Why is it that the place that needs no more
rain, gets too much of it and the place that really needs rain, doesn’t get
any?!? Que tristeza... That’s really sad about all of the flooding going on
right now. A lot of people without homes and a lot of problems... Here it has
still yet to rain and the days just keep getting hotter. Rainy season doesn’t
start for about another month though so there is still hope. Today is transfer day,
which means I spend almost all day in the hiace, driving missionaries around.
That is until you go to the airport and come out only to find that another
hiace has parked right behind you and for some reason his front tire is at a 45º
angle with the ground! There was literally no way we could get out of there so
we took a taxi and we’re going to have to go back here in a bit. Wouldn’t be
transfer day if something weird didn’t happen!
We had a pretty good week though and we were
quite busy. Lots of last minute preparations to do before the transfer and it
was hard to be in our area at times but the Lord helped us out and everything
went well. It’s amazing to me how blessed we are and how well our area does
because we are gone so much!! This next transfer we are going to be travelling
every single week to work with the zone leaders. We are going to all six zones
to do divisions and we still have to maintain our area! It’s a good thing the
Lord is so merciful and has blessed us with the best member support system in
the country. As long as we do our part to prepare our investigators and train
the members, I know that everything will be all right.
We had a baptism this weekend and I think he was
the happiest man in the world that day. His name is J and he has been
preparing to be baptized for a couple months now. He had to fight through some
problems with alcohol and smoking but he never gave up and it made his baptism
day that much more special. I missed the actual ordinance because I was in a
baptismal interview that took a long time but I was told that he came up out of
the water just beaming. He has made some big changes in his life and he is a
completely different person now than when I first met him. It’s such a blessing
to see the way that the gospel changes lives so fast, as long as we have the
faith to follow.
That’s about it for this week. Tomorrow we
receive 12 missionaries from the USA and Thursday we receive the missionaries
from Brazil. This transfer is going to fly by so fast because we have so much
to do these next couple of weeks. I’m loving it though and I’m looking forward
to everything that the Lord has planned for me. Have a good week and I hope the
flooding problems start getting better!
