Once again I don´t have much time to write, and I´m nervous about putting my USB and SD card in the computer because last time all of the pictures were deleted from my memory card. The internet places here are really sketchy and I don´t want to lose any more photos!
Now for a little update on this week:
Monday: We had to do our weekly planning in the morning...super crazy insane. The mission president changed our weekly planning session from Friday to Sunday. I´m not really sure why, but we´re trying to follow that new rule....but it didn't work out this week so we had to plan on Monday. After the internet, I had lunch at Subway. My companion didn't eat because she was fasting. As a mission group (the bishop, our mission leader, and us four missionaries) we´re doing a 40 day fast. My day is Tuesday. After lunch, we did our laundry. Then at 5 we had a family home evening. And then we had another family home evening at 7:30.
Tuesday: We had our district meeting in the morning. It was fun to officially meet everyone. We were combined with another district. My old companion, Hermana Chavez, is in the other district. It's really crazy weird that I know so many people here. It makes me feel like I have a lot of time in the mission. In the afternoon, we helped a guy push his car to get it started. It was pretty funny because he and his friend had already turned down the help of some guy. And then we came along asking if we could help and he just gave us a look like, "What in the world?" So we just started pushing the car and he started laughing. My companion and I had fun. Then we had lots of appointments.
Wednesday: Last Sunday we met a guy named S. P. He´s from France and speaks very little Spanish and even less English. In the lesson on Sunday, his friend, who is a member and speaks both French and Spanish, helped translate for him. On Wednesday, we had another lesson with him...but this time his friend wasn't there to help. It was really interesting and amazing that we were able to communicate. It was a pretty fun lesson. Another member was with us but she doesn't speak French, only a little of English. So our lesson was in Spanish, English, and French. I understood some French!! P.S. My first day here I met someone from Germany and was able to speak to him a little in German. Thank you Jake!!
Thursday: We were allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving! A missionary couple invited the zone to come over to their house. It was absolutely beautiful. It was really funny but none of the latinos knew what stuffing is. Afterwards my companion felt sick to her stomach and one of the gringos said, "Is it the strange food?" It made me think what it will be like to eat like someone from the US again. After the food, we had a little talent show thing and I learned something. My zone is extremely talented. People played the guitar, sang, juggled, and changed the words to songs to make them more dramatic and funny. It was a really neat experience. Afterwards, we had a group night in the church.
Friday: We worked really hard. We had to take a bus to another part of our area to find a reference from a member. The reference ended up not being able to so we decided to contact. Because of that, we found two golden investigators. In the evening we had a service project...a surprise service project because we didn´t know until we got there that this less active member needed help. She was raking up a hugeeeee pile of garbage in her back yard. So we helped her fill the wheelbarrow to take it out of her back yard. Well my companion helped more than I did because she´s super strong. Once it got dark, my job was to hold a flashlight so that they could see. After that, we had a wonderful lesson with one of our new converts. He´s going to be receiving the priesthood really soon so we had a lesson on the priesthood. The young men's president was with us during the lesson. It was so powerful. I´m so grateful for the priesthood in my life. What a blessing!
Saturday: In the morning we went to the church to clean the baptismal font and make a poster announcing the talent show that we´ll be having the 21st of December. After that, we had to travel an hour and a half to another part of our area where the bishop lives. We had lunch with his wife and his kids. While we were in the area, we did some tracting and found a wonderful family that had lots of great questions and gave us mandarin oranges which my companion picked from the tree. It was a neat experience. In the evening, we helped with a baptismal service. It was absolutely beautiful. It was a recent convert family. The dad was able to baptize his little girl that just turned 8. After she was baptized, she bore her testimony and the Spirit was soooo strong.
Sunday: We had lots of meetings. Before church we went to find a golden family...but we were rejected in an awful way. The mom/grandma told us that they´re hardcore Catholics, that work is more important than God, and that if we come back we´ll be wasting our time. BUT we gave the Dad a call and he said that he´ll come to church next Sunday. They just couldn't come this week. So we´re hopeful that maybe possibly things will work out in the end.
So yeah that´s my week in a nutshell.
Send my love to everyone!!
Happy Birthday Dad! Happy Birthday Grandma!
Love,
Hermana Hannah
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