Tiny Angel Soldiers

Hola from sunny San Diego!!! 

 

 

Wow, it has been one crazy eventful week, but to sum it up I'll just tell you that I LOVE IT HERE. San Diego is beautiful, and the people are incredible. 

 

 

I live in a place called Chula Vista, which is only about 10ish minutes away from the Mexico border. (So I use Spanish all. the. time.) We meet a lot of people from Tijuana, and they're always talking about how good the tacos are down there, so it's on my bucket list to try one of these tacos after my mission, haha 

 

 

I got here a week ago and I was absolutely exhausted from a full day of travel, but I met my Mission President and his wife AND my sweet sweet companion- Hermana Worthington! After we left the airport, Hermana Worthington and my STL's (sister trainer leaders) took me to eat a Cali-burrito so that I would officially be a CDSM (California, San Diego Mission) Hermana. It was life changing... and also the biggest burrito I've ever eaten in my life. If you don't know what it is, look it up! (It's got fries in it). 

 

 

This past week was basically like drinking from a firehose. Lots of information thrown at me throughout the week, but you just have to take on each new thing as it comes. I love teaching lessons though. The people I've been able to teach so far are just so open to hearing messages about Jesus Christ, but I also think that it's super normal in Latin culture to openly discuss religion. It's been beautiful. And if you want to know some more of my stories from teaching this past week, write me an email and I'll tell you one. 

 

 

Okaaaayy I'm going to make a bullet point list of things that happened, because literally so much happened and this email would be a novel by the end if I didn't do this, haha. 

-ate In-n-Out for the first time IN CALI 

-met Joe (who is a member in our ward who LOVES missionaries and missionary work). He is literally my grandfather but if he were latino 

-taught some lessons over the phone and zoom, which was kinda cool 

-went to teach a guy named Gabriel for the first time at his house, but we had to bring the elders with us, AND I AM SO GLAD WE DID. Gabriel lives not even 5 minutes away from the border and on some random property in the middle of nowhere where you have to walk by all of these old abandoned houses to get to his RV in the middle of this field. It was super sketchy, but the spirit was very strong in that sketchy rv. And then we gave Gabriel to the Elders bc he's in their area anyways 

-did some service at a local food bank and afterwards got Bible bashed outside a Walmart 

-I sang at a baptism! 

-knocked on some doors 

-climbed through our apartment window bc we forgot our keys in the locked gym of our apartment complex

-lots of Reese's PB cups were consumed this week 

-I love my companion, she and I have some scary similar life experiences, so that's been fun to discover 

- I ate the best ceviche at obispo's (bishop's) house on Sunday. His wife makes the best food ever. Ceviche is shrimp mixed with lots of other good veggies and MANGO. I loved it. 

-gas prices are literally insane here 

-people always assume that all missionaries are from Utah, it's pretty fun to see people's shocked looks when I tell them I'm from Arkansas 

-I can't even walk on the sand.... 

- life is so good, and today my comp and I are going to explore Imperial Beach and Old Town San Diego!! 

 

 

I've loved being here!! San Diego literally feels like my home away from home. 

 

 

I love you all so much!! If you want to hear more stories from this week, shoot me an email!! 

 

 

Also if you've made it this far tell me if you're team Edward or Team Jacob! (And tell me WHY. This is for scientific research haha) 

 

 

LOVE YOU MUCHO!! GOD IS SO GOOD

 

 

HERMANA GRIMM 

 

 

Here are this weeks pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uJYYUhjgLvZzYKWp9 






















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Seizures, Sarabella, And Sonora Burritos

Image
Haha, okay okay, so before any of you freak out, I AM OKAY. I didn't have a seizure, all is well. I promise.      But this week was LOCO. So buckle up my friends, this is going to be fun.      This past week, I went on an exchange with Sister Warden. (For those of you who may not know what that is, once a transfer we change companions for part of a day just to learn more about how to improve doing missionary work). But for this exchange I went to her area... now I had heard some crazy things about this area, but I didn't really believe it could be THAT crazy. Boy was I wrong. We went to visit someone who told the Sisters that they could come back the next week. Well that week came and it just so happened to be while I was there. Anyway, we pull up to this lady's house, and start walking into the driveway and all of the sudden these two ladies come running out of the house towards the RV that was parked in the driveway. We were so confused, and all the sudde...
Read more

Taco Bell District Counsel >>>

Image
BUENOOOOOO!!      How is everyone doing?!?! This is going to be a shorter email again, haha, but I'll tell you some stories.     Also GENERAL CONFERENCE, that was amazing!! General conference is when we get the chance to hear from our modern day Prophet and apostles! They share uplifting messages about Jesus Christ! It was this past weekend, and if you want to know more let me know!!      We went and taught some friends this past week, and we asked one friend (named Walter) if he wants to be able to live with his family forever... AND HE STRAIGHT UP TOLD US NO. It had me and my companions jaws on the floor. But we were able to reroute the conversation and he agreed that he wants to be able to love his family forever. So there's that at least. But it was very interesting. Prayers for Walter would be much appreciated.      This week I tried tacos de lengua (lengua=tongue). It actually was super good!! It was cow tongue!! It was a litt...
Read more