Hello familia! I´ve missed everyone lots this week. Hannah´s
wedding looks like it was so beautiful!
My companion has been really sick for the past few days.
We´ve tried going out but she feels so weak and has a lot of body aches so we
spent about three days in the house this past week. My body was exhausted and needed
a break but I was quite bored. I read and studied. I organized all my stuff and
wrote in my journal including important events before the mission. I was able
to finally record a detailed account of our adventures in Italy. Haha much of
it consisted of “And then we wandered in big circles and people tried to point
us in the right direction. Then we received bad directions.” I didn´t realize
at the time what good mission prep that trip was.
My Friend, Hermana Romero
One thing that was really fun was that I went back and read
all the letters and emails I´ve received. I love reading about home. One thing
that has stuck with me is something Gram and mom both wrote about light. They
both wrote that we are here to collect light. I love this concept and visualizing
it. As we do good things we collect light. As we work to accumulate wisdom,
truth, and knowledge, we gain or collect more light. But we can also lose
light.
We had good teaching sessions for the days we were able to
go out. Quite a few investigators’ went to church yesterday. Church is the
moment of truth to tell us who is really progressing.
There is a Haitian family that we´ve been teaching for a
while now. They are quite poor and the mom hardly speaks any Spanish. They go
to church every Sunday. Every Sunday! But last week they weren´t there so we
stopped by there house after church to ask what happened. The son explained for
his mom that she had found a job cleaning a house but she had to work on
Sundays. So she quit her job that day to be able to go to church. Sure enough,
she was at church yesterday. I don´t know how much she understands, but she
loves being there.
A common problem we encounter is that you have to be married
in order to join the church. Marriage here is a really big challenge.
Hardly anyone is married. It´s a little expensive and all the documents and
paperwork are a pain. Because hardly anyone is married, there is an attitude
that it’s too big of a commitment. Dominicans are hard enough to get married.
Haitains are ten times harder. Most of them don’t have legitimate passports and
often have even less money. But hopefully with time this family will be able to
overcome these challenges.
We are also teaching this one family that was a referral
from the Stake President (eek lots of pressure). The Stake President is always
there as well so I get nervous for these appointments. But the family is
progressing and they go to church. I really like them.
In other exciting news we get to go to the Temple on Wednesday
- yay so excited! We can only go twice a year. So, it’s been six months since I was there last. Happy
Birthday to the lovely MEISHionary! I sure miss her.
Until next week,
Meg
Sister T - Sick in Bed
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