Howdy, howdy. Yes, I apologize for the letter situation...I have one ready to send you, I just am lazy...I'm sorry. :( I didn't get any packages today, though. Just letters. By the way, I''m FREEZING out here! Warmer, thicker clothes...I need them. haha
Training is going fine. Sister Abernathy's a sweetheart. It's so weird to think I've been out OVER 10 months now. Sister Abernathy's like, "wow, I'm so happy I have a trainer who's experienced!" :( Where did the time go? I'm so old now. When I was preparing to go on my mission I remember thinking how long a 1 year and 1/2 seemed. Like this looooong adventure! Now I see how short it really is.
It's been fun so far, this transfer. Rosie dropped off the face of the earth, though. We've done everything to try and contact her. We even showed up for a SET appointment with her and she wasn't there. That never happens. She always remembers when we come by. I know her family was visiting her, but I don't know. It's sad. We've been struggling a little bit with getting set appointments. I think a lot of it is due to the time of year. We're working very hard, though and I've seen throughout my mission that often times things change with a new transfer and new companion... new people to find that have been prepared to meet sister Abernathy perhaps. :)
Marcos is doing good, though. Struggling with reading and it's really hard to have set appointments with him, but yesterday something cool happened. He told us on Saturday that he would be at church, but then he didn't show up. However, after the 3rd hour we were about to leave when we realized we lost the keys. So we went back inside and finally found them in the library, but just as we walked out to get to our car and drive home, Hno Lopez pops out and tells us that someone was looking for us and had walked 22 minutes to get here. It was Marcos! He apologized and was hoping he wasn't too, too late, but walked all that way just to come to church because he told us he'd be there. We snuck into the English sacrament meeting and were able to hear a gorgeous musical number before he left, so at least he got spiritually fed. Haha. Most of our solid people right now are older people, and there are certain difficult situations that are keeping them from going all the way. We have a really awesome one named Isidro and he's doing really good with everything but coming to church. He had a really bad accident with his leg and no matter how many times we invite him, he will not come to church until his leg feels better. Also Stefania. She's been to church once and attended a baptism, but right now we're working with her and encouraging her to share the gospel with her family because she feels very lonely without them. She also can't read very well, so her BOM reading is struggling. We helping her, though. She feels the love. Lourdes and Mike...well, we set them for Jan 4th, but they're not showing effort to jump back into it again after a month of not seeing them. Mike promised us for like the 10th time he'd be at church and he wasn't there. We're going to have to lay the law down and be bold with them.
We had a lesson with a Cuban couple yesterday. Jehova's witnesses. It basically was him trying to tell us what's what, nut we were very respectful and bore testimony. apparently women can't pray in their chapels. Also, he went on for about 30 minutes on how Jesus wasn't crucified on a cross. It was just a poll... does that tema have relevance? No. He expected us to tell him we have crosses all over our church buildings, but we don't so he didn't really know where to go with it. At one point he even asked us if our parents taught us what we know. I proudly said yes. Of course I had to find out for myself, but I was raised right and I am blessed with strong parents in the faith. He told us his parents led him astray and he had to cut off from their beliefs. I'm so grateful for the truth in my life and for the blessing to have been "born of goodly parents" as my patriarchal blessing says. Muchisimas gracias! I'm also grateful for experiences like that with the Cuban guy (who by the way lived in tampa florida for a time. Watch out! He might come back.) because we are standing up for Christ's name. I gave talk the other day at a zone training and I talked a lot about that and how often the new testament speaks of the blessings of suffering for Christ's sake. He went through so much even though he did nothing wrong. As His disciples, we should expect the same. It's part of wearing His name across our hearts. We just find reason to rejoice for that fact! He's cheering us on the whole way.
I love you all very much! Keep on that straight and narrow path! You inspire me!
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