Dear Family,
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| Fresh sugar cane |
So for this week we should be having our investigators' wedding yeah !! The man that we will be getting married and
baptized is a little nervous. The
culture is silly; men never want to get married because they think it is bad,
but they can't come up with any reasons why.
They just think that way. When I
was talking to him he was saying how it is moving really fast and he is not
prepared. I just smiled and said you have been with your
wife since you were 23 and your 75! How are you not ready or prepared?!
We have had been having frustrating times. I've learned a lot from this week. There is no such thing as an easy baptism that's
for sure. I have also learned that I need to be more
patient and love my investigators more and just try to help them and remember
that it is the Lord's time not ours.
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| Elder Toma and Elder Viellos |
My companion is great he is from Ecuador and he loves rice
just like me! So we eat lots of rice
together haha. He was the companion of
my last companion when they were zone leaders together until they both came to
me. It's interesting, I need to ask my President why he did that.
It's crazy that it is snowing so much in VA. it's
just hot here! I had a interesting interview
with my president and we talked about
many things that make me have to think a lot.
Braden driving? What
next? It's great that Conner made the wrestling team. I'm
really proud of him especially because it's hard for 6th graders. That's
crazy Conner is changing so much and getting tall he will lose a lot of weight
from the wrestling.
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| Drinking from fresh coconut |
But for this week we ate some pretty interesting stuff... I
ate chicken heart and the foot of a chicken and Iguana haha, so we're having
fun here. I don't suggest you try the
chicken heart though it's not as bad as that baby octopus I ate with Braden but
it definitely wasn't great. They eat everything here! We also had coconuts straight from the tree with the people that cook for us and they
taught me how to cook certain dishes that I like.
I think today I will
be doing more. Hopefully we will be having some baptisms here. We started having church at 9 in the morning
and also 7 at night because everybody has to work especially right now because
all the men are out cutting and burning sugar cane. The harvest season last for 2 months and it falls like ash here. But everything is great and I just try to work my hardest and improve
because I definitetly need to.
Love Elder Toma
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