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| Hermana Escobar is afraid of all these bridges. haha We have to walk over them, she just goes so fast or looks for another way to go. So I was laying on this one and she was worried about me. I love her. |
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| This is Hermana Escobar and me with our Christmas tree of gratitude Ali's mom sent us!! |
This week was really hard, like I said in my last week’s
letter, we had to go to Asuncion Monday which really wears you out. So all day Tuesday
we just felt tired and sick. Also it was really hot this week. We met some really
great people, we met a family. It’s a young married couple, yeah they are
married!!! This is a big deal. Often people aren’t married or they are still
married to someone else and getting divorced is really expensive, so lots of
missionaries have this problem here. But they are married and they have a sweet
little baby. They were both really nice and welcoming. I have a lot of
esperanza (hope) for them. Oh, they also have a motorcycle so they could get
themselves to church!!! but they didn’t come this Sunday. I still have faith in
them.
So we were planning on heading back to Asuncion Thursday
because that’s what the office elders told us but then Tuesday night we get a
call at 9:30 saying we needed to be in Asuncion at 9:30 Wednesday. So another
sleepless night and a long bumpy three and a half hour bus ride to Asuncion. We
learned that depending on the driver is how fast you get there because we made
it there almost an hour faster than we did Monday. So we had extra time. We
just slept in the terminal and then went to the office. It was great seeing
Hermana Rozsa and Hermana Richards and Elder Evans all from my batch. Everything
went smoothly at immigration so hopefully they won’t need me again for 6
months. Then we ate a real pizza at pizza hut. It was 30 mil which killed me. It wasn’t even full size. I don’t know why,
it seemed like a ton! I usually spend like 90 mil for my groceries for a whole
week but then I had to remember 4 mil is a dollar so it was like 8 dollars..
but it was sooo good to have real pizza!!
Anyway we got home pretty late and studied and that was all
for Wednesday. So then our sleep just never got back on track. I hate waking up
every day feeling tired and sick. So this week was really just kind of the worst,
but I did have a miracle. Monday when we got back it was too late to buy
something from a bakery for district reunion and I was too cheap to buy it from
the main grocery store, its way over-priced, and by over-priced, haha it’s like
2 dollars but again my sense of money is kind of skewed. I bought stuff to make
chocolate chip cookies and I have made them before but they came out kind of
weird so I changed the recipe a little and the batter looked so weird and I was
so tired at this point, I just kept praying and praying they would work out
because we needed something to take to the elders. They are always making fun
of us because they think they cook better than us. It wasn’t even about that. I
just needed something for them, and they turned out so good!!! I was just
crying. I know it was a blessing from God because I made them another day
selfishly for Hermana Escobar and I and they turned out way gross. I know it’s
a way small thing but honestly that was my big indicator this week that
Heavenly Father loves me.
Another thing, I was reading in the Ensign when I was at the
office, we still haven’t received ours for enero (January) and there is a great
article about a man who served in Sterling’s mission. It was such a cool story.
I started crying right there in the office and then president came out. He was
like ahhh are you sisters ok? haha He gave us some candy. He felt so bad we had
to come twice this week. I love him. Did I tell you we are getting a new president
in June?? I don’t want a new president! but I am kind of excited to see the
things that will change. I hope I get to have an interview with this president
before he leaves....
So this is my official last week of training. Our change is
next Wednesday, so we will see if Hermana Escobar is with me another change or
not. Most likely, no. She has been here 3 changes... but I am so scared for her
to leave. I will be in charge of showing my new comp all around and I don’t
know, I am scared about it. I am praying to get someone who doesn’t speak English
so I can have the next change be really hard and full of growth and leave
coronl feeling confident in Spanish. I am on my way but I think that’s what
would really help me so pray I don’t get a North American!!! So ya, the change
is the 11 of February. Pray hard. That’s all I got this week. Sorry I don’t
have more, like I said it was a hard week.
Oh, I forgot to say we didn’t have anyone at church and when
we talked to Justina this week she told us she doesn’t understand why she needs
to be baptized again. She has already done it a lot, but if it’s what God wants,
she will. Also she wants to wait till conference because one of the members
told her at conference was when she received her answer. When she told us this
we wanted to die. Conference isn’t for a while, we told her. But we left her
with the conference talk by Bednar “Come and See”. She said she loved it, so I
hope she can realize going to conference isn’t necessary for her to receive an
answer.
Also one of my first really big Spanish mistakes happened
this week. I was writing the paso de oración in Justinas libro de mormón
because she said she keeps forgetting and I wrote te pedo por....but i meant te
pido por, I ask for, but instead it said I fart for. hahahashh Luckily
Hermana Escobar saw and took it and fixed it. haha Ya, that was way funny. I
just remembered that also pedo is foot in medical terms. Hermana Escobar just
told me. haha Ok, ya that’s all I got this week. Love you all,
Hermana Ball o Vaca pi pu pu
PS: Sorry my spelling is so bad. I am writing on a Spanish
keyboard that is so old and keeps wanting to change all my words to Spanish
words and the keys stick, so ya just forgive me if it’s hard to understand what
I am saying.
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