I choose such a title for this week because of our greatest lack from this past week...
WATER
Our
hours went without water literally all week. It was such a foreign
sight to me to turn on the water tap, and have nothing come out, or try
to wash the dishes, and nothing happens when I go to the sink. It's
incredible how important water becomes to you when you don't have any.
There were a few days this past week where showering was a bit
difficult; we do have a big water barrel inside our house for emergency
water, but it was not fun/enjoyable to take showers with said water, so
many days existed of a hair wash, and maybe a nice rinse. Some days, the
dishes went without being washed for 1, 2, maybe 3 days. It was pretty
darn annoying and sad.
We also had the issue of having a
new bathtub put into our house (don't ask about that issue, that's a
whole OTHER deal), which meant it was hard to be in our house during
those hours. Let it be known, it is hard to maintain the Spirit in a
personal study when all you hear is BAM BAM BAM against the wall. That
was sure fun.
Okay, as for work wise, it's been a pretty
fun week. We didn't have as much luck with us to teach as MUCH as we
woulda liked, but the lessons we taught went pretty well. Just about
once a week, we manage to find a day where we have little to no
appointments marked, so we just have to ask whoever we see if they want
to sit down and talk. One such day this week, we managed to find 3
lessons by just telling the people that we would take 5 minutes, and
they could kick us out whenever we want. One such lesson was sitting out
on a back step with a guy named Janito, who was nice enough to let us
talk to him for a bit. As we taught the first lesson to him, Elder Mason
was explaining the importance of prophets to him, when he asked us the
question, 'y'know, I totally agree with you guys on this prophet stuff,
like I feel like we really need them, but could it be that God would
call a prophet in our day?' and internally I was just like
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS because I love it when people say stuff like that.
It was so much fun to respond to him and look him in the eyes and tell
him, ' yeah, God actually does do that. Can we explain that to you?'
I FREAKIN LOVED IT.
My
mission is slowly conditioning me into becoming a very good housewife.
This week we had a visit from the Zone Leaders, with whom we had our
district meeting with, and it was rad, but after, we were kinda waiting
around, and neither them, nor the other Cova Figueira elders had any
plans for lunch, neither the food to make anything really (we live
pretty thinly in Cova), so I offered to make pizza for them all. What
followed was me making pizza for 6 elders, which ended up being
something like 4 or 5 different pizzas. Also, one night this week we
came home, and I just knew that I needed to have brownies in my life
that night, so Elder Mason and I put on some rousing EFY music and made
wonderful brownies. I have members here that want me to teach them how
to make them. We'll see what happens with that...
The
best part of this week though was easily Sunday, in that we had 3
investigators come to church, which is a Cova record for me. One of them
was a guy I taught way back, but was never able to find again, but was
invited by a member this past week to come and join us at church. it was
freakin' sweet. The best part though was standing in the halls of the
church in between classes and seeing our investigator, Ricardo, standing
in the church. It was so awesome, because we had no clue he was coming,
and didn't expect him to show up, due to work in the fields. It was
just AWESOME to see him there. Sunday was the freakin' boss.
Sorry
for a rather scattered letter today, it's been a busy one, and I gotta
run pretty quick. I'm so sunburned right now, we went up to the volcano
here today. Pictures to follow next week.
Love y'all!
Elder Massey
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