Maybe that name sounds familiar to some of you.

HOLA!!!

This week has been amazing!

I met the coolest person. Betty Coleman. Maybe that name sounds familiar to some of you. It should because she is one of the first members to have been baptized in New Hampshire. She currently lives about 75 feet from my apartment. Maybe 100 feet. She told me that she remembers the Campbells, Gunns, Guilds, Nana and Grandpa Stephenson and some others. She told me all about her story and that of her daughter Ethel. Ethel and her husband live with her, or her with them, however you like it. She told me all about how she was a member of the big white congregational church in Plymouth and how she was baptized in the font at the Joseph Smith Memorial in the middle of a blizzard. It was just amazing to meet her. It was on a day that I really needed a little connection with home, and we ate dinner at their house. Thank goodness for God's tender mercies.

Yes, I'm still doing awesome. I had a rough day last week, but I talked with my companions and it got much better and brought us closer together. I wrote about it in my journal, so you'll get to read it as soon as I am done.

We are allowed to go to the temple for one session once a transfer and we did that last week.

I would love it if you could send me the vitamin D if it isn't too much of a hassle.

The diet has been interesting. [doctor prescribed] I am eating a lot of rice and beans, eggs, and sausage. I am quickly learning to like rice. Of course, brown rice!!! :D I have rice milk with my corn squares cereal, rice with my baked beans and sausage, and fried rice, sometimes in a tortilla as a breakfast burrito type thingy. I don't bother to tell our dinners [dinner appointments] about it, because I figure that one meal a day with a couple things on that list won't kill me. But I do feel a bit better on this diet. Still adjusting though, so we'll see. :)

Our schedule is usually:
6 30 wake up and exercise (usually running, stretching, or biking)
7-8 showers and breakfast
8-9 personal study
9-10 companion study (that can get pretty fun :) )
10-11 language study
11-12 lunch
and then from 12 to 4 we go around teaching, talking to everyone, and trying to contact referrals. I haven't done any "tracting" yet. :)
4-5 is dinner
and 5-9 is more of the same stuff like 12-4
9 -9 30ish is planning
9 30-10 30 is personal time. you know, journal and stuff

that is what it is supposed to be anyway. our schedule is "adjusted" more often than you would guess.

Thank you Mom and Dad. Your support means the world to me. And I can't believe how fast the time is going either. I have been on my mission for three months! Ahhh!!! Too fast. It needs to slow down, but I know it is only going to get faster.

AMOR, AMOR, AMOR
Ella [Spanish for “she”, sounds like "Aya" which is Andrea’s nickname in the family]