Hola mi familia,
This week went by fast and it
didn't. The days are really long, and it was really hot this week.
Like 116 degrees farenheit hot. We have a converter on our phone from
Celcius to Farenheit, and it was 40 to 46 Celcius, which is 104 to 116.
Yeah...we are drinking like 5 to 6 liters of water a day, it is
ridiculous. However, having said that, the week just flew by.
Halfway done with training, and trying not to freak out. AAAHH!
The primary program in our ward
was yesterday, and it was so fun to play the piano again and see those cute little
kids singing "me encanta ver el templo" ( I love to see the
temple). It turned out really well, and I even got this little corsage
thingy from the Primary President. Cool beans.
We had our first clase de piano
Saturday night, and had about 15 people come! YAY! and tambien some non
members. It went really well, and afterwards I was able to work with a
couple of the more advanced kids. I have my frozen piano book, and when
they heard it they were so excited!
The highlight of my week was
that I invested in basketball shorts...Hahah, jk, but it was pretty
awesome. I really, really like them.
Na, this week we really
focused on finding new people to teach, or finding those who are prepared to
hear and accept the gospel. Yesterday we went into a new part of our
area, and we found a lady named Marcela. After getting to know her a
little bit, we asked her about her purpose, and why she thought she was here on
the earth. Her answer, word for word, was "Para sufrir." (in
order to suffer). We were like...uh...say what? As we taught her a
little bit more, really focusing on her worth as a daughter of God, she began
to open up, and turns out, she has had a more rough than usual life.
However, she accepted the baptismal invitation and we are hoping to be able to
teach her again and help her realize that she has infinite worth to her loving
Father in Heaven, and that He wants to live with her and her future family for
eternity.
We were going back to our
apartment last night when we heard a lady kind of yelling. She was
walking in front of us, kind of just yelling to the air. We were
like..what in the world? And then we saw that she had a baby in her arms,
the tiniest little baby that you have ever seen. And she was holding it
like a watermelon or something. We walked a little faster and contacted
her. Turns out that her baby is less than a month old, she has a
boyfriend who is on drugs, and is pretty close to being homeless. We
think that she was high at the time, and we didn't really know what to do, so
we asked her what she needed and she said, " a prayer". So we
prayed, and in the process made sure that the baby was still alive. It
was, but it broke our hearts to walk away and abandon the lady to her crappy
life. We invited her to church and all that, so who knows?
One thing that I am really
beginning to learn is that change is okay. In this life, we are here to
learn and progress from those things that change, whether they be good or
bad. And in this process, we slowly become like our Heavenly
Father. SLOWLY. And if we are righteous, we are promised so many
wonderful blessings. 2nd Nefi 9 and Alma 5 are so amazing and promise the
righteous the ability to stand tall in the presence of God in that day that
will come to all of us, no matter what.
I love you all, and am so
grateful for the opportunity to be together as a family forever. So many
people here have no purpose or hope for their existence, it is so sad. That is
why we are here, is to help those who are ready realize their worth as children
of God, and as such have purpose and an eternal potential.
Sorry, this is really long, but
I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love,
Hermana Farish
and....no pics...something was wrong with the memory
card...sorry, next week.
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