We've now been here in Watsonville for 2 weeks and things are going good. My companions name is Hermana Guzman. She is from San Antonio, Texas and is awesome. She helps me a lot with spanish and has just been awesome with everything. When we arrived to our apartment, which was were the Elders used to live, they not only cleaned it but decorated it with paper snow ALL OVER, a big Merry Christmas sign, a little Christmas tree, and HUGE stockings. The stockings are so big, you can pretty much fit in then ha. I'll have to take some pics, with my new camera (thanks mom and dad!) =-) So on our drive to Watsonville the first day we were together we discovered we have the same Birthday! How awesome is that! So yes we both turned 22 on the same day. Our birthday was good. We didn't know very many people, and still don't, but one of the members that we met bought us cake that said Feliz Cumpleanos Hermana Guzman y Hermana Alvey! It was so cute. That was actually a the 15th, so two days before our birthday. On our birthday we went to zone conference which was way awesome. They fed us a huge lunch and decorated the gym waaaay Christmasy. It was fun. After we ate there was some really good musical numbers from some of the missionaries. Also the assistants presented President and Sister Jackson a framed picture of Jesus Christ and on the sides of the picture there was the name of every single convert in the mission since President Jackson has been president. It was so cool and president cried like a baby lol. I love our misson president so much. And it was so fun to see the other missionarie who were in the area I was last in, like Hermana Lowry and Hermana Kelson. It was so nice. After lunch we had talks and what not and it just all was perfect. So the last couple weeks have been pretty crazy. Watsonville is about 85% spanish speaking so President Jackson took the eglish Elders out and put in spanish Elders and Sisters (us). They split the area and so half is ours and the other half is the Elders. Our area is huge. It goes from Watconville up to north Santa Cruz. We pretty much had to start new with investigators because the Elders gave us some investigators but they're not exactly progressing so we might or might not drop a lot of them and start new. It's been pretty hard to start all over like that but things are good. We're doing A LOT of contacting and having really found anyone but with time/patience, faith and diligence; I know things with look up. The ward we go to is english and spanish which is really different to get used to but it'll be good. I've been a little bummed about stuff but all is good and will only get better. Hermana Guzman is so awesome also. Her idea was that I only speak english one hour a day and so kind of reluctantly I said ok and with just two days of doing it my head hurts lol but It'll definitley help with learning spanish. So that's pretty much what is going on. I'll write more details next week but I have to go. I love you all and have a very very very Merry CHRISTmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Hermana Alvey
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