Packages!!
I got my halloween package! They just put the packages in front of
our apartment and leave them there and some of the other sisters in
our apartment complex have had packages stolen before so I was kind
of freaking out that mine had gotten stolen but it showed up! But now
the mission office is going to hold our packages so I don't have to
have anymore panic attacks. This week we had another exchange and I
went to the other side of Fontana and that was fun! That hermana
loves to run so we went about 3 miles for exercise that morning and I
don't even like running but it felt really good. This week was a lot
of walking and not a ton of teaching. Pretty much every
potential/investigator/less active gave us the slip this week.
I
think we bible bashed twice this week but I'm not actually sure. The
first time he just kept pointing to the Book of Mormon and then he
would ask us a question but then keep talking in this weird language
that could have been Spanish but honestly it kind of sounded like
Chinese. Then the next day we went to teach an investigator and her
husband came out and we were having nice conversation and then he
started talking about the Libro de Mormon and how it scares all the
latin people because it is confusing to have 2 books. We tried to
explain that we sort of need the Book of Mormon... After a while we
asked if we could just end with a prayer. You would think that there
would be tension after that but he said amen, asked us if we wanted
another water bottle, and he and his wife walked us out to our car.
So
I practiced with the primary in church last week but then they told
me that Karen would be able to play for the Saturday practice/actual
program so I didn't practice anymore. Then on Saturday the president
calls us and is like "aah Karen has pneumonia and didn't show up
to practice, can you play tomorrow?" so I panicked and tried to
practice some more but primary songs are hard. I was sitting on the
stand pretty sure I was gonna ruin the whole thing when miraculously
Karen walked in 2 minutes before Sacrament started and I didn't have
to play after all!! But it was really fun to get to practice with
them. I play in Relief Society and a couple of the members have asked
me to play hymns on their pianos when we eat at their houses for
dinner. I really love being able to play because I still am
struggling to comment or have normal conversations so it lets me feel
like I am contributing something!
The
picture of us in the masks- we were teaching our recent convert in
his driveway the other night but he lives right next to the chicken farm so when the wind
blows that way it smells outrageous. We were
struggling to breathe during our lesson and he runs to his car and
pulls out his painting masks and we taught the lesson like that!
Love
hearing about everything going on at home, I love you all so so much
and every day I realize even more how lucky I am to have such an
incredible family!
-Hermana
Smith
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