La Lucha es Real + Buenas Tiempos en el CCM

So this is it for the CCM. Can you say crazy!!! I thought for sure at the beginning of the 6 weeks that the end couldn't come fast enough. And while I am so excited and so ready to leave I'm going to miss it here. I think over the 6 weeks I must have developed a heart cuz it's gonna be sad saying goodbye to my friends and teachers. Like seriously I might even get tears in my eyes.

So at the beginning of the week some 1st weekers asked how old we were so we said 6 weeks and they said perfect so you can tell us how to say "The Struggle is Real" in Spanish. Yeah I couldn't. So I just said "El strugle es real." Then the next day I asked my teacher to translate it. Then the next day we sang the exact words, la lucha es real, in a himno. I laughed. And the theme stuck for this week.

La lucha es real:

-This week after I asked everyone why they didn't know what I was talking about I learned that my whole life I've been calling it the hill of the bread + really it's the heel.

-Here Hna. Hansen + I convince ourselves that cornpops in a cup is popcorn for the Sunday movie.

-I see only 18-20 year olds. I can't wait to see children, middle-aged, babies, + old people.

-After having a dream one night of Kelsie coming here and us being so happy and sooo excited the next day I saw two Hermanas that are 1st cousins.

-This elder started talking to me in a southern accent + I thought he was faking so I talked back in my southern accent. Yeah he wasn't faking and he could tell I was..

-My farmers tan is starting already.

-Hna. Hansen + I went to the dry cleaners here + didn't bring any money with us. So that was awkward when they asked for 130 pesos.

-Our "investigator." So we taught him on Valentine's and his wife died 6 months ago. So I asked how he was doing etc. + that his wife was in heaven thinking about him. And so he asked if his wife had a boyfriend in heaven + then in the closing prayer of the lesson he prayed she wouldn't have a boyfriend.

-Someone in our house had Krisy Kreme donuts dropped off at 10:20 at night. And she wasn't in my room.

-We were conditional in language and our teacher said we couldn't have children without the fall. And that's not exactly what I thought he said. And so I was like oh no no! We can't have children in the street!

-And the best one. During gym Hna. Hansen + I were trying to throw volleyballs against the ground as hard as we could to get them to bounce and hit the ceiling (which is HIGH) + we were sooo close so I was determined to hit it. So I use all my effort to throw it down + boom my face got in the way! La lucha es real.

Our Tuesday devotional was super good this week + I totally understood the Spanish! Sometimes I didn't even have to re-translate it into English. I've been thinking about the hastening of the work a lot this week. And how so many people here would not be here if the work wasn't being hastened. And how we really are like another 2000 stripling warriors. Except for we have 84,614. As Helaman calls us we are the little sons/daughers. We are in a war against Satan. We are courageous + have been taught by our mothers, that if we do not doubt, God will deliver us. We do not doubt our mothers knew it.

"We have been saved for these latter-days,

to build the kingdom in righteous ways.

We hear the words our prophets declare;

let each who's worthy go forth and share.

We are as the army of Helaman;

We have been taught in our youth;

And we will be the Lord's missionaries,

to bring the world His truth."

xoxo

con amor,

Hermana Slade

Btw. We learned suffixes this week. Ustedes son mi amiguitos. And tell G. Dolly: Me gusta su perrito. Amo a mi abuelita.

Line of the Week: During role play.

Elder Whatcott: ¿Que sacrificaría por tu hijo?

Me: Yo sacrificaría todos los cosas, mí ropas, mí cara, mí dinero.

Elder Whatcott: Your face? I think you mean coche.