A
lot has happened this week! We had a few successes and also experienced a
tragedy. Ok, first. We had intercambios this week (splits) and I
went to another área called Hamacas. It was closer to the city so it was
a lot nicer, but I wouldn’t trade it for my área, because they don’t have any
investigators. I didn’t realize how lucky we are because we are teaching
about 12 investigators right now. Although it is hard to get a hold of
some of them. One of our investigators (Hermana Juana) officially has her
date to be married and her baptismal date the day after, the 31st of this month
is the wedding and her baptism on the 1st. Woot! Also this Sunday my
companion and I had to give talks. On Saturday we always go around to
every one of our investigators and less active families so we can invite them
to church. Usually they still don’t come, but we had this family come
finally, and it made me so happy! They slipped in the back right as I went to
go give my talk, and it made me so happy to see them. It was like a huge weight
that got lifted off my shoulders. So my talk went well after that.
Anyway,
now to the tragedy that we witnessed this week. After we were walking back from
a lesson, we passed our pensionista´s house, and her two dogs were playing
outside. One of them started following us, and we just keep walking as
usual. It went off in front of us, and we went to cross a busy road. We didn’t
realize that he was going to cross the road after us and... We heard a car
screeching and we turned and looked back and saw him being tossed under the car.
The car kept going and the dog was left lying in the middle of the road.
My companion bravely stopped traffic and went back and picked up the dog and
carried him back home, where he was suffering from a torn up bloody leg, and
eventually died later. It was the saddest thing ever. We both felt so bad
for their family, because they are the closest thing to family to us.
After that we learned a lot of things, and were able to talk about the plan of
salvation.
Also
things this week has just made me so grateful to have the gospel in my
life. There are a lot of people back home that I love and miss, but I am
so grateful for the chance to love these people.
Love
you all,
Hermana
Tijerino
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NOTE: In order to protect their privacy the names of my companions, members and investigators will be omitted and their name tags obfuscated.
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