Wow this week a lot has happened. I feel like we did a work of two weeks, not just one week, which is really good. I love it here. I love the people. They seriously are amazing. I always think about how I wish all of you could meet all of these amazing people that I have met down here. The mission is seriously a miracle- our work is to talk with people in the streets, so that we can enter their houses, so that they can come to know better their Savior. So that they can understand the path that will lead them back home after this life. I seriously, on a daily basis, enter into houses of complete strangers and we teach them the restored gospel. Its a miracle.
This week like I said, many things have happened. We had interviews with our President Monday night and it was so great to be able to talk with him and Hna Warne. They are such great leaders and are really inspired in the things they do and say. I feel so blessed to have them as my Presidents.
After interviews Monday, we were walking really fast because we were short on time to see all the people that we needed to see that day and I passed this dog on a leash and it jumped up and bit me! The good news is it didn´t break skin, but it seriously was so crazy.
This week we entered into an apartment of a family that we met on the street and we started talking to them about God and asked them what role God played in their life and the boyfriend doesn´t believe in God, but the girlfriend does and occasionally she reads the bible. RIght after she told us she reads the Bible, J., the boyfriend, looked at us and said, I use the pages of the bible to smoke my marijuana to be honest with you. I know that my reaction shouldn´t have been to laugh and I held it in, but I almost laughed in that moment. It was so ridiculous.
We are teaching a recent convert who recently started preaching the gospel with her original church. She told us that she has had 5 baptisms. The most recent was in our church. The poor women is really confused in her head about all the churces. When we try to teach her nothing really gets through to her. We´ve decided that the best way we can help her is to read the Book of Mormon with her and hope that the words there will help her. This week we were reading with her and I asked her a question and she looked up at me and said you´ve gotten fatter and didn´t answer my question! Here it isn´t offensive to call people fat. I really don´t think I have gained weight, but seriously that moment was so funny!
Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!
Con mucho amor-
Hna Ayre
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