone. So were tryin' to keep all these elders in line. It's tough stuff lemme tell ya.

My district is AMAZING. I love them all. We're like the happiest lil' temporary family. We've been teaching a man named Irving and he already committed to baptism! Miracles! One week ago I knew about zero Spanish and now I can confidently talk about so many things! The church is true!!

Today we woke up at 6 am to an EXPLOSION! It felt like all of Mexico was being bombed, but also I was still half asleep so it might not have been quite that bad. Never fear, I am unscathed and we're saying it was just some early morning fireworks.

I LOVE MY ROOMMATES. Their names are Hermana Measles and Hermana Lynch. Morbid names, yeah? But they're so great and we all decided we don't get enough hugs here in the CCM so we make sure there's a lil' hug fest every night.

ALSO I love President and Hermana Bennett. They are so kind and somehow they know all 59,462 missionaries´ names. Theyr'e amazing. One time in the cafeteria, Hermana Andersen and I walked up to the lil' freezer doohicky were the popsicles were. They were all gone so we started walking away but the Bennetts stopped us and said "Ah! Did you not get any?" And we said no but it's totally OK, and they said "What's your classroom number? We're going to make sure you get some ice cream." AND THEN THEY BROUGHT US SOME. How do they do it? How do they remember every little thing? I don't know but I love it. They're also some of the greatest speakers I've heard in my life I'd say. Every time we leave a devotional, I am leaving a changed woman.

The mangoes here are changing my life. I will never eat an American mango ever again.

Today I am going to the temple! I'm PUMPED! What a treat. I think I will get to go twice while I'm here.

 ALSO HAPPY NEWS: I see Hermana Walter and Hermana Stevenson and Elder Bashford and Elder Haddock every single day multiple times a day. All my friends are moving to Mexico, it's wild. I also saw Elder Norr all the time! But he left for Florida on Tuesday so no mas. Tears. Also I got really tight with all the hermanas in his district and some of them are headed to FT Worth! keep your eyes peeled for the cute lil' Spanish sisters who recognize the name Siebach!!!

I love y'all to Mars and back and I hope that you are livin' your happy lil' lives and not crying about me being gone because I will come back and give you the biggest squeezes<3  I'm not sure how to upload pictures to this computer, so if it doesn't work, I'm sorry. Just know that I am smilin' :-)

LOVE,
HERMANA SIEBACH