October 14, 2018 Santa Fe

maayong ugdo!!! maayong semana diri sa santa fe!!!

wow it feels like so much has happened since being here in Santa Fe!!! Lemme tell ya. being in the city is a whole new experience!! i absolutely love it here. 

first off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BROTHER BEN WOWOWWOW 17 YEARS OLD ON SUNDAY!!!! go celebrate him he deserves it. we have a dinner appointment on sunday with this man because its his birthday too on the 21st so hes gonna have cake and stuff there and in my head ill be throwing my own mini party over here in the philippines for Ben. wahoooo!!!

the highlights-
-THEY HAVE A MEXICAN FOOD RESTAURANT HERE AND IVE NEVER BEEN  MORE EXCITED. i guess the owner is from puerto rico and started his own mexican restaurant. so we're going there this week and im PUMPED.
-also they have milk here FROM A COW. there was none of that in sagay. so im thriving off the one brand of cereal that they make in this country. life is good
-we found an american!!! he invited us in his house and hes from Boston (with an accent and everything). hes married to a filipina. hes got a way cool story. he has 9 gun shot wounds and was serving in afghanistan right after 9/11. but lets just say teaching in english is a whole new experience that is suprisingly harder than illongo which is so backwards but ya know

and wow. this week has really just been so so so amazing. i went into this week with a lot of nervousness about follow up training. I wasnt feeling completely confident in this language and didnt know how this was gonna go wiht her only being here 6 weeks. but wow. somehow everyday i can just talk with everybody. i can understand them and have full on conversations with anybody. its literally a miracle casue i could not do that a week ago. God is helping me so so so much. If it was just me here theres no way i could be doing this. But He is handing over all the blessings i think. He probably knows theres no way these 2 american 19 year olds could make it on their own here hahah. but for real so so grateful. 

we watched general conference yesterday and saturday!! it was so awesome and so great to hear from a modern day prophet and apostles. we were loving it and especially the MTC choir that sang. brought back all the mems from the mtc. good times

life is good over here!! we're crusing along. i hit my 3 month mark in the philippines on thursday and then my 5 month mark in the mission in a couple weeks. time just keeps on flying!! 

miss you all and love you all!!!
Sister Johnson





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