Poco a Poco

I made it another week! It's still very hot, and our apartment still has no air conditioning. I fear that that much isn't going to change for a little while BUT regardless it was still a really good & busy week!!!

Highlights:

-Haslam and I got K-baptized! Basically the new missionaries have to eat this meal called K-Bop. (Pictured below) It's so popular here. There's literally one on every street (it was mid)

-We all get in a cold shower with our garments on right before bed because its so hot here (it feels a little bit wrong but it helps cool us off SO much throughout the night. If you are reading this and you're in a similar heat situation try it I promise you won't regret it)

-It rained!!! This was actually the biggest tender mercy. Rob and I were both feeling really stressed and it started downpouring on our walk to the church and it was so much fun

-We taught more English classes! (& by teaching English class I mean that the other Hermanas taught and all the English phrases they were teaching, Rob taught me how to say in Spanish)

-Ate the best burrito of my life (better than Chipotle i'm not lying)

-Forgot that Spaniards have huge lunches and got super full off of some soup at a member meal that apparently was just an appetizer. She brought out a huge dish of chicken and rice afterwards and proceeded to fill my plate up. Let's just say I wanted to throw up after I left because I ate so much food hahaha

-Rob has been my own personal translator. Every time someone says something to me, I look at her with all the confusion in the world and she will tell me what they said. Then I will look back at them and try to respond with my broken Spanish

-Hermana Robinson and I get along in just about every single way. (She even tells members that I'm allergic to fish for me!!!) The only thing that doesn't work is the fact that Rob sucks at directions and I have no idea where i'm going because i've lived here for a week. So we get lost pretty much everywhere we go. One of the nights this week we were out until 11:15pm because we were at a members house 30 minutes from home and had no idea how to get back hahaha. And the other day we were trying to figure out where this store was and Rob says "I know how to get there from the church but not from where we are standing right now" We were literally 10 steps away from the church, I could see the building to my left. We just stop in the middle of the street sometimes when we're lost and can't help but laugh. Eventually we figure it out hahaha. All is well that ends well right?!

Spiritual thought!!!

Last night our sweet friend Maria Teresa got baptized. We've been teaching her every night this past week to get her ready and she is so elect. She bore her testimony afterwards about how she feels the spirit so strong and loves this gospel so much. Even though I didn't understand everything she was saying right then, the presence of the spirit was everywhere in the room. The spirit really does speak in every language and I am able to recognize and experience this every day. This work can be really hard at times. I'm a week in and I can already feel the exhaustion. It's frustrating not being able to communicate with everyone around me, especially when I have so much to say. But despite everything that's been hard, I see God's hand in my life and in the lives of those that we teach now more than ever and it really is the coolest thing. Seeing the light that the spirit brings to people makes every hard day worth it. "Poco a poco" is something that I get told by people here every single day. Little by little I'm learning how to rely and trust in the spirit. Little by little I'm learning how to speak Spanish so that I can say all that I want to say. I've learned that that's the most important part of missionary work, and life in general. Growing little by little each day. "Poco a poco"

I love you all and I'm praying for every single one of you! Hope you all have a good week ☺️☺️