The Adventures of Hermana Patten

  Hey everyone!!  I hope your weeks were absolutely phantasmagorical. I know mine was! - Last Monday, we played the most epic game of kickball as a district. It was 100 million degrees and me and the district leader were talking smack (all fun and games, dont worry) so they made us be on a team by ourselves. We still won. Mostly. Today for pday we get to go on a hike and I am absolutely over the moon excited. I'll let you know how it is next week. - BLESSING. Basically, my retainer broke. We went to a dentist out in spring creek and they took a new mold (if you've never had to do this, count your blessings, it tastes disgusting and just triggers your gag reflex... yay). We went to the front, and I was prepared to pay like $200 to get it fixed but they said that it was going to be free! It was a huge miracle :) - We painted some Libro de Mormóns with members and it was super fun. Then we went to English class and my comp made fried oreos. They're basically just diabetes on s...

  Hey friends! This week was a little bit of an emotional roller coaster. Last Monday, my mom told me that my  puppy died and that was really hard for me. On top of that, so many people cancelled lessons and we got a flat tire. HOWEVER the tender mercies of the Lord are great!! We also saw so so many good things and miracles this week! - Yesterday at sacrament meeting, our chapel was fuller than I think I've ever seen it! One of our friends who we weren't expecting came, along with an inactive member we met this week who hasn't been to church for at least the four years she's been in Elko! I was so happy when I saw them that I felt like my heart was going to burst, it's so hard to put into words. - We didn't get T-boned at a stoplight, so that was amazing amazing amazing! We were about to turn (our light was very much green, don't worry) but me and my comp both had the feeling to pause for a second, so we did. And then this giant red SUV comes whipping throu...

  Hola hola hola amigos!! Saturday I hit two months on the mission! Man, does time fly when you're having fun. And this week was absolutely amazing! - On Tuesdays, we have English class that we go and help out at. This week, we were learning all about food words and cooking words... so our awesome awesome teacher decided we were going to cook! We made orange julius and probably the fluffiest German pancakes / Dutch babies / whatever you want to call them I've ever seen in my life. It was so delicious and fun! Also, Hermana Rivera and I gave the spiritual thought and she made me do the translating to Spanish part... it was terrifying but really good and everyone was really nice about my spotty spanish. - I went to my first district counsel! I also had to give a training that I'd never even heard of before, so that was cool. However, it was a blast! This spirit was fire and my district is pretty cool. We also went to subway after which was good vibes too. - okay so we have th...

  Hey friends! I hope your lives are all so so good :) and if you haven't already, I would still love it if you sent me your favorite scriptures from the Book of Mormon! I love seeing them and getting to hear a little from y'all! This week we talked to the police!! We saw a fight break out at the foodbank we were serving at and the police were called and we were witnesses! They took down our names and recorded our story and everything, it was crazy! Besides that, nothing too crazy happened. Here's a couple highlights: - I made the worst cookies I've ever made in my life... don't worry we didn't deliver those ones. - MORMON CRICKETS ARE HUGE AND GROSS AND DISGUSTING. I find it ironic that I've never seen one until now (given that I grew up in Utah) but they're everywhere here and can I just say...  EW! - We had a fiesta with our rama (branch) that was a potluck and someone brought taco lasagna to share... it was SO good. We also played games and watched t...

  Ah hola amigos!!  I feel like it's been forever since I've written because so so much has happened! Because of that, this email will probs be pretty long. Just a forewarning. You can definitely just skip to the pictures at the end if you want, I know that was a favorite pastime of mine as a non missionary lol. Anyways, if you do, just know that God loves you so much for ever and always!!! Okay... so since I last wrote, I finished at the CCM/MTC (duh, I'm in Nevada now haha). Our last couple days went a little like this: - Lots of goodbyes (and tears). We said goodbye to Hermano Santiago and Hermana Sanchez, our teachers and that hurt because they were so amazing. On Sunday, we said goodbye to most of our district. Monday, we said goodbye to the rest. (BTW, Monday was probably the weirdest day of my life because we had NO SCHEDULE and so much time... with not a lot of stuff to do). Saying goodbye to my district was also mega hard but it's okay because I know that they...