Hola
hola hola!!
This
week has flown, it seems like I just got to Puerto a couple weeks ago but the
transfer is ending in a couple weeks so it's just crazy. ANYWAY.
On
Monday of this week we got to eat with a family from the Spanish ward and a
recent convert to the church, Juan Pablo. The family is from Honduras and makes
super good food every time we go, we are going to try to make their corn flour
tortillas this week so I'll let you know how that goes. Then we visited Manuel
B, we talked about temples and it was really good!
On
Tuesday we had district meeting in the morning which of course is always fun,
we ate fajitas afterwards and then went to Jerez for intercambios! It was a
little weird being on intercambios with a trio, and Hermana Moncayo had to
sleep on the couch because there weren't enough beds for everyone haha. At
first I was with Hermana Moncayo and Hermana Aguilar, then I went with Hermana
Johnson to visit a recently baptized member and her family (they made us arepas,
I LOVE AREPAS). Then on Wednesday morning I was with Hermana Malcolm and
Hermana Johnson and we went and knocked some doors. Of course we were super
tired after it all, but we got back to Puerto and went straight to a cita with
Juan Manuel! I met him right when the other hermanas found him, and it's been
really cool to see how as he learns, the gospel really is changing his life.
After the cita with Juan Manuel we went on a bus to visit a member who's
husband is overseas, we had a really good noche de hogar with her and her son
and also went to see the ocean which is just a 2 minute walk from her house!
On
Thursday we had weekly planning in the morning which pretty much took the whole
day, then we had noche de hogar and English class in the evening. Noche de
hogar and English class are always pretty crazy but also fun, although I'm not
sure that some of the people who come are really learning that much english...
we've been working on present tense for like four weeks.
On
Friday we FINALLY got to our pueblo, Rota! We hadn't been since... um... the
beginning of February. We never really had anyone to teach there! But we had
set a cita with someone who's number we had in our phone, Celeste, and so we
finally made it over there! We had an AWESOME cita with Celeste and her
17-year-old daughter Andrea. When we told them about the promise that comes
with the Book of Mormon, that if you read it and pray about it, God will let
you know it is true, they were really interested and asked for all three of our
personal experiences, how we know that it's true. They weren't able to make it
to church on Sunday but we already set a return cita with them for next week!
We were able to go back to Puerto in the afternoon and visit a family we didn't
know very well, which was fun, and they invited us over to eat this week so
we're excited. They had the two cutest little boys!
Unrelated
explanation of this week's title: Sometimes we see the most random animals in
Puerto. Goats, sheep, albino peacocks, horses, and now flamingos are added to
the list. We saw them FLYING! I would recommend that you look up what flamingos
look like when they fly, because it's pretty entertaining.
Saturday
was a busy day of studies, contacting, and then visiting an older member who
hadn't been able to come to church for a while because of health problems. She
was so excited that we visited her and loved the new Easter video that we
shared with her! Actually, we've been sharing the video with a lot of people
and all of them have really liked it! On Saturday afternoon we went to eat with
Abi and a family from the American branch, and they made waffles and it was
wonderful. We watched the video with them too, but it was weird to see it in
English. Since it finally wasn't raining on Saturday we were able to play
futbol, which was a little chungo because we couldn't get the lights outside
the church to turn on so it was kind of dimly-lit-from-the-streetlights futbol.
Luckily with the time change it won't get dark until later so the lights won't
be a problem for the next few months.
On
Sunday we went to five hours of church as per usual, Hermana Malcolm sang a
musical number with Hermana Fry in the American branch and then sang a solo in
the Spanish ward which was fun. In the afternoon we went with Abi to the house
of one of the American families so she could have a new member lesson with
them, the couple did a great job teaching about service! They also have the
three cutest little kids ever. They could be the cute model family on the box
of a blow up swimming pool or something. There was an activity with the branch
that night, so we decided to stop in for a few minutes but then ended up being
there for a while because a few people brought friends to the activity who we
were able to get to know! So that was really good.
Today
hermana Malcolm is getting her hair cut, which will be a party. I'm reading in
third Nephi right now, which is the book in the Book of Mormon that includes
the chapters that Christ visits the ancient Americas. Normally I try to get through
the first few chapters of that book as fast as I can, since Christ doesn't come
until chapter 11 and obviously that's the best part. But this time I realized
why the chapters that talk about the crazy storms and things that happened in
the America's when he died are important--I like that first the nephites have
to go through a bunch of super difficult things, crazy earthquakes and storms
and darkness, before they can experience the blessing of Christ's visit. Even
though they knew he was going to visit them and had been given the prophecy
about all the destruction and everything, they forgot about it in the moment
and were just suffering. In the moment of our trials we don't appreciate them
or have the big picture (the wicked people needed to be taken away before
Christ could come visit the Americas), but Heavenly Father always does and he
is going to give us the best thing in the end.
Love,
Hermana Walker
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