Hola!!
Don´t worry, we don´t have any infesting our house or anything, but they are SO distracting during lessons!!!
Anyhow...
I love La Mariposa! I´m kind of sad that I have such an incredible area and comp right off, bc the rest will just disappoint! No... I know it won´t. Every place and comp will be amazing. I know that ;) Kris, I´m pretty sure it´s the place you found, we are pretty close to the lake.
It has been pretty hot around here lately, which is amazing. Hasn´t rained once! Beautiful sky every single day. The nighttimes, however, get super cold... I sleep in 3 pairs of pj pants, 2 pair of thick, fuzzy socks (sometimes slippers, too), a long-sleeve, a sweatshirt, and 3 sheets (we don´t have any blankets)!!! Haha.. it´s really not that bad. Once I figured out how many layers I had to wear, I have been nice, cozy, and toasty every night :)
This weekend we had 3 baptisms and a wedding!!! It was amazing. 2 of the baptisms were part of a family. Pablo married Gilda. Gilda has a daughter whose name is Reyna. Gilda is pregnant with Pablo´s hijo. Pablo and Gilda got married. Gilda is a member. Pablo and Reyna got baptized!!! It was fantastic. Pablo has such a strong and amazing testimony of Jesus Christ and this, His church. It was a crazy, amazing, happy weekend! I found out pretty quickly that nothing goes according to plan down here. We were planning all last week for the wedding, passed out a ton of invites and NO ONE from the ward came. It was disappointing, but a VERY happy occassion still and they had such good attitudes. The baptism we had on friday started about 2 hours late and the one yesterday started about one hour late. The one yesterday was crazy, bc the person who was supposed to baptize Reyna y Pablo was held up in a meeting, so we asked Pablo if he would mind if one of the Elders just baptized him and he said, "it doesn´t matter, I just want to be baptized." It was awesome. It all works out and everyone is really patient (for the most part). One thing they need to teach in the MTC and CCM... how to pick locks. We had 3 instances, in 2 days where we needed to get into a locked door (one was to open the baptismal font, but don´t worry, mi compa climbed over the 7-ish foot high glass to get into the font).
I gave my first español sacrament talk yesterday! It went well. Slow, but well. A few of my favorite people came up to me afterwards and said that they were praying for me while I was up there... I needed it! I felt good the whole time, wasn´t nervous at all. The Spirit will guide, we just have to trust him.
Random fact: We throw our tp in the garbage. The area doc said that we wouldn´t have to, but my comp says that he hasn´t been to all the parts of Central America.
Awesome excuse: We´re working with a 68 year old man, but he didn´t come to church yesterday, and when we asked him why he didn´t, he said his arm hurt. He´s super cute and he´s always a blast to talk with and teach. His name is Renè. He told us yesterday that he likes my mouth.... yep... it´s pretty interesting over here... never a dull moment.
Cross fingers: no illnesses still! Not even BU.
We cook our own bfast in the mornings - usually cereal or eggs (with beans - delish). Today we had pancakes. People give us food pretty often, so that is often and we have it either in the morning or at night when we get home at 9. For lunch, 4 times a week we have two different ladies that cook for us, so we go over to their houses. Delish: átol!! Átol is the most delicious thing in the world.. find it.
Everything is SUPER cheap here. It´s awesome. My comp basically has a new wardrobe. Most of her skirts she bought for under 16 quetzales (2 dollars) in pacas - (basically really small thrift store things that are EVERYWHERE)! We buy bread and goodies at a bakery every so often, most of the stuff costs about 50 cents. We have everything we need here, basically.
The Spanish is coming (most of the time it doesn´t seem like it though). I can understand tons more Gospel related conversation, but the rest of the time I just feel like a fly on the wall... not contributing AT ALL to the conversation. Everyone is so good and patient with me though.
The work is amazing. I have met so many amazing people. I have heard CRAZY stories and circumstances of people. I want to help them all and make it all better, but I can´t.. only the Lord can, so all I´m trying to do is to help lead them to Christ and all that He has to offer to every single person. I want to work my tail off. Every day, I realize how much deeper in blessings-debt I am getting, and Doctrine and Covenants 82:3 just weighs more and more on my mind.
I hope you all know how much I love you. You are in my prayers and thoughts!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Jenna Marin
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