So main points of the week, Hermana Moss and I have been singing in the choir here so we've sung the EFY Medley in Spanish and all of the hermanas in my zone sang A Child's Prayer in Spanish this past Sunday and both were really awesome. And I've been learning a lot of Spanish words by doing that so that's pretty cool.
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| I found Mexican Twinkys in the Tienda |
I forgot to mention before I think, it's monsoon season here! So pretty much that means that every night around 5 or 7 ish it just starts absolutely pouring, it even hailed once, and there's thunder and lightning and all sorts of crazy stuff. I love lightning storms so this is fantastic and I have definitely gotten some good use out of my umbrella.
And the big news of this week, there's a mild epidemic here in the CCM... So from what the doctors here (who are amazing by the way) can tell there was a virus brought in by the last generation of missionaries (the ones who got here last Wednesday) and it's something that's common on cruise ships or something. Around 30% of the missionaries here got infected and it's some sort of flu like thingy but it mostly hit the new generation. Hermana Moss and I have been essentially in a constant state of washing our hands and so we're both fine, healthy, and happy and we're pretty sure it's over now because all of the people who were sick are better and have been for over 24 hours. So not to scare you all too much, that was just the big thing for this week.
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| wearing our solo spanglish tags |
That's pretty much it for this week though, everything here is so normal now and I know I've only been here for three weeks but it feels like months because our days are so long. Teaching lessons in Spanish has gotten way easier and Hermana Moss and me can now handle like any question our investigators can throw at us, in Spanish!
OH one last thing that I just remembered, this last Saturday was our first TRC which essentially means that we're teaching real live people, not just our teachers acting as investigators from their own missions. So needless to say that was really scary and native speakers talk really fast but they all had at least some background with the church, whether they were members or less actives or whatever, so we couldn´t screw anything up too badly. It actually went really well, there were somethings I certainly didn't understand but we did understand most of what they were saying and taught some really awesome, on the spot lessons.
Ok so spiritual thought for the week, this week in personal study I focused on finding really awesome scriptures about missionaries (I'll send the list I came up with for all of you current/future missionaries because there's some really cool ones that I found) but I think my favorite one is Mormon 5:23 which says "Know ye not that ye are in the hands of God? Know ye not that he hath all power, and at his great command the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll?" and that one's really awesome because it's just a reminder that God is always there to help and protect us and He is the absolute best person to put you trust in because He can do literally anything and that's just so comforting to me, especially as I'm serving as one of His representatives right now.
Ok here's my full list (I haven't been able to look through the Bible yet so these are just in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants)
2 Nephi 4:20-25
Jacob 3:1-2
Alma 29:1-2
Mormon 5:23
D&C 1:23
18:44-45
19:37-38
24:12
29:4-6
30:5,11
31
34:2-5
64:33
84:88
Love always,
Hermana Martin
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