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Hey Familia!!!!

I have o much to tell you I don't even know where to begin! This week has been byond crazy....and scary... and hectic, but it's also been so amazing. 

We woke up bright and early(3:00 am) Tuesday to f\get to the bus on time. Our flight didn't leave for another like four hours but they had to drive us and all that jazz. I was feeling really sick the whole morning which was a bummer but I got over it. Btw I felt really bad that I wasn't able to call you all. I had to bumm a calling card off an elder just to talk to mom for a couple of minuetes. Long story short, a bunch of things happened and I wasn't able to call =( But just know that I love you all. We flew into Ontario where our mission President was waiting with his wife to pick us all up. We had a lovely day full of training and interviews. They took us all to the mission home for dinner and I dominated at uno and ping pong....actually I knind of cheated haha. Don't follow my example. It was so wierd knowing that we were actually there! It still feals like I'm not even here. We even got to go to bed an hour early that night!!!!!! Man did I need it. The next day everyone met at the mssion office/chapel for more training and comp swap. There were five of us new sisters and five trainers so we were guissing who would get who, only they made us wait until the end of the afternoon before we actually found out! What the who ha hey. When the time actually did come and they called my name the Pres said something about her being from Spain and me having to speak Spanish so I thought that they had changed my mission language. So then as I'm getting my stuff together to go give her a hug and meet her I say" Wait. am I really?"  and they Pres. is like" Really what" and I'm like "learning Spanish" and he like starts laughing. So no I'm not learning Spanish haha. So yeah, my comp is from Spain! Her name is Sister Schaffhouser-Mermoz, and no I could not for the life of me pronounce of remeber it for like two days. I just called her sister in hopes that she wouldn't notice haha. I know right, so smooth. She is really nice though. She keeps me in line and on time that's for sure haha.

So that evening we headed to Chino Hills(my area) and went straight to an appointment. Although, we showed up five minuetes early and my comp made me knock on my first doorm-Holy Scary......okay actually I lied, it wasn't scary haha. We just had a chat, she said she was catholic, we gave her a card and then went on our way. The end. Okay so you have to know that one of the only comforting things about that day was when I figured out that talking to people isn't scary haha. Once I got that over with everything was fine. The appointment went awesome (because she likes boats and I could actually talk to her about something I knew a few things about haha). I actually loved it in all honosty. I felt like an actual missionary!!!! Wahoo for confidence boosts. That night we had dinner with a family of redheads who just moved into town haha. It was fun and we left them with a nice challange and message. By the time everything was over, we had to head back home. We live with a member btw. She is single, a sheriff,  and loves her nick nacks but is really nice. That night was pretty tough for me. Reality of what I was there for set in