Hola!!

Hola!! Thank you so much for all of the letters, it was great to here from you all. Getting a letter is like Christmas here, it literally makes my day. And thank you so much for the donuts! We went to the temple this morning and did initiatories, and decided not to eat in the cafeteria there and ended up just eating the left over donuts you sent for breakfast. Everything is going really well here. I still miss home but It is great to be here learning more and more about the gospel. Hmm... where to start. last Thursday we had this nastiness smell in the building where our classroom is so we all had to go outside for class. There was some kind of sewage problem I'm not quite sure what it was. The Elders are being 19 year old boys, a lot of them are unmotivated and they will end up playing games they made up on the white board for most of our study time. It's getting way to distracting for those of us who actually want to study so we talked to them about it and hopefully they will listen. I am always tired here. It gets ridiculous sometimes how tired I am. We have to do this Spanish thing on the computer and the other day I just passed out right at the computer. Everyone says you'll be tired your whole mission. Yay... Sunday was so good. We get to go on temple walks on Sunday and it was such a nice day. We just went and sat behind the temple and took some pictures. We have no way of printing off pictures here, but some of the boy's went off campus the other day to go get some medicine for the stye in his eye and he printed off some for us so I should be sending you it. I hope ya'll got my last picture. Mary cook, the general young women first counselor came and talked to us in relief society. she talked about us being a light unto the world. It was really good. And then she showed us the youth mormon message "sanctify yourself" and that really brought the spirit. We get to watch a video at the end of Sundays. This Sunday we watched the "testaments" and last sunday we watched a talk by elder Bednar. You get to choose between the movies or a talk. Hermana Flandro was sick on Monday, throwing up all day so I had to stay at the residence in the lounge. I got  A LOT of studying done. Were not supposed to take naps even on P Day so I just studied all day. It was good because I got a lot done and memorized the first vision in Spanish. Everyone is kind of sick here. It just spreads like crazy. I'm a little congested but it hasn't been that bad quite yet. Thank you for sending the coat by the way, it is perfect. Elder Neil L Anderson came and talked to us at our devotional yesterday, it was AMAZING. It so good to here from an apostle. He gave us 9 teachings of President Monson and they all had to do with missionary work. Afterwards we had a testimony meeting as a district as we do every Tuesday and the spirit was so strong. Our district is so amazing and we have all gotten so close. Even the goof offs gave amazing testimonies.

I feel so blessed to be here. It sometimes hits me full force that I am actually a missionary. Most the time we just forget. Spanish is coming along really well. I know that God is helping me with this because there is no way I could know all I do in such a short amount of time. Our lessons for our fake investigators are going really well. Hermana Flandro is getting so much better at spanish but it gets frustrating sometimes because a lot of the people in our class are in beginner level and some of us arent. Apparently they were supposed to check how well we knew spanish already before we came but they didn't for a few of us. Thank you so much for all of your prayers, i pray for each of you every day. Please pray for me to overcome my weaknesses and overcome my feelings of inadequacy. I love you all so so much and cannot wait to see you all and where you all are in 18 months. I hope I will be changed for the better as well. Miss you all!!! Love you so so so much!!!! Les Quiero! Hasta Luego :)

your loving daughter,

Hermana Decker

PS.. please tell grandma thank you for her letter, it was soooo good to hear from her and her letter was so amazing and really made my day.

PSS... I still have 9 minutes left on my time limit on email, so I will get on later to see if anything is on here, but then I can't get on till next wednesday. Send letters!!! :)