Today
we went and fished on the pier. It started to rain and the waves were
really high, but it was fun and really pretty. There are some sand fleas
that bite here, pretty painful. 
My companion
thanked me for helping her reach our goals this week, that felt good.
It's been a challenge to have ánimo (to be excited) but hearing that was really nice.
Ate
a baleada with beans that had been played around in by rats. I had no
idea why comp wasn't eating, but afterwards of course I figured out why,
but... I didn't get sick!!
We went to C____ on
Wednesday for like a 30 minute meeting about being secretaries. Really,
that bus was like a bad amusement park ride. The stake center even
smelled the way I remember it. It was weird being back in C____, it's
changed so much, not really the C____ I knew, but it's still like my
home.
My birthday is in less than a month? That should be fun.
We
have a great investigator who is just perfect. She has a ton of family
that are members and she just feels that its time. She has a fecha to be
baptized the 29th of this month and she was talking about her own fecha
in her prayer she offered. Normally it's like pulling teeth to even get
them to pray in the first place even when offered help. So she is a real
blessing for us. The best part though, she could get baptized in the
ocean :)
Normally as we pass guys in the
street, we hear stuff like "hey...la gringita..." and other junk. But
this week I heard "welcome to be my life". So who knows what that means,
but it was funny. (Jen: I bet they were saying "Welcome to be my wife.")
Sunday we
had an asistencia (attendance) of 141. It's still a branch. There isn't enough
sacerdocio (priesthood) apparently, but it's a really great branch of lots of strong
Garífonas.
We taught a lesson on the beach
last night around 5. That was neat. I asked how long the family had
lived there for and we started talking about the weather and hurricanes
that have passed through. I asked how the family did during hurricane
Mitch that everyone always talks about...What happened next didn't seem
to really mean anything at the time but I think now it does. We were
talking about preparedeness and how we should keep a supply of food and water and all that, but the lady started talking about how the day that
the hurricane hit, everything seemed fine...it was a normal day and the
sky was normal. Then suddenly everything went wrong and the storm came
out of nowhere. I guess that's like life sometimes. No matter how much we
prepare ourselves, no matter how much we think we can take, sometimes
we really aren't prepared for what life gives us. And we feel like
everything is going how it's supposed to be, and then even when we do
things the right way, it's still hard and you just don't really know what
to think and you're left just sort of putting your hands in the air and
saying "I've got nothing. I don't know where to go from here..." But
Heavenly Father is always there and I'm learning to trust Him a lot more
than I ever have. I'm learning to give up what I want and accept that
my timing and my plans probably aren't the same as His.
I'm
grateful to be here. I'm grateful to be serving a mission. I couldn't be
happier and I know I'm where I'm supposed to be right now. It's crazy to
think how much I've learned and how much I still have to learn, but I'm
getting there. Hope you all have a great week.
Con amor,
Hermana Despain
