WEEK 2

Sorry this one is out of order... but this is her second week in the MTC :)

Hola mi familia!!!

This week has FLOWN by! I thought the first few days felt like a few weeks, but this week has gone by so fast, and I bet the rest of the mission will seem like that... at least for the most part.

Thank you so much for all the letters and packages!! My roommates and companions now understand how much we like junk food in our family:) We have been enjoying treats and loving snacks to help us stay awake in classes! The letters are great too, so keep them coming! I know it seems ridiculous to write every day right now, BUT I leave the MTC in eight days and I will only really be able to hear from you once a week in emails, so I am going to enjoy daily letters while I can:) (hint hint) Also, PLEASE put dates on your letters! Dearelder doesn't print the dates on them and it is nice to know when you are writing them. Also, don't worry about sending them to my email as well. I get the letters here the same day or the day after, but don't check my email until Mondays so sometimes I check my email and it is all copies of letters I've already gotten.

Thank you to Grandma Della Mae for your note! Dad, will you make sure Grandma gets my email every week? I wanted so bad to make email lists before I left but time ran out!

Thank you SO much to Toni! She sent me chips and salsa from Chili's that I LOVED! My roommates and companions had a party that night because Hna Broadbent's (one of my companions... Hna Morgan is the other one) birthday is tomorrow and her roommates from school had sent her gormet cupcakes! We took some fun pictures and if I can get one of those SD adapter things that plug into a usb outlet, I will email them. I printed off some pictures and will put them in the mail to all of you today! We have a really great group of sisters going to Guatemala and a very fun district! (Zach or Dad, do you mind finding me one of those SD things and sending it before I leave? I think I remember Zach saying he had one...)

So I already have my travel plans!! We had the welcoming sister meeting yesterday since my first sunday was a fast sunday and next week we will have the leaving sisters meeting! I am already heading to Guatemala!! Who would have thought three weeks could go by so fast! I don't even know how to get around the MTC yet and rely completely on my companions! and we will leave before I even need to, so I am not too worried:) There are about 20 of us heading to the Guatemala MTC (they call it the CCM for future reference)all going to I think four of the five missions in Guatemala. We will all travel together on the 19th! We leave the MTC at about 4:30 pm and fly to Los Angeles. We have a three hour layover there and have a red eye flight to Guatemala. We should get in at 6:30am and I am fully expecting it to be a full day of missionary things:) We will probably go get our visas that day, but they don't waste time in missionary training centers! We will probably go straight to class!!!

Right now the gym AND temple are closed!! They are redoing the gym floor and the temple is closed for cleaning. So anything that we'd have in the gym is spread out (no gym time inside, all out side and YES I keep getting burnt! I need to put on my sunscreen but feel like I need to save it for Guatemala!.. all our devotionals are in classrooms and we can't even go use the exercise equipment like the eliptical since it is closed. Thank heavens we will be by the Guatemala City temple so we can hopefully go there!) Everybody acts like we should have all this extra time without going to the temple, but I still feel like we are running around all day trying to get everything done in time! I think it is because we are really striving to have exact obedience and doing everything like scheduling when we are supposed to. Also, since the gym is closed I don't get to experience the choir... so sad!!

Ok, my district! There are 11 of us! (There used to be 12, but my companion spoke portugues and moved to an advanced class) 6 of us are going to Quetzaltenango and 6 are going to New York South. The elders are so funny (sometimes immature) but have me laughing every day!

Kenzie Boshard is going to Portugal and is speaking portugues... we will leave the MTC the same day, I am not sure what time she flies out but we will probably not be at the airport together since she has much further to travel.

Pday last week was crazy!! Zach and Karli can appreciate the setting for laundry! You are sweating from the lack of air conditioning and heat of the dryers... you are surrounded by tons of people and there is a timer on the side of your computer counting down the seconds you have to finish! It is so intense!! You all know how much I hate combining my laundry and I was forced to combine whites and some colors... I was nervous the whole time that my garments would be blue!

(I just lost half my email.... gotta love those time limits!!)

Zach and Karli! Thank you so much for figuring out my kindle!! That was a huge relief! I would have cried if it was broken for good and not under warranty. THANK YOU! Also, Zach if you haven't already sent my ipod, will you put Dad's Marshall Mcdonald stuff on it? If you have, Dad could you send me copies of the cds if you still have them? Zach sent me a cd player so I'd be able to listen to them. If i didn't tell you, I do have a cord to charge them. Also, my roommates and companions loved the story of Harley going to the bathroom in your bed while you were asleep. It was our entertainment while enjoying chips and salsa and cupcakes! Don't let harley forget his favorite aunt:) Thank you for the pictures too! I told my companions I wanted to show them a picture of my nephew and then showed them harley... they loved it and told me my nephew is very hairy:) I haven't seen Karli's friend... maybe I will run in to her though. There are TONS of spanish teachers!!! Also, Karli mentioned in a letter how much she loved chocolate milk. One of the elders in our group (nickname el grade rojo... the big red, you will see who he is in the pictures and know why he has that nickname) anyway, he will down 4-6 8oz glasses of chocolate milk in the time it takes me to say my prayer over the food. He told me that at home he drinks a gallon EVERY DAY!! His poor mom! That is SO much milk!

Spanish is getting more difficult. We haven't quite passed my level from school but with all the new religious verbs and the old ones to review, I have a lot of practicing to do! I am having to study more diligently for sure!

Last night we had an amazing devotional! It was on finding joy in repentance and I LOVED it! We sang the hymn that has the same tune as go tell aunt rhody. It made me think of Helaman:) Anyway in the talk, the speaker said that William Tisdale who translated the bible invented the word repent. In the original hebrew version, the word was schub which means to turn to god and away from sin. Then in greek, the word is matanoi and it means a change of mind, fresh view of god, oneself and the world. the latin word (don't have that written down) means to feel regret... so with time, he told us that apostate christianity has turned repentance into a negative thing. I really enjoyed the talk and needed to hear it!!

This week we taught the first discussion in SPANISH! My companions are quite as advanced as I am in spanish so I really have to hold back when we are teaching. The first time I didn't do a good job and talked way to much so I am trying to let them do the talking. It is SO nice though because I am already getting to the point that I don't need to translate in my head, I just think in spanish if that makes sense.

Anyway, I have to run. Thank you all for your love and support! I LOVE YOU ALL! SO MUCH!!!

Talk to you soon:)

Love, Hermana NelsonHola mi familia!!!

This week has FLOWN by! I thought the first few days felt like a few weeks, but this week has gone by so fast, and I bet the rest of the mission will seem like that... at least for the most part.

Thank you so much for all the letters and packages!! My roommates and companions now understand how much we like junk food in our family:) We have been enjoying treats and loving snacks to help us stay awake in classes! The letters are great too, so keep them coming! I know it seems ridiculous to write every day right now, BUT I leave the MTC in eight days and I will only really be able to hear from you once a week in emails, so I am going to enjoy daily letters while I can:) (hint hint) Also, PLEASE put dates on your letters! Dearelder doesn't print the dates on them and it is nice to know when you are writing them. Also, don't worry about sending them to my email as well. I get the letters here the same day or the day after, but don't check my email until Mondays so sometimes I check my email and it is all copies of letters I've already gotten.

Thank you to Grandma Della Mae for your note! Dad, will you make sure Grandma gets my email every week? I wanted so bad to make email lists before I left but time ran out!

Thank you SO much to Toni! She sent me chips and salsa from Chili's that I LOVED! My roommates and companions had a party that night because Hna Broadbent's (one of my companions... Hna Morgan is the other one) birthday is tomorrow and her roommates from school had sent her gormet cupcakes! We took some fun pictures and if I can get one of those SD adapter things that plug into a usb outlet, I will email them. I printed off some pictures and will put them in the mail to all of you today! We have a really great group of sisters going to Guatemala and a very fun district! (Zach or Dad, do you mind finding me one of those SD things and sending it before I leave? I think I remember Zach saying he had one...)

So I already have my travel plans!! We had the welcoming sister meeting yesterday since my first sunday was a fast sunday and next week we will have the leaving sisters meeting! I am already heading to Guatemala!! Who would have thought three weeks could go by so fast! I don't even know how to get around the MTC yet and rely completely on my companions! and we will leave before I even need to, so I am not too worried:) There are about 20 of us heading to the Guatemala MTC (they call it the CCM for future reference)all going to I think four of the five missions in Guatemala. We will all travel together on the 19th! We leave the MTC at about 4:30 pm and fly to Los Angeles. We have a three hour layover there and have a red eye flight to Guatemala. We should get in at 6:30am and I am fully expecting it to be a full day of missionary things:) We will probably go get our visas that day, but they don't waste time in missionary training centers! We will probably go straight to class!!!

Right now the gym AND temple are closed!! They are redoing the gym floor and the temple is closed for cleaning. So anything that we'd have in the gym is spread out (no gym time inside, all out side and YES I keep getting burnt! I need to put on my sunscreen but feel like I need to save it for Guatemala!.. all our devotionals are in classrooms and we can't even go use the exercise equipment like the eliptical since it is closed. Thank heavens we will be by the Guatemala City temple so we can hopefully go there!) Everybody acts like we should have all this extra time without going to the temple, but I still feel like we are running around all day trying to get everything done in time! I think it is because we are really striving to have exact obedience and doing everything like scheduling when we are supposed to. Also, since the gym is closed I don't get to experience the choir... so sad!!

Ok, my district! There are 11 of us! (There used to be 12, but my companion spoke portugues and moved to an advanced class) 6 of us are going to Quetzaltenango and 6 are going to New York South. The elders are so funny (sometimes immature) but have me laughing every day!

Kenzie Boshard is going to Portugal and is speaking portugues... we will leave the MTC the same day, I am not sure what time she flies out but we will probably not be at the airport together since she has much further to travel.

Pday last week was crazy!! Zach and Karli can appreciate the setting for laundry! You are sweating from the lack of air conditioning and heat of the dryers... you are surrounded by tons of people and there is a timer on the side of your computer counting down the seconds you have to finish! It is so intense!! You all know how much I hate combining my laundry and I was forced to combine whites and some colors... I was nervous the whole time that my garments would be blue!

(I just lost half my email.... gotta love those time limits!!)

Zach and Karli! Thank you so much for figuring out my kindle!! That was a huge relief! I would have cried if it was broken for good and not under warranty. THANK YOU! Also, Zach if you haven't already sent my ipod, will you put Dad's Marshall Mcdonald stuff on it? If you have, Dad could you send me copies of the cds if you still have them? Zach sent me a cd player so I'd be able to listen to them. If i didn't tell you, I do have a cord to charge them. Also, my roommates and companions loved the story of Harley going to the bathroom in your bed while you were asleep. It was our entertainment while enjoying chips and salsa and cupcakes! Don't let harley forget his favorite aunt:) Thank you for the pictures too! I told my companions I wanted to show them a picture of my nephew and then showed them harley... they loved it and told me my nephew is very hairy:) I haven't seen Karli's friend... maybe I will run in to her though. There are TONS of spanish teachers!!! Also, Karli mentioned in a letter how much she loved chocolate milk. One of the elders in our group (nickname el grade rojo... the big red, you will see who he is in the pictures and know why he has that nickname) anyway, he will down 4-6 8oz glasses of chocolate milk in the time it takes me to say my prayer over the food. He told me that at home he drinks a gallon EVERY DAY!! His poor mom! That is SO much milk!

Spanish is getting more difficult. We haven't quite passed my level from school but with all the new religious verbs and the old ones to review, I have a lot of practicing to do! I am having to study more diligently for sure!

Last night we had an amazing devotional! It was on finding joy in repentance and I LOVED it! We sang the hymn that has the same tune as go tell aunt rhody. It made me think of Helaman:) Anyway in the talk, the speaker said that William Tisdale who translated the bible invented the word repent. In the original hebrew version, the word was schub which means to turn to god and away from sin. Then in greek, the word is matanoi and it means a change of mind, fresh view of god, oneself and the world. the latin word (don't have that written down) means to feel regret... so with time, he told us that apostate christianity has turned repentance into a negative thing. I really enjoyed the talk and needed to hear it!!

This week we taught the first discussion in SPANISH! My companions are quite as advanced as I am in spanish so I really have to hold back when we are teaching. The first time I didn't do a good job and talked way to much so I am trying to let them do the talking. It is SO nice though because I am already getting to the point that I don't need to translate in my head, I just think in spanish if that makes sense.

Anyway, I have to run. Thank you all for your love and support! I LOVE YOU ALL! SO MUCH!!!

Talk to you soon:)

Love, Hermana Nelson

Semana Cuatro (week 4)

Hola familia!!!

Figured out how to skip to the next line:) Complicated computers! This has been an AMAZING week! I LOVE the CCM, it is so much more like a home and the people are great! I love being around the natives and speaking spanish all the time! There is an Elder here from Michigan which is fun... He never came to the singles ward so i didnt know him before hand. We can listen to music here which is SO nice! I have missed it so much! I think I need more batteries for my speaker but thank heavens it is more like the US here than I was thinking

So just to summarize what it is like here:) there are men with guns at all the entrances. It is one building so we rarely go outside, beside gym in the morning. The gym here is WAY nicer than in provo, there are actually enough elipticals and we can get a real work out every day. The water is all bleached... have you every showered in bleach water? The first few days it wasnt bad but I think they recently refilled the bleach container because I smell like bleach:) Much better than nasty bugs though!! The mission pres and wife are fantastic! You will all (mostly all) appreciate that they have a dog named Jack Bauer:) That made my day when I found out! The mission pres and wife live in the CCM and their apartment is so nice! It is right accross from the sisters rooms. The sisters are on the 3rd floor, the elders are on the 2nd and the cafeteria is on the first. There is also apartments for people to stay in when they come to the Guatemala temple (I get to go today!!!) Right now it is the only temple in central america but by the end of the year there will be four and soon to be five which is AMAZING!

My comp is SO SO amazing! I love her to death and we are so similar! She is from rigby Id and full of life! We laugh and feel so similar about the gospel and it makes a big difference! The latinos are SO FUN! The latina sisters have so much spunk and personality, and I LOVE LOVE talking to them! Spanish is SO good, I feel very blessed that Heavenly Father is helping me pick up the language very quickly. Most of the teachers who have heard me speak said that I will get a latina companion in two weeks. The latinos are only here for three weeks, so they change every three weeks. I will be sad to say goodbye to Hna Parker but having a latina companion 24x7 will help so much with spanish! OH! Before I forget, if you go to guatemalaccm.com you will be able to see a picture we took yesterday of all the missionaries here. I think there are like 80 or so of us, which is crazy compared to the MTC.

Thank you grandma for your letter! It only took three days to get here on pouch! The mail is much quicker than I thought!! Which is exciting! The food here is so good... I will have you all know that I actually ate a sandwich with bologne on it... hopefully you can appreciate how big of a step that was for me. I still dont like tomatoes but I am getting better about not picking stuff out of my food. All the sisters keep making jokes about how we were supposed to lose weight here, not gain and trust me:) we are all gaining! I think it is mostly because we dont move all day. At the provo MTC our classes were in a different building than where we lived, and meals were also in a different place so we were walking all the time. This time my class is accross from our rooms basically and the only exercise we get is walking up and down the stairs to meals and the 30 minutes or so in the morning. I have learned I will be hiking a lot in Xela so I am not worried at all!

Last night was fun because we watched an MTC fireside from the Friday before we came into the mtc... it was david a bednar and I saw Kenzie and Damien and all the people from our MTC zone in the choir so that was fun. Some of the missionaries who have been here for 3 weeks were also in it which was fun to see. His talk was great and gave good advice on how to be a PMG missionary. I have already learned so much and cant wait to start teaching actual péople. We arent allowed to leave the ccm but in two weeks the pres and wife will take us to an outdoor market and we will get to place some books of mormon which will be fun because they dont speak english:) My comp and I taught in the CRE yesterday (it was called TRC in provo... zach and karli can explain) and our lesson was SO amazing! I am to the point that I dont really have to think when I am speaking in spanish, or translate in my head I guess. It will be great when I come home because when it comes time for me to say I am sorry for something... lo siento will come out which is the spanish equivilant! I cant wait to forget english:) It will be pretty easy here too! Anyway, I will have to respond in letters to your emails... I dont have time to read them and respond individually when we are on here. I have loved this week, today I have been pretty sick though. I took some medicine last night and I think it has made me sick to my stomach all day. Thank heavens it was pday though so I could rest! Anyway, I better go so I can read the now 6 emails I have from you:) I will try to hurry so I can respond if need be!

Oh! I found a violin at the CCM last night:) It was fun getting it out to play, mom email my mission home and if they say I can have it, please send it!!! If possible! If you buy a case, get one that has a shoulder strap... I wont be able to use a backpack one with my backpack. I am great and the place is amazing! I hope you are enjoying cali:)

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

I dont remember what they say but these are some scriptures I wrote down to share with you for some reason, the first is how it is the mans responsibility to be sealed:) D and C 132:2 and d and c 31:5-7

Until next week!! Love, Hna Nelson

Hola from Guatemala :)

Erin sent this from the airport :)

Hola familia!! I am here!!! Just so you know their keyboards are slightly different so it is a bit difficult to type, so dont judge! Anyway, it is FABULOSO here!! We got back into security just fine and still had time to spare after we went in from security. I didnt sleep too much on the flight because I was in the isle and people kept bumping into my arms and waking me up, so I was really tired when we got here but got VERY excited once we got through customs and outside. It was really cloudy when we got here and helped me appreciate how much I miss Michigan:) Humidity and all! The weater is BEAUTIFUL! My perfect temp and sunshine!! They picked us up in a school bus from the airport. That was fun and dont worry! I have pics! We got here and were able to sleep. I showered because I felt SO gross. Then took a nap for a few hours. The CCM is FANTASTIC! I love it already. They werent kidding AT ALL when they said the food was good. I have now had the best green beans and carrots I have ever had in my life. They say it is disrespectful to the cook to leave food on your plate, so we eat everything and thank heaven it is so good! Our rooms are great... and our classroom is 10 times better than they were in provo! (Just so you know, I cant figure out how to start a new paragraph so that is why it is all in one big clump) Our desks are bigger, class rooms are bigger. The bedrooms are nice and our showers actually have hot water! I thought for sure my last warm shower was yesterday... Only four latina sisters came in today. We havent met them yet and unfortunately since there are so few, we dont get to be paired with them besides at meal times and during general meetings. So basically out of the 12 or so nortes (that is our nickname... north americans!) we have to share those four latina sisters. My new companions name is Hna Parker. She is from Rigby Id and it should be fun getting to know her! We played volleyball together at the MTC a lot and I am really glad to have her as my companion. Just quickly... my address here is (if there is a long space... that means the next line just so you know) CCM Guatemala Blv. Vista Hermosa 23-71 zona 15 Vista Hermosa 1 c.p. 01015 Guatemala, Guatemala Centro America I am told that we get pouch every two weeks or something like that so letters dont take too long to get here but maybe a while to get to you. Anyway, they are only giving us 15 minutes today. My pdays will be on wednesdays here and CELEBRATE! We get to go to the temple next wednesday! It is right accross from the CCM which is great!! I love you all! I love Guatemala already and cant wait to start learning more spanish and being able to testify in spanish. The amazing thing here is that our teachers are from guatemala so we will learn the spanish they speak!!! So excited! Have a great week! I will talk to you on Wednesday:) Love, Hna Nelson

WEEK 3 :)

WEEK 3


I'm not sure where week two went... I'll figure it out and keep you posted :)

Hola family!!

Some missionaries suggested typing it in the journal on lds.org and then copying it and pasting it. yeah that doesn't work!!! haha I got it to work last week but it isn't working today. So I have now typed my email twice to have it not save and erase...

So I have to be quick because i have wasted time trying to figure it out.

Anyway! Good week!

CONGRATS ZACH AND KARLI!!

I saw GRANDMA in mom's letter so I ripped open Zach and Karli's letter and found out the great news. I have a few stipulations since you didn't follow my 9 month plan:) I expect monthly pics of Karli's tummy, weekly pics when the baby is born, and just so we are all clear... that baby is ALL MINE in December of 2012!!! Glad we are on the same page:)

I was writing in my journal later that night about finding out and without thinking I kept saying I was excited to meet him... so you know my prediction! I am going for boy!!!

This week was fun. We found out that our teacher Hna Sandoval from Columbia actually speaks english. The whole time we thought she only spoke spanish. I think some of the elders were a little sorry for things that they'd said thinking she didn't understand. Nothing mean, but maybe not the nicest! She served on temple square and has been working at the MTC for a year or two. She is so great and I love her as a teacher! We also got another teacher and he is AMAZING! We are very sad to only have two classes with him.

We are all excited to go to Guatemala. We did laundry first thing and have been packing since. Packing is stressful and i already have a big box full of clothes to send home. I have too many anyway and It will be nice to cut back a little... Hopefully I don't regret sending some of them!

We meet to leave around 4:30 from the MTC. I think we will probably get to the airport around 6 or so and get checked in. I bought a calling card to call everyone from the airport so it will be sometime between then. Our flight leaves at 8:15 i think... so if you don't hear from me before then, I will call you from Los angeles. I don't know zach and karli's numbers so I will have to get them from someone else!

I am excited to go but feeling anxious in the same way I did before here. I think the first few days will probably be the same and then time will start flying by. I can't wait to start teaching people!!! I am feeling impatient to start teaching actual investigators but I know I need to learn spanish first! I can basically say my prayers in spanish without even thinking about it, I can teach the majority of the first lesson, and have written two five minute talks!! Spanish is moving quick and I can't wait to learn more. Guatemala will be good because we will be completely immersed. That will be fun:)

Anyway, I have to run! CONGRATS zach and karli! I will talk to you all for a few minutes tomorrow at the airport!

I LOVE YOU!

love, Hna Nelson

finally updating again!!! :)

Hello everyone, this is Megan :) I have been put on blog duty for the next year and a half, and i finally have it down i think :) Hermana Nelson is doing so great!!! Here are her past few E-Mails.

ENJOY :)




WEEK 1

Hola family!

OH MY GOODNESS! My time is already ticking down.

I am good! The MTC is so interesting! There isn't another place on earth like it except another MTC. Missionaries everywhere! My first day here was pretty good. The very first person I saw was Kenzie Boshard!! That was so SO nice and I loved seeing her! She was so excited and helped me feel at home right away. After I met my companion... her was Hna Battaglia. She speaks portugues so they moved her to an advance spanish class so now I am in a three some. Hna Broadbent is one of my comps she is from Boise ID and knows everyone here! Hna Morgan is my other one and she is from Alaska which is fun. There are three people here from michigan. Damien my sophomore roommate, my stake pres son and my friend andrew and then kenzie! I love seeing familiar faces. My dorm is fine! I had trouble falling asleep the first few nights and finally Hna Broadbent gave me some Melatonin and I fell right asleep. It was AMAZING! I have slept great since then!

The first two days were interesting. I had some serious panic moments like I've never had before thinking "what in the world am I doing here!!!? haha but now that I am settled and enjoying my companions everything is great. I am happy and so grateful to be here! Spanish is great for me! For my district not so much. For some reason we basically haven't had a teacher teacing us spanish. We had a sub the first two times and then the three other times the teacher has only spoken spanish to us. I can understand almost everything but my district has been freaking out! One of the elders had the look of death on his face and was like " you don't understand!!! We dont' speak spanish!!" it was so funny! The Elders in my district are HILARIOUS! They have me laughing all the time! There are twelve people i have met so far that are going to guatemala. six of us are going to my mission, but we will all go to the guatemala mtc together. Mom! Will you call the travel office and see if they have all my paperwork? The thing i was missing? I want to make sure they got it so I am not delayed at all in leaving. dearelder me to let me know. If you do it before 12pm I will get it the same day!

I met somebody who knows my mission pres and she said he is awesome so that is exciting. My branch presidency is nice but the pres is a little intimidating! His wife started Kneaders!! We are hoping they will bring us something one day:)

I have so much stuff! The others hnas only have two suit cases... I don't know how they did it! There is a scale right outside of my door so that is good.

Last night we had a fireside from Jenny Oaks Baker. It was nice! I sat next to an elder from hawaii who is also going to guatemala. It is amazing how many people are going there right now! The MTC isn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. The food is fine, just as good as my cafeteria in michigan. The schedule is probably much more rigorous that in the actual field so maybe I will decide I don't like it after leaving.

It is so funny! I think of five thousand things to say and then we unexpectedly got on so I didn't have time to write down thoughts before hand. We are doing laundry right now. You all know how picky I am with my laundry!!! I had to put some colors in my whites and it felt horrible!! Hopefully I didn't just turn my garments blue. I have so many fun pics I want to send you but this computer doesn't have any sd drive! Zach! Is there a way to put my sd drive into a usb to plug it into the computer? Let me know!

Thank you so much for the packages! My roommates think I am spoiled! I got three the first two days!! Full of goodies! I feel like we eat SO much here! Not in quantity but so often!! We eat every few hours which I am not used to so I struggle to consume all my snacks so I am determined to take them to guatemala. Thank you so much for the packages!! They make me feel loved and I love hearing from you guys! My pdays are on mondays! if you email me here, send it early so I can print it off in the morning and read them, and then I will respond later. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!

Talk to you soon!

Love, Hermana Nelson