PACKAGE!!!
I got the package finally! Wow and I have to say it could not have come at a better time! I didn´t think that I would be getting it for a long time because I kind of am stranded on an Island. believe it or not... ITS TRUE! But my zone leader had to go to Madrid for a leadership training meeting and he brought it back from me! But THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. Thank you all of the letters which meant so much to me! You are all such inspirations to me. Those letters were such a treat to read last night. Sounds like NewPort was fun! Its awesome being here in Tenerife but it also hard because we live smack dab in the middle of a touristy place.. its hard to work hard and feel happy when everyone else around you is on vacation and just doing whatever they want! But it is good.
So GUESS WHAT! One of my prayers has been answered and so far I have been able to totally EAT EVERYTHING. Haha seriously.. I ate a green olive. *round of applause for Emily* Haha and a ton of other things but food here has not been as much of a problem as I had originally feared! I eat rabbit.. squid.. oh yesterday I had a blood sausage at the Villalobos house! Usually I don´t know what I am eating until after I eat it.. and I think it is better that way. But i have been able to do so. It is A MIRACLE! Also it is a miracle that my companion and I haven´t gotten lost. Our area is MASSIVE! So big. Normally we would have a car but she doesn´t have her license and I don´t know how to drive stick.. so we take the wawa! (bus) But we literally have pratically half of the island.. so yeah! Its incredible that we haven´t gotten lost. Sometimes we don´t know where we are.. and literally have to guess where to go.. but it all works out eventually we find what we are trying to find.
Well. I AM SO EXHAUSTED all of the time. And the thing about missions is that you never stop! You never ever stop working no matter what. There are no breaks! Missions are dang hard! Especially when I feel so inadequate and want to cry a lot... haha just for the record I have not like broken down yet in tears! Haha I have gotten teary but I am being strong. My companion told me how impressed she is how strong I have been.. I don´t want to worry any of you.. but I really feel like I am just enduring. Does is get better than this haha?? I am trying so hard to forget myself and lose myself in the work.. but wow it is hard. Feelings of homesickness have never been stronger... Any advise of what I can do to totally give my all to the Lord? I am trying so hard..
I LOVE YOU ALL! Crazy things have happened and we already have some investigators!
I will tell you about one... her name is... URSULA! Yes this is real life. Not the Little Mermaid. She is SO COOL! She is like a cat woman haha! Or animals in general. She has a million fish and piranas everywhere and she has bunnies and turtles and birds.. but the best are her dogs! Actually they are the worst.. they scare me and my companion so much everytime. And they attack us. The dogs here are weeeeird and scary. they kind of look like a mini form of the dog monster things in hunger games. One of her dogs is blind and one of them is autistic i think that is what she told us. Just giving you a visual.. but yeah they like attack us but we LOVE her so much. She is great and she speaks a little of English so i am happy. But we have been teaching her and we can see so easily how much SHE NEEDS the gospel. She has problems with the word of wisdom majorly we we can´t wait to teach her.. haha but she is one cool and one prepared woman. She is so receptive. Oh and she lives in our same appartment building! She is really concsious of how little of spanish I know which is a nice tender mercy to me.. she tries to translate for me and it is so cute. But she is great.. I know she will get baptized one day! I love her. She was so cute and tried to make us a nice American dinner of fries and hamburgers Friday night.. what a nice girl. Not to mention she has had the hardest life.. but this gospel will help her so much!
So the hardest thing about the language for me is understanding. I can speak in Spanish.. but it is hard for me to understand people. And so exhausting. Sometimes I wonder when it will end. but apparently it will! I know that this is probably the hardest time of my mission.. I have no doubt haha! Its just such a give your all kind of work. It is such an adjustment from the ccm. It's real life! And it can be hard. but I know that I am here for a reason and that I just need to keep pressing forward. The Lord is stretching me so that I will grow!
I love you all so much.
Keep strong in faith!
Hermana Nydegger
Line of the week: "Tienes facebook?" says the 3 year old boy.
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