April 9th letter

**Emily Disclaimer-I'm not editing Sandras letters, the wonderful spelling is all hers and all Grindstaff**

> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:55:17 +0000
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> Hola! Another difficult week at the CCM has past and I´m still trying to drink as much from the firehose(all the info they´re trying to stuff into my head) as I can without talling apart.
> Last Friday we got to go out proselying again. I don´t know if I mentioned it, but there are about a batrillion dogs here in Buenos Aires... and me and my companion had the priveledge of meating like 100 of them during out 2 hour proselyting time. Most of the dogs are nice, but then there are a few that are just plain mean. At one time we had a whole neighborhood of dogs barking at us (it was a little frightening :) Fortunatly for us, one of out teachers taught us that if you bend over like your picking up a rock, the dogs will run away. We were a bit skepitcal when he told us this, but to our great surprise we learned that it works! Oh, and I´ve also learned not to way "let´s just see what the dog does" while approaching (sp?) a house. Most likely the dog with the evil glare in his eye, sitting on the porch, will chargeat you and scare the living daylights out of you. ah, good experiences.
> Conference was really good. It was nice to have 2 full days of hearing a laguage that I understand (it was even better that the speaking came from prophets and leaders of the church)
> On Sunday we had a testimony meeting before conference started. The meeting was completely in spanish and I surprised myself and stood up and bore a simple, short testimony (despite my fears of speaking spanish). The presidents wife told me I´d be blessed for my efforts to speak the language. There have been times that I have felt like giving up (don´t worry though, I won´t give up even when I feel like it)
> Tomorrow is my first English fast and I am a little nervous....
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> I love you all and I look forward to receiving all those letters. Don´t be slackers in writing your missionary OKAY!
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> -hermana Grindstaff