Well, This week was bipolar... one day we were crying in front of a drug hotel and then next thing you know were laughing and stuffing ourselves with doughnuts from Pricemart! The beginning of the week started out awful. Every day we had like 6 or 7 appointments- like set in stone, and each morning as we called to confirm our appointments one by one they cancelled on us... so there we are, only 10 am with nothing planned all day. And to top it off it rained for like 3 days straight! If you wanna make a missionary unhappy just tell her she has to walk around all day soaking wet. Needless to say we had a few days where our moods probably matched the weather, but the sun always comes after the rain!
2 super highlights of the week!!!
I got to send my second Dia de Independencia here in cost Rica! (It’s like 4th of July for us but it’s the 15th of September.) There were parades and activities and fireworks, they went all out. The only down side, they don’t throw candy in their parades. Lame.
This week we finally got to have our activity that we’ve been planning for about 2 months now!!!! It was so so excellent. It’s called the Avion (the airplane). Basically we built an airplane in the cultural hall of the church, and then we had every one get on and played sounds of an airplane taking off and everything. We even had flight attendants and security officers (from the primary! so cute). Basically everyone goes on this trip, but here’s the catch, the plan crashes and everybody on it.... dies. Sounds a little morbid but just wait for it. So everyone dies and they get sent to 2 other classrooms, half to spirit prison and half to paradise. They get to learn about who goes to prison and who goes to paradise and why. Then we take them to rooms representing the Telestial, Terrestrial and celestial kingdoms. They learn about who goes to each kingdom and why. It was soooo awesome!!!! We had each organization in charge of a room and they did an excellent job! Every room was decorated to look like its name. We had a great turnout of members, less actives and investigators. There were at least 25 people there who weren’t members!!!:):):) The very best part (next to the doughnuts obviously....) was that we had a surprise guest! About a week ago we called President Hayes to invite him and his family but we didn’t think he’d be able to come, well, he came!!! It was super awesome. He got to meet lots of our investigators and members and teach them a few minutes about the importance of the plan of salvation. We were so happy and honored that they came to share this experience with us. It was really special because wed been having such a down week before that day and being around him really cheered us up! Anyways, the activity was a huge success and it was super fun too. yay for ward activities!:)
Last I just wanted to share one experience we had this week while we were teaching. We went to visit an elderly lady named Norma, we’ve been teaching her about the restoration but really slowly so that she really understand the importance. We talked to her about how the Lord has always showed how much he loves us by sending us prophets to guide us. Then we asked her, wouldn’t it be great if we had someone like that to guide us today?? She thought for a second and then started to look sad at the thought that we didn’t have one. But then we invited her to general conference so she could hear and listen to the words of the Lords Latter Day Prophet and she got SO, but SO excited. It was like a little kid at Christmas time... it was adorable. Yay:)
Okay last thing I promise.... my companion is hilarious. This week she literally made me cry laughing. One day we were sitting at the table studying and one of the other girls in the house said "do you guys think I could learn how to be humble in 3 weeks??" my companion, dead serious turns around with this snobby look on her face and says "I did it in less......" I was dying... haha. Yay funny companion:) Well lots of prayers fam!
All my love,
Hermana Kugath
No comments:
Post a Comment