Pray for My Health

HOLA  

UGLY PANTS / FAT or SICK? 

UGH...I had to buy pants.  Presidente sent out a letter saying that it is now REQUIRED to wear pants because of the mosquitoes. Can't find any that fit well here so it's uncomfortable.  Also, regarding the food....it is so hard not to gain weight here eating bread and greasy soups and sweets, but it's hard to eat healthy because the vegetables here are dangerous and not safe to eat - only bananas.  3 Hermanas got sent home this last transfer for health problems. I know of one Hermana  who got a gastro intestinal disease.. and she threw up like 15 times in one night, and had to go to the doctor to get all these shots.. and she just got sent to Resistencia to do more tests... and might have to get sent home. Basically... please pray for my health.

HOW MUCH TIME I WASTED 

I love hearing the updates about home.  Funny, my experience here has caused me to realize how silly it is to set your heart on having fashionable clothes, cool car, and social media and cell phones. Man I sound like such a Grandma right now hahaha... but phones are so stupid!! I have had such a realization of how much time I wasted on that thing. That I could have spent learning, experiencing, reading, or spending time with people... and also how Instagram and Pinterst aren't bad, but in retrospect I can see how they damaged my self confidence because it was a constant stream of looking at things and admiring stuff you don't have, and thinking you´ll be happy if you did have them. Coveting.  Hmmmm. 

DRINKING AND ABUSE 

So this week we had a noche de hogar (family night)  with the Rivas family. And the husband left for a bit to buy us cookies... and the wife confided in me.. started crying and said that her husband started drinking again (used to have a drinking problem).. and that when he's drunk hes very rude and abusive to the family. She showed me scars of how he used to hurt her.. before they knew the church. And how he burned her with an iron, and crashed bottles on her head, etc. It broke my heart. So sad. And it took me by surprise because I thought he was faithful.  We taught the lesson like normal, and it was just interesting. I'm hoping he will continue to be receptive to the good influences and stop drinking again.  A few days later we visited them again, and I hugged her and she just held me soooo tight, and kissed my cheek a lot.. and said she never wanted me to leave, and that she felt like she was getting a hug from god. It breaks my heart! 

THE LITTLE THINGS WE DO
Elder packer (oldest son of Boyd K Packer) came and spoke to our mission this week. He talked a lot about the spirit and how essential it is, and the little things we´re doing that prevent us from having the spirit constantly. I really liked the conference.. and his Spanish wasn't perfect that's for sure.. but we were able to understand and feel the spirit still.. which was reassuring to me that people still understand me even when I don't speak the language that well.  

IT WASN'T JUST MUD
OK...gross...I accidentally slipped and fell this week right into the  mud, but it wasn't just mud.  It was sewage overflow...zanja (the sewege ditches)... it was disgusting and terrifying. Luckily we were close to the Rivas family and so she helped me clean off. I should have taken a photo.. but my first thought wasn't to record it, it was to clean the poop off my hands  oh well.. at least it made my companion and the member laugh haha

We have an investigator named Elda.. and shes great! she says she has a lot of fear of death, so we´re working with her on that. But I think she is going to progress! I also tried harder to invite people to get baptized this week, and I got 3 people to accept a fecha! not sure if they will progress, but at least they know our purpose now! 

***We had a crazzzzzzzzzzzzy storm this week! Hail was shooting out of the sky the size of golf balls!   and yeah......BUGGGGS!!!!