Hey guys!! I am soooo happy that I had my Pday right before Christmas :) I am super excited to skype you guys tomorrow!! Things have been super great in my new area!!!! I LOVE MY COMPANION! She is so freaking awesome. Super hard working and has the funniest/cutest Spain accent in the world, and is just so happy about life. She has only been in the mish like 3 months and she seems like she has been in the mish for 10 years. She is incredible. I am so dang lucky. We get along way good. Her English is super good...I'm jealous. She is always saying how we can help each other our with the languages and I'm just like...you already know English, lucky!! She talks a million miles an hour in her lispy Spanish and I just never have a clue what she is saying. It kinda scares me because I'm like, "woah woah woah, sloooowwww down, MAS DESPACIO!" and she's like, "are you kidding me? I am not speaking fast at all." haha yeahhh I have a lot of work to do. She is so dang funny. Love her. We live in a cute house with 2 other sisters that is totally ours..well, it belongs to the members lol BUT we are the only ones that live in it. It's so cute and homey :) I love it. I LOVE the other two sisters we are with too. They freakin rock. Hna Noble and Mendoza. They are way cute and super funny. We have a lot of fun!
Our branch is the Mesa Grande Branch in the Papago Zone...however you spell that. The Branch is awesome. Smallest and most united branch ever, I love it. The people don't live in shacks and there aren't bed bugs on their couches so things are wayyy nicer than my last super ghetto area. We don't have too many progressing investigators...kinda sad. We have a lot of less actives who think they are way too cool for Church, they kinda crack me up. These people REFUSE to go to Church. They act like we are ripping their teeth out when we visit them right before Church. It's too funny :) Hna Sanchez is pretty good at getting them to Church though. She has such a good connection with the people. We still have a lot of work to do though.
We had to work in the VC a few nights this past week still but we have been working outside of the VC. Our job is to just teach people that are looking at the lights and invite them into the VC. It's actually super fun. Hna Sanchez and I are just the funniest sisters ever so everyone enjoyed talking to us. It's been way fun!! We get to talk to a lot of Spanish families and I am slowly getting better at just saying dumb things in Spanish. The Mexi's think I'm funny now so that's good :) Our Ward Mission Leader is super super intimidating and he makes me speak in Spanish allll the time. He calls on me during our Gospel Priniciples lesson during Church and just tortures me. Ugghhh, he is so mean to me haha but he is way good. Such a strong leader. HE COMPLIMENTED MY SPANISH! I think he did it out of pity because he saw how frustrated I was with my Spanish. He just said that I have a super good accent...It kinda made my week :) Spanish will be the death of me I swear.
Hna Sanchez thinks that I will stay in this area for like 3 more transfers before going to Spain. She is scaring me. I want to get to Spain by the end of this transfer soooo bad! As long as I stay with her though, I'm good :) They better not take her away from me before I go to Spain!!
Cool/Funny stories:
-Hna Sanchez biffed it on her bike...she was on the phone while biking...tsk tsk. Super funny. She lives
-The Mexi's here are super bad at singing. Singing hymns is like torture for them. Their musical numbers are the highlight of my Sundays. Oh man I am so mean. I just love them though. They can't sing to save their lives and it's adorable :)
-The food here is SOO GOOD! I am in love with tamales...is that how you spell it?? No idea, but yeah, SO GOOD!
-I love biking. It is the greatest thing in the world and I am finally getting exercise in!! We get so many crazy looks. I guess it is pretty funny seeing two sisters in skirts trying to ride their pink barbie bikes with their pink helmets AND my bike has a basket. What now. We are pimpin.
What I learned this week: Everything is on the Lord's time. He will never let us stay in bondage if we have faith and patience. I have seen this with the people we teach. Some of them have been suffering for so long and we can finally see that the Lord has decided it's time for them to get out of the hard trial they are in. I have learned this with myself too. The Lord will not let me suffer in Spanish my entire mission if I stay obedient and faithful. I know that one day...ONE DAY I will get out of this horrible trial. It is really hard for me and I am not sure why. I honestly didn't think it would be but it's been difficult for me. Languages are just not my thing. BUT, the lord will always visit us in our afflictions :) Check out Mosiah 24?? Somethin like that. It's super good.
Love you family!! I am so grateful to be a missionary especially right now. My favorite part of the day is biking back to our house in the dark after having one last awesome lesson and just thinking about all of the miracles we have had. Hna Sanchez and I just sing Christmas songs and play around with our bikes while saying hi to every single person we pass by. We are loved by so many people here. I love it. Just biking on the streets and we get like 10 people saying, "Merry Christmas sisters!! We love you!" so awesome :) Talk to you tomorrow! Here is my new address!!! Write to this one!
Hermana Alaena the coolest missionary ever Daly
c/o Kellis Family
813 W. 10th Street
Mesa, AZ 85201
My camera is broken...pictures will come in a couple weeks ish
Looooooove,
Hna Daly!
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