Days 7–11: Getting the hang of things

So this Sunday we went to the ward here.  It was so great!  The spirit is very strong here.  I could understand all of the testimonies and a lot of people in our group got up to bear their testimonies.  It was great and just was I needed.  I was able to participate in Sunday School and Relief Society, too.

This week, I've gone to the beach again.  And last night, we went to an Institute activity to learn how to Salsa dance.  It was so fun.  They hold Institute three times a week and I really want to go to get to know all of the members my age.  I've been learning a lot from little niece Julia and from Mamá Pilar and Tía Amira.  I love our conversations at meal times.  Lots of funny stuff to talk about with so many girls around.

The result from my fight with the hiding rocks on the shore.

School this week has been a little stressful.  In my Yucatán culture class, we have guest speakers and the one we've had this week is hard to pay attention to and understand.  However, I'm beginning to really like my Cultura Latinoamericana class—the one I was so worried about before.  I'm starting to become familiar with the way my professor speaks and I'm getting used to his vocabulary.  There are only 6 of us in the class now and its fun to just talk about random things with our prof.  Today I had to present my exposition about the Mayans.  I worked on that presentation for many hours this week reading the book, researching, and practicing how I was going to say everything in front of the class.  It went well enough and I'm just glad I'm done with it.

Until next time:)