Sept. 16th 2013
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First
off before I say anything else.. THANKS SO MUCH Nadine for my package! I don´t
think you could´ve seen a happier Hermana to have goldfish, sour patch kids,
and pretzel M&Ms! I also got a surprise birthday package from my
favorite Elder, but for some reason he said I need to practice
patience and wait until my birthday to open it.. I don´t understand I
thought I was always patient? Ha ha !
Well..
yet another week gone by and thank heavens, I´m still in COMAS!!! Yay! When I
found out I didn´t have to change areas I was so happy! Saying goodbye to
Hermana Flores and sending her off to Bolivia was a little difficult, but it
was time for a change for the both of us and she is going to do great things
there!
Ready...
I have TWO companions! We´re a trio now! I´m finishing up being trained by
Hermana Huerta and we have a newby gringa Hermana Whitaker. Hermana Huerta is
from Chile and is the cutest thing ever! Our apartment and companionship is
full of hugs and girls who really want to work hard to further the work! I am
so grateful to have the opportunity to work with these Hermanas here in Comas!
This
week was interesting to say the least. I have a lot of responsibility on my
shoulders. I´m the only one in our companionship who had been in Comas so I
have to teach my companions the streets, the investigators, the members, and
where we should and shouldn´t go at night ha ha. Hermana Whitaker is bettering
her Spanish every day like I was at the beginning, I don´t speak English with
her so I think that is going to help a lot. This week it has been made known to
me that the gift of tongues is beyond real. I don´t know how it happened, but
it seemed my Spanish bettered so much in just one night. I think the Lord new
that I would need more words to be able to help my new companion to know the
area and our investigators.
Monday
night I stayed in Carabayllo with a trio of Hermanas. We went on splits and had
some lessons. Tuesday morning I woke up at 5 o´clock to at least 30 roosters
crowing for hours.. Needless to say I am so grateful that in my area we don´t
have them nearby our apartment. Tuesday we went to transfers and I found out
that Hermana Huerta was going to be my companion and that we were going to have
a brand new missionary! Later that day Hermana Whitaker joined us and we went
off to Comas! Like I said it´s a little difficult because they don´t know the
area, but we have so much work we can do here and I am really excited for the
coming weeks and all that is going to happen!
This
week we had two lessons with Valerio (86 year old) and we decided that we are
going to have to stop having lessons. He is having problems understanding the
importance of keeping every single commandment (the Sabbath day and he drinks
coffee and a little alcohol). But everything is good because we are going to
find lots of new people to teach!
Thursday
we had a lesson with Walter and he introduced us to his ¨wife¨ yeah.. another
one of those that needs to be married! Shoot... I was a little disappointed,
but hey what can you do. We had another lesson with him yesterday and he told
us that he is preparing all the papers to be married in one of our Matrimonio
Massivos this October 8th! He hasn´t accepted a date for baptism yet because he
wants to be 100% sure that this is what he is supposed to do, but I am almost
99% sure that he will get there ha ha!
Perla´s
baptism is this Saturday, the day before my birthday! Ahh she is literally so
wonderful, and every time that we have a lesson I can just feel her testimony
growing and growing. She is going to have such a great future family in the
gospel. I can´t wait until I can tell you about how wonderful her baptism was!
One
last story before I go (you´re welcome mom, I spent all my time on the computer
writing this email.. haha). We had lunch in a restaurant the other day.. one of
the wives of a member has a restaurant. Well she didn´t know that we were
coming and was a little bit frustrated, we told her it was ok and that we could
just go eat somewhere else no big deal. But she told us to stay. Oh by the way,
she isn´t a member and isn´t too fond of the missionaries... haha. Well
anyways, we had soup first. In the first few moments of eating I found a big
hair... well next I found about 4 little bugs.. so I just passed the soup. I
received my second plate and to my great surprise (not..haha) yet another huge
hair.. And to make things even better in the second plate there was choncho, or
pork, that still had hairs on it.. like pretty much all the hairs of the pig.
Whelp we were all sitting there practically gagging (don´t worry we didn´t eat
any of it) and then we left. Probably the most interesting thing that has
happened so far that isn´t gospel related so I thought I would share.
Hope
that you all are doing well! Thanks for all the continued love and letters
coming my way, I am one very blessed Hermana!
Hermana
Imbler
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