Sleeping situation, check. Now i`d like to address a thought i had while eating at a members house one day.
Hermana Sonia cooks for us every pday and she`s the best. Last monday we ate chifa, but it was so cool. Rice and every kind of tiny sea creature you could imagine. there was squid, or something like that, snails, mussels, clams, fish, and a tiny salty red fish that looked like a kidney bean with legs and antenae. But then i had this thought....wow, i feel like the little mermaid, if i eat more fish will i become one? I could proselate to those areas that are floating villages if i became a mermaid. My train of thought came to a hault when i realized every fish in that movie had a face and it was her friend, so she was probably a vegetarian anyway. Dream bubble bursted.
Tambien this week, since my comapnion was in Lima AGAIN to get her card, she went with our sister leader too. So Hermana Child and I got to be companions for like 3 days! haha, slumber party! It was SO fun. But since we both had citas fija in nuestra areas, we were taking motokars back and forth from her area to mine. it was a crazy time, but so so fun! One of her investigadores asked me to be the madrina of their baby. I said sure! but then i asked what it was exactly and they told me its like a testigo, a witness for their wedding. Hermana Child knows the same amount of spanish as i do and so we were both like, uhhhh, we`ll talk to our leaders about that and get back to you, but probably not. because hermana Talbert isnt from Peru......They asked me to be the godmother. haha, because that reqcuires i buy all of the necessidades for their baby, i will not be their babies godmother, thats also a catholic tradition, so yea no. Hermana Child is the BEST missionary. She already knows so much and she only has like 2 months in the mission. She`s from Salt Lake and she showed me pictures of her family, they are the CUTEST! Haha, they sent her a pìc of their easter egg hunt. (I really feel like this continent broke my heart when EAster never happened) Honestly feel betrayed, but it`s fine, next Easter i`ll show Peru how to celebrate the right way. Feelings aside, I did have a really fun week. Hopefully Hermana child and I can be companions somewhere down the road!
Oh, a miracle showed up yesterday! Efran, a man who has been assisting iglesica por 5 anos, dropped off the radar these last two months. His baptism was supposed to be tomorrow! and we couldnt get a hold of him!!!! Then yesterday we received a call from him, he asked if he could still be baptized tomorrow and that he`d been on a trip until just now. So he had his interview yesterday night and tomorrow , on his Birthday he`ll be baptized. lo maximo!!!!!
Other than him, our investigadores are having a hard time progressing, the church is really SO FAR AWAY from where they live, and i can testify that if it rains, it is so hard to get to church. When it rains, the ground, the earth just starts moving beneath your feet, it swallows your feet up or becomes a river entirely. I dont know how to motivate them. I wish i could take away their agency, and give them my faith, my determination. I wish i could walk all the way with them, but im just one person, and i cant do that for all of them every sunday. One day i´ll leave, and i cant be the only cause for them to come. I`m struggling finding the way to show them their faith, to help them find their determination, to make their hearts and minds make their legs move. It is SO hard to herd His sheep, when they dont realize that they are wondering. If only they realized the urgency of being in the right pasture at the right time. If only they understood that the right time is NOW and the right pasture is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Seriously all we can do is love them and invite them, and encourage them, haha, but like, sometimes their just not listening. Learning patience........
That`s all for now, have a great week.
love one another, dont litter, study hard
Hermana Talbert
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