Buenas tardes, Presidente Murphy,
It was a good week. Rene is progressing so well. All week, because of Carnival and family visits, he has received a lot of opposition, but he is staying strong. We pray for him each day that he can make it. He knows that from this point on, there are no mistakes with drinking. He has 25 days without drinking so far, and one more month until his baptism. Thankfully, he is also receiving good things from people too. This last week, his cousin told him that she notices a difference in him, and she says that it is a very good thing. Too, he is fellowshipping our other investigator, Franklin. They went to a bakery course together this past week. Too, Rene introduced us to a friend of his, Adela. She's great. She's from Otavalo, is married and has two baby girls. We know that the Gospel could really bless her, and she already has strong faith in God, but she isn't part of any church because she never liked some of the recitations and things. However, she has always passed the Santa Anita chapel and wanted to go inside, but never knew how or when, so this coming Sunday, we hope she can come. She has felt very alone in her life, and she believes that her twin daughters are gifts from God to help her feel like He cares and that she is important to Him. We are excited to see what happens with her.
Too, we had a really great contact this week. Her name is Elena, and she too has noticed the Santa Anita chapel, and when we told her who we are, she told us that she's super interested and that she won't be able to come to church this Sunday, but that she would love to have us come visit, and she's planning on coming to church the next week!
The Joneses are great. It's nice when we don't know something to be able to ask Elder Jones, and he helps us know exactly what to do. I'm excited to see how they will help the mission, and I hope they can progress rapidly.
Thank you for all of your work and your example, and thank you for filling out the Ecclesiastical Endorsement for me. I really, really appreciate it.
Have a wonderful week,
Hermana Kennedy
Okay, so it's CARNEVAL!!! That means that yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we can only leave the house for sure for appointments with people, because everyone is throwing water, shaving cream and paint off of their roofs, from trucks, or even from busses. We didn't leave yesterday except for church and some other stuff, but today, obviously, we had to come to the internet place, and I was so nervous. I actually wouldn't mind having water thrown at me, but it's still a little scary. Our neighbors are savage and have been out all day, throwing water at people, so in the minute that they were distracted, we sneaked out of our apartment. However, as we were walking, a truck full of adults passed by, and we tried to go down another road, but they followed us and sure enough, soaked us. It was fun for me, but Hermana Pincay hates Carneval....like with a burning passion....so that dampened the mood a bit. It's only because her dad is like super gung-ho about Carneval, and all week is running around, soaking her and her siblings, so she doesn't like it very much, but I'm grateful for the experience :-) It's fun to watch it all.
Also, I was robbed. Again. Yep. I don't know if it's because I'm white, so everyone thinks I'm loaded with cash in my bag or what, but they took my planner this time. Like, c'mon man, really? That had all of our contacts in it, and all of my patient contact hours logged. As of when it was stolen, I had 70 PCH, but after going through Hermana Pincay's planner, I now have 110, so something isn't quite accurate for one of us. Not sure who, but WHO CARES? THIS COULD CHANGE MY ENTIRE LIFE!
Really?
No.
Moving on.
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| Us, waiting at the hospital |
We also had a funny thing happen with another hermana, and I only share it because I won't mention her name, and because she's a good friend of mine. She had to have a stool sample taken to see if she has parasites (yep, it really happens down here), so we headed to the lab, and she went into the bathroom. Like I said, she's one of my good friends, and after a little while, she pokes her head out of the bathroom and motions for me to come over. I go into the bathroom and she blurts out, "I HAVE NO POOP!!!" I just start laughing while she starts doing exercises to try and get her GI tract moving, all the while saying that she had nothing inside of her and hasn't pooped since lunch. She really hates hospitals, and she didn't want to come back another day, so I sat in the bathroom for an hour, talking to her while she tried to ... you know .... find the poop. In the end, she couldn't, and came back the next morning, came out of the bathroom, held out the container, and said, "With all the effort in my body, here you go!" She was so funny and goofy about it all.
And....drum roll please....I celebrated my year mark on Thursday. I did it with peanut butter and my bag of Wegman's chocolate chips. I have been waiting since Christmas to eat them, and knew that my year mark was a good way to use them, so I may have done a little photo sesh with the best two foods in the world (aside from hamburgers and cheesecake). They were so delicious, and yes, this very morning, I finished off my peanut butter. It was horribly sad, but such is life.
It's Hermana Pincay's last week in the mission She goes home on the 20th, and I'm very nervous for my next companion. I have no idea who it will be. I love Hermana Pincay, and I'm so sad that she's leaving. She's been a good companion.
Anyway, that's about it. I love you all, and thank you so much for your emails! Next week I'll have a new companion, but President said I'm staying in Santa Anita which is awesome. Say a prayer for me. I love you!!
Love,
Hermana Kennedy
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