Hello hello!
Week one of Zamacola is in the books. What a week! Monday we
had training with the other trainers, and Tuesday our daughters came. I have
another Argentina comp! I guess I have something for the Argentinas-& I
can't help but speak Spanish like an Argentinian haha. My companion is Hermana
Cejas. She is so sweet. We are super different, but we get along well and she
has a powerful testimony :) She is pretty shy, but she is coming out of her
shell lots! I couldn't run with Hermana Alais because her knees are bad, but Hermana Cejas likes to run and we are able to run every morning!
Our area Zamacola: The airport is in our area, so we can always hear the planes going in
and out. The weather here is pretty much the same as Selva Alegre. It's winter
here and pretty cold with wind in the mornings and nights, but during the day
there's lots of sun. There are sooo many dogs in our area! We have to ask in all
of our prayers for protection from the dogs, because they are so aggressive! Our
pencionista is the sweetest! We live with her and she is a member which is
really nice. She cooks all the classic Peruvian food, and it is super good. I
am already the ward pianist, yay :)
We opened this area, which means starting
from scratch and starting from 0 means knocking lots of doors and
contacting the members. We set appointments with all of the leaders in
the ward this week which helped a lot. The members always feed us some type of
mate and we are trying new drinks every day. (Still haven't had soda my whole
mission..blessed ha) From knocking lots of doors this week, everyone says they
are catholic and we haven't had a ton of success, but just gonna keep working
harder. Even on the days in the mission where we don't have tons of success,
there are always miracles in each day. For example-Thursday we were knocking
doors all day and no success. The day was almost over and we decided to go
visit a member. We couldn't find the house, so we asked a lady in the street if
she could help us with the address. She was super nice and helpful and when we
started to introduce ourselves as missionaries after, she cut us off and said
"Can you Hermanas come share a message with me this week?" We were
pretty surprised but happily agreed and have our appointment with her tomorrow.
:) Ha. Also yesterday-the patriarch and his wife live close to our cuarto.
Patriarch and his wife didn't come to the church yesterday, so we had been
thinking about them. We were walking to an appointment and passed the house of
the patriarch and had a feeling that we should knock their door to visit them.
Sure enough we entered the house and the wife of patriarch is super sick. She
had been praying throughout the day that "The Hermanas from the church
would come visit her". She started to cry when she saw us and explained
that we were the answer to her prayers. I feel so lucky to be an instrument in
the hands of the Lord. It is such a blessing :) Hope you all have a great week!
Praying for you always. xo
Hermana Wood
John 5:30
pics: viewsss in our area, Happy birthday this week to my
cute hija, typical food, aji de gallina
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