When I get home
I am going to know everything about hjow to build my own house. This
week, we patched a ceiling and spray painted with a home-made engine/air
compressor. BATTABING BATTABOOM. Late this week, there is a good chance
we will stucco a guys wall and ceiling, but I did that in my last areas
so I´m pretty comfortable doing that.
So I just want to make it clear that my description
last week of the piano situation was not in any way an exaggeration. It
really was AWFUL. But as I am writing this letter, the bishop and
another sister in the ward who takes care of the music have been calling
me asking to play piano for a special musical number for sacrament
meeting this sunday. I think the Men in Black came by and did that
button-press-everyone-forgets-
Sometimes as a missionary, you are on your feet all
day. Like literally all day. From 10 in the morning to 9 at night, you
might spend like 2 hours sitting down. I eat so so much but I don´t get
fat because we spend all day walking sometimes. It is pretty crazy btu
then also super awesome when you realize. Good times.
Also this week, I ate ceviche for the first time. It
was a little sketchy making it and eating it here becuase there isn´t
really fresh fish, but we made it happen and it was quite tasty and I
didn´t even get sick. BOOYAH I have such a strong stomach these days.
So this lady that has a store in front of our
apartment complex is an investigator of ours and she is super cool. She
has like no times at all because her job and boss are LAME but we get to
have some good chats in her store, she was able to escape her job one
sunday and come to church, and she is just a really nice lady. (she is
the one who went to Mass to give thanks for the things she had learned
with us). She has had a hard time understanding the Restauration of the
Gospel so this week, we tried a new method and left her the video of the
Restauration (of abotu 19 minutes) so she could watch it in the free
moments she has in the afternoons sometimes. We went by the next day to
check up on how it went and she was like, "Oh it was such a beautiful
video, I really loved it!" We were stoked. We asked her what she learned
from the video. She told us that she learned about perserverance. . .
.. .. . .. . . cool. We tried to talk about why she said she learned
that and all this good stuff and man it was like a bummer. She didn´t
really get it. Then she told us that she also liked how it was on a
farm and stuff. . .. . . . .. . .awesome. We are gonna have to try a new
method. Something that I´ve learned is that you can´t push people to
try to change or grow faster than what theycan do. Sometimes, we just
see errors in people in what they do, what they say, how they are, and
you can just get frustrsated. But what we have to do is just help them
grow and learn and change, btu at their pace. Be patient and
congratulate them for the things they accomplish and the steps they make
and keep motivating them, but not push than they can run. Remember, it
is not requisite that a man run faster than he has strength. That is the
case with everyone here, investigators, missionaries, companions,
members, leaders, everyone. It is also true back there. If you feel
frustrated with the progress (or lack thereof) of another person, try to
practice the eternal virtue of patience.
I love you allllllllllllllllllllllllllll. I send you
all virtual abrazos. if you don´t get that last word, google it and
practice your spanish.
ELDER PRATTTT
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