Hola
hola hola!!
On
Tuesday the Manwarings brought us food at district meeting! They
made blueberry muffins and this Mac and cheese thing and it was glorious. I
think this was the longest time I'd gone in my life without eating Mac and
cheese.
This
week we wanted to make cookies and so when we went back to our piso at night we
were going to make them and take them to some members and investigators, but
during the day we realized that we didn't have any brown sugar which we needed
for the recipe. And we weren't going to walk 20 minutes both ways to go to
Mercadona and buy some, so we decided we were going to just check in the
mini-grocery store that's right below our piso to see if they had brown sugar.
But the thing is, this is like a REALLY mini grocery store so we were like 90%
sure that it wouldn't have brown sugar. Well we went into the grocery store and
I'm pretty sure I've never seen brown sugar there before, but we looked by the
normal sugar and there was one little bag of brown sugar sitting there on the
shelf all by itself, just the amount we needed. And those cookies ended up
being really good, because we got to visit a few people who normally aren't as
interested in talking to us because we had an excuse to visit them! So I guess
we were really supposed to make those cookies.
We have
found a few new people to teach this week! Almost 9 weeks of being here in
Puerto and talking to a lot of people on the street and knocking on a lot of
doors has finally started leading us to more people, which is a good feeling.
It has been a really good week, and we have taught a lot of lessons (it always
is nice to just teach the "normal" lessons) to people and given out
some Book of Mormons to people who really seem interested in reading it. We're
excited to hear what they think of it and hopefully will get to meet with most
of them again this week.
Andres
is still a funny 82-year-old and we are still working with him. He's been
reading the Book of Mormon and telling us what's going on in it and so that's
really fun.
On
Saturday we had what was probably the best lesson of my entire mission with
Jazmín! We asked her if she had read anything from the Book of Mormon... yeah,
a little. How much? 40 pages! Go Jazmin! And she has a testimony that it's true
and wants to get baptized! She is someone who the Lord really has prepared for
this gospel and it is super awesome. She came to church yesterday and we are
going to meet with her again this week. She was so cute, on Sunday morning she
sent us a picture of the dress that she was going to wear to church to see if
it was okay to wear haha.
On Saturday
night we played fútbol again, and I think we are all in agreement that we are
(VERY slowly, but regardless steadily) getting less-awful at fútbol. We played
us 4 hermanas against the 3 boys who came. One is like 13, one is 16, and one
is 19 but has a broken arm. We were actually pretty evenly matched teams haha.
This
morning I read Jacob chapter 5 in the Book of Mormon and it was AWESOME. If you
don't know what Jacob chapter 5 is, it's just a chapter in the Book of Mormon
that has a reputation for being a little... hard to understand. Lots of
symbolism and things that don't exactly make it light reading. Well I read
Jacob chapter 5 today and I LOVED it. I've been reading some chapters in the
Book of Mormon with the help of the Book of Mormon institute study manual (it's
in the lds library app) and that helped a lot. I would definitely encourage you
to go back and read it if you've kind of skipped over it in the past. I was
reading in Jacob 4 yesterday where Jacob says, "I cannot write but a little
of my words, because of the difficulty of engraving our words upon plates...
and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our
beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts."
The Book of Mormon was written over a period of about 1000 years by various
prophets in the ancient America's and they engraved it on metal plates. It took
them a LONG time to write this record down, and every word in this book is
valuable (if it wasn't, they wouldn't have bothered to write it down!), so I am
trying to really appreciate it (all of it!) and have been able to understand
and learn so much from it and invite you all to do the same!
Love,
Hermana
Walker
Holly posing with some cool artwork in her area.
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