Well, I feel weird. I have this very strange sensation like someone who’s about to finish their life because I just keep thinking about things like eternity and everything that’s happened on my mission and who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going when I die?
I don’t think dying on the mission feels very different from dying in real life. It must be about the same. Nostalgia. Apprehension mixed with anticipation…
We’ve kind of had a couple terrible weeks. We reported 8 baptismal dates, and now we’re reporting 0 because we’re really not so sure about anyone. We found brother Alejandro and Bro Samuel drunk the other day when we went to give them a baptismal interview, and the Guerra family we were trying to prepare for baptism this weekend, but they’re just not ready yet and we need to teach them a lot more. The Orellana family still has problems with the word of wisdom (the brother) and the sister… she doesn’t seem to understand the message… she’s like everyone else in Central America who seems to think that ALL the churches are true and God doesn’t care where you get baptized… It’s so hard to help people understand sometimes.
Karen and Peter, whom I love a lot and I really hope they can get ready for this month or the next, were gone when we went to get them for conference.
And it turns out that after all, Allison Escobar CAN’T get married because she doesn’t have her passport and is illegal. (We knew that, but a lawyer in the church told us she could as long as she had her ID number, which she did). So now Allison needs to sneak out of the country (illegally) and get a Honduranian passport so she can get married. I know she’ll do it, she says she knows how to sneak out and she’s done it recently (sh, don’t tell…), and she’s one of the most kick-butt people I’ve ever taught (Sis Duarte always says SHE teaches us the lessons when we go visit) so I’m sure she’ll get her passport and get baptized, I’m just not so sure WHEN and if I’ll be here for the day. 🙁
We found Jerry, our inactive convert the other day, and he promised to go to church again so we’ll see…. It’s been about three months since he went since he never went the day after he got confirmed because he went off to live with a girlfriend…
Aside from all the challenges with EVERYONE… I actually don’t feel distressed or desperate or anything. I just always know there are more people and if we can help the people we’ll have, we’ll do it, and they’ll do it, and everything will be all right. And I just hope that my other converts are all right in El Salvador… I hope people are visiting and helping them… I need to write them.
Conference was great. I was freaking out about girls can serve at 19 because Hannah might be gone by the time I get back…
I threw my biscuits from Sister Salazar in the water last night when I was closing the gate to their house they went flying and landed in the rain water. It was lame. EVERYONE is sick because of the rain. Rain, rain, rain, and burning heat. I still have those rashes but I don’t really care anymore.
Questions:
Did you watch conference? If so, in what language? I watched half in Spanish and half in English. Just depended on who was there for investigators and everything.
When do you think your branch will become a ward? I think it will be a while for the branch to be a ward because our president doesn’t give the members the priesthood right away like he should and there’s not really anything we can do about it… but someday soon it will be a ward…
How much longer does Hna Duarte have in the mission? Sis Duarte goes home Dec 5th.
How long have the senior missions been in Belize? The old missionaries have been here like 9 months and they very well might serve their whole mission here, don’t know.
Love,
Bekah