Buenas tardes, President Murphy,
Well, it was a very busy week for us in the hospital. We had a lot of appointments, and I loved getting to accompany the missionaries. I love that being the nurse is so different and interesting, and I get to know the missionaries a little better. Plus, I love seeing how Heavenly Father gives us a little bit of extra help in our sector.
We were able to find Rene again, and he came to church on Sunday. It's interesting to get to know him a little better. I think he drinks because his life is a mess and he's sad, and it helps him feel happy and forget his problems. However, it's also interesting to see that he does look happier at church. And he loves telling us about the scriptures he reads. But I think it's hard during the week for him to avoid drinking because he doesn't have that happiness around him. We are going to start the lessons over with him and focus on how the Gospel can bring happiness and peace amidst his trails.
Too, two men attended church on Sunday who just happen to live in our sector, so that same night we went to visit them. They are roommates, and one wasn't there, but we spoke with the other one, Franklin, to find out why he came to church that day. He wants to make a change in his life. He actually has a friend who is a member, and she told us that she will be coming in two weeks to see how we are fellow shipping and teaching him (which is a little scary), but she wants him to be baptized, so it's incentive to assure that everything goes well with him.
Too, we were able to find a really nice couple, Edison and Wendy. They aren't married unfortunately, but they are very happy to let us in, and they told us that they had never heard of Joseph Smith of The Book of Mormon, but they are excited to find out if it's all true. We are really hoping that they can progress and come to church this week.
I know that Heavenly Father leads and guides this work. He helps us so much, and I'm so grateful that I get to be a missionary and a nurse at the same time!
Hermana Pincay and I are getting to know each other a little better. I found out a lot about her this week that has helped me understand her better, and I'm hoping that she can finish her mission feeling like she has helped someone. She often feels like she hasn't done anything and that she hasn't helped anyone along the way, but I'm hoping to help her see that her mission is important and that this time was important.
Thank you for your help and your example. Have a wonderful week.
Hermana Kennedy
Well, first order of business. My camera has been stolen. Well actually, my camera and my hymnbook. Yep, I'm guessing the thief just reached into my bag and pulled out the first thing he felt (which happened to be the hymnbook), and then noticed a very hidden pocket in my bag to pull out my camera. Honestly, it's the biggest mystery in the world as to how he (or she) did it, because I never leave my bag anywhere, and when I'm on the bus or metro, I have it on my lap in front of me, but so it is. Of course, all of the pictures I had which I hadn't sent home are now lost. I'm just grateful that my previous companions have some pics from our time together. I'm also super sad about my hymnbook because lots of my friends up to this point have written next to their favorite hymn or written notes in the back, and some of them have already gone home. I think if they had stolen my planner or my umbrella, it wouldn't be such a big deal but of course they would happen to take the two most personal things. Maybe the thief needed to sell the camera to feed his kids, or something. He can have the camera (because no kiddo should go hungry), but I wish there was some way to get my memory card back. Oh well. I don't suppose you can send me a new camera, can you? Please?
Also, this has been a week of fruit. Right now, it's mango season here, but not the big mangoes we all know and love, but these small mangoes that we don't actually eat, but we squeeze out the juice and just suck on it like a vampire. It's super fun. Also, I bought three pineapples for a dollar, three pounds of tiny pears for a dollar, and Hermana Pincay showed me this crazy way to eat an orange.
Also, just a funny thing. So, in this past General Women's Conference, President Uchtdorf gave a talk on the three sisters, and near the end, he quoted something along the lines of "It's not your abilities, but your choices that make the difference in your life." I then looked at that quote citation, and it's from a book called, "The Most Inspirational Book Quotes of All Time" at which point I realized that that book was quoting Dumbledore (from Harry Potter), meaning that Elder Uchtdorf was quoting Harry Potter! #HarryPotterIsLife
Also, I sing in my sleep. Hermana Pincay has woken up a few times this week and found that I am singing in my sleep. Now if that isn't a consecrated musician, I don't know what is :-)
And we haven't had water in our apartment since Wednesday. Turns out, we share a water bill with our neighbor, and she hasn't paid her half, so we are suffering. We have gone to the hermana lideres' house a couple times to shower, but it makes going to the bathroom and cooking a little difficult. So, we are really hoping she's going to pay it--like REAL soon. On Wednesday, she told us she would pay it that day, but that obviously didn't happen. So, we had to fill a bucket from a very ghetto tap upstairs on the roof so as to have water to flush the toilet. Hermana Pincay laughed a lot at my suffering :-)
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It sure was fun to hear all about the wedding. Sorry I couldn't be there, but I'm really hoping to have ALL my siblings at my wedding. (Here's looking at YOU, Glo...). But who knows? Maybe Glo really will be the only one with all of us in a picture. And Baby? Seriously SO DANG CUTE! All day Saturday, I was thinking, "Oh man, I hope they're getting married," and "Oh man, they're probably taking pics right now," and "Dang it, they're probably all dancing right now and I'M NOT THERE!!!!" Oh well.
Okay, that's about it. We did a lot of nurse stuff this week, and I LOVE it. I already have 16 patient contact hours, and that's only in the hospital. I don't know whether the filling out of forms counts too, but I'm really praying that President Murphy will keep me on as the nurse in the upcoming transfer as well. Today, a retired Physician's Assistant and his wife arrived to cover our mission (as well as the Quito mission), and I'm hoping that they will need assistants for a while so that I can do that.
Anyway, I love you all a lot, and I hope you're all happy and healthy and bathed, because I am not.
Love,
Hermana Kennedy
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