Bueno, this week was normal. We´ve been getting some rain which is awesome!! We have been having major water problems here. The whole country is in a drout. In our house we never had running water. Every other day (sometimes every 4 days) water comes in the morning from the tap for like 2 hours and we have to fill up two giant trash cans we have in the house. Everyone says that it usually rains a lot here in Ocoa but it hasn´t hardly rainned here. The river is almost run dry. It´s rough, but it´s life! Got to love it haha!
Last week we met this awesome lady. Her name is Iris. I was on an intercambio with a member and they happened to know each other, so we shared with her. When we sat down, she said she has been wanting to learn more about the Mormones. We have taught her only 3 times and I already know she will be baptized. She is so receptive and loves to learn and ask questions about what we are teaching. And she doesn´t drink coffee!! That is a miracle because this whole coutry drinks coffee from the moment they are born. She has two cute kids and I just can´t wait to see them become an eternal family :) Please keep Iris and her family in your prayers.
This friday we had intercambios with the Hermana Leader. I got to go to Bani, an area about an hour south of Ocoa. It is nothing like Ocoa. It has a ton of businesses, is sooo dry, no mountains and really hot. I got to go out with Hna Apelu!! We lived together in the captial :) It was a great intercambio. I usually don´t like intercambios, but this one was good. I learned a lot, especially about contacting. It was the most simple way of sharing the gospel. Just walk up to someone, introduce yourself and say who you represent. Something I learned from Hna Apelu is that we need to share about the restorations even in contacts. We would introduce ourselves. say the name of the church, then the people would usually say which church they belong to (usually to get us to stop talking to them), then she would teach about the restoration in just a simple way, asking questions and having the people figure out for themselves that the gospel needed to be restored. One of the contacts was really funny. We were talking to 2 guys and a little boy. One of the guys and the boy where from Boston so they spoke english. Hna Apelu started by asking them ¨How many Gods are there?¨ Everyone always responds ¨uno¨. Then she asked, ¨So if there is one God, why are there so any different churches?¨ (this was all in spanish). We begin to chat about what the two men thought, then suddenly the little boy speaks up and says (in english), ¨Did you ask a questions about why there are so many churches?¨ ¨yeah.¨ And then he said,¨Because God is big ¨ with the widest eyes. Haha!! Best response I´ve ever gotten. :)
I had a very bitter sweet moment yesterday when I realized that I just started my very last transfer as a full time missionary :( Transfers are upon us once again. Me and my comp will stay together meaning she is the one who will ¨launch¨ me home, as Presidente says. I can´t believe how fast time has gone. It´s been a crazy awesome adventure and I´m not ready for it to be over yet. ;(
Love you all.
Love, Hermana Perry
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