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| Hermana Morales and I |
This week has been
crazy busy. We are assigned to 2 wards, Concourse and Kingsbridge, and 2 areas.
Normally there is a set of Hermanas for each ward but this cycle they sent home
more Spanish sisters than they got so we are the only Spanish Hermanas for 1/2
the Bronx so we are always crazy busy. Although it's kinda nice. Normally both
sets of Spanish sisters live in our apartment but since we are the only ones
it's just us 2 for the whole apartment.
Wednesday: We had 3
appointments after P-day ended. We went to see Jacklyn who is an investigator
who has genuine interest but is unwilling to change and keep her commitments
which is sad. We are going to have one more lesson with her and then if she is
still unwilling to change we will need to drop her. Dropping people is the
hardest part because you want them to have the joy of this gospel so badly but
they just won't come...:/
Then we went to go
visit a less active named Luchí she's a single mother of 2 cute little kids.
She says she wants to start coming back to church but that it's hard with 2
little kids and it's scary. We tried to help her feel better about and we think
she will start coming to church again.
Then we went to go see
a sort of less active member named Hermana Reyes. She lives in Concourse area
and is supposed to go to that ward but she doesn’t like it, she didn’t even go
to her sons mission homecoming talk because it was in Concourse, so she goes to
the Kingsbridge ward. I mean we are happy she's active in church but she should
be going to her own ward so we are trying to help her make friends in the
Concourse ward so she will go there. She is this crazy old grandma and she
loves the missionaries she's really funny, I like her a lot.
Anyway, a funny story
we stopped to talk to this lady on the street with her 2 grandkids. We were
talking with her in Spanish and then I started talking to her 5 year old grand
son, in Spanish..., but he would only answer my questions in English. Then
Hermana Morales asked him something and he responded in Spanish. So basically
he wouldn't speak Spanish with me cuz I'm white! I thought it was so funny!
Thursday: We had
service, we do our service at this kitchen that provides cheap meals to those
who can't afford to eat lunch. So we served and waited tables and then we got
to go out and sit and talk with some of the people so that was fun.
Then we went to
appointments. We went to talk with a woman who had her baby blessed here a few
months ago but isn't a member. She's so cute and shy we are hoping that if we
can help her make a friend in the ward she will start coming. Then we went to
go visit a less active and as we were praying outside the door (we do that
before we go to see anyone) her son walked out... That was awkward. But he let
us come in and we taught a little lesson and they invited us back. That was
good. Then we went to see the RS President in the Kingsbridge ward. We shared a
message and asked if she knew of anyone in the ward that needed our help and
she gave us 6-7 names which was so good. I'm glad that we can start building
the trust of the members in both wards. But we kinda lost track of time and
suddenly it was 8:50 and we were just leaving her apartment. We ran
for the subway but missed the train so we had to wait 15 minutes for the next
one and then we ran from the subway station home and still ended up being 10
minutes late.
Friday: Was crazy and
we didn't even leave the apartment till 4:00. We did all of our regular
studies but then we had to do weekly planning and since we have two areas we
had to do it twice. It was so long and tiring but it was good to get it all
done. But then we went to a "quick" appointment with a member couple
(it was supposed to be 15-20 minutes) but all of the Latino are so chatty and
it ended up being over 45 minutes and our message was only 5 and the rest of it
was just them talking!
Then we had a meeting
with all the missionaries and ward mission leader from Concourse ward (in each
ward are 2 sets of elders and then us). I got to see Elder Peña from the MTC again
he is assigned to this ward to so it was fun to see a familiar face. Then we
had 2 appointments fall through so we went to do some look ups but they were
all the way at the bottom of our area and so we were late getting home... even
though we were running like crazy.
Saturday: We had the
ward picnic for the Kingsbridge ward and that was good. It was good to meet
members and we even had the home attendant from one of the members come and she
was really interested in learning more so we are going to start teaching her!
Then we went to an appointment but it fell through so we went to go look up a
referral from the Elders. We taught her the restoration and she was very
attentive but then at the end of the lesson she went on the offense and started
telling us all the things see doesn't like about the church (apparently she'd
done some "research") so we decided that we'll give a little break
because she's not quite ready to receive the gospel.
Then we went to a
dinner appointment and she brought out the food and then left to get something
and the second she left Hermana Morales starts putting something on the plate
in napkins and then stuffing it I her bag. I was just about to do the
same, (because if Hermana Morales didn't want to eat this I definitely didn't!)
But then the member came back and there wasn't anything I could do but eat
it... all... turns out it was breaded pig fat that had been deep fried. And
yes... It was a gross as it sounds.... But now I have a Ziploc in my bag for
when I find myself in a similar situation again.
Sunday: was long
because we are in both wards we went to 5 hours of church. We went to all of
Kingsbridge meetings and then also the last 2 hours of Concourse meetings. All
5 were, of course, in Spanish. I understood more than I thought I would but I
still was lost most of the time. A lot of the members are Dominican and their
accent is really hard to understand. They don't pronounce any of their
"S's" they just kind drop them so now I'm not Hermana Dobson I'm
Hermana daw-on.
Then after church we
had 4 appointments scheduled but 3 of the 4 fell through and of course it was
the very latest one that didn't so we did A lot of street contacting until the
appointment then we had it and were almost late getting home again because she wouldn't
stop talking and we couldn't get out of there (are you noticing a pattern yet?)
But luckily we did make it home on time (at 9:28 because we ran
from the subway station).
Monday: We woke up
at 5:45 to go play district sports and that was fun we played
frisbee. Then we came home did studies and went to district meeting. Elder
Ortiz our district leader, is a native Spanish speaker and so district meeting
was run in Spanish, so basically I was lost the whole time. Then we had 3
appointments. Only one of them was supposed to be getting fed at one of them
but we got fed at all 3 (you can't say no to food) so by the end of the night
we were so full we were sick but once again because of the long Latina talkers
we had to run home from the subway station to be home on time. I would not
recommend running after you have eaten 3 dinners right in a row. It doesn't
feel food.
Tuesday: We had a
senior couple come and talk to the zone about how we can uses family history to
help motivate new converts to start going to the temple. It actually was a
really good class and I liked it a lot. Then we had 2 appointments back to back
but really far away from each Other. And on the train going to the second one
we talked to this crazy man... he was convinced that Jesus is an alien and that
the bible is just a record of all of these extraterrestrial experiences. I was
trying so hard not to laugh at him. I really wish I could have recorded him
because they things he was saying were so funny. Then we went to the last
appointment of the day had a great message it was 8:45 and were going
to be out on time and get home on time... But then they said "wait we have
food for you" and they wouldn't let us leave until 9:05so once again
.... we ran from the subway and were still late getting home. It's kinda been a
real struggle all week.
Anyway it's been a
crazy but good week. I love you all and hope you are doing well I'll send
pictures layer when I have better Wi-Fi! I hope to hear from you all soon!
Love Hermana Dobson
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| Me and Sister Morales when we first met. |
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| We had a spa night to celebrate the weekend |
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| The tall building in the back is what we call the great and spacious building. It has 25 floors and 40 apartments on each floor. Let's just say there are a lot of people living in that building. It's also the first place I went tracting. |
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