Hi family,
Okay, my keyboard is much better this week. President Murphy actually wrote this to me from my email last week:
Gracias Hermana Kennedy! I had to pull out my Urim and Thummim to read your email! Bad keyboards, I know.
That made me laugh. Anyway, here's my email this week:
Hi President Murphy,
Well, it was a very good week here in Santa Anita. We found time to work in our sector, and we are really grateful to the hermanas lideres for helping us find some new investigators in our sector. Having two companionships in the sector was great. We were able to go to some new places to find new people, and we are really hoping that some of them can progress.
We set a baptismal date with Rene this week. We asked him to pray for his own goal, and he wants to be baptized on March 10. He is working so hard to achieve his goal. This past week, his family members were at his house to celebrate some birthdays, and they kept trying to make him drink. They were actually shoving glasses in his face and telling him to just drink a little, and he told us that he remembered that he couldn't be baptized for just a little bit last time, and so he resisted all weekend and came out better than ever. Too, two members are meeting with him a couple of times a week to go through the steps of the Addiction Recovery program, and with his date for March 10, he can keep meeting with them after he is baptized. He is also still accompanying us to lessons, and we are meeting with him twice a week. He has such righteous desires, and we are praying that he can make it this time. We are so hopeful.
Hermana Pincay turned over all nurse duties to me today. She will of course still be here for two weeks to help me, but I'm now in charge of everything, and I'm hoping it all goes well! I promise that I will do my very best to keep all of the missionaries healthy, and thank you again for giving me this opportunity. We met with the Jones, and we are going with them to some appointments this week so that they can see how everything works. They are so nice and will take great care of the mission.
We are trying more to live la manera a bautizar a miles by focusing more on the needs of the investigators and really getting to know them so as to teach them that which they need. Too, we are trying new ways of contacting and teaching that is a little different for everyone. And we are trying to teach and be led by the Spirit and not just say the same thing each and every time.
Thank you for your example and your hard work. Have a great week.
Hermana Kennedy
Well let's see. What happened this week.
We were in the hospital a lot which was awesome--I mean, not awesome for anyone who needs to go in the hospital, but kinda awesome for experience points for me :-) Hermana Pincay gave me all the nurse stuff today including the smartphone. Yep, yours truly is now in possession of 21st century technology. Oh my. But that's kind of cool. It's also scary, because, you know, robbery and all, but it's fine. Pray for me.
So I will be the nurse for another transfer. Here's the dealio. Back in like November, we heard that the couple who was coming to serve in the Quito and Quito North missions are the medical people. The elder is actually a retired Physicians' Assistant so that's awesome. They were supposed to arrive on December 19, but because of visas, they didn't get here until just recently. We met with them this past week, and they are so nice. Like, one of those cute older couples, but bless their hearts, they don't speak much Spanish. It's a little tricky without an MTC, but they are working on it. So President told us that we would be the nurses until the end of the transfer unless the Jones needed my help for another transfer, in which case, I would stay on as the nurse. Today, Hermana Pincay received an email saying that I would indeed be staying on for another transfer! WOO HOOOOOOOOO!!! Man, am I excited, but also freaked out, because I suddenly feel like I don't know what I'm doing, but it'll be fine. Thankfully, if there's anything I don't know, I can call Elder Jones, and he can help me.
Okay, exciting thing. So yesterday, we got a call on the nurse phone (o yeah, I have another phone in addition to the smartphone and the sector phone) saying that an hermana had had an emergency and was just admitted to the hospital! Our first emergency! So we rushed there, and turns out she had a viral infection in her chest, but the coolest part was that I got to stay with her and go in with her while they did an echocardiogram of her heart. I think "eco" is an ultrasound. Anyway, it was so cool to see her actual heart, beating and everything, and to see how the guy did everything, and every time I hear someone say that a missionary needs an "eco", I think of bats and echolocation. I know this is very different, but I still think of it every time (and it goes along quite nicely with my vampire post from last week) :-). Seriously, medical stuff is so cool. Like, I ask you, where else are you going to see a beating human heart? Anyway, I'm super excited to be the nurse for another transfer and learn more medical stuff and still get to be a missionary! We are working hard here in Santa Anita, and we are so excited for Rene. Pray lots for him, because he needs strength especially with his friends and family.
Okay, that's all the fun stuff from this past week.
I love you all, and I hope you're all happy, and healthy, and okay.
Have a wonderful week, and happy Carneval! It starts on Sunday, and it's a holiday where people throw paint and water balloons and car oil, and we aren't allowed to leave the house unless it's in a taxi. I'M SO EXCITED! I wish we could go up on our roof and throw balloons, but unfortunately, no. But people here are already starting, and we keep having to look up as we walk around so as not to get hit ourselves, but I'm so excited to watch from our window on the actual days and see people get soaked and stuff! I love Ecuador!
Also, happy birthday, Ethan. I've had it written in my notebook for two weeks to tell you, and I know it's very late, but I had it written in my planner and everything. #sisterlove
And Christmas cards from the Mechams and from Buddy and Melanie actually made it here this week! It's a Christmas miracle!
Okay,
Love,
Hermana Kennedy
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