Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee with warm hearts and friendly hands.

 I have been out of town.  This is Destinee's email from last week, June 23rd, 2010

Hola mom. It has become more fun here. Our wash day is not the same day as Pday. Pday is Wednesday .

We went to the temple this morning and it is cool. It was small, but beautiful.

There are very noisy birds here. We do not see many insects here but I have heard of cucarachas in the cocina at night. It is hard writing on a spanish keyboard. There are 12 people in our district- me and hermana Pond, who is awesome. She is very musically talented, and is from Bountiful Utah. There are 10 elders: Elders Peterson, Ogden, Porter, Lontine, Pulsifer, Johnson, Briggs, Crittenden, Bench, and Wilkinson. Elder Lontine is our district leader and he is awesome at it.

Sunday was busy. We had meetings all day. At night we had a district meeting where we shared testimonies and why we were here on missions. It really helped our district understand each other better and become closer. Our district likes to sing. The first half of the week here was very difficult, but now I love it. The food is good but there is a lot of meat. I do not understand all of the Spanish, if any and I do not speak it well, but I am learning and improving. We have a lot of free time during the day, especially between 2 to 5 where we have our MDT or missionary directed time. It is a lot of time to study. In class we are covering everything my district covered in Provo, whether in grammar or doctrine. It is a good review, though. There is a teacher that is crazy here that comes into our classroom often and talks to everyone. He asks a lot of random questions. Often he greets everyone by saying "Mormon guys", which now includes girls too.

Our district-@top E. Pulsipher, E. Johnson, Elder Ogden, Wilkinson, Petersen, Bench, Crittenden, porter, Briggs, Lontine, y me, Hermana Ayala (teacher), Hermana Pond

Destinee had a couple of experiences with a particular scripture this week.  It was D y C 121:7-9.  She had a few occasions to refer it to someone and that other missionaries had also had enter their head at various times.

I will have the chance to stay until December 13 instead of coming home in November. I do not know if you have found that out? Well, I pretty much ran out of things to write about for now...

We have guards or policemen surrounding the CCM and they have the charge to watch over us and protect us. We leave the CCM grounds for practice contacting.

I love you all and wish you well. I know that this church is true and that there is nothing better than serving a mission at this moment. The Lord protects his missionaries and he truly guides us as to what to say. The scriptures contain powerful information. I have learned that no matter how much I know or do not know the spirit is what matters in this work. I love you again and I will write to you later. Love Hna Destinee