animo!!!!!! and happy birthday to me

 10/25/21

Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of punctuation, my shift key's a bit broken :/ Perdonenme por favor..
this week was fantastic, i feel so happy here and optimistic for this transfer.
My companion is great, my two wards are great, the people we're teaching are great, our district is awesome and I love everything.
to top it all off, hehe today's my birthday 😁 im 21 so i can legally drink byu's chocolate milk
We have quite a big area so we have bikes! I love it. my favorite type of exercise is going on bike rides so I really am having a blast. It is the first time that I've ridden a bike in a skirt though, lol. But mostly I wear pants. It rocks, I finish the day every day tired but content.
We had a baptism this week! It was our friend Alonso who is 9 years old. he was so sweet and tender at his baptism, and he really was prepared. he actually cried after his baptism and he hugged us and we were like ahh what do we do, but we just let it happen 😅 His grandma was really really happy too. she also cried and hugged us.
We had his interview on thursday and his baptism on friday. He actually invited our district leaders to his baptism, and they came to support him. it was cute. I'm actually becoming good friends with them, elder dowling (chile) and elder banry (us). they're bacan. 
We went to a relief society activity and it was nice, it helped me get to know the sisters in the ward. We played quite a few fun games with them.
there are a few people that remember that i was here for a few weeks, but mostly everyone doesn't 😅 to be fair, we didn't leave the house much....
I've been trying to study this last general conference as much as I can and I really enjoy everything i've reviewed
This week I bought a can of cheese flavored sparkling water from a chinese mall because it looks really cool, it's got squirtle on it. I plan on 'catching all' the pokemon sodas because they look awesome
welp I hope you have an awesome week!!!! chauuu
--Hermana Smalley












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