Oh dear goodness, so many things to
tell you all I just have to get started right this minute!!
Highlights:
-That awkward moment when you are talking
to a fellow American and for some reason your words come out in English, not
Spanish, and he tells you, "Hermana, no; don't speak English. You sound
dumb." :(
-We got fog a couple mornings this
week! It was really cool and crisp and wonderful. Then hot in the afternoons.
Tis my mission, what can I do about it?
-I am now certain that I will never
have an American companion. We would just be too crazy. We had exchanges this
week and this time I got to go work with Hermana Garry, who is fabulous. But
also crazy.
After taking this picture we looked
at it and died laughing. Then we said something like, "Oh no, we're
missionaries? This is who makes up God's Army!"
-While waiting downtown for the STLs
to start said exchanges, Hna Siza and I were waiting outside a shoe store and
they had sandals and flip flops on display. It was a warm day and while looking
at them I thought. "Oh, summer is coming." And I started remembering
all my lovely summer memories, and getting out of school and going to the
mountains … Then I realized, "No, summer is NOT coming. It is FEBRUARY!
Where do I live?"
-I got to eat asparagus this week.
For those of you who don't know, I love that tasty green vegetable. And I was super-duper
happy.:D
-While talking with some members about
weird national holidays I found out that in Peru there is a Día de Pollo, or Chicken
Day. And people just buy and eat chicken. Guess who will have her own personal
chicken day when she returns to the U.S.
-That really frightening moment when
you are teaching a lesson outdoors and hear something like a dinosaur growling
(I know I sound like a nine-year-old boy, but that’s what it sounded like).
That frightening moment turns into a hysterical one when you realize that sound
came from a nearby rooster.
-So, this week was Valentine’s Day.
If you don't know how I feel about February 14th you can check out my blog post
from V-Day last year. Or you could look at the following picture, because it
pretty much says the same thing.
-BUT!! It was a really great
Valentine's Day, because we had a baptism!!
This is Roberto Razo Luna. He's 28,
shy, has had a really hard life, and is so, so ready for this gospel. Because
none of his family lives here he has to live in a rehab center, even though he
lives completely clean. But because he lives there he has to follow the rules,
and so we could only teach him on Sundays during Sunday school. And that meant
that we had to teach all five of the lessons in exactly five weeks (the entire
Plan of Salvation in an hour-and-a-half). But because the Lord prepared him
super well, it worked out. He's a real sweetheart and it's been wonderful to
see him grow more confident and understand more and more of what it means to be
a son of God.
-And another one on Sunday! Kind of.
I'll explain:
This is Angie. She's eight years old
and both her parents are members but are inactive. So, she's not really
"our" baptism, she's "the ward's". But since her parents
are inactive (she goes to church with her aunt and uncle who are super strong
members and really cool), Bishop said that she needed the missionary lessons
first before she could be baptized. And that we had less than two weeks to do it.
So once again we taught the five lessons, in only a couple weeks. But this time
to a child. We've learned a lot this transfer about teaching simply. But Angie
is super smart, and super excited about the gospel, so it was actually pretty
easy. She's such a sweetie and way fun.
Well, transfers were this week. And
nothing changed. I will be spending another six weeks in Del Valle with Hna
Siza, and with both Elder Rodriguez and Elder Cutler. This is starting to
reflect spookily of my time in Sochiloa ... but we'll see what this transfer
brings.
Love you all!
Hermana Anderson
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