Hermana Limb is a Beast!

12/9/11

Here is just a little bit from her letter for the week that I liked :)

Not gonna lie, the hardest thing for me while I've been here is to have a campanion 24/7. I mean learning the language is hard, but it's doable. I might be the only way that even has this problem, haha, but really, never being alone is kind of ridiculous! You can't even go to the bathroom alone! Hahah. Ok, so everyone once and a while I make up funny little quotes or sayings in my head or whatever you would call them and one day when we were in the bathroom, I thought of this one..... COMPANIONS: you eat, sleep, pray and pee together. haha, ok maybe you won't think it's as funny as I did, but I thought it was pretty clever. Anyways, I think I'll get used to it eventually. At least I hope so.

Ok, hands down, my favorite part of the day is always gym time!!! Seriously, only about 50 minutes, but absolutely awesome. I usually spend the first half running or something and then the 2nd half, play basketball or 4 square. I still have not found an hermana to play a bball game with me yet, but we have played bump a few times. We usually end the last 15 minutes with some intense games of bumps with a bunch of elders. It's always funny to see their reaction when they find out that I actually know how to play or can shoot. I win or get 2nd basically every time I play. They're always like, "OHHH, the hermana got you out!!!!" ahhahah and then they'll say to eachother, "hermana limb is a beast!" haha. It's way funny. I love beating all of them at gym. Oh and then one day, I thought I'd try out 4 square, so I got in line and then when I got in, I got all the way up to the king spot and stayed there for like 5 rounds and all of the elders were way impressed. they said hermanas don't ever play 4 square. I basically just dominate every game I play here, it's awesome, because they never expect it, haha.

The rest of the MTC is going great. They always say the days are like weeks and the weeks are like days, and I can already kind of feel that. This week has gone by fast. I can't believe it's already Friday! Later this afternoon, we get to to go the temple. I'm pretty excited about that. Well, I love you family!!

Yo se que el evengelio es verdadero y mi familia is eternas! Buenos suerte con cada!! USTEDES AMOR!!!

 

Love, Hermana Limb

Letter # 1

Sent to the family on 12/3/11
I like my district so far. My companion and I are the only sisters in our district, plus 6 other elders. They're going to Argentina and Paraguay. We've met other elders going to our same mission, probably at least 5 different elders now, but they're in different districts. 


So, it's hit now. This really is kind of insane how much they want you to study. Staying in a 10 by 10 room for over 10 hours a day studying is kind of crazy! SEriously, they expect us to stay sane for that whole time?! haha. I think I'll get used to it though. Yesterday, the spanish really hit. We learned how to greet, say prayers and bear our testimonys in spanish. From now on we are expected to pray in Spanish every time! This morning when I woke up and went to say my prayers, it was almost frustrtating that I couldn't even say my morning prayers in english! Ha, but I guess that will help me learn reaaaaal quick. Last night we also had our first lesson with an "investigator". The whole thing was supposed to be in spanish. Since mi companiero and I don't know very much spanish, we wrote down everything we were going to say beforehand and then during the lesson, when he went off on random tangents and we didn't understand, we just smiled and said, "no se". haha. He was trying to be good about it and explain slowly, but we just couldn't get it! haha. So when it came to we didn't know what he was saying, we would just ask our next question in spanish. The whole lesson probably made no sense whatsoever, but it was good practice! Tonight we are supposed to teach him again and go off what we taught him last night. I  have no idea how it will go and I supppose we'll just go with the flow and hope it works out!


I keep on having a personal reality check that I really am here and really am doing this. I really am on a mission and going to the DR! IT's crazy every time I realize that. I'm kind of scared for the DR MTC. It's going to probably be just as intense, but it will all be in spanish and so I'll  be super confused all the time! haha. I just want to know how to speak spanish RIGHT now! no learning. If only it were that easy. But it gives me hope to see the missionaries that have only been here 4 weeks and can already speak really well. At least really well compared to what I can do right now. Overall though, I actually do feel like I'm learning quite quickly. What I learned in high school is surprisingly all coming back to me now. I'm remembering more and more every day. It's pretty cool. I can tell that I am being helped by Heavenly Father to learn all of this. But yet at the same time, I think if anybody spent as much time as we do studying, they probably would learn quickly too, haha. Either way, I know I couldn't do this all on our own. 


I really am enjoying myself though. I know this is what I am supposed to be doing. I knew it would be hard and so it is exactly what I expected basically. Maybe still not as hard as I expected, so that's good! I can really see how a mission can affect people so strongly. It really does surprise me to see how much more mature the boys that have been here for a month are than the boys that just got here. Learning about the gospel does mature you. 
I'm super grateful for this opportunity to learn and grow!
hope all is going well, and hope you're enjoying this Christmas season! They have christmas lights up here around campus and so it's fun to see them and remind me there is a real world out there and that it is actually Christmas time!
Well, tomorrow is Sunday and so we'll have all of our meetings and then we get to walk up to and around the temple. I'm pretty excited about that. Into the world again! haha.
I LOVE ALL OF YOU SO MUCH!
-Jenica


p.s. this companion business is tricky. no time by yourself AT ALL. I knew it would be tricky for me, haha.

The Next 18 Months

Hello everyone, this is Kendra, Jenica's sister and I told her that while she was on her mission I would make her a blog and post some of her letters for everyone to read. Little information first, she left for the MTC on November 30 and will be in the Provo MTC until December 27 then she will be going to the Dominican Republic MTC for the following 6 weeks. She is serving in the Dominican Republic Santiago mission for the next 18 months and will be speaking spanish. When she left she could not have been more excited and our family could not be more proud of her. We all love her very much and will miss her dearly. We love you Jenica.