Hi Everyone,
Week 2 has been good. We had some very special lessons this week. There is one investigator, Ruben, he came up to us in the park and asked us if we were like the elders. We said yes, he said that he was taking the lessons about a year ago but when the elders got changed to a new area the new elders didn't visit him. He had a BOM and somehow he found one of those Sunday school books, teachings of the prophet - John Taylor. I think he said he found it in the street? Weird! He is very interested, hopefully that will continue. We are having a Noche Blanca on the 22nd for the stake and from La Cañada there will be one baptism. We were supposed to have 3 but one of the investigators moved to another ward and the other we don´t think he will be ready in time, he misses a lot of his appointments because he is busy with work and has been having a lot of family problems, basically he got kicked out of his house because he was changing his standards. This place is crazy. But- Hna. Castro came to La Cañada on Friday! So it is good to be with her and have just one companion. She is from Lima, Peru and has 10 mos in the mission. She is 23. OH! Did i tell you that Hna Huaynate is 39! She told me she was 29 and I believed her for a while and then she told me the truth haha. So things are good with Hna Castro. She is a really, really good missionary. I will learn a lot from her. Now that I am with Hna Castro we have moved downstairs in the same house/apartment complex. We have 2 rooms and the bathroom. We don't have any kitchen stuff except a blender, a stovetop thing, and some pots-pans. there is no kitchen sink, etc. I don´t know if we´re getting the oven anymore. I liked living on the 2nd floor better, it was more comfortable and the bathroom was a lot nicer but what I found out is that we will probably not be here that long. The plan to begin with was to have me and Hna castro to to Barrio Paraiso, but my visa got delayed so Hna castro went with 2 others to Belen (Bethlehem!) , and they are looking for a new house now in Paraiso, so i think we are supposed to go there after a few weeks. but who really knows.
Everyone is nice here and will accept an appointment in their house. So it´s hard to find out who is really interested or not. But they are forgiving with my Spanish too.
I don't know exactly how hot it is. But it´s very hot. I get headaches sometimes from being out of the heat (stress too, I think).
Oh FYI, there are about 140 missionaries in our mission, I think. About 15 sisters. The mission has little parts of Brazil in it. But I won´t go there. There is only one area outside of Santa Cruz that sisters can currently go to. it´s called Yacuiba. Hna Huaynate was there for a while.
To travel we walk. There are taxis but we don´t really take them just ourselves, but we take them if we are being transferred, and we took them the day we were getting fingerprints etc. We take the bus (micro) sometimes when we are meeting with our zone. Everyone drives really crazy here.
Washing clothes- it's not just a bucket. There are 2 sink basins and there is water hose thing hooked up to it. So one basin is to wash the other to rinse. On the wash side there is an angled side that you can use to get stains out. Don´t know how to explain it. Washing clothes by hand is soooo boring though. I don´t like it.
Our pensionista is great. Her name is Hna Julie. Hna Randall taught her how to make pizza, and she makes it all the time now because she wants to perfect it. Yummy. The other stuff she cooks is good too. Everyday we have rice, usually we have chicken, and then some sort of salad with veggies and sometimes with noodles.
I know I said that I would send photos, I have all the stuff i need here, bu this computer won´t do it. Sorry! I´ll try again next week.
I love you all. Being a missionar y is hard but great and my testimony grows every day. Read the Book of Mormon and pray. Don´t ever stop doing those two things. And go to church.
Keep praying for me please!!! love Hermana Tibbitts
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