I'm in Oaxaca!! .... Here´s just a few things that happened
in my first week in México:)
Monday: Lots of flying... and layovers... And I´ve learned
to love Houston. We stopped there for one of our layovers and it is gorgeous!
We didn´t get to Oaxaca until like 10:30 at night and we had hamburgers and
slept at the mission home:)
Tuesday: Breakfast at the mission home: strawberry yogurt
with banana and papaya:) Met my companion: Hermana Olsen de San Francisco.
She´s a convert, 21, and goes to USU. And I am serving in an area called Reforma
2. It consists of places called Colonia Reforma, Reforma Issste, and Loma
Linda. I learned how awesome the peso is:) And we live in San Francisco. There
are so many hills! My muscles will so be ready for ballroom after my mission:)
Wednesday: Best Two Years day!! First person I talked to, he
started speaking English:) His name is Noah and he is golden! And when talking
to someone on the street instead of saying I didn't have any money on me, I
said I didn't have any tithing on me... What?! We also had an awesome lightning
storm!
Thursday: Yup. It´s happened... Let´s be prepared to be sick
for the next 16 months... I don't know what happened, but when I woke up I
didn't feel good already. But then throughout the day it got really bad. We had
to interrupt lessons for the bathroom and everything. It was nuts :P Hermana
Leyva (Mission Pres. wife) told us to go get a check up with a doctor so we
did. All it was was a stomach problem because I wasn't used to the food. So she
gave me some prescription options. We also taught a guy from New Zealand who's
staying with the Bishop's family. We also helped a lady who had tripped holding
her baby and we taught Noah again, starting with the Restoration. And I was the
one to ask him to be baptized:) He says he wants to, but he's going to pray
about it first so he knows it's something he's going to commit to.
Friday: What an experience.... We went out into a Catholic
country to teach the Gospel on Good Friday.... NO ONE was on the streets or
home at all.... So we walked around trying to find anyone to talk to... We got
a couple of referrals, one was a less active and we went to with the members
that gave them to us. The referrals were called La Familia Mason.... These
people were crazy! Ducks, chickens, geese, dogs, you name it, roam around the
property and the house. Dog fur and grossness everywhere. There's no light in
the house and it's just dirty. And the family... The grandma was a little loco
and spaztic. She has one daughter who had serious exhaustion, a couple of grandchildren
who seem fine. But she had another daughter who was seriously sick... I had no
idea what was going on, but when she walked in, it was like a leper came into
the house and everyone was freaking out. She was more than twig thin, super
pale, and she couldn't walk. So we immediately had the members take her to the
hospital. But we think we're going to go back to do service for them. Maybe get
a couple of other missionaries in our district to help clean it up and bit and
help the family come back to church.
Saturday: We didn't do much today because we were supposed
to help Hna. Leyva with a play?... So we didn't plan very much. And one of the Hermana's
in the house was really sick so I stayed with her while Hna. Olsen taught with
her companion. And that was okay because I needed time to write my talk for
Sunday... Yup... The bishop asked me to... But around three we went to the
offices for the "play rehearsals"... We watched Pinocchio and
Sleeping Beauty!! So great! It was supposed to help with the play because we're
taking those stories and twisting them so that the happy endings happen because
of missionary lessons... I'm the Blue Fairy and Fauna:) And I got to watch our
District leader proselyte...??.... on the bus. So cool!!
Sunday: Sunday was very great. My talk went well... With the
help of a Latin missionary:)... And we had three investigators in church!
Great! And weird thing for a Sunday and being a missionary... The family we
were supposed to eat with forgot... And couldn't have us come over.... So they
gave us money and we ate out... On a Sunday... But I realized how hungry
missionaries can get. We bought a Little Caesars size pizza and it came with
nuggets and little potato log fries.... And it was gone when we were done. And
it was so good! And we got a lot of contacts with the people who work there...
And their friend... Apparently now I have two boyfriends in Oaxaca, according
to my comp. This guy and some guy who's always in Domino's when we go in to use
the bathroom... So creepy... Let's convert them!:D We also went house
searching. We’ve been living with other Hermanas when we're not really supposed
to. But through prayer we found one that should work!:)
Hoy: We spent our p-day going to the new house. First, with
our zone leaders so they could take pictures for Pres. Leyva. It was perfect!!
But we had to go a second time with Pres. Leyva and the assistants. They loved
it!... But guess what.... Some guy who lives upstairs came right after the
first time we went and paid the money because he wants a very slightly bigger
house. So this all falls on if he still goes with it because we could pay the
money now and move in ASAP, but..... He went first... Pray that we get this
house!! We also had another rehearsal for the plays. So it's been a very looong
p-day......
Anyway I hope you enjoyed my adventures this week. Stay
tuned next week:) And please write!!
Love Always,
Hermana Walker
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