So, last Sunday was quite an excellent day. I got up and got dressed and looked super hot (of course!). I went to church with my roommate and had quite a good time. Church in Spanish is EXACTLY the same as church in English. It just hurts my head a little to focus that hard for three hours in Spanish. It can pretty intense at times. It was pretty awesome. I finally met the girl who helped me find my roommate too! I was super lucky to have an old roommate who married a guy who served his mission who knows this girl who knows my current roommate! Hahah!
Anyways, after Church, I came home with my roommate, Moni, and she told me that our house had been volunteered to host FHE that night. Yay FHE! I was really excited actually. It was exciting to have people at my house where I felt a little more comfortable than at the church or an activity where I sometimes feel super lost. Haha! So, we were in charge of everything. So, in the end, I got to plan half of the lesson (in Spanish) and pick the game we were going to play. I was super excited. I sat down and spent most of the afternoon figuring out exactly what I wanted to say in Spanish and how I would say it. I looked up scriptures in Spanish and figured it all out. I figured everything out right before it was time to leave to go to choir.
Oh yah, I joined the Stake choir. It is soooooooo funny. Seriously, Mexicans can't really sing, at all. They try, they really do. But, no one knows how to play the piano which means usually they are singing acapella which let’s face it, doesn't really work if you don't know the song and you haven't had experience singing. It is hilarious. So, we are singing Christmas carols, which I have sung before. So, I just jumped in and sang harmony and had a grand old time stumbling along with everyone else and I turned into a semi- celebrity at choir. It was hilarious! They were so amazed that I could just pick it up and especially that I could keep it up when everyone else was singing. It brought me a lot of joy!
After getting through a hymn and a half in around an hour and a half, we went back home for FHE. Now, here is where the problem began. I had put all of this prep into preparing this lesson, but I had never thought to practise saying it out loud. So, when everyone had finally arrived and it was time for the lesson, I completely froze. Seriously. It was the most frustrating thing I have ever experienced and I wanted to just fall over and cry. I love, love, love teaching. I love getting up and sharing my testimony and the things that I have learned and so I was devastated when I was suddenly unable to do that because I suddenly couldn't string a sentence together. It was terrible. Okay, it wasn't that terrible. I got my point across and people understood well enough and I didn't die but still. I felt like such a fool and all I wanted to do was flee to my room and never come out again. But I didn't!
After then lesson, I taught them how to play one of those story writing games where you write a sentence and then the next person draws a picture of that sentence and then the next person has to write a sentence about the picture without seeing the original sentence. It was quite excellent. We laughed and laughed and laughed in the end. And then they decided we should play telephone. Well, I don't like telephone in English so whoever thought I would like it is Spanish is completely wrong. Man, I messed that game up sooooooo much. And not in the funny way but in the frustrating oh why can't she speak English kind of way. But, I wasn't alone. There is this girl here from Brazil and her Spanish is imperfect just like mine. So take that world!
Anyways, by the time everyone left at around 11:30 or a little after that, I was completely wound up and still shaking. It was a fun night though. I am starting to make friends that I would feel comfortable calling my friends. Good times were had and I didn't die from giving such a terribly presented lesson! Yay for lessons learned!!
Besos a todos!
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