¿Cómo están? Esta semana seemed to have flown by but gosh so much happened. Haha I feel like I am on an emotional roller coaster as I go from trusting in the Lord that I will learn this language and just going with the flow to casi breaking down because I feel absolutely useless. It´s awesome. I think I am making progress though... at least in the understanding aspect of things. Probably from 60% to.. 75%? Maybe even 80? There are still a ton of words that I dont know but their Argentine accent isn´t quite as.. muddled? No sé. The people seem to be pretty receptive here but I don´t think I have reached the point of being able to tell when they are just politely lying or truely interested.. So many times I have thought that they were just politely listening but then we continue to return and have awesome lessons. The only investigators that are coming to church as of now have been coming for years. Lol. One of the most solid ones just needs to get married but his ¨wife¨is evangelical has constantly put off marriage because she knows he will get baptized right after but supposedly it should happen this week or next. Gosh though, pressure is way high to baptize because nothing mich has happened in the branch for a long time. I think I told you this all last week but getting new members is a serious struggle when we only really have 4 strong members.. Our branch president had a missionary activity yesterday ¨with the branch.¨ He was getting casi 30 returned missionaries from the Santa Fe stake to come and knock doors with the members for about 2 hours and obtain referencias. The 30 x-missionaries came but only 2 people from our branch was there to help in the efforts... super solid. But, we now have like /0 referrals that they want us to see within 24 hours.. ha, and by 70 i actually mean 45. Apparently President Giuliani told them that he (would consider) sending another set of missionaries to Esperanza if they got enough referrals. Just like in Texas, the branch and stake want elders and if they can´t get elders then they will take hnas. and elders. :)
Now for a little more about the mission. Rules that we have that you might find interesting:
1. No drinking mate
2. No drinkning Coca-Cola
3. Only Hnas. can give besos and only to other mujeres or niños
Also, our schedlue is indeed crazy becuase of the siesta. The whole town shuts down around 1:30, 2 and starting at like 11:30 we don´t really have any success either because eeevverryone is ocupado cooking. Entonces, we have comp study from 8-10. Lunch from 1-2:30, personal study from 2:30-3:30 and language study from 3:30-4:30. They don´t eat dinner until around 9 or 9:30 so we aren´t allowed to have dinner appts because it´s too late. Honestly, most of the time dinner doesn´t even happen but lunch is always a lot of food. My comp usually ends up cooking and I´ll clean but gosh, I am doing eveything I can to just forget everything that I have been taught about germs. Haha half the time our fridge is unpluggled too because their are only two temperatures -- plugged in and frozen or unplugged and a little melty. but things like eggs apparently don´t even need to be refrigerated.
:) I´ll save the rest for later. Know that I love you and that the church is true.
-Hna. Morgan
p.s. with packages they said that they will get them easier if you dont put "hermana" before my name. Just a heads up.
No comments:
Post a Comment