Another one of my new-found top skills you ask, nodding. I feel like all I ever do since we switched to Spanish is nod my head and hope for the best. A Hermana from my district during our Devotional Review -we zoom on Tuesday nights as a district to talk about the weekly devotional- that she felt like all of us were picking up Spanish MUCH faster than her. I told her for at least me, I'm just nodding. Most of the district also admitted that they didn't know what was going on over half the time as well, the reassurance I got from hearing that was cathartic. We're supposed to stop them anytime we don't understand for them to repeat the instructions or say it in different words we may know; I personally think it's very brave of them to assume I remember how to ask them to stop/repeat themselves.
I finished Alma this week- I've been reading in Alma since before the MTC- and would like to take a moment for all of you to be excited with me. Thank you for your support during this blank space, it was a very exciting time for me.
I spend most of my day on zoom as you know, but I also spend at least an hour a day studying Spanish that we'll be using in the classes that day. A way to be semi-prepared for when they call on me if you will. It's a great idea, in theory, it is, but I still don't know what's happening. Hermano Wide or Hermana Edgel start talking about something and I revert back into the nod and thumbs up coping mechanism. It's all good though, eventually, it either clicks or someone throws me a lifeline of some sort.
Anyway, my district is trying to make a Christmas Video of sorts, kind of hard when everyone has a different vision and we're not even in the same room to coordinate with, but I think we can pull something together. I have absolutely no idea how to shoot or edit video so this may prove to be a total disaster or a phenomenal learning experience. Anyway, I hope it works out and one of us is capable of editing something that we can post online without our gag reflexes being set off.
This week has also been an absolutely atrocious week for District 7-B's internet. Almost everyone was having trouble at one point- which gave us some FANTASTIC freeze frames- including yours truly. Wifi at MTC Shelton went down and I had to try to hot spot the TRC zoom call on my phone. This obviously didn't work well because having service at the Shelton household is a pipedream, so I kept dropping in and out of the call. Which wasn't helpful to the fact that I can't understand a word Alisson - the girl we teach in TRC - says. My companions later told me that they kept thinking to themselves how lucky I was and that they wished their internet wasn't working during that call. We had a pretty set out lesson this week- all on a joint google doc we could pull for reference- and then when we mentioned the atonement she started asking questions (we thought she already knew about it so we weren't prepared for these questions). Instant panic ran over all three of us, I noticed all three of us desperately flipping through notes and typing on our computers trying to find something to say. Anyway, I now know what it is like to be a deer caught in the headlights officially, and honestly, I still feel like I could handle the situation better than a deer does. We're already planning next week's lesson, and I look forward to seeing what questions we weren't prepared for then.
Attached below is something Hermana Edgel had us do for class on Monday, we found a quote we liked in Spanish, I'm pretty sure it had to be about joy or happiness, and then she had us go take a picture for it. It was HECKA cold outside and I was in a skirt but at least I got to see outside for a while.
Also, if you are on this email I have preemptively added you to my email list without asking if you wish to be on it. If you do not wish to be on it, do the decent thing and simply delete the email, I don't need to know.
Much love,
Hermana Shelton
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