September 23, 2013

Hola Familia!

Wow sounds like every one has had a busy week! I hope everything is going well and that you have learned lots :)

your talk is amazing dad! i love that a lot. it reminds me of the scripture 2 nefi 29:7.

Well, this week has been quite interesting. We´ve had a lot of downers come up, but the Lord has been blessing us with these wonderful miracles.
Our investigator, Adelson (the one from columbia-my heart melts with i hear his voice), was having trouble deciding whether or not he wanted to be baptized. He believes the Church is true, but he´s worried about his exwife getting all antsy about it because she´s super catholic (he still loves her). Then we found out monday night that he was leaving to London for 3 months. WOW this sounds like a movie. I was pretty depressed. But that monday night we had a noche de hogar with this family at the temple grounds and for our spiritual thought, we took a temple tour. At the end, Hermana Stepp gave this amazing testimony about eternal families (she had just found out that her grandmothers brother died) and we gave her a framed family proclamation. We were all crying and in the end, the Lord blessed us with Adelsons sister and her daughter, Gabriela. They both are very interested in the Church and Gabriela has a member friend, as well as Adelsons sister, Nayibe. Gabriela has stated many times that she wants to serve a mission (she´s 8 years old) and that she wants to be baptized. We had given her a fake name tag but she was quite disappointed to find out it wasn´t hard and plasticy like ours :)  We think Nayibe wants her to be baptized too! The problem with Nayibe is that she works all day Saturday and Sunday, so she´d never be able to take time off for church. We´re praying for another miracle and are planning on asking her about changing schedules hopefully. Hermana Stepp and I feel that Adelson will get baptized in London, for him now, it´s a better place to know more about the Gospel. The Church is very old there and he´ll be able to find a lot of member support. I´m super excited but so help me if he doesn´t call the church office for the nearest church building, he´s fired and i´ll hunt him down to his grave. He sent me an email which i sent to ben and sasha to translate for me :) I feel very blessed to have so many spanish speakers in my family. i´ll marry one and then i´ll teach all y´all the spaniard accent. its very fun and quite easy :)
I feel very blessed to be serving in Barrio 6. The Elders have been absolutely wonderful and supportive and I feel incredibly blessed for all this. They helped us this morning move into our new piso and what a work it was! I´m grateful for the power of service. How unselfishly they gave it!

Uncle Doug wrote me a letter and its amazing how much I needed it. He doesn´t write often (this is probably his second or third time) but he´s always telling me the right things at just at the right moment. Both of us are preparing for this next coming general conference by rereading the may issue of the liahona (the ensign for you guys) and i feel sooooo blessed and enriched while reading it. Especially reading the priesthood session: reading those talks gave me a focus of what my future husband needs to be, my future mommyness and my future home. I am going to write down all of this so i won´t forget. its super important.

thanks for all your love and support! I feel very blessed to have such amazing friends and family. i love you all and if you want, pray for some spanish skills!

love you tons forever and ever

hermana kinsey emit (as the southerns spaniards say it- they dont say their S´s!)

September 16, 2013

Hola Familia!

well, we´re moving!! we´re leaving out of that apartment....its RIGHT SMACK on the metro and that is sooooooo beautiful!! we don´t have to take a stinkin long walk from who there to our old apt. we move in wednesday :) its brand spackin new as in she JUST finished renovated it all. 2 baños, 3 habitaciones, 2 hermanas. ssssíííííííí.....

oh and I love Section 135 of D&C. ´´They lived for Glory, they died for Glory and Glory is their eternal reward´´...wow such powerful stuff.

and to answer your questions about english class, we do! there are 2, wednesdays and saturdays. we teach saturdays and its super fun. we have 2 classes within the one class: basic and conversational. i teach basic and its always so much fun. we did the body a few weeks ago and then taught them ´´head shoulders knees and toes...´´ and then we´d play hang man. hahaa its so much fun!

and to answer your questions dad, those ideas to interact more nonmembers is a great idea. the problem is actually getting people to really participate. i think a person can really see some character and pretty much the Gospel itself is when there are service projects. but especially for those families with missionaries, have social visits! more is better, because then they feel more comfortable to ask questions. and who wouldn´t want to know why your child is gone for a long time!? its so cool hearing about the progress of the stake and ward. you´re doing a great job! I´m so proud of you guys! go Caldwell Idaho Stake! i know it will be sooooo difficult for some members. but ask the presidency from each organization to keep tabs on each of the members and their progress with missionary work. make it a PRIORITY. it is a big one and if we make it so, then it will be so. every 1st and 3rd sunday we´re in ward counsel, but yes it is mostly the Do you need something? oh good moving on... each organization, primary, YM, single adults, has a VITAL key in this work. have specific parties or functions for each organization. the missionaries will focus on that and they´ll see some grand success. i promise you that as a missionary.

Well, we had an amazing surprise this past weekend! We had the privalege to hear and shake hands with Elder Russell M. Ballard. He was here to a stake conference in another zone but last minute wanted all the missionaries from the the madrid zones and mtc to come for a mini fireside at 8 am. it was amazing. he focused a lot in section 11. i don´t remember word for word (its too good) but these are the words from someone else who recorded it word for word....

´´Elder Ballard gave a wonderful message. Part of it focused on D&C 11, where the Lord answers Hyrum Smith’s question, "What would the Lord want me to do?"

Verse 3 states, "Behold, the field is white already to harvest; therefore, whoso desireth to reap let him thrust in his sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts, that he may treasure up for his soul everlasting salvation in the kingdom of God."

And then, in verse 8, "even as you desire of me so it shall be done unto you; and, if you desire, you shall be the means of doing much good in this generation."

Notice the word DESIRE in these verses. The key to success is desire. Elder Ballard told us that all things that we desire and really believe in righteousness can be achieved.

Elder Ballard said, "Your success is directly proportional to your desire."

Then, he asked, "How much do you love The Lord? Do you love Him enough to get up on time?"

He said that this had been a very busy trip for him. Then said, "Frankly, I’m tired. Sometimes I ask myself, "What is an old 85 year old doing running around like this?" Sometimes he is tempted to get discouraged. When he does, he pulls out a small picture of the Savior that he always travels with, and looks into His face. He said that he keeps going because he understands Gethsemane." ´´

I was deeply touched by his words and it honestly helped me so much. Elder Maynes and Elder Dyches from the Seventy and presidency of the Seventy were there too and we shook their hands. Elder Maynes (or dyches i cant remember) said that our we should recite 3 Nefi 5:13 whenever we leave the house. now its taped by the mirror right before we leave. its an amazing scripture!

Now, about my week! This week was really good. Honestly, I can´t really ever say that a week is bad in the mission. Sure, there are trials and difficulties, but in all we´re doing the best thing any one can ever do and there is nothing negative in that! hahaa i´m glad to say i´m blessed with positivity. 

I have been trying to relay more and more on the Spirit. Literally every decision I make, I try and relay on what the Spirit tells me I need to do or what to focus on. It reminds me of what Elder Bednar said in his MTC talk about listening to the Holy Ghost. I have been trying more to do that and Hermana Stepp has been a great help. Every grand or small decision I make, later I´m doubting it. For example, our investigators daughter was returning to her home with her mom in the North. She had been staying with her dad for a month during vacations and while teaching him, she started praying and reading the book of mormon. She´s only 8 years old, but she told us that she likes the way we pray better than the Catholic way. Her mother is very Catholic and its difficult because we don´t want to get Adelson (our columbian) in a bad situation. But after giving it to her, I started to doubt, wondering if that was the right thing to do and wondering if we just nailed the coffin shut permanetely. Hermana Stepp asked me that when we made the decision, did I feel good about it? When I told her yes, she said, then it was a good decision. I have felt more sure of my decisions, knowing that they are in line to what my Heavenly Father would want me to do.

Its been a little disappointing with our investigators. Just this last week, we´ve literally have had half of our investigators ´´kind-of´´ drop us. One won´t answer his phone, the other doesn´t do the church thing, and the other one doesn´t want to get his ex-wife angry at him. Thats Adelson. yes. my adelson is doubting. siigghhh....i´ll write more next week on that. I´m trying very hard not to get discouraged because I can´t work with that spirit. Faith has been brought a lot in our discussions and they have helped me more I think than they´ve helped our investigators. Faith is the key and everything will fall into place.
I love you all very much! i hope you know i am so grateful for your support and everything that you do for me. know that I have a strong testimonty of this Gospel. That Jesus Christ lives and he is the only way to our Heavenly Father. I know this and I try and live it. i love you all and keep smiling! Because there is someone is Spain who loves you very much!

Loves and Hugs

Kinsey

September 3, 2013

Hey family! 

well hello transfers!! 

no i´m still in Barrio 6 with hermana stepp. i´m glad and not glad about it, but i know that I apparently need to learn a lesson i didn´t learn last transfer. which i can understand, because last transfer felt too much like a warm up transfer, which i do not like. honestly, the next future missionary i´m going to talk to is to warn them about the transfer after being trained. I´m going to make this transfer a hard one for me (poor steppy) so that it´ll be second nature to be super duper hard working and exactly obedient. i´d rather give up my luxuries now then be a lacking member and mother of the church for the rest of my dying days. no. me. gusta. para. nada. but dad we usually find out saturday nights, like at 10pmish. except if your district leader forgets to call you, then it might be like right before bed (thanks a lot). when we had our last district leader, he knew all the leaks. plus i lived with hermana munden and she knew everything and everyone about the missionaries.

hahaa i would love a picture of you and the coupe with the new plaque.

Thats great advice mom, but its a little different here in Madrid. we´ve asked out ward mission leader to give us service opportunities but nothings come up. i´ll try harder though:) I´ve been trying my hardest to be a nice and cheerful missionary for the ward members so that they´ll feel comfortable around us. next stop-the trust! i´m excited to finally get to work. Like I said before, I felt that last transfer was a warm up one and this one is when I actually know what I´m doing and NOW i can punch right in! I was just thinking of all the ward activities that they have and that we need to be very involved in them. I´m hoping that we´ll see some great success with this! Kyle Lee sounds familiar, but i dont know him :( but thats super sad that he died.  

well, mom, my best remedy for lack of sleep is A) infusion of lavender, B) exercise right before bed, and C) PRAY. but i know what you mean! millions of things runnin through your head! 

We were talking with Elder and Sister Riggs (some american missionaries workingin the employment center) yesterday and he asked us to share our favorite scripture. well we were all flippin through and we had this 20 minute discussion about the scriptures after wards. I just want to tell y´all that I LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON SO MUCH. if i could, i´d spend all day reading and studying it. i love how Heavenly Father helps us so much to retain what we´ve learned. Of this i´m certain, my love for the scriptures will be with me until my dying day. I´ve already made a scripture plan in my head after the mission. i don´t want to lose that burning fire in me to learn! 

Last night we taught a noche de hogar and we decided to teach the gospel of jesus christ and how the 5 pasos to the gospel (fe, el arrepentimiento, el bautismo, el don del espíritu santo, y preseverar hasta el fin) lead us to the temple. When we were teaching this, I felt so strongly in my heart that this Church is the church of Christ. that this is the perfect church in all the earth. My testimony was stregthened so much in that little noche de hogar (fhe). 

I want you all to know that I am proud to be a member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. I´m proud to wear this chapa (name tag) and to bear testimony of Jesus Christ everyday. I love my Savior so much and I love my Heavenly Father and the plan He has for all of us. I will cherish the day when I can be wrapped in His arms again. I am so grateful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ and I know that it is ONLY through Jesus Christ and our FAITH in Him, that we can return to our Heavenly Father. I can and never ever will deny my testimony. I wear my heart and my testimony on my sleeve and that is waht the rest of us should do. We wear the name tag over our heart and of all the reasons because its there, i know its because as missionaries and as members of His church, we have Him in our hearts. We are His Representatives and i am proud to be chosen as so. I love you all so very much and may God be with you until we meet again :) 

Con besos, abrazos y mucho amor, 

Hermana Smith

August 26, 2013

Hola familia!! 
I think I say this every letter, but at every moment it´s true: this week has absolutely FLOWN BY. I´m glad your trip to see some cali coasts went well!! I have been receiving your pictures, every one of them, and I appreciate them so much. hang on, did you guys get a new car? or is that just a random car coming out of the tree? 
anywhoo...i literally was bawling (on the inside...we´re in a public library; i can´t make a scene) looking at the picures of m´leighs BEAUTIFUL RECEPTION and that WHITNEY IS GOING TO ITALY AND WE ARE GOING TO BE NEIGHBORS. I kid you not, i think i´m going to break some rules if she comes to the spain mtc for italy. kid. you. not. thats probably why presidents going to send me to the north or to the islands during christmas. haha ok not really. i can just see sister jackson reading this letter.... 
This week, I have been trying to work my hardest at being a successful missionary and it´s incredibly difficult when time is not on your side! Honestly, the devil and time are your worst enemies on the mission. Though, our written number goals don´t look like a lot of progress, we´ve worked more with the members and with our inactives and recent converts this week. I feel like, even though they may not be doing their part as members, we as missionaries still try. We have been TRYING and TRYING and TRYING to have the leaders show the missionary broadcast. We just can´t understand why our stake hasnt seen it. i mean, seriously, its a mini general conference! the Profet and Apóstoles are speaking to us DIRECTLY AS MEMBERS AND AS REPRESENTIVES OF JESUCRISTO. President´s working on him though. I´m so glad president jacksons american. It´s great that you are asking that dad, because the members are so incredibly vital in missionary work. As a bishop, I think that best thing you can do is to make sure the leaders are doing their job and also, to TEACH THEM the importance of what they saw in the broadcast. The things that they told us ARE NOT SUGGESTIONS. When an Apostal or the Profet SAY something, THEY EXPECT ACTION. Not only is it difficult here in spain, but its difficult in the states. I´m writing this elder in Kansas (long story about him but nada romantic...sheesh) but i liked what he said here, ´´So in your mission do you try to focus on getting more members involved since the world wide broadcast, that is what we are trying to do here, but the members just don't seem to be jumping on board, the youth answered the call to serve now it's up to the adults to answer the call to be member missionaries. So sometimes I say to myself "Come on members, pick up the phone already!" ´´ EXACTAMENTE, elder black! well said! I second what Bishop Tidwell told me about you dad, he said that he´s sad to be released, but that ´´your dad has talents that i don´t have and that the ward needs now´´ and thats so true. if anyone can get people to work and to understand the importance of it, thats you. You have been specifically called as Bishop at this time so that you can lead these members into action!! 
This week, i have tried to focus more on families and their attendance to sacrament. I have felt that utmost need for their salvation. It´s difficult to witness them not partake of something absolutely wonderful. I was talking with Hermana Stepp and she was asking me what is my mini mission. I didn´t understand her at first, but she explained that a mini mission is a personal mission you have as well as the mission you´re in right now. When she asked that, I told her my mission was just to be an obedient missionary and thats all i needed to focus on. Now, I feel like it´s more focused on bringing those families to the temple. 
I´m by far not a perfect missionary, but like Elder Holland said, we are all the Lord has and I am willing and striving to be that obedient missionary, so that I feel in my heart that I´ve done my part and I can feel the Lord´s approval, like the scripture say´s, ´´Well done, my good and faithful servant´´. 
I love you all very much!! keep up the awesome work and GOD BE WITH YOU ´TIL WE MEET AGAIN!! (when his blah blah guide up hoooooold you.....something blah blah blah securly fooooooooolld you....)
Hermana Smith

August 19, 2013

Hola Familia!!! 
It sounds like all of y´all are having a splendid time! Poor jason must be besides himself with busyness because he forgot to write the most important person in his world....
but anywhoo wow what a week. (ooo synonems. or antonyms? hmm...) it flew by for me and it completely blows my mind that my last week of the transfer is next week. I kid you not, I was not expecting that!! As the saying goes, time flys when you´re having fun! It also reminds me of a quote that´s on our wall in the piso, ´´Live each day like it´s the last day of your mission!´´ I have been going back to that quote for awhile and I love it. But it´s so true, because the next thing I know, I´m going home!! And I am SO not ready for that right now. whitney even wrote to me and she said that my mission was 1/3 finished! and my hearts screaming NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! 
This week, I´ve been trying to work my hardest at seeing some action from our investigators. And man, has it been difficult!! I talked about Adelson last week and so I knew we needed to crack down a little on him. But then he decides to take a roadtrip! But my mind is focused and I am not forgetting my duty as a missionary. He has a sister who is just SO sweet and we´ve been trying to talk with her without really scary her off (I think before she was a jehovas witness) and just today we ran into her on the metro! Hermana Stepp has been trying to find someone to cut her hair and we find out that she was a hair dresser in Columbia! Oh, how the Lord works His ways!! It´s so amazing, because as a missionary, the Lord wants you to succeed. oooh i just get goose bumps thinking about all this!! 
I´m not going to lie, you missed an amazing baptism!! I have never felt the Spirit so strongly and I thought my heart was going to burst! We finally met Gregorio´s wife, Judit and she is a GEM. We got to talk to her for awhile while Gregorio was getting dressed and she said that it´s so difficult for her to get time off of work because she´s wanted to come sit in the lessons with us! Also, she said she trys to read in the Book of Mormon, but it´s difficult for her to read the small letters, but then she said that Gregorio sometimes reads to her. OH MY GOODNESS. I thought my heart was going to burst! We asked if we could come over sometime and she said she´d love too because she´d love to learn more about everything. Also, when Gregorio was getting baptized, she said that she could see herself doing that soon!! (OHMYGOSHMYFIRSTTEMPLECOUPLE). Everything went so much better, despite the stress of it all. And for days, Gregorio was preparing his testimony and had written everything down on pieces of paper! When he went up there to give it, he thanked everyone, including us, for helping him better his life and that, ´´Sé que el Señor nos ama´´. I´m sorry, but that´s huge! He has grown so much! The Spirit has literally never been stronger in my life, I kid you not. I was holding someones hand on my left and clutching hermana stepps skirt on my right and making little ´´OOOOOHH!!´´ noises. a little embarrassing, but i dont care. 
It´s been super difficult to reach number goals because there are literally zero peeps on the street and its showing in our weekly numbers! Reaching our goals has been huge for me this week and so even though I´m not reaching goals by numbers, i´ve been trying for people, and that is more fulfilling. I feel my mission has been more inriched and that just testifies to me that the Lord loves us so much. The mission has strengthened my testimony and by doing so, it as also strengthened myself. Every day, I have never regretted my decision to serve. I don´t even recognize the person I was before! 
I love you all so much! oh ya, i went to toledo today. I have never felt like i´ve been in spain before until toledo. its pretty, but also pretty touristy. 
have a fantastic week!! 
love y hugs
hermana esmit

August 13, 2013

Hola Familia!! 
This week was SUPER. Our apartment has been falling apart lately and so this repair guy comes at a really not so good time. not so good as in my hair was all wet, we were studying, and i was half in my pj´s. so we leave our door open of the study room so that he can come in with questions and i literally forget about him. next thing i know a man´s voice speaks spanish RIGHT behind me and i go AAHHH!! kinda like home alone. i turn around and he´s looking at me really shocked then say´s, BOO. madre mia. these spaniards are so weird. or just europeans in general. man i really miss america. but golly was that embarrassing. 
but this week was good! its flown by, like every week in the mission. makes me super sad, because i´ll be hitting my 5 months next week and i am just so flabbergasted!! Time is not your friend in the mission. 
we´ve been planning for our baptism with a spaniard named Gregorio. He is so ready. just blows my mind!! but my columbian, Adelson, is doing great! Well, he doesn´t have a baptismal date yet, but he has such a strong testimony of the book of mormon. its been a little difficult to teach him because his niece and daughter are sometimes in lessons and it gets a little er rowdy, but we get along well. in one of these lessons, he wanted to show us a picture on his phone; it was his background picture of the madrid temple and he had added these words ´´La Iglesia Verdadera´´ 
EEEEEPPP!!! oh my heart just burst with happiness!! its so hard to keep a neutral face as a missionary sometimes!! oh he literally makes me sing. i can´t say his name without putting my hand over my heart. so the next lesson we had was just him and we asked him about baptism. he wants to be baptized but he said he wants an eternal family with his daughter and ex wife!! he was so sad that he can´t have his family with him, but we testifyed to him of eternal families. he is so worried because his ex wife is very catholic and his daughter (who is 8) wants to get baptized in this church because she say´s she likes the way we pray :) oh my corazon. its so complicated. 
we were plannin on going to toledo this week, but instead we´ll do it next week. my old district leader, Elder Pizarro, just found out that his mom has cancer and his dad doesn´t have work :( we´re super worried for him and he said his family might have to move to america for jobs. we´re praying that all goes well for him and his family :( 
This transfer has been a little slow. mostly because all of madrid decided to leave for vacations and there are literally NO ONE out. sundays? zip. From 2pm to 7 pm? nada. it has been very trying for me. but i will appreciate the fall and springs even more!! 
i´m doing just fine with my companion :)  she is amazing in lessons. thanks for the story of you and griz though!! it always makes me smile :) and makes me miss griz :( but thats ok. he´ll still be there when i go home. 
Nothing else really happened this week! But i just want you to know how grateful i am for every little letter or message i get. it warms my heart knowing that i have loved ones so far away. I am so grateful to be on this mission. i´m grateful for the calling that i have a invitar a las personas a venir a Cristo. Everyday, i am thankful for what i have, now and for eternity. I have a strong testimony of jesus christ and what he has done for each and every one of us. I can´t wait for the day when i can be wrapped in his arms again. it has literally been a dream of mine. know that i love you very much and that you are all great examples to me. keep the letters coming and i love you!!

Con amor, para siempre, 
Hermana Smith

August 5, 2013

HAAAPPPY BIIIRRTTHHDDAAAYY DADDY!! We celebrated your birthday by fasting. I hope your cake was good!!
Hola Familia!!
I hope life is going spectacular and you are enjoying the hot weather. we´ve been enjoying our time in the heat too. i´ve got some nice tanlines to show off the fruits of my labors. 
This week was really good and it has been a good process with the whole companionship changes. i´ve finally got my ´´sea legs´´ on so things were going smoother! 
to start off the week, we taught this family from the area book and when we showed up, it was a full house!! they´re a couple with their 10 year old daughter and then they had friends over, so i got a little nervous with the huge crowd, but it turned out really well. they like our church, but when they had gone to church, they didn´t like how things were done. we decided to share 3 nefi 11:14 with them and we talked about Christ and man was that a quiet room!! it was absolultely amazing being able to bare testimony of Jesus Christ and His Atonement. its absolutely amazing because my spanish is dang good when i´m speaking in lessons and on the streets but every other time, i am that 5 month old missionary learning spanish. something hermana stepp said was great (because her spanish is almost as bad as mine). she was talking to mtc missionarys and their usual questions are about the spanish progression and she said, ´´i speak really good spanish when i have the spirit with me!´´ and how true is that! i don´t worry about my spanish really. i know that as long as i´m an obedient missionary and do the work i am assigned to do, i have nothing to worry about. when i am in a trouble-ish situation, i don´t worry about it. i mean ya i do but i know i have the greatest companions on my side and no one can fight that.
we had a great zone training meeting (this one didn´t last for 4 hours) and it was great. they´ve asked us to focus more on families because our goal for baptism is 1000 and we can reach that goal with families. we´ve been really praying for family opportunities and also focusing more on our less active families and the families that are investigating the church. its a little difficult because we like to contact small groups and not feel like the center of attention, but we gotta do what the Lord wants us to do! its a great opportunity to grow as a missionary. 
oh my gosh, i AM SO LOVING THE MISSION!!! its hard and difficult and sometimes i wanna just sit on a bench and watch people walk past, but i always think of what hermana hansen said to me about rejection from people ´´its ok. when we die and go to the spirit world, they´ll be there and they´ll thank us for trying.´´ wow. how powerful. then i thought of what would happen if they came up to me afterwards and said, ´´why didn´t you talk to me??´´ AH i get this fat panic feeling in my chest!!! because its so true! This work that we are doing is an Eternal work. Souls are at risk here!! Hermana stepp says this same phrase when people ask us where we´re going: we´re going to save some souls!! i always rolled my eyes at that remark, but its true. as cliché as it sounds, its true. 
Thank you for all of your kind words and encouragement. Know that each of your letter uplifts me more each week. I´m sorry I can´t answer all your questions, but if you´d like, write them down and send them with the package!! And speaking of package....mommy? Can you stick in: white v necks hanes or fruit of the loom (or whatever its called) package in small and medium. they´re in walmart :) also, i want más fotosof friends and family! 
oh and 
-German chocolate cake mix and/or white/yellow cake mix
-Concealer stick Covergirl + Olay 320 fair/light
-Zebra pens (jason will know what i´m talking about)
-reeses :D
oh and dad and jason? can you stick the new bible videos on a dvd for me? they´re great help for our investigators and we wished we had more access to them. 
thats all!!! i love you guys sooooooooooooo much!! You are my insperation....family!!
and no i don´t go shopping shopping shopping every week. 
but i did today because i´m wearing the same 3 shirts in a row everyday. its getting a little stinky and old. 
LES QUIERO UN MONTON!!!!!
Hermana Esmit
oh and i heard that i can order a chapa with Esmit on it!! AH YEAH!
Oh and can you ask mama bert if she knows Sister Stepp from the family history center? she worked on the 2nd floor. our grandmothers might know eachother!!