Belly Button 5/27 2016

Hi my beautiful people. this place is so funny. I laugh so much. I think actually i'm just losing it hahaha but i don't even care!! heres a journal entry from sunday just to give you a taste. 

sometimes s. mendenhall sneezes when she eats mints. 

i love s. butler. she reminds me of teesh. it makes me feel like i have my sissy here at the mtc. she just told me i'm a cinnamon roll; " too good for this world." 

s. barton just sang "o divine redeemer" for sister's conference and pulled out this insane opera solo. whaaaa? 

yesterday it was s. ortega's bday and her sis sent her a pinata. we played that game where you eat cookies by putting them on your forehead. grandma sent me some sparkling cider and cute little plastic cups (AND NUTELLA) for "hump week" neeldess to say, there waz partying last night. all the sisters came into our room and sat on the floor and talked about... boys. are we missionaries? not when drinking from margarita glasses and eating nutella apparently. 

wait just listen. s butler and i decided our church is built on jell-o because of utah. "how wobbly a foundation."

note to self: the articles of faith are cool. 

I just realized that once I have my period 18 times, I will finish my mission. AH! yikes. 

we were doing a warm up at choir and singing just the 1st note/word of a phrase, which was "but." I couldn't stop laughing because we were singing this glorious, harmonized note with all the vigor of our souls and it sounded like we were just proclaiming about the derriere. 

today on our temple walk our zone got in a circle and played the animal sounds game. 

s. mendenhall just borrowed elder eakins shoe polish. why 

s barton and I have this thing where she sometimes adopts an alter ego named david and he is my dad. s rodriguez is my mom and my name is opal. ask me how this happened and I will tell you I don't know. 

okay other than that, s. m and I accomplished a lot this week. we successfully climbed up the mtc walls back to back like in the emperors new groove and taught 3 lessons in tahitian. oh my goodness. how does one learn two languages when they can't even speak one. 

haha but wowzers this week flew. if every mission week is the same, I'm going to be home like tomorrow. I decided I love it here and I'm scared to leave. but so pumped at the same time. tahitians are cool people. 

other things: I'm sad that sheri egbert's mom passed away. please give her a hug for me. 

I love curtis anderson

I laughed really hard about how dad bought all these mangoes for me and ate them. thanks dad

all of you are hilarious. 

I think some women are happy with teesh and I today. I just finished all of the endowment names I had that teesh found. It's cool to think that this kind of work can be accomplished for those in the spirit world by a 13 year old and a 19 year old. 

sorry for my spelling. thank you so much for the letters this week and for all the endless support and love. :) I wish I had time to say more and give more but alas, there is no time. you're all amazing!! 

I started crying the other night because I was emotional and s. barton called me audrey. it was precious. 

love, au jour dhui (that's "today" in french but it sounds like my name. confusing)

Well, here I am again and I am in the MTC. the missionary training center. unless mtc stands for "muscle tearing center" like my zone sisters and I decided after working out hardcore. but I'm definitley being trained to be a missionary. being a missionary is cool. it's also really hard but wow so much fun! is it supposed to be fun? I don't know maybe i'm a rule breaker. 

Well a lot happened. one of our teachers proposed to his girlfriend, 

it was s. ortegas bday and we partied with a pinata and some food in our room. there is much food in our room. my gma sent me a "hump week" package that contained lots and lots of happiness and some plastic margarita cups with sparkling cider. so we were posh. 

our other teacher tried to kill a pig. 

we had some heart to hearts. 

I ate more peanut butter

I laughed so hard every day. my zone is killer. 

we tried to learn tahitian and teach in tahitian. It's difficutl to tell the restoration story when you forget the word for "priesthood." 

we successfully called the number two "pistachio" and "bellybutton" 

the word for bellybutton is "pito" if anyone wanted to know. 

the word for two is "piti"

I swore a lot by accident. 

you don't get to know pistachio. haha 

my comp and I climbed up the wall like in emperors new groove. gotta stay entertainted. 

there's a lot of sv kids here! I got to host Brittnie Jenkins and then I saw megan sidwell!!! ahhh I love them. also max christiensen is here and so is louisa dayton. shout out to sv missionaries. 

I would be leaving next week if I were just french speaking. this is a weird thought, becuase holy smokes am I not ready! lol

this week FLEW. I don't even know how it is today right now. 

I flipping love being a missionary. like seriously, I'm lnly in the mtc and I love it so much. sometimes I hate some things but I have been humbled these past 6 weeks to decide that hating anything is prideful. just forget what you hate and if you can't get rid of it, learn a way to love it. thats my soapbox for rn. 

JESUS LOVES YOU. ok that's for real. 

sorry for the bad spelling. I'm aware of it but I don't care enough to hit delete a thousadn teimse. see? that wasn't even on purpose. 

Just wanna take a moment and thank everyone who supports me and writes to me. I am so sorry I can't reply to everyone. you know you are a dang lucky missionary when you have too many emails to even read. I wanna cry right now because I'm so blessed. :) maybe I'll cry when I go do laundry in a minute. 

rest assured that every single person on this email list means so much to me and I love you all individually. please know that! and please go smile at someone today! c'est important. 

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