My companion and I are getting along really well. She`s an absolute sweetheart. In every companion prayer that we have together she prays to God to give me the gift of tongues. She's always praying for me. She`s told me that she's here for me whatever I need. It's really wonderful to have such a loving, sweet, social companion.
Funny story today...so it didn't happen today, it actually happened a while ago, but whatever right? So some members give us a LOT of food. The other day we had dinner with the other two hermanas that are in our ward. They had told us on Tuesday in our district meeting that she gives a LOT of food and that we neeeeed to tell her, "I don't eat a lot." So I definitely wasn't thinking about that when we got to the member's house. I sat down at the table when one of the other hermanas whispered forcefully, "Go to the kitchen," (in Spanish of course)...I was like ¨What?¨And she said, ¨Remember what I said on Tuesday...go in the kitchen and tell her that you don't eat a lot!!" And I was like uhhh....so I followed the member into the kitchen and started casually talking to her about her family...and when she started serving my dish I said, "Oh by the way I don't eat a lot," (In Spanish of course). And then she asked me, "And your companion?" and I said, "The same I think..." So she ended up giving her more than me....and my companion wasn't too happy...but I tried!!
Alright now I`m going to send some pictures. One of the pictures will be of my new favorite fruit. It tastes like a strawberry and looks really cool. Its called Momochino or something like that. I cant remember what the other pictures I was going to send are but we`ll see shortly!
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So I think that this computer just erased all of the photos that I had on this memory card....blargh
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Okay so when I put my memory card into the computer the antivirus program installed on this computer decided that my photos were a virus and deleted all of them. I saw the popup for the virus protection program but didn't have time to close it before it deleted all of my photos. Why? Because there were only four on there so the program worked really fast :P Sooo I`ll have to take another picture of my favorite fruit and show it to you another day...sorry about that.
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Okay so when I put my memory card into the computer the antivirus program installed on this computer decided that my photos were a virus and deleted all of them. I saw the popup for the virus protection program but didn't have time to close it before it deleted all of my photos. Why? Because there were only four on there so the program worked really fast :P Sooo I`ll have to take another picture of my favorite fruit and show it to you another day...sorry about that.
On other notes, I`m happy, all is good, its absolutely beautiful here and I`m going to take pictures of my area one day to show you.
Today we`re having a little get together with the other hermanas in our ward. We`re going to have lunch together and get to know each others houses and areas a little. Its weird to not have Elders in the ward but its fun to have other missionaries.
The ward is pretty small. The attendance was 98 people this past Sunday. Unfortunately that means that 26 people didn't show up this week that showed up last week. Our goal by the end of this transfer is to have 145 people attending the church. We`re fasting once a week and praying a lot for the attendance. And of course working like crazy to invite all of the inactive members and less active members.
This Sunday we had another activity to rescue the inactive members. It was really different this time because the missionaries in charge had a husband and a wife take a sister and an elder...so I was companions with a member and I was with an Elder who was companions with the member's husband. It was a bit strange and I was glad that there was also a young man that came with us so it wasn't like...as awkward and uncomfortable as it could be. The area was supposedly more of a ghetto area than our area but it seemed pretty tranquilo to me. We were in Margarita.
The first of September we`re going to have the rescue activity in our ward. We`re preparing for that. This ward needs a LOT of help from the missionaries. I`m really hoping to be able to help the ward be stronger before I leave here.
Send my love to everyone!
Hermana Hannah
[Since the upload didn't work, I (Hannah's mom) looked around the internet a little and found this fruit. Wikipedia says that in Panama and Costa Rican Spanish they call it, "mamón chino ('Chinese Sucker') due to its Asian origin and the likeness of the edible part with Melicoccus bijugatus." It is related to lychee.]
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