Well, the sun has really gotten the best of us this week. The beautiful mix of my SPF110 and sweat, and the sand and dirt in the air, you´d think, would protect us from the sun´s rays...but when we walk around from 10 am until 9 pm, it´s hard to avoid the sun. Also, Little of the members know me as Hermana TAlbert. partly because they can´t pronounce my name, and partly because Hermana martinez doesn´t call me Hermana Talbert, i´m her Gringa. mi gringa mi gringa! la gringa. yea whatevs,
So this Sunday was fast sunday again, and we were looking for milagros. porque, we need them, this área needs them. So we have 3ish familias, and we had hoped for all of them to attend, to progress with their fecha bautismal, but none of them came. Who DID come, was Marker Delgado, a single dad who we´ve been teaching unsuccessfully for two months now. but just recently hes shown interest in lessons and in coming to church! His daughter has come to church since she was smaller con su tia and she is SUCH an example to her father. She wants to be baptized in 3 years when she turns 8, and if Marker puede continuar a guardar su convenios and in tiempo receive the priesthood, he can baptize his daughter! We wont be here to see that, to celebrate that with them, but we can set this family up for eternity and maybe someday see them in los cielos. He was our only investigador that came, but we had a less active family come! and another less active girl.
I congratulate the missionaries before us for sharing their testimony and inviting these really great people to baptism.....but a lot of our menos activos in este Rama, este área, son niños. they´re children and only parts of families.....they have NO one to support them, after the missionaries who baptized them left, they never returned to church. Viviana is 15 years old, and she is the only member of her family of 6. and we visited her once on saturday, and asked her to come to church, and she appeared! and was talking with the other girls her age!
Though our testimonies and our faith should be enough to bring us to church and fulfill those convenios con Dios..........it´s often the members, those liders, those people who KEEP us there.
When we fill out our informes por este área, cada semana, we list los obstáculos del área, those problems for us, como missionaries.....and i´d have to say, every time, its the members. ALL of our less actives don´t come to church because of another member, and something that happened with them, or something that was said, or borrowed and not returned. ay carumba. enserio, this is the worst. People are so prideful and so slow to forgive. ALSO!
of the 400 members of this rama, only 5 of them pay tithing. lasdjfiahswgfih g! What is that!?!? They´re never going to receive a temple in the Iquitos misión if they don´t have the faith to sacrifice. It breaks my heart, not sometimes. but everyday. When we listen to these poeples problems and desafíos and issues....they can ALL be answered by the atonement of Jesús Christ and the steps to develop faith in Him and the Lord´s plan for each of us......but they just dont listen. they just don´t want an answer, they want to live with this anger and THIS, this, just kills me.
Anyway....this has been my week.
My companion and I are a lot more united, I´m beginning to understand her more and more, in the language and in action también. Haha, she´s still so weird, but i´ve learned a lot from her already. Como, how to share without thinking, and how to work hard. I´ve learned a lot of how NOT to do things as well, but i{ll just keep those for my personal journal. voy a aplicar en un fecha luego.
Thanks so much for your kind words of advice and encouragement! ciao for now. love you bunches
Hermana Talbert
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