Week Three A Success!

Lindsey here. Not really sure this is going to turn out AT ALL because i have never done this blogging thing but i am the official blogger now. I guess i'll learn as i go. :)

The first sentence of Katelyn's latest letter happened to be "This week has actually been REALLY great." and how could you say it better? Katelyn has a great attitude the entire time she writes these letters and i admire her for that.

She goes on to say that all the missionaries seemed a little frustrated with learning the language last week. One of her teachers asked some of the missionaries what had been bothering them and Kate was the only one to say (in her blunt way) "Hermano, we just can't speak spanish very well." haha! sounds like Katelyn. Her teacher went on to tease them about their being in the MTC a grand total of two weeks and he definitely thought they should be speaking fluent Spanish. Kate made sure to add in that he was kidding. He also made the sisters and elders a promise that they would be speaking and thinking wonderful spanish by April 15th.

Moving on - Kate mentioned that she also had to give a talk in sacrament meeting - without warning - in Spanish! The Branch Pres. usually gives the topic for sacrament meeting the week before and asks everyone to read up on it during the week. Katelyn greeted the president before sacrament meeting and he complimented her on her yellow scarf.
Katelyn - "Why thank you! It brings a little bit of sunshine to everyone."
Pres. - "Well you don't need a scarf for that. I wish all my missionaries were as bubbly and happy as you."
He then asked about her thoughts on the topic for sacrament meeting, which was humility. She told him and then they moved on. But as the meeting started, he got up to speak and without warning said "Before i begin, i would like to have Sister Christensen give us her thoughts on humility." I CANT EVEN IMAGINE! and to do it in another language just blows my mind! :) Of course Kate did great.

The last thing i want to mention is the thing that made Kate super excited. A week ago they lost one of her favorite teachers, so now she has a sub in one of her classes. She was pumped to learn that the sub, Hermano Rivera, served his mission in Spokane!! He even knew where Royal was because he served in Mattawa for nine months. He talked about our Aunt Karen and how she ran to Tri-Cities when the elders wanted Panda Express. And he said that my dad's cousin Del used to take them to the temple every week (he said he was cool). During their first lesson Hermano Rivera said, "A very wise man once told him to expect miracles EVERY day of your mission." He then asked Katelyn who she thought that was. Katelyn said that it sounded like a President Leavitt quote. Turns out she was right!!!

There you have it. That's about all there was from Katelyn this week. I'm so proud of my sister and hope i can keep up the blogs. I ran out of time but i'm going to up load pictures maybe tomorrow.

<33 Goodbye till next week!