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May 10, 2021

Hello!

Things have been going great! Still in quarentine right now and who knows when it will end, but we're optimistic and working hard!

I've enjoyed my p days more and more since I've tried to space out what I want to do, for example choose one big thing to do and all the little things in the day and that way it's relaxed. So that's why I won't always write every week. I always play music on the piano  and guitar while my companion uses the phone. 

On Wednesday I was sick and slept for 4 hours because my companions insisted. They were kinda aggressively taking care of me like, 'SLEEP,' 'DRINK THIS TEA' and HAVE THIS SOUP WE MADE YOU, WE INSIST' haha, it was funny. On Thursday my companion was sick and slept for 2 hours and I spent that time making designs in Canva and more and more I want to be a web designer and make websites front end because I love making things look good. I think that's my new favorite thing right now. Explore canva if you ever get the chance.

Also Woot woot transfers was Wednesday and we're staying together!! We had a barbecue to celebrate. Well it was originally supposed to be for hermana Rondon's 'last supper' because we thought she would be transferred but no!! My companions are great at cooking. We roasted marshmallows and my companion was converted to golden perfectly brown marshmallows because the dingus gringas that first showed her to roast marshmallows like theirs burnt. I gave her my carefully prepared, perfect marshmallow and her eyes got really big when she ate it. Hehe

I literally don't worry about Spanish anymore. I find language study a bit boring now and I wish I could study Creole. But my mission president doesn't really want us to because we need to help them learn Spanish so they can stay in thr ward. There should be Creole wards here!! The Haitian converts would stay in the church way more if there were services in their language. I've been helping my companion with her English and it's been good

We have a great Haitian friend named Ronal and he's doing so well. He really understands well what we teach and it's great to see him learn and progress.

Also there's parrots here!!! Little green ones. I saw them while we were walking home from grocery shopping. So that's cool. 

Mothers day was good, I loved talking to my mom and my family.

Welp I guess that is all I can write but I hope you're doing well, see ya next week!

Hermana Smalley














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