Glad that I have the opportunity to catch up with y'all, even if it's only for an hour, but I hope you know that you're in my prayers, and we pray ALL THE TIME. I'm tempted to count for a few days and take an average, but my guess is like 10 to 15. It's awesome.
One of the hardest things for me being here is just not being able to sleep completely through the night even though I've been taking melatonin, so I've just been tired and not as attentive or even awake during class sometimes, but Hma. Vidrio said the enfermeria might be able to help. I feel like I hardly learn much Spanish, but I'm learning more about teaching and investigator relationships and such, which is what I need most anyway.
Another hard thing is there is no quiet time. People in Mexico enjoy shooting off firecrackers/cannons all. the. time. Soooo silence is no longer a thing and my introvertedness is pretty much being completely ignored haha. We'll have to see how well that plays out over the next month here. xP
As far as investigators go, the Elder we talked to after our first lesson with Enia, who told us she was a member, was not only right about that, but also that she would be our teacher later. Enia Comache is really Hma. Velasquez, but the teachers use real people that they know and pretend to be when they are our investigators, so now Enia\Hna Velasquez is now Erika, a curious non member with two RM roommates.
And our original teacher, Hma. Vidrio, is pretending to be her depressed cousin whose fiance broke up with her and is now losing faith and hope and having suicidal thoughts. Our first lesson, focusing on the atonement and its cleansing power (which we chose because we knew she had a lot of mistakes in her life, which she told us), didn't go over well like at all. She's a really good actor and cried twice. We should've focused on God's love and that He knows what she's going through. I just wish I had done it sooner because our first visit didn't seem to make a difference to her at all. Ugh. Hma. Vidrio should be an actress, not a doctor\MTC teacher. Hma. Velasquez is waaaay easier to teach haha.
District 7B in our zone left on Monday and Tuesday, including Hma. Kara Ferguson who went to Bingham (Elder Jordan Hall from Bingham also left) so we only have 2 districts until tomorrow when we get a new batch of US missionaries (the latinos come on Tuesdays). Our district is 7C and we're pretty much the most awesome district ever. We don't have any awkward, annoying, disobedient, lazy or dramatic missionaries like I've seen elsewhere, and we all get along really well. Blessed with the best! :)
20 minutes until I return to my actual day of rest hahaha.
Church is true, the book is blue, and God loves you!! <3
~Hermana L. Martin
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