Hey family!
Sorry that my last e-mail was so short... Hopefully this one will be better!
This
last Monday I had the greatest P-day ever! We were invited over to a
dinner with Rhoda Green (the nice lady who had given us a ride two weeks
previous!) We had a lovely dinner - super fancy, i felt very out of
place (me being used to eating with chopsticks in the apartment and then
with tortillas when we eat with members) A little difficult to try and
remember how to use a fork correctly ;)
We
have had a couple of storms this week... really not all that bad but
they make for a rough night when the little weather alert station thing
goes off beeping wildly to let you know that it is raining outside... it
when off 4 times last night!!!!!! Super difficult to fall asleep after
it goes off, finally do drift off and then it is off to beeping again...
(personally I want to just turn it off but Hermana Stevens freaks out a
lot when I even joke about it... but then again it doesn't wake her up
nearly as often..)
We have had the opportunity
to go teaching with a returned missionary from Mexico. She is so amazing
and it was such a blessing to be able to see someone (native to the
language, who understands PMG, and teaching) I learned so much, and have
realized a higher way of teaching! We always do role-plays with other
Spanish missionaries at district meetings and zone meetings but a very
high percentage of us do not speak Spanish fluently and it is difficult
just getting over the language barrier let alone the simplicity and
teaching for understanding barrier.
We are
teaching such wonderful people, who are truly starting to understand the
importance of our message and yet have no desire to actually act. It is
a little disheartening how each of our investigators were invited,
followed up on, they committed, and never showed then up to general
conference. They had 4 golden opportunities! And they missed all 4. So
ridiculous! But we are still working on it. Eventually they will all
come to church and when they do, there will be no going back. :)
hopefully...
I absolutely loved general
conference. It was so beautiful. It was really sad to think that it was
my last one as a missionary. I get a little freaked out when I think
that I can count the months I have left on ONLY one hand :( But back to
conference. I loved the talks that were in the native languages of the
speakers, what a beautiful addition to general conference. I loved Jorg
Kingblat's (sp?) talk. It gave me a lot to think about and to improve
upon.
The weather is turning a bit cooler
which is nice but I'm not used to it. I'm going to have to start pulling
out even more of my sweaters! Boo-yeah, I'm not one bit disappointed
about that :)
Well, that pretty much sums up my
week. I love y'all. I know that the gospel is true. It changes lives
(every day we change, it is up to us to change our lives for the better)
I love y'all,
Hermana Ives
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