Dear Mom and Dad,
I´m sorry this is going to be an even shorter email than last time. It´s because we´ve run out of time on the computers and I spent some time writing to Liza and Emma.
I´m doing fine here in Hurlingham. I´m a little discouraged because all our baptism dates fell through and we´ve had only one investigator in sacrament meeting two weeks in a row. But the good news is that we have loads of people in the ward who are willing to teach with us and we´re getting lots of references from them too. We also have a lot of good appointments planned for this week. So hopefully by next monday the work will be going better. Hurlingham is definitely more cheto than Luján, but there are still plenty of impoverished people that we are teaching. I think I´m becoming desensitized, the poverty doesn´t shock me anymore.
You asked about my companion. She is almost finished with her degree in Health teaching at UVU, where she played on the soccer team. She has 8 brothers and sisters and is from American Fork, Utah. She is an active learner, so she likes to do her personal study on the floor while stretching. We are learning to accomadate our different learnign and preparation styles to prepare lessons and teach well together. My goal this week is to speak more Spanish with her. When I´m stressed it´s just easier to communicate in the language my companion speaks, in this case English. But I know that won´t help her learn, so I´m going to try to speak Spanish all the time, no matter what.
I love you loads and miss you a lot. Thanks for your emails. They were really encouraging and exactly what I needed this week.
Love,Ellis
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