Cockroaches and Conference

I apologize ahead of time, but the enter key on this computer is not
working! So I am going to do this (/) everytime I break a paragraph. /
Alright, let´s start off with the cockroaches! Hna Baugh and I both
found one in our closets Monday night! I screamed, hit it with my
hairbrush, threw my hairbrush on the floor (shattering the brush),
then ended up throwing away my hairbrush and my toothbrush which had
been in close proximity to said cockroach. EW. Speaking of bugs, I got
my first Guatemala bug bite on Thursday! It was during sports, and I
felt a pain on my leg, so I looked down, and saw blood (but no bug).
It is still swollen and red and itchy and disgusting. I have no idea
what bit me, but oh man, it it the worst bug bite I have ever gotten.
/ We got to leave the CCM bubble last Tuesday! We went to the stake
center to play some basketball, and then we went to Walmart! It was a
legitimate Walmart, only you had to go through guards to even get in
to the store, and the prices were in quetz. I had to pick up some
candy (yeah, had to...), a hairbrush (see above story), etc. etc. But
they had really everything that a usual Walmart would have, just weird
brands. After Walmart, we went to the mall across the street and I had
SUBWAY! Did that ever taste good. It kind of throws you off when
things cost 40 quetz here, but in actuality is only like 5 dollars.
After our outing we had a devotional on missionary work by my favorite
apostle, Jeffrey R Holland. Considering we don´t get much media here
in the CCM, we crave devotionals. / So before last week, we got to
leave the CCM grounds and walk a block over to the CRE house to do
computerized language learning. However, they just moved the computers
to the CCM, right across from my classroom, so as of right now we
NEVER LEAVE THE RELIGION PRISON. But, starting tomorrow, our class got
moved to the church a few blocks away! So now we will spend most of
our time OFF CCM property!! :) / My district has been trying to speak
solo español, but as you can guess, it has been going terribly. I try
so hard to only speak Spanish, but I don´t speak very much any more
anyways, so by the time I do open my mouth, I have forgotten that I am
not supposed to speak English! Oh well. Really the biggest problem
right now in the CCM is learning the language. Slowly but surely.../
So there is this adorable little Latina in the CCM. Her name is Hna
Guidos and she is SO adorable. She is so tiny and little, with the
appearance of a 12 year old, and the voice of a 6 year old. I cannot
understand a word that comes out of this girl´s mouth, but everytime
she speaks, it´s so cute that I am captivated. Then she asks me a
question and I just stare at her like a deer in the headlights. :) /
So my compañera, Hna Fisher, thought she had learned the term "we
killed it", like we did a good job. Anyways, at snack time we have to
say a Spanish word or phrase to get our food. So Fisher went up to the
teacher behind the counter and said her phrase. The teacher stared at
her for a good 10 seconds before muttering, "what"? Turns out, she had
said to the teacher, with an entirely straight face, "I am going to
kill you." / CONFERENCE! Conference was sooo good in the CCM. The
girls got the front row, and we watched it in English! I particularily
liked S. Gifford Nielson, who not only quoted my mission scripture (O
that I were an angel...), but also told a story about a missionary
from Guatemala! Shout out! :) I also liked Holland, of course. It was
cool seeing Adrian Ochoa give a talk (Sunday second session towards
the end) because not even two weeks ago, he was at the Guatemala CCM
giving us the only live devotional we have gotten since I´ve been
here! / Two nights ago I cut about 5 inches off a girl´s hair! Hna
Camargo is from Arizona and her hair was waist length. It was really
heavy and hurting her head, so she had me chop it off! Talk about
nervewracking but I think it looks okay...lol./ Quotes! Overheard in
the comedor: "it smells like my burning flesh!" / "Hey baby, give me
your snack!" - Hna Ovalle (doesn´t speak English) / "Did you know it´s
easy to learn a third language after you have learned a second? I want
to learn Taliban. Is that a language?" - Hna Fisher / Love all of you!
I´ll be emailing on Monday next week!