It has been very sweaty (my very least favorite thing) and exhausting, but good. My comp is wonderful, and likes cooking, so everything we´ve eaten has been better than the CCM food. We´ve improvised chocolate fondue (heavenly) and nachos with homemade salsa. Food brings me a lot of joy, ok. Speaking Spanish (more accurately, not speaking Spanish) is very challenging, because you really do feel like an idiot when everyone around you is speaking and you barely understand, and can´t contribute to the conversation much. You kind of don´t have a personality in those situations, and it´s hard. There have been a couple painful lessons in which I dropped the ball HARD. It´s not always like that though. There was one lesson that was pretty good (same day, actually) and the menos activa sister was like, ¨Wow, Hermana Jennings! How long have you been learning Spanish? You´re learning very quickly!¨ I got a blessing from the bishop, and I was blessed to learn rapido, so I am consciously choosing to have faith that as I try my best, it will come.
We have some great people we teach- There is a part member family we do Family Home Evening with, and they are a lot of fun. They call me Jeni, haha! It is really cool to see that they have grown in unity and faith as a family. We have a new investigator I really like, because she actually asks questions and we talked about the real implications of our message with her, and that is really nice, because most people don´t think very critically about this. We have to really urge them to study the scriptures and pray about it, to it is true and act in that belief. A lot of them are just like, ¨I think that it could be true, and I like hearing about Jesus and God, please come again,¨but they don´t DO anything about it. Of course not all are like this, but it seems to be a pattern. These people have a deep love of God but their faith is mostly very passive. It´s all just very interesting to me how differently they recieve the message of the gospel, from how Americans do.
This country makes me very grateful for the luxuries we have in America. Air conditioning, washing machines (I already hate doing laundry), having a variety of foods to eat, not having bugs everywhere, carpet, homes that are finished. Yep, Americans are spoiled.
Hope everyone is well, and lots of love to all!
We have some great people we teach- There is a part member family we do Family Home Evening with, and they are a lot of fun. They call me Jeni, haha! It is really cool to see that they have grown in unity and faith as a family. We have a new investigator I really like, because she actually asks questions and we talked about the real implications of our message with her, and that is really nice, because most people don´t think very critically about this. We have to really urge them to study the scriptures and pray about it, to it is true and act in that belief. A lot of them are just like, ¨I think that it could be true, and I like hearing about Jesus and God, please come again,¨but they don´t DO anything about it. Of course not all are like this, but it seems to be a pattern. These people have a deep love of God but their faith is mostly very passive. It´s all just very interesting to me how differently they recieve the message of the gospel, from how Americans do.
This country makes me very grateful for the luxuries we have in America. Air conditioning, washing machines (I already hate doing laundry), having a variety of foods to eat, not having bugs everywhere, carpet, homes that are finished. Yep, Americans are spoiled.
Hope everyone is well, and lots of love to all!