UUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
I´ll be honest, I had a goal before the mission to only ever
have happy, peppy emails. And maybe it´s just because today was super rough.
But, I think I´ll start with the happy stuff first and you can just forward and
blog that.
So. The good. I think the best thing that happened this week
was that our District Leaders worked with us for an afternoon, and whatever
they did, a light bulb went on in my head and now I feel a billion times more
confident in contacting and teaching. For whatever reason, I wasn´t being real,
I was just following a script, because that´s what we had been practicing as a
companionship. But yeah, I have a goal to learn as much as I can from my
trainer, but then still be my own missionary. Part of me hopes that I´ll have
two different trainers, so I can learn different ways of doing this and decide
which I like best...but then I also really like Hma. F.... We get along
really well, for the most part. We have a lot in common, all that good stuff.
We just have polar opposite teaching styles.
Other good stuff...oh I made guacamole for our Zone today.
Except they don´t sell salsa in Ecuador, so I subbed and just added tiny cut up
onions and tomatoes and it worked pretty well...everyone of course loved it. But
if you did send me a guac package that would be pretty great. And speaking of
packages nobody went to the office today, so I think maybe on Thursday I might
get some of your stuff. Yeah, you never need to send peanut butter again. They
have this magic store called SuperMaxi and they have basically everything
there that I need. Granted, a lot of the stuff I need is expensive, but It´s
still cheaper than sending it in a package. Homemade stuff is like magic, I
love it. Except the guac today made me a tiny bit homesick, but it´s okay. I
haven´t been distracted, at all. For everything that´s happened, I feel like my
heart is 100% in the work. Oh!! Other good thing. On Saturday we had members
work with us all day. It was probably the most successful day of the mission so
far. Seriously, anyone who is reading this, if you aren´t out helping the
missionaries, who do you think you are!? I wish I could stress how much the
missionaries need the help of the members. Volunteer to have a FHE in your home
one night or something, that´s the kind of stuff we need. Our ward mission leader reminds me of the guy in the movie Up.
I suppose I should tell you about my investigators, haha.
Right now we have a married couple, they are a little bit older but probably
the most receptive people we´ve had. The husband loves all stuff religion, used
to be a Jehovah´s witness, which is usually bad news bears, and we´ve met lots
of people who love religion so they´ll let us in but won´t actually progress,
but he is actually progressing. He loves the BoM. His wife let us in because
she was feeling spiritually empty but she is progressing, saying her prayers,
all that good stuff. Love it!! Then we have another teenage girl who is sort of
quiet but I can tell she is really gaining a testimony, and she loves coming to
church. This week all the Young Women took her in under their blessed wings,
and it was wonderful. I also play the piano for our ward now, on a little
electric keyboard. Haha it is wonderful.
I decided something. Anybody who was born into the church,
in the United States, is absolutely, remarkably blessed. We all have our
challenges, but seriously I always took for granted living in Utah and living
so close to where all the stuff was going on in the Church. People here dream
and dream and dream of being able to go to General Conference someday, and for
me it´s like...yeah maybe I´ll try to get a ticket a few months later. Also,
I´ve seen what a difference it makes having temples close by. People don´t
really make the temple a priority here cuz it´s so far away, and I see members,
who have been to the temple, start to fall away because they can´t return often
enough to be reminded of their covenants. I can´t wait to be able to live in a
place again where we have 16 temples 6 hours between each other instead of
having to drive 8 hours just to go to one. Anyways, I´m probably definitely
going to for sure live in Utah when I´m older, or the very least somewhere
close to a temple so I can go every week. I got pretty temple homesick this
week because we were speculating about the new movie and reminiscing on the
old. Haha. Good times.
Okay, to be honest, I don´t know who all is reading my
emails...haha...but I hope I never offend anyone. That´s why I´m saying maybe
sending this part out may not be the best idea because it´s about to
get....let´s just say I´m going to start talking about more cold showers and
abnormal bowel movements.
First, the food IS going to kill me. Dad, I prayed once that
I would be able to enjoy the food, and the mamita served us Cerviche. Aaaaah.
Usually my "magic foods" are rice and tortillas. In the CCM, I would
just shove whatever food into a tortilla and I could eat it. Here, I just mix
it with rice and I can usually eat it. Except the Cerviche. Luckily Hrmna.
F... had the foresight to eat all of hers and then switch me bowels, but
yeah. My other "formula of survival" is to put the food in my mouth,
take a drink, and swallow it whole. Every meal time is so stressful because
there´s always one thing that I absolutely can´t stand, and I have to get
creative in how I´ll clean off my plate. I get sick every once or twice a week,
and unfortunately this week was today. It´s always at 2:30 in the morning, and
the next day I feel like crud. But last week I bought a bunch of saltines, and
this week I ate almost an entire package of Saltines because I was pretty sure
that would help and basically it didn´t. But today was bastante stressful
because we were completely broke, and we spent like three hours looking for a
working ATM, and then every week our Zone thinks we need to have a zone
activity on P'day, and it takes up like the entire day and we never get
anything done. Good thing I don´t have very many emails today. But we didn´t
have time to clean today and our bathroom looks like a war zone, oh and our
water hasn´t been hot for the past few days. Unrelated, my hair hasn´t been
very clean for the past few days. Yeah, basically everything went wrong today,
and right now my body is trying to tell me that it wants to dispel everything
I´ve put into it today, which is a lot of crackers and a crud ton of rice
because Mondays I usually get to take a break from the strange food of Ecuador,
but at our Zone activity they decided to take all day to make more of the
strange food of Ecuador, ah I was so mad, so I just gave it to my companion and
ate guacamole while my body made angry sounds at me.
Anyways, that´s my negative shpeel for the week. Sorry this
email isn´t as upbeat as the others, it´s just been a really, really difficult
week. But I pray for you all every day and please keep praying for me, heaven
knows that I need it. I´ll send you some pictures too.
Thanks for all you do!!! I love you all so very very much!!!
Love, Hermana Carter
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