Hola Mi Familia!
Como Estan? I hope you are all doing very well. This week has been oober crazy! From the moment I was dropped off it has been Go! Go! Go! Each second and I hardly get a moment to breath, use the restroom, rest, or even read my scriptures. (dad just so you know the elders who helped me were very nice and the wouldn't let me take and of my freakiously heavy luggage and insisted they carry it for me, so no worries, papa) In fact, since I have been here I have only been able to have about 15 minutes total of personal scripture time. It is just chaotic! Though, I find that when I am super busy that I am able to focus on the work and nothing else. When I get moments to myself that is when I start to get very homesick. I won't lie familia this has been the most difficult experience of my life thus far. I have had so many obstacles to face and I feel like I haven't been able to overcome any of them. The most difficult of them all is the language. If it weren't for the language barrier I think I would be doing one million times better. It is just so hard to know what you want to say but be unable to, due to your lack of vocabulary. Like, yesterday mi companera y yo taught our first investigator. Supposedly she didn't understand any ingles and she wouldn't help us at all if we got stuck but at least we could use notes during it. However, the whole thing was a disaster. I constantly found myself feeling like a deer in the headlights. Huh? Hugh? Que? No entiendo? Repita por favor? No se... it was like the most awkward and overwhelming experience of mi vida. Pero, I have been praying as hard and as often as I can so that I can have the Lord's help with all the tasks I face. Today I am fasting, tomorrow I will ask Hermano Monson for a blessing, and I will continue to pray and plea to the Lord each day for help with all that comes my way. I need to have more faith in him and in the spiritual inspiration that I receive from him. I'm also worried that mi companera is sick of me. I am honestly trying very hard to be a good and helpful companera but I'm not sure I am doing enough. Today, after our half p-day is over (my p-day will be on Thursdays) mi companera y yo have to teach our investigator, Sylvia, yet again. Oh, and unlike yesterday, all we can use is our scriptures which make it beyond impossible. In fact, after talking to other sisters who have been here for 7 weeks + we discovered that what our teacher is asking us to do today is unheard of. In fact, these sisters who have been here for weeks on end still use their preach my gospels and notes along with their scriptures in their lessons. I'm definitely going to be praying! Then, I have to prepare a short lesson to give tomorrow in Sacrament meeting because our branch president randomly will select hermanas o elderes to speak. Knowing my luck that will be me.
Family, I miss you all so much. This experience has been so difficult but I try to find hope each day to press forward and forget myself. En mi corazon, yo se la iglesia de Jesuscristo es verdadero y cuando oramos Padre Celestial ayudar El hijos Porque, El tien mucho amor, por su hijos. I love you all and will talk to you soon I will also try to send some photos within the next few weeks.
Love ya!!
Hermana Jones
P.S. Keep an eye out in the mail for a few letters, I sent them other day and today
P.S.S. I have had this quote stuck in my head for the past few days...it makes me laugh each time I think of it. It is from the new "Bewitched" its, "Donde esta mi pero?" but what is the rest? Alex, I need your skills to fill in the blanks.
P.S.S.S. I have only met two hermanas here who are going to the same mission I am. In fact, the last hermana I met has been here for 7 weeks and I am the 2nd hermana she knows going to Costa Rica, the other hermana is also the one I know as well. We are a rare few....the best few!
P.S.S.S.S. R E S C U E rescueate society!! Heads held high! Touch the sky!! You mean everything too me!!!
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