Hermana Tess Crawford: New Companion from Texas!

Hey fam!

Sorry this letter's not gonna be super extensive because once again the computer is crappy and I lost a lot of time waiting for it to work :/ Thanks for the emails!! I read every line and saw every pic but I'm going to skip commenting on it so that I can tell you real quick how my week was!

From Monday to Thursday we basically went and said bye to all of the peeps that Hna Chorolqui had met in her four months here, and tried to get everything packed and ready! On Thursday we took the 4 hour colectivo ride to Mendoza and arrived at about 9:30 pm at the mission offices. There waiting for us were two new sisters, and also a new elder, Elder Holmstead, who was with me in the MTC just in the upper level class and was also in my zone in Ogden! Also awaiting me were letters from Jenna, Sis Peterson, Herm Hales, Grandma, and the package from you!!! It was the best!! They didn't tell us which of the newbies were our comps, so we just got to know them a little bit, I read my letters/opened my package, and then went to bed!

The next day we ate german pancakes for breakfast that Hna Ence made and then had an awesome training (just the 6 of us) from Pres Avila and the Asistentes. During the middle of it, HNA HALES walks in and we pretty much both died from the excitement of seeing eachother after almost 4 months.. it was the best! She's also going to be with a new hermana, but hers is from Nicaragua and she had to pick her up from the airport on Friday. Crazy! She's doing really well though and we got to talk for like an hour during lunch and catch up. After lunch we found out who our comps were and had to get ready to go to our areas! My comp is Hna Tzorin. She's 21 and she's from Texas, but her mom is Mexican and her dad is Guatemalan so she speaks fluent Spanish and grew up going to a Spanish ward! She's been in the field just about 6 months in Riverside California, and she's super cool. She's really excited to finally be here and she wants to know everything about the culture and Castellano, so it's been a ton of fun getting to show her around and teach her all about alfajores, mate/malta, che (which basically means "dude"), stray dogs, the rules of cheek kisses, etc. We're really good friends already and we balance each other out pretty well, so I'm excited for the miracles we're gonna see this transfer!

Nothing too crazy has happened yet, but our investigators are doing well and were working on finding some new ones! She has a lot of great ideas and I don't feel at all like I'm training or anything like that, which is a relief! Next week should be a good one out here in San Rafael, and I hope yours is awesome too! Keep the commandments! Haha, love you guys!!

PS- I LOVE the music that you sent, it's perfect!! And the trail mix was still good (: Thanks again, hopefully the pringles can comes soon too!