¡que verguenza!

family!!! it´s soooo great to be writing to all of you this week.  yayyyy!! it is great to write to you guys everyweek. my fave. i wish i had a longer time to tell you guys every little thing that happens throughout everyweek.

 right now the internet place i am in is playing the song Heaven. "im finding it hard to believe, we´re in heavennnnn" hahah good times. it reminds me of DDR MAX 2!!!

 okay, so first and foremost, the subject line means "how embarrassing!" because of something i have now done 2 times and everytime after i am equally as embarrassed. so this past week when we were eating with our pensionista, she fixed us chicken and rice(wooooo. this is a daily meal here. but i cant complain because our pensionista is actually a reallllllllllly great cook and the chicken is always marinated in different delicous sauces. mm!!) but there is always soooo much rice, and it is always a bit of a carb overload. so we were talking after the meal, and she was telling us a nice long, personal story (side note: now Lady in Red is playing as i type. im lucky!!!) and i guess i was reallllllllllllllllllly tired because as she was talking to us, my eyes started to drift closed. and i was thinking, NO. not again(this happened with a different lady a couple of weeks ago, too). and i was fighting the urge to just pass out asleep right there at her dining room table. and i thought i was doing a pretty good job, too. i was shifting around a lot, changing my posistion, and here and there i would try to rest my face on my hand, at different angles, trying to hide my eyes, because i COULD NOT control them. they kept shutting! so finally, we left and hna carazas was like, " you were like a drunk man in there!" apparently it was verrrrrry noticeable that i was fading in and out, and apparently my body was like swaying back and forth hahahahahha how embarrassing, right??? hahahah oh man! what will i do?? sometimes i am just sooooo tired and my body takes over. it is like little kids at the dinner table who pass out in their plate of food. that´s going to be me one day. . .

 dad--you gave a talk yesterday? so did i!!!! yay! we twins! only i talked about the premortal life and the war in heaven and how the war continues on today and that is why we have to share the gospel, because satan and his angel´s are fighting against the progression of the church. truth be told, before my talk, i thought i was going to pee in my skirt, i was soooo nervous. but i think i did alright.and everyone in the ward was really nice to me and told me how much i have improved on my spanish and not to worry, "we could understand everything. and you even talked fast in some places!" hhahahha oh man. but isnt that nice of them to say those things? i thought so.

so, lia just wrote me this week and randomly told me how much she hated tomatoes. and usually i wouuld agree with her--ive never been a big tomatoe fan myself. but peru has changed my opinion completely! so our pensionista hna muñante will fix these little salads for us sometimes that are just plates of fresh avocado, tomatoe, and cucumber. and all she does to season them is puts fresh-squeezed lime juice and salt on them, and boom bam baby! i like tomatoes! and raw avocado! it is soooo great! i love it so much that i can wait for hna muñante to fix it again, so ive started fixing it for myself in our casa. LOOOVE IT!

sorry this email hasnt been very spiritually-focused. i hope you guys arent disappointed.

 there are actually so many people to telll you guys about, but once again, i will just focus on fernando isaac. so this week he had his interview with pres. tyler and it went really well and he got approved to be baptized. but he is still going through the repentance process and is working toward forgiving his brother and exwife. what happened was like a year or so ago, his brother and his wife had an affair (messed up i know.) and he has never been able to forgive them really. (duuuhhh. that would suck soooo bad. think about how hard that would be? and he has a little girl, and his wife gets to keep her, so he never gets to see her anymore). so yeah. and he knows baptism is a big step and has a really good understandng of this step he is taking, and he just wants to get rid of these negative feelings before getting baptized. so this week we taught him about forgiveness and he receicved a blessing of comfort and it was really great. he still wasnt baptized, but we are praying that he will be baptized this satruday. can you guys pray for him to feel comfort and at peace with himself? that is what he needs to feel righ tnow.

okay woowwww. this email is long. i dont think im going to have time to respond specifically to emails this week because i am going to attach some pictures, too. but know that i LOVED each of your emails soooooooo much!! i love hearing about all of your lives. it is my fave. i will try to send out some letters in a week or 2. life is crazy on the mission, but its sooooo great!

i love you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much and miss you SOOOOOOOOO MUCH. you are all the greatest.

love, hna jill frances