Dry, scraped, red knees‏

Hola...

Okay. All is well. I´m still in La Gomera and my wonderful Angelita is still with me! One crazy change: one of my comps from the CCM, Hermana Winder, is in La Mariposa now! She´s going to rock that place. Plus, I´ll be able to see her lots more now.

We met President and Sister Brough and their daughter, Gansy (spelling?) on Thursday! They are incredible. He is going to be a great president. 3 of the 9 zones (us - "the coast") of missionaries met, and the rest were going to meet the following two days. They each took the time to meet each and every one of us. They´re very young (in their 40s), they hunt, he owns his own company, and it was great...

Happy Independence Day!

I need hair tips, please. My hair is all sorts of out of control. It is constantly up, because it´s basically impossible to have it down in this heat, so easy up-do ideas would be great :)

We met the most amazing woman on Saturday. We were looking for a house reference that we received, but the addresses are pretty hard to find here (if they even exist), so we knocked on a random door to ask them if they knew the person we were trying to find, but no one was home. We went back to where we thought the house was, knocked, and a lady walking down the street "ch-ch"ed us (basic Guatemalan way of getting someone´s attention - I love) and waved her finger (meaning: "no one lives there"). We asked her about the person, she said the house was abandoned, we asked if we could visit her, and right then and there she took us to her house... the house where we had knocked at! It was awesome. Her sister is a member of the Church that lives in Los Angeles and had told her that if she ever saw the missionaries, to "Invite them in and take care of them." We talked for a bit and she fed us lunch. Her name is Coni (Cone-y). Thought of Connie Soptich real quick. When we left, Hna Angel said that she had seen Coni and said "buenas tardes" to her before, as we were on our way to contact the reference. "Coincidence? I don´t think so" - Hna Angel.

Okay folks... half-way. Ya. That´s not okay. I can´t be half-way. I go slightly crazy when I think about it. There is still so much to do and change and improve!! But it´s okay... it´s okay.

That´s all for now :)

Love,
Hermana Marin