I'm not sure if I've said this before but
in our area, every street is bosques de and a country. Its pretty fun!
Before we had the Americas and Europe sections and now we have Asia and
Africa too. They are grouped by continent so we are getting really good
at our geography skills. And learning all the countries in Spanish. My
companion loves it too! We joke everyday how we are literally walking
all over the world. It's pretty entertaining.
This week... we had lots and lots of RAIN. Just last
week I think I mentioned how crazy hot it felt and how we were missing
the rain.. but yeah it came back. everyday we have lots and lots!
Tuesday it flooded like crazy!!!! We walked all they way from a lesson
in Mongolia to France then home to Colombia in the pouring rain and hail
with my tiny umbrella. An RM in our ward came to the lessons with us.
We were completely soaked but had a good time running and jumping trying
to dodge puddles. I really wish I could've taken pictures of the street
we had to go through. It was almost knee deep and dark and really really
cold! We couldn't run through fast either cuz there are random holes
that you can't see. It was a pretty sweet adventure :)
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| Came home soaking wet once again.... and this time we had umbrellas too! It was crazy!! Lots and lots of houses flooded and streets like rivers. We felt like pioneers having to walk home in it. Our feet were frozen!!! It always rains lots during this time of year but they said it hasn't been like this for four years. |
Lots of houses flooded.. including ours. But our
neighbors let us shower in theirs upstairs since ours was full or nasty
water. The first real shower I've taken since I've gotten here. I was SO
grateful. I've gotten so used to the bucket I forgot how nice it feels to
take a real shower. But we also mentioned that to our neighbors and it
sounds like they are going to fix our shower soon :) After our showers
we made hot chocolate and cleaned the water out of the house. Lots
flooded again last night. It's given us some service projects though!
This morning we went to help mop and clean an investigators house. Their
white floor was totally black.
We also had citas like crazy this week!!! All day
running from one to the next. We are really happy about all the work in
our area right now and excited to keep working hard! Agenda is just
about full again for the next week! But it sounds like next transfer
President is going to put another companionship in and split the area
again like how it was before because its pretty big but were excited to
have it all for at least another month :)
The hardest part about being a missionary is having
to accept that other people have their agency. It happened twice this week
with families that we had just began to teach and were sincerely
interested and already reading in the Book of Mormon and excited to
learn more.. then they talked to their pastor from their church and were
told they needed to read their own Bible and quit listening or else
they would get confused and have new ideas and it would be bad for their
family. It sure is hard when we really love and care for them so much
and know of the blessings they could receive. I can't imagine how our
Father in Heaven feels sometimes when we choose to deny the blessings of
the gospel He wants so badly to give us. I know He loves us and has a
plan for each of us.
On the brighter side this week we also had five
people accept a baptism date. We now have several that we are helping
prepare and SO happy for each of them. One of them is named Blanca. She
is the sweetest lady EVER. She should be a Disney Princess. It's fun to
teach her because she pretty much already believed everything that we
believe. She just didn't know where to find the truth. It's so fun to see
how happy she is to have found the path.
Another new family from this week is Alejandra and
Hector and their two little kids. They are way cool too! Alejandra had
been less active for few years and Hector isn't a member but we are going
to help him prepare to be baptized. They recently got married and have a
goal to be sealed in the temple and have an eternal family. They came
to church yesterday for the first time. Since he works until late we got
permission to teach them early and study after. Wednesday morning we
have a cita with them and she told us to come hungry and she's gonna make
gorditas! Never tried them but I've heard they're pretty good :)
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| Diana bought me a natural sweet dark chocolate chunk wild honey peanut butter while she was in Arizona!! I was SO happy :) Shes the greatest. It's WAY WAY good. I took a picture of it :) |
Anyways... I love all the people here and could
spend lots of time talking more and more about them but I'm pretty sure
my time is up! Hope everything is going well back home! I really am
planning to go shopping soon and send a package home... hopefully :)
Hope the first week of swim lessons went well for Madi and Siena and the
Hatch reunion was super fun! I haven't read your emails yet but I will
print them now :)
Love you and pray for you lots! Have a good week!
Hermana Rhoten 2
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