What a week! So it rains everyday here and when I say rain, I mean I have never seen rain like this before.
The thunder is RIGHT above us and it is like we are in a water globe getting shaken up! Because of all the rain, everything is green. and muddy. Our area is HUGE! and has soooo much potential! We have about 15 colonials in our half of the ward and the elders have like 20. The elders live about 30 minutes in combie from our church. We are lucky because the church is in our colonial! So I am not sure what the calles are called but we live in el provenir and if you find chederaui, it's close to that. Find the church and our house is like 3 streets away!
My companion is Hermana Garcia!
She
is from Sinaloa, Mexico! She has 8 siblings and is so cute! She reminds
me of my friend Brooke Bytheway! Anyways, we have a good time together. I
have kinda taken the lead in the lessons this week because she is sick.
We got soaking wet on Wednesday
and then walked around wet and she got sick :( But we keep going, just
now, bring umbrellas with us everytime we leave the house because
sometimes the rain comes out of nowhere!
Oh, and I knew her already because when I was in San Cristobal she
was in Comitan. Our zones always got together for conferences and so I
had already met her. And when I transfered to Tuxtla, we were bus
buddies! So I was pretty excited when I heard she was going to be my
companion!
Look a tick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been studying about patience this week. Patience and
marriage... coincidence? hahaha But really. I have learned a lot about
how to be more patient with myself, my companion, with waiting for
answers, with our investigators.
We have a lot of people to teach here, our problem is that the
area is so big and can't go to each part every day. Its definitely a HUGE
change from small Jardines!
AND we had a baptism on Saturday. His brother was baptized the week before. We are working with some of the other members of their family now, too!
4 investigators came to sacrament meeting which was so good and we have baptism dates with some other investigators.
The work is moving along great here in our ward, Vista Hermosa. I
love teaching the gospel everyday and learning new things myself!
I
put bug spray on first thing in the morning and also it's the last thing
I do before I go to sleep at night. We have to check in our clothes
before we put them on and in our sinks and in the shower for scorpians. I
am sooooo scared of them and literally have had nightmares this week
about them and that some huge one is going to sting me. But I pray to
not ever find one and luckily haven't yet. We do have a million milipedes
and centipedes and creepy crawly things in our house. My companion is
nice and kills them all because they freek me out with their little
legs... eeewwww
Can you see his little feeties!!!???
Our beds haha yep we gotta be careful of the bugs!
Well
time to go back to work! I can't believe that this last week I hit my 7
month mark. It's going CRAZY fast! I am learning to enjoy the hard
things, including the bugs... and just get lost in the work. Like we
have been told, forget ourselves and just get lost in this great work!
I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I love my Padre Celestial.
I love my amazing family ( and congrats to Aaron on his mission call!) I
love this gospel and KNOW that it is the ONLY true church on the face
of the earth. I am thankful for my musical talents that I have the honor
to share every day when we sing with our investigators (and when I sing
in the shower to not be as scared of finding a scorpian...) and also by
playing the piano in sacrament meeting each Sunday.
I love love love you all.
Until next week,
xoxoxoxoxo
Hermana Oliphant
I'm so sorry about the creepy-crawlies. I hate them too.
ReplyDelete