Well, this week was pretty simple. I officially hit 6 months on Tuesday... That was cool. We decided to celebrate it with this delicious food called Lomito Arabe (you can look it up if you want...). So that is pretty nuts! But, this week was really just more full of service than anything. So first, on Wednesday, we went to the hosptial of Cancer with an hermana in our ward cuz she needed someone to accompany her. Her name is Juana and the doctors are pretty sure that she has cancer. So the whole situation is sad. She is single and is like 25-30 (somewhere in between there) years old. So it´s way sad. But, she was way scared to go and hear her results and really just wanted someone there with her. So we went with her and waited 5 hours. Yes, we were there for 5 hours. One more time... 5 HOURS. BUTTTT! It was totally ok, cuz she had someone with her. I was like so nervous for her. She is like our friend! She feeds us lunch every Tuesday and is just always willing to help us out. Anyways... After those 5 hours, she went in with the doctor and they told her that they couldn´t tell for sure if she had cancer, so she would need to come back again for another study. So that kinda sucked that they didn´t tell her after all that time. But, she was really relieved. She didn´t wanna know! But, they also said that for sure she is going to have to have surgery. So obviously there is something there. So that was close to pretty much all our Wednesday.
Then, Thursday comes. We were supposed to eat lunch with the familia Portillo and they called us to tell us that lunch would be a little bit later cuz they were in the Center of Health with their baby of 7 or 8 months, Vanellope (yes--she is totally named from Wreck-It-Ralph). Then, a few hours later they told us that they wouldn´t be able to make lunch at all cuz Vanellope has phnemonia (I don´t know exactly how that is spelled...) and might have to stay overnight in the Center of Health (which I am pretty sure is like the same thing as Pediatrition--maybe). Then, the hermana goes on to ask us if we could call someone in the ward to help wash Vanellope´s clothes since she didn´t have like ANY clean clothes. So, right away we said.. ´´No worries, hermana... We will do it!´´ So we went to their house and washed all the clothes... By hand. It took forever, but it is ok, cuz little Vanellope had clean clothes! So that was our Thursday.
Then, Friday comes along and we are eating lunch with the familia Lucas (hermano Lucas is the Branch President). Then, the zone leaders call us to tell us that an hermana in our ward (named Hermana Gabina) wants us to know that she was going to meet us in our area at like 3 to do visits. We didn´t have this planned or even knew that this was going to happen, but cool. We met up with her and she pretty much just wanted to know where all the hermanas in our area lived (because she is the president of the Relief Society). So for all afternoon we just walked around our area showing her the houses of all the hermanas. So, we didn´t have a lot of time for lessons, but she now knows where all the hermanas live.
So, what I am trying to get at is this week, we maybe didn´t get a lot of lessons in, but I did learn that it is more important to serve people when they need it than to worry about numbers! So this week was just really good in that aspect.
P-day was pretty different today. The hermana that trained Hermana Morales came to Itaugua to visit the families (because she was here before I got her--I actually replaced her...). Her name is Hermana Sanchez and the people here absolutely ADORE her. I remember when I first got here, everyone was just like, ´´HERMANA SANCHEZ! How is Hermana Sanchez?! We miss Hermana Sanchez!´´ Haha so they all love her, and she came back to visit today. And seeing as my companion was trained by her, definitely wanted to hang out with her, too. So we went to lunch with a family in our area and Hermana Sanchez with her companion, Hermana Moreno. It was pretty fun! Everyone was so happy to see her, but they also told her that they love the missonaries that they have right now, too ;) So that made me feel like I´m doing somethin right here! Haha... But it was good. We went and did quick visits with a few other families in our area and she got pictures with them and stuff. But that is all we did for p-day today!
Looking forward to a new week! Glad all of you guys had a great week.. Espcially with 4th of July and stuff. On Friday, everything that I would say to my companion had the excuse, ´´It´s the 4th of July!!!´´ For example... ´´Hey! Let´s go eat empanadas for lunch cuz it´s the 4th of July!´´ or ´´Let´s make a cake cuz it´s the 4th of July!´´ She just would roll her eyes and say... ´´Aye... Americana...´´ ;) Haha!!! So that was fun. I will be honest... I missed boating with you guys, but, still had a good Independence Day in a different country ;P HAVE A GREAT WEEK! LES AMOOOOOOO!!! <3
Con amor,
Hermana Whittaker
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