Week 4 Gridley CA

Hey mom!!

Well this week was good again. There wasn't too much that happened that I remember.... again, the people are great. We got to see this one family we haven't seen in a while cause they were on vacation, so it was fun to see them again! And there was this other family that had 6 girls and 1 boy, so it's almost like my fam and that was fun :) And then there is this one family we are teaching and they are awesome. Their mom was in a car accident a year ago, and she still can't walk. She just recently started being able to sit up which was big progress. But she has 5 daughters, and they're all awesome. We only know four of them, but one of them is Sandra. She has a family and takes care of her mom and does so much. She is awesome. And then there is Quenia, and she is the mom of Danisha (the girl who was baptized at the beginning of the month) and she is awesome. The other 2 daughters I know are both 16 and they are twins. But it's been great to get to know their family! And Juana, the mom we are working with, said that we were a part of her family and it was super sweet. It's fun to still feel loved even when I'm away from my fam and friends. But yeah the people are Great!

I've found though that I'm better with the kids. Which I guess isn't too surprising cause I am a child. But also the kids all speak English and Spanish, so they're better than me... But they're pretty awesome and it's fun to get to play with them a bit. But I should probs work on the Spanish more to communicate with all the people...

What else happened this week... oh, we did some service for a lady named Mary. She has a huge garden, so sometimes we go help her out with it but I've found I'm very bad at gardening. I don't have the patience to pick off every little brown piece. And also, I'm too rough. Like when I was pruning, or attempting to, I broke off like a lot of the good, green stems. Whoops. So yeah idk if she'll want me back to help, but it's the thought that counts right?

On Sunday I also had to give a talk for 15 minutes, all in Spanish... But it actually went pretty well. I'm pretty sure people could understand what I was saying at least, and it was actually really easy to talk for 15 minutes up there. That's one thing I've found. Like what used to feel like a long time is not so long anymore... So sorry if I just come back and talk your ear off #sorrynotsorry

And finally, more about food. The Mexican food is good like always. Gotta love tortillas, rice, and beans. I really don't think I'll ever get tired of that stuff... but also something exciting was that I got to eat potatoes again!! We were eating dinner with a family from the ward last night and sister fuller and I were both very excited to get potatoes. It's been too long...

The other food thing is that wow people hand out fruit here like it's candy on Halloween night. We counted up how much fruit was given to us this week, and we got 19 peaches, 4 pears, 2 plums, and 2 nectarines. It's a lot... But it's all soooo good cause its fresh and i love it. Idk what I'm gonna do without my fresh fruit. But apparently kiwi season is coming up, so I'll get to have a ton of those. I'm not a huge fan of kiwis, but I've found i like a lot more food out here that I thought. I'm currently trying to train myself to like cucumbers, cause we were also given a lot of those. But they're not too bad. I gotta try to be a little healthy.

But yeah that was the week. Sorry all I talk about is food and people. I'll try to be more exciting next week.

Love you and miss you!

Kiley

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Sister Fuller and I accidentally matching #compunity

Mexican chips! (Idk what they're called, but they were good)

Funny story real fast. So us missionaries take joy in little things we can annoy each other with. So we have a running joke about "you'd be surprised" so sister fuller and I wrote it on cards and put it on one of the Elders cars and left. Then the next week, we found this on our car, while we were driving. They lamented it and stuck it on our windshield. It was pretty funny.