Winter has arrived! I remember before I left on my mission I asked my friend Rachel about the weather here, because she served her mission here as well, and she told me she had never been hotter in her life. Then she said that she had also never been colder in her life. Now I believe it. We almost froze to death this week. The temperatures got down to -2 C (which is like 28 F) and there is humidity and wind which makes it feel a lot colder. The houses here are not really built for winter. and we do not have heating or even a space heater in our apartment...SO, we were literally sleeping with 4 blankets each and LAYERS of clothes.
After a few nights of that we mentioned at lunch with the 2nd Counselor in the bishopric that we were very excited to get our space heater from the mission this Tuesday. He couldn’t believe we had been living without one, and insisted on loaning us one from the chapel. We went to pick it up on Saturday night and found it waiting for us with this loving drawing (picture coming next week, camera died. basically it was a snowman-missionary). It is pretty accurate.
I am trying to think of some experiences from this week...the work continues to move along slowly but surely. We are teaching a great little girl named Victoria! She is really a joy to teach. She is 8 and her mom is an inactive member of the church who is not very interested in coming back but who doesn’t mind letting her daughter come to church every week with her grandmother (also a member). Victoria is VERY excited about the things she is learning with us and VERY bright. She is reading her Book of Mormon and can repeat back what we taught her days later. This impresses me because often we teach adults who cannot repeat back to us what we teach them even a few minutes later.
We also found 2 really great young couples that we are working with. They actually have a lot in common. In both cases the boyfriend is a member (inactive) and the girlfriend is not. They are both expecting a baby in a few months. Ismael is trying to come back to church and his girlfriend Florencia loves the gospel and wants to be baptized but they have to get married first. That complicates things just because even though they want to get married, Florencia is from Buenos Aires and her whole family would want to come up for the wedding. We are going to try to see if they can plan something simple and basic first (just get the legal paperwork signed) and then maybe in a few months have the big party!
The other couple needs to get married as well. They are a little more hesitant about everything, but we have been having good lessons anyway.
Anyways, I am not sure what else to write. As usual, only time will tell what will happen with all these people. Pray that I won´t freeze to death this winter.
Love,
Hna Parker
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