Wow I can't believe that I have been gone a week! The days go by so slow but then you look back and it has already been a whole week. It is really hard to explain.. Haha sorry! Well i tried to put some picture on but I can't figure out how to do it. I will try again but if not, Mom I might have you send me a card reader instead of just the cable that my camera came with.
I am not going to lie this has been the hardest week of my life many of ¨my days¨ which means tears for those of you who don't understand that saying. But it has been so worth it. Trevor your advise has been right! As long as I make it to Sunday then I will be fine! Sunday changed my whole life. Friday was so had we had to teach our first investigator in Spanish.. yup i didn't say one word! Literally I didn't know what to say so I just sat there! Good thing my companion knows some Spanish. After I cried for like 35 minutes! Haha I felt like a fool! Later one of our zone leaders came into our class and said that our branch president was here to talk to one of the Elders because he was getting sent home. We walked into the room and all of the elders looked like death, and then one came out and he had been crying and said that he had pulled a prank and it had gone wrong and he was going home. There are only 4 sisters in our whole zone and we all started crying and then all of the sudden they burst into the loudest song that you could think of in Spanish to welcome us to the zone. Haha it was a terrible prank, but so great! Our zone is so close which is really nice and I love all of the Elders! They love having girls in the zone because they haven't had any for about 4 months!
Sunday really did change my life though. We were able to go to the music and the spoken word broadcast which was nice and then we had relief society. The general young women's president taught it, it was so good! We had a great devotional about loosing our self in the work and it just made me think a lot. I know that this mission is going to be so hard, it already has been, but I can do it! God has called me to serve here and he qualifies whomever he calls!
My companions name is Hermana Hanks. She is from Bountiful! She is great, really she is so much fun and we have so much in common! Haha she talks so much! It is so funny I never say anything which isn't usually how it goes, but i love her! We have four Elders and four Hermanas in our district! They are all such great people! Two of the other sisters and I are going to Salta which is nice! I now will know three people when I get there! The work is great, the Spanish is so hard but it is coming! Going into the classroom on the first day and only being talked to in Spanish was so hard but it is nice because it helps me learn so much faster! Last night we had our Tuesday night devotional and I sang in the choir! It was broadcast so you should all see if you can find it! We sang Praise to the Man, it was so good! And.... Dallin H Oaks came and talked to us! It was so cool to be in the same room as him! Tuesdays are great days in to MTC!
Haha sorry this letter is kind of all other the place! But i just have so much to say! I love this so much, serving is so rewarding! Really it feels so nice to be in the palm of Christ's hand, just working right with Him! I know that this Church is true and I have never felt it more than being here right now! This Gospel is amazing and it really is the only true Church on the earth today! I am so glad that I have been able to be here and I am looking forward to the next 5 weeks, and then bring it on! I can't wait to get out and tell everyone I come in contact with that Jesus is the Christ, that this Church is true and the amazing blessings that it brings us! Thank you all so much for the support and prayers! I feel them everyday! Please send my love and prayers to Hayley and her family let them know that not a day has gone by that I haven't thought of her and the girls. Really Travis has been called home, his work is far from done and he is working so hard! Tell Hayley thank you for sharing him with us, that we have been blessed to know such an amazing man! Thank you again for all that you have done I love serving! It is amazing!
Love, Hermana Griffiths
P.S. Thanks for all of the packages they really help me so much! I got three yesterday alone! Five total. I am so loved, and it is so nice! Thank you so much! But I got a package with some Halloween candy and stuff and don't know who it was from? So thank you so much, but if you find out please tell me so that I can thank them!
