This week = CRAZY! I love my comps and they are nice and we get along fine. Except I just stink at speaking to them. Its pretty rough haha. We share a common like in laughing at me.
Living conditions- welp I don't have a pillow and I don't know what i would have done without the sheets I brought- Something clean! The shower isn't cold so I should be thankful for that, but it definitely isn't warm and the worst part ( and gramps will appriciate this) is the lighting! No lamp covers or anythng just the worst blue green light ever. Itsin everyone's houses and its bad. I know that sounds stupid but Ii hate it haha.
The food is pretty good here! We have a pentionista who cooks a meal a day for us and then we eat at members houses on Sat and Sunday for lunch and dinner. They feed us alot! So much rice its crazy.
Half the time I am like this is great, I am fine, I am happy, then the other half I am about to cry. I feel Bipolar. But as the week keeps going on it gets better and better. Each night when I say my prayers I am happy and that's good!
So the way these people live is crazy. Its just so....dirty and sad. But in a way it's not. They are happy and they are fine with it. I see these houses with no floor and no ceiling and nothing inside. But they are good with it. I think its not how your living, but who your with. That's why its hard for me because I miss you all so much.
So 2 scary things this week - I was told-not asked to sing a song in English at a baptism. And we can all imagine how that went. But its ok becuase the poeple here are all basically on the same level as me, so I fit in. Also, I have to give English lessons next week. We will see how that goes.
The area im in is pretty safe feeling. I never feel scared.
The scarest part is the dogs! SO MANY DOGS! Ugly ones too. But one time this dog was trying to attack me...well actually it wasn't at all, it was going for a dog behind me, but being so paraniod and new, I freaked and yelled loud at it in English and tried to hit it with my backpack. My comps were dying laughing.
Sunday was the best! The Chapel is so nice and I love how the church is the same wherever you go! I felt like I was at home. The same spirt is there always. I bore my testimony and introduced myself in broken spanish, it was... greeeeeeeeat. Afterwords I got to kiss about 1000 women. They are big on the kissing( on the cheek) and physicall touch here. And we all know how good I am at that kind of stuff.:)
The members here are so helpful and we have a member with us almost everytime we teach! Its great! Also we got our first baptismal commitment last night! It makes everthing else worth it. Its a boy named Luis and he is my favorite! I really like the people here. They are so nice and loving.
I am truly being humbled and don't know how I feel about it haha. I am just trying to get to the point where God can fully work through me and I can forget about myself. I only cried once so far so that's good. I struggle. But never worry because I know why I am here and I know God is with me. I love this gospel so much and a see these people who don't have it in their lives and it just hurts me. They could be so much happier! This gospel is happiness. This gospel is truth, who wouldn't want it? I don't think people really realize how important this work is. This is salvation we are talking about!
Love you all!
Hermana Quist
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