Letter from Rachel!!

Hey everyone! Here is a letter word for word from our favorite Masa! Enjoy!


Family!
Week 4 crazy how that is already! We went to the temple today and it was amazing as always. Funny thing was that I thought we all agreed on doing 5 names for the inititiory and thats what i did...my other companions did 10 so i had been waiting for some time for them to finish. I sat next to this temple worker in the locker room and she tells me that she had just served there as a senior couple in Lie Paia and they had opened that area. That is one of the 3 areas that I will serve. She also gave me a name of a woman and say hi to her...crazy how things happen...and that if I had done all 10 names and didn't get out early I would of never met that woman so I can't wait to find this lady. Church is true.
Through out the weeks our teachers had wanted us to get a "Progressing Investigator" from what we know is that they are "non-members" and it's a reinactment of meeting someone for the first time and teaching them the lessons...They have I believe 6-7 of these people and they are alwasy in character. So my companions and I wanted to sign up for a pretty easy person for we wanted to try out the waters for our first time. We signed up for a spanish/english speaker named Daniel. His background story is he is catholic, is from mexico and has 4 brothers. Masa Gomez and I went in for the first time and it was so crazy! He was hard core!At first he wasn't going to let us in and actually closed the door on us twice! I kinda freaked but my companion kept at it and was making deals, and it was funny looking back but at the time I'm like "what the heck!" When we started teaching the spirit was not there at all and there was so many distractions that it was so hard to teach and it was more of an argument than a lesson, but he asked us to come back...he makes things so akward...Daniel calls himself the "missionary killer!" Yeah so intimidating. And I would always hate Tuesdays b/c that is when we had to teach Daniel and I always fell unprepaired and he throws in hard questions. At one time my companion and I were going to drop him b/c we didn't think we would get anywhere and that we could take more lessions to get better but this last week we had found out that Daniel was not a memeber and that he just workd at the MTC listening to the lessions every day...that got me nervous...but last week he really opened up to us and told us of his concerns. It was such an awesome experiance! To have that feeling of doubt and fear turn into commpassion and love for him. I just hope and pray that we are able to help him out. I'll keep ya'll updated. We teach him tomorrow...gosh I hope he's in a good mood :)
Language is coming slow...boo! It's somewhat difficult and it's not at the same time, but my companions are so willing to help and I just love them for it. I'm starting to adjust here a little more...Those 6:30 mornings somewhat kill still but i'm not as tired at the end of the day which is awesome. It also helps having gym! Oh I love the gym...I fun most of the time to get all the frustration our and it's awesome!
Alright family...I think it's time that ya'll start telling me whats going on in all your lives, the only peeps I've heard from is...you know who you are and I loved the letters...Ashley is winning by the way :) She has written me every week...so family GET MOVING ON THOSE LETTERS! I just want one from everyone once a month and i'll be happy! I love ya'll and want to know whats going on. Welp time to study, and then laundry, and then more study time! So much fun loves it!
Love Always,
Masa Hermann