ok, first of all i am so jealous you get to enjoy the sun! haha, it is freezing here, and i have never expierenced so much rain in my entire life!! at least twice a week it rains all day and night non stop...and we come home soaking wet...we tried tying grocery bags around our feet but somehow the water still gets into our boots...it was hard at first, im not gonna lie i hate the rain, but we have learned to get over it and have as much fun as we can, sometimes it works to our advantage haha cause when we are knocking on peoples doors they feel sorry for us and let us come in and teach them, when they otherwise would have just said no...for example the other night we had the greatest experience ever...we were completely exhausted and it was about 8pm, we are supposed to be out contacting til 9pm, but with the rain all day and night we were soaked and we still needed to get about 10 more contacts to meet our goal of contacting 20 new people each day, so we finished a lesson and decided even since we were freezing and soaking wet, we had to complete the goal and find more people, so we decided, that since we only had an hour we wouldnt teach any lessons, we would contact the people give a brief message and make an appointment to come back and teach the lessons....but, the Lord had something else in mind....after knocking on a few houses and getting rejected, we found a house and a man with his 2 children let us in and he was really interested in our message! we ended up teaching him the entire message about the restoration and the book of mormon, and he was soo excited and interested and kept asking questions...we definitely felt the spirit with him and his family. and after that experience we left his house soo happy haha we ran home, and kept thinking about how important it was that we persevere, even when the rain is pouring down! we wont be led to the people whom the Lord has really placed in our path if we arent willing to give everything that we have...that was just one great experience that helped me this week, now the rain doesnt bother me as much haha...
hmm...ok, i will def take pics of the house....it is very modern...haha, actually i am not gonna lie, when i first got there, my companion from honduras kept talking it up and saying it was the best house in the mission, compared to all the other areas, but it is horrible haha, it was extremely hard for me to adjust to living there, almost none of the outlets work, a lot of the lights dont work either, and if we want to flush the toliet, we have to fill up a bucket of water and fill the toilet tank ourselves, or else it wont flush....haha it makes me laugh now, but at first i was thinking "you have to be kidding" after being in week in some of the members houses seeing them with 3 kids with barely a roof and no electricity, what we live in is a mansion! and i would never have thought that before, but the Lord has humbled me ALOT and i realize everday how spoiled we are in the States, we really are blessed with so many day to day things that the people here dont have....i am going to send some pics of everything so you can see what i am talking about. the people here are great, although not very many come to church...that is one of the hardest things here...nobody has a car, some have motorbikes, but the majority dont have anything, so when it rains nobody comes to church, and nobody will make the effort to walk to church...we meet amazing new investigators everday, and we are trying to prepare them for baptism, but they wont come to church because they are lazy! it is soo sad, we have been working alot with this problem...
what else, well someone needs to tell savannah she is a bum for not writing me! i havent heard from her in a month! and if you guys could forward this weekly email to all the siblings that would be great! tell them all that i still want them to email me!! even though i cant repy thru email i still love reading there emails, haha its a little selfish, haha but thats the rule, i can enjoy their messages, but they cant enjoy my responses, unless i send them a letter...well, time is almost up, it is crazy how fast it goes, i will get better at writing more letters throughout the week, so i am not rushed trying to cram in all my experiences in 30 minutes on the computer...
here is the address of the mission house, send all my mail here...they never send stuff to our actual address that is why i havent given you one....so send it to the mission home always...and they will make sure i get everything
i love you and miss you all!
there are some pics of when we crossed some railroad tracks it was a scary bridge haha, and a pic at one of our district meetings.
Mision Uruguay Montevideo
Dalmiro Costa 4635 Bis
C.P. 11400
Montevideo, Uruguay
