This week is my "6 months as a missionary"!!! SO crazy. Not going to say it has flown by....but it has been quite the experience!
This
past week has been best week yet. Right now we are staying at a hotel
in Concordia. Jaja ok...not a real hotel. But we are here until
tomorrow, today we have a special p-day with the whole zone, and then
tomorrow interviews with the president. Me and my comp are staying in
the apartment of the hermanas (they took hermanas out of this area a few
weeks ago) so it´s all empty...and it feels like we are staying in the Marriott!! The mattresses are like the ones from the states, it´s
adorable, there is not a constant mold smell, and there is a heater!
haha. So we are enjoying our little vacay.
Last week we came to Concordia also. Concordia is a
2 hour ride. We had zone meeting. It was so good! The president is
focusing a ton on the importance of the members, and the worldwide
conference thing from a couple weeks ago.
To answer some of the questions....my comp, Hna
Morgan, is the best. She has this transfer plus a week and a half, she
is going home a little early to start school. She is such an example to
me of hard work, she wants to work until her last day here, and has so
much faith in our area! And we are usually pretty hilarious and have fun
together.
And about our area...we have some of the best
members I have ever met. We had a meeting with the leader misional, and
he even had his ´preach my gospel´book out.....this never happens. The
church is pretty new in Colon, it´s only been here for about 15 years,
so everyone is a convert or moved here from somewhere else. I have never
heard people who sing with such enthusiasm! haha. The people have
testimonies and are so converted, our struggle now is just helping them
feel the importance of sharing the gospel, as they are so content with
the amount of people and who is in the branch. We met some menos activo
families, and they were so solid and with testimonies! THis area is blessed with strong priesthood men, we
have found it is more the wives who struggle, which is not common
here.
Also this week the assistentas, or traveling
hermanas (they are like the girl assistants) came to do divisions with
us and find people. They were here for a day and were able to contact
and find some really good people! I definitely have a testimony of the
importance of planning, and if we have faith God with make sure we find
the people who are prepared. God is preparing people to accept the
gospel, especially here in Colon. And then sometimes we just find crazy
people....like it seems to be a common thing here that people answer
their door without pants, or the lady who came out of her house with 4
little statues of virgin Mary to show us that she prays.
I love when we
are in some of the poorer areas, where it´s all the little houses
touching, and you clap and never know who is going to pop out of what
door.
I also saw the HUGEST spider...right outside our
front door hiding in a box. I have definitely improved in my ability to
tolerate such things. Also, we discovered the most delicious, easiest
thing to make...cocacola cake. Google the recipe, it´s from
crackerbarrel. I have to enjoy such delicious things while i have an American comp.
As for the rain,
when it rains here, it rains hard. This week it has been pretty sunny
though, and warm enough for just a light jacket. My kind of winter.
MOm you can look at colon on google. I love this little
city....it´s not super huge, but it is just so nice. And there´s a
million and one houses and condos to rent if you want to come for
vacation....
I´m grateful for the oportunity to serve here. Really we
are nothing....but I know that God consecrates our time and efforts, and
through our testimonies, others come to know of the plan God has
prepared.
Thank you for the letters and prayers! There is so much to be done
both here and all over the world, now we just need to have the faith to
do it.
Hermana Andrews
“It
will be a great day when our people not only pray for the missionaries
throughout the world, but ask the Lord to help them to assist the
missionaries who are laboring in their own ward” President Hinkley
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