Dear Family and Friends,
Last night as I gave our weekly numbers to our zone leaders they began to sing to me the hymn "El Fin Se Acerca" -- it is a lovely little hymn by Eliza R Snow (in english it is called "The Time is Far Spent") and all too fitting for this point in my mission...
The translation in Spanish is quite different from the english wording, although the sentiment is similar, I think I like it better in spanish. It says (to roughly translate) "The end is getting closer and there is little time, so you should proclaim what God has commanded. Go out then, brothers, and with faith proclaim that God has once again established his kingdom."
So, that is what I am trying to do this last week. There really is little time, but I am going to love and cherish and work hard for every second I have left.
This week was good. We had a wildly successful branch activity on Thursday night. We had maybe 50 people come, which is nearly triple what we get on Sundays. We played games with water balloons with all the kids (there were A LOT) and had a treasure hunt and a spiritual thought by the elders and some refreshments at the end. It was so fun to see some life and energy in the branch. Hermana Baker and I are seriously now best friends with tons of little kids here in Reconquista. They say hi to us in the streets. They adore us. Mainly because we gave them water balloons and played duck duck goose with them.
We are now going to start the tradition of a weekly "branch night," every Friday night.
On Saturday was our investigator Anahi´s baptism and Sunday was her confirmation. It was very low-key. She is a 15 year old girl that is sort of shy and a little anti-social and so she asked for it to just be her family and the missionaries. It was small, but nice, and will be the last baptism of my mission, so that alone makes it special.
Yesterday right after church there was a sudden HUGE thunderstorm, but Hermana Baker and I were hungry and needed to get back to our apartment for lunch and for our studies, so instead of waiting it out (like some branch members) we raided the cleaning closet for trash bags and made ourselves some make-shift ponchos and braved the rain and the 40 minute walk home. Hermana Baker even wore a stylish plastic grocery bag around her head like a bonnet. We looked awesome. And we still got pretty soaking wet.
Well that´s it. See you VERY soon. But not before I write you again next week.
Love,
Hermana Parker
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