Hey everyone!
So,
yeah, this week was a little sad....we didn´t contact like any of the
references that we received and we didn´t really receive a lot either...also we
didn´t find a single new investigator this week and...Satan attacks me ALL THE
TIME!!!! And I let him in way too easily so....it just kind of ruins
everything. It was rough. But my companion talked a lot yesterday about the
things that have bugged us or the things that we want to change to be better
and we talked about all our frustrations with the area and the goals that we
have for the area and everything and we decided that we are going to do
everything with exactness. We are going to be missionaries that are exactly
obedient so that we can feel confident and doubt-free that we truly are giving
our all to the Lord, that we aren´t holding anything back so that we can feel
confident that we are doing our part and that we aren´t lacking something. we
are going to try it out for the rest of the change and keep working hard to
find the chosen people so they can accept the Savior´s invitation to be
baptized in His name. We want people who want to listen to us and who want to
progress!!! Because right now...we have none haha and it is really hard on us
and really sad...
But anyway, sorry for
all that sad stuff right there in the beginning...don´t worry, it only gets
worse from here ;) haha naw! It´s a joke, I think that is all the sad news so
it will hopefully actually get better from this point on :)
We had a zone activity
today in the church in Nealtican and we played volleyball for a bit but then
people got tired and did other things like a sack race and some game with an
egg on a spoon (and you have to walk without it falling) and the Elders played
basketball a bit but I played volley with Hna Petersen (from the MTC) she is
now my sister leader (the thing that I was the last change) and I have
exchanges with her today at 6 so that should be really fun :) but yeah, she and
I played volleyball the whole time :) but it was super hot today and I didn´t
have any water and there wasn´t any water in the church so...I now have a
pounding headache haha...I am drinking a lot of water to help get rid of it,
we´ll see if it works haha. But the activity was really fun. We also did a few
leg wrestles because the other day I was telling my companion about them and
how my siblings and I would do them a lot and that they are really fun :) I
didn´t tell her that I had a few leg wrestles with my grandma...and that my
grandma totally flipped me everytime!! Yeah, no....¡Que vergüenza! But watching
the leg wrestles was pretty great haha. My comp lost everytime but once :) She
flipped another missionary who is like the same size, if not smaller, than she
is haha. We also ate together. Our whole district wanted chicken and the other district
wanted hamburgers...but the sisters in my district said that the hamburgers are
not that great...so that´s why we ordered the chicken...and it was a ton!! They
gave us three huge things of rice and like four or five boxes of chicken
parts...Like those boxes that are white and made of styrofoam that restaurants
give us when we can´t finish our food? Yeah, those :) It was so much!! We
couldn´t finish it all....but it was super delicious :)
Oh, so I turned 8
months in the mission today....how crazy is that!? We also have changes on the
3rd of March...which I think is this next Tuesday...and I think that maybe my
comp is going to leave and I am going to be here in this huge mountain climbing
area! And I know nothing haha! But President told me that I won´t have my comp
for long...so we both feel like she is probably going to leave the area....but
we´ll see and I will let you know what happens :)
OH!!! So....last week
was Carnaval here in Huejo and it gets really crazy here....there are guns and
people in costumes and they even have like little wars and stuff and every year
there are a number of dead people because they literally shoot each other and
have wars....it is pretty crazy stuff....Luckily we live like 20-30 minutes
away from Huejo and they don´t get super crazy in Carnaval in our area (we
still have Carnaval but it isn´t as crazy and nobody dies in mini wars). But
anway, so that happened last week and I think there was only one person who
died this year and there were a lot of people injured but only one dead
so...that is good at least right? I mean, in comparison to other years.... But
so we had Carnaval in our area yesterday and remember those "Negros"
that walk around without shirts and they have horns on their heads and are all
painted black? Well, they walk around every Sunday (in preparation for Carnaval
and also on the day of Carnaval as well) so they were walking around yesterday
but it was worse than normal because those that are old enough get drunk and
when they are drunk they are more forceful and more rude...usually they don´t
do anything to us and they let us take pictures with them and everything but
yesterday we were in the combi (the little bus things like vans that drive us
around) because we were going to go to Domingo Arenas (another little
"pueblo" that is part of our area) and a bunch of the negros stopped
the combi and asked for money. And my window was down...and one of them was
touching my face, like my chin and stuff so that I would give them money and I
tried to roll up my window really fast but they all had their arms inside so it
was really hard...and they stained my coat...well, mom´s coat....they stained
it because they paint themselves with grease and oil so...it comes off the skin
but the clothes? Yeah no. So I was pretty upset about that because I didn´t
want them to touch my clothes and ruin them...but yeah so that happened
yesterday and my comp got it on video haha. It´s a pretty good video and I´m
not really mad anymore so it´s all good. But yeah, pretty exciting stuff right?
Apparently they are going to have Carnaval next Sunday as well, but don´t
worry, I will be armed with 2 pesos to give them so they don´t touch or bug me
:)
I hope that you have a
great week and that you can have some really awesome experiences! I finished
the New Testament on Sunday and so now I am starting my goal to have the Old
Testament read by the end of May. I get to start a little early because I
planned on finishing the New Testament by the end of this month and I finished
early :) But I have to read 13 pages daily to finish it...if you want to you
can also start the challenge :) I wanted to do this challenge because I don´t
actually know very many scriptures from the Bible haha...and I want to learn
more and understand it a little better :) So I invite you all, if you would
like to, to start this challenge as well, and maybe you don´t have to finish it
by the end of May, but it might be a good thing to read or re-read the Bible
and increase your knowledge since the degree of knowledge that we obtain in
this life will rise with us in the life to come....it´s a really good
incentitive to study right? :) Well, for me it is :)
I love you all and
hope that you have a fantastic week! You are all really awesome! :)
Love always,
Hermana Walker
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