Here
we gooooo!!!! October 6, 2014
Dear Important people in my life,
I'm glad you all enjoyed the
previous letter, because there won't be another one like it for a while
:D
This week...I basically followed my
companion around, because I knew nothing about anything! It was like starting
all over again, only this time I actually knew what most of the poeple were
saying. And I knew how to reply. That's a good thing, I think. :)
But really, It's pretty weird being
in a city like this! There's nice, big houses and then down the road a few
blocks and there's really small houses. Stores on every corner and there are no
fields. Nope, this is not Mazatlán! But it's still a good place with good
people.
Turns out this is an area where you
tell other missionaries where you are and they say "oh, I'm so
sorry!" hahaha! Oh, thanks for your uh...help... It's not a very
mission minded ward. My companion that was already here has been slowly getting
it better. Poco a poco we're working with the members, etc.
Also, this is one of the oldest
wards in Culiacan and so there's a LOT of old people. And so it's kind of funny
trying to teach the less actives or investigators that just tell us they can't
go because they can't walk, but my companion has found them on the other side
of the colonia(or colony - the cities are big, but are divided into colonies or
subdivisions).
We have a baptism this Saturday for
a man named Jorge Smith. hahaha you don't normally find a Smith here in Mexico.
But he has one leg because he fought in a war (I don't know which) and his leg
got infected somehow and the doctors told him they would cut half his leg off.
And he woke up and they had taken off a lot more!! Anyway, he uses a
wheelchair, and this will be an interesting baptism.
General Conference was pretty dang
good!! Again...hahaha I watched it in Spanish until the last session on Sunday,
when apparently they decided to put it in English for us Americans in another
room. They didn't get it working until almost half the session was over...so I
need to go back and watch that part again :)
You should all be grateful to know
and speak the English language. The talks are more powerful when you hear them
in English. Or if the speaker speaks Spanish, or Chinese or Portuguese...it's
just better when you understand the speaker without a translator. Not to say
that I'm not grateful for them! I'm SOOOO grateful for the translators!
But everyone wants to learn
English...so...be grateful for you have :)
I learned a lot from the conference,
but you don't get notes because they're in the house. But hopefully I can
really learn and apply them to this magnificent thing called missionary
work.
Have an awesome week! Always share
the gospel :)
Love,
Hermana Daniels
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