October 16, 2014

Oct 16, 2014

Hey Katie, I have some questions for you . . . .

1. How did you best study the language in the mtc.  is there a way that you loved, or just learning vocab and phrases.

2. How do you know if you are teaching with the spirit because I feel like I am not teaching with the spirit well at all.  I feel like the spirit is really helping me in my lessons and the spirit is just not there as much as I want it to me.  and neither is the language but I feel like I understand how to work on that a little bit more. 

3.  Haha, I feel like I can tell you how things really are.  Things are good.  Not great, but good.  I have been praying for humiilty lately and it is starting to come but I guess the thing is . . . I think because I am loud and love to help people, or something like that . . . . people always told me that I was going to be the BEST missionary.  Like there were ok missionaries, and then there was good missionaries and then there was me.  Above all of them.  And now, I kind of wish they hadn{t said those things.  Because your personality means absolutely nothing on a mission.  The spirit does.  That is what changes lives.  A good missionary is a humble missionary.  And I am happy.  Like I feel great.  I like life here a lot.  And I am learning and growing and I love my comps and I love my district (we sometimes got task because we have sooooo many funny people in my district.   But that is what I am pondering about right now.  Anyway, I guess I am just wondering if you have any advice.  Because I just love you, and I look up to you so much.  And I am so greatful that you served a mission right before me because then you can help me soooo much with mine!

Anyway, I am happy, dont worry.  I tell you these things for your advice and wisdom and because mom would get super worried about me, but you know more recently waht missions are like so you dont worry as much and you just worry less in general, so dont worry about me. :)

Love,

Hnita Jarman

Katherine Jarman <katherine.jarman@myldsmail.net>

10/21/14

Um I studied a whole Book of Mormon about humility. There are a couple good quotes about it that they said in that zone conference that you went to. Like Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, it's thinking less about your self. You can have confidence and still be humble. Be teachable and that's a huge part of it. I liked playing conguation games with my district members. We would write a verb and then we'd right up the conguagtion chart (like yo, tu, usted, ect) and then we would point to one and have to conguate the verb to the right one. It's good on getting faster. Read PMG in spanish. That's more practical than the book of mormon when you're starting out. And the pamphlets are great tools too. 

About the spirit, if you're doing your best, the spirit will help. Don't stress and trust that it will come.

Hey, 

I havent gotten the dear elder stuff yet but I am sure I will get it soon.  

Umm, can you send carl my email.  He asked for it but I forgot to send it to him.  

What else, what else.

How are you.  Do you miss your girls. I am happy that katie will come home soon to keep you company.   Not like I think that you sit around weeping and eating bon bons all day.  I just hope you aren}t lonely. I am happy that Jess is home now!!! How is that.   Have you seen her yet?

So in the CCM they dont let you take pics.  Dont know why becasue you can in provo, but that is a rule here.  so I have pics from the airport but I forgot to bring my camera up here so . . . . ya.  next weeek.

love love love love

Liza

This feels really surreal.  Haha, you should hear the flurry of typing going on right now.  . . . . MISSIONARIES LOVE MAIL!! (read Poverbs 25:25 . . . it goes both ways)

So I am now a missionary.   And it is just great.  It feels real now, so not as much like a utopia, but good.  And I am learning a whole lot.  Ya!  Spanish has a lot of words . . . . but it is so cool because I am learning so much faster than I think I could ever learn normally.  Like I was always wondered how missionaries teach lessons on their 3rd day.  Now I know.  You just do it and somehow you always seem to know just barely enough words to express your self.  But my favorite thing is praying.  I like praying in Spanish and now I am fairly comfortable with it (You pray like 10 times a day here so you get pretty good pretty fast.)

Umm, I have been writing the miracles down because there are just so many. I am at miracle number 27 I think.  But I will just tell you some of my favorite miralces.  

So we live with latinas (in our little apartment) and there is one from MExico she is so cute, and we can understand her so well.  But for the first 2 days I could not understand DeLuca for the life of me.  And my compainons couldnt either (I am in a trio . . .I dont know if I told you that . . . .).  Anyway,, she couldnt understand us either.  We have bad accents right now.  But then I had the thought to talk to her about her family because I know a lot of the worlds for family . . . .that is pretty basic Spanish.  Anyway, that night we talked to her about her family and we totlally understood her and it was great!!  Now we talk all the time.  She talks slower for us and clearer and she has learned how to get the just of what we say and now we talk all the time.  I love the latinas.  They are only here for 12 days though so they leave next Wed.  Sad.

Other miracle . . . .this was on the first day.  I wasnt on the list of people they thought were coming so there was some confusion, but then everything worked out and there was this one teacher Hna Cristeche and she was super awesome!  She seriously helped me like 10 times that day.  She just saw me, and with her alright english and my very very broken spanish, we got everything figured out.  Yay!  

Another miracle . . .  .One day I was feeling like I didn}t feel the spirit every minute of every day (I know, unreal expectations . . . . I have adjusted) and then we had a lesson about how we have to tesitfy of Jesus Christ, and that is the most important thing.  And we all got up afterwards and the spirit was one of the strongest times I have felt in my life.  That doesn{t make sense.  You know what I mean.  And I felt it the strongest when this elder told the very common story of footsteps in the sand (where christ will carry you during the hard parts of your life) and I just knew that God wanted me to know so much, more than most anything else, that during this mission, he would carry me when it got too hard.  And if I let him, he would carry me for the entire mission.

Funny story . . ..at the airport we met up with this kid from Canada (there were a bunch of us that traveled from the US together) and we were getting to know him and we asked him about his spanish and he said ´´I don{t know hardly aney spanish at all, all I know is Bonjour¨.  Nobody else laughed but I thought it was so funny. I turned to one of the sisters and was like ´´that{s french!´´.  Then she laughed. I dont actually know if he was joking on purpose or accident.  

Well, I love you all.  See ya in a week.  The gospel is true.  That is why I am here.

Hermana Jarman

P.S. My favorite scripture . . . I just love it is now D and C 67:10.  I am working on being humble and putting my trust in the Lord and I just think this scripture is so beautiful.