Wow this week was a little bit of a blur. There were lots of upsides
and lots of downsides. I’m too lazy to separate the good and the bad so I’ll
just mix it all together as usual… ha ha.
* On Monday we had extreme Noche De Hogar (family home evening) at the
house of a family of investigators and there were seriously over 20 people in
their tiny house. It was super fun and a great way for our investigators to get
to know some of the other families in the ward. Every family brought food so we
had a TON.
* Everyone keeps telling me I’m going to be a trainer right after I
finish MY training in like 4 weeks and I’m super scared.
* Thursday all the Americans had to go to the mission offices for
our visas and it was super fun because they took all of us and left our
companions and we went to this visa office and we were just talking in English
and catching up the whole time. I always like going to the offices because we
see so many people and it’s always a party.
* We had Victoria’s baptism on Friday and it was good! Not a ton of
people showed up but there were enough and it was a little more personal. The
water was super warm which was good because she’s afraid of cold water. We sang
a musical number as always and she said she felt really good after! Now we just
have to get her parents married and her mom to accept her baptismal date. She
says she wants to be baptized but "in God`s time" which is a little
frustrating because God’s not going to do it for her!
* I started reading “True To The Faith” in my personal study time
and it’s such a good doctrine/principle resource book! Everything in it is so
clear and really helps with understanding everything.
* On Saturday Hermana Lopez and I were both having a really hard and
frustrating day so we watched the video “Missionary Work And The Atonement” on
YouTube and we both bawled. I love that video so much and we really needed it.
* Well here it goes: the highlight of our week....
We have bedbugs. Here they’re called Chinches. Ugh! On Friday we
were doing companionship study and I found all these bites on my legs so we
looked in my bed and yep, there they were. There’s this pillow that was already
here when I got to the mission that I didn`t use so it was always behind my
head like against the wall when I slept and on it there were like 20 chinches
and I wanted to cry. We killed all the ones we saw and threw away the pillow
but we had to leave to go work for the day so we couldn’t really do anything
about it. When we came back that night we only found like 1 in Hermana Lopez’s
bed so we just slept in our beds in fear and the next morning I woke up with
more bites on my legs :( We told some of the members about it and they all told
us different things we needed to do to get rid of them so we called our Mission
President’s wife (Sister Christensen) to ask her what we should do but she didn’t
answer. We got permission from our zone leaders to sleep in the house of the other
Hermanas in the zone next to us so we slept there Saturday night. (Their house
is SO much nicer than ours and I’m super jealous). Last night we didn’t want to
have to go all the way to the Hermanas’ house again to sleep because it’s a
really long walk and a hassle at night and early in the morning. One of the
members gave us a bunch of blankets to use to sleep on the floor in our house
instead of our beds. Finally Sister Christensen called us back and told us what
we should do to get rid of the chinches and gave us permission to sleep at our Bishop’s
house and we almost cried with happiness. Last night we slept there, tonight we’re
sleeping there and tomorrow night as well. Today we had to completely clean our
house and fumigate it with this super strong bug spray stuff. We used a whole
huge can and a half and it was the worst thing ever. I’m pretty sure I breathed
in like a pound of that stuff and almost coughed up a lung. We were both coughing
horribly and almost threw up. For a straight hour afterwards our throats were
hurting so bad and we were still coughing. Now it feels a lot better but I
still have a headache. We have to do the same thing again tomorrow and then
hopefully the problem will be solved.
So yep that’s my week! I hope you’re all enjoying the comforts of
America because you have it good up there.
Despite everything I’m still loving being a missionary and my
Spanish gets better every day and I like 98% of the food now. (:
Cuídense,
Hermana Eyring
Our District for this transfer.
At Victoria's baptism! Her parents Eduardo and Marta are next to me, her grandma Patricia (who we baptized 2 weeks ago) is next to Hermana Lopez. Marlin and Faustino are the 2 kids on the right (Victoria's siblings) and they are the cutest things ever!
This morning before we almost died fumigating our house.
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