We just have had lots of weird weeks. We still write on Tuesdays, it’s just that last week the Asisstents came so they went over in our Zone meeting and so we wrote with Elder Zepeda on Wednesday instead of Tuesday since that was the day he was visiting with us.
Unfortunately… I play piano every week… it’s not so good because I don’t have time to practice… but I’ve gotten better at sight reading. I finally tried to play more than one hand this week and it didn’t go to well, but at least I tried, I usually only play the top hand because that’s as far as my talents got me…
I don’t think I’m very good about sharing spiritual experiences like I should… I actually do have spiritual experiences on my mission I just don’t really know how to describe them, I guess. As far as gospel principles, I think some of my best experiences are testifying about the Book of Mormon. Sister Ellis told me once that every missionary pretty muich has their favorite commandment, and she asked me which was mine. I said, if I were gonna pick one it would be reading the scriptures. And tithing. There’s nothing more that people in Central America need more than tithing because they are all so poor.
It’s been rather hard these past weeks since we haven’t had any baptisms yet and we’ve had so many problems with our investigators. I had such a strange feeling that day when we found Brother Orellana drunk. That night I felt so… depressed… because you really do come to love the people you teach. And you get so hopeful that they will start living the gospel. There are investigators that sometimes bother me, like Brother Marvin, but as you teach them I guess you start to see them differently…
I’m really not sure what to talk about now because I’m so tired…
Oh, yeah! Hna Senaida is back! I don’t know if I ever mentioned Hna Senaida, she’s one of the first people we started teaching–she and her two children. She actually got together with a recent, less-active convert, and Brother Bonilla just told us that they want to get married this weekend! So that’s good. We stopped teaching Sis Senaida because she wouldn’t listen us and just didn’t seem to have the desire, but I’m glad we’re maybe getting a second chance to help her.
I don’t know if I’ve told you about all the people that have disappeared since I’ve gotten here and suddenly reappear sometimes… Remind me to tell you about Brother Jose next week.
Liani, I don’t know if you remember her… she just showed up at church yesterday… she is also one of the first people we started teaching in this area, but she disappeared the day we put a baptismal date with her and went off with her boyfriend and did drugs and everything… so we were pretty surprised when she showed up to church with her mom (Carmita [eternal investigator]).
Love,
Hermana Holladay
Bekah