Hola a todos!
Wow. So last week was full of good news and crazy changes. But fun fact, no one told me the half of it, de verdad <for real>.
Here’s the crazy part: I’m actually whitewashing…😅 Woo-hoo. who would have guessed it? Not me! When we got the call on Sunday, nothing was said. When I got there on Tuesday, nothing was said 😑. I found out on Wednesday when we went out to work and my companion told me, “So I don’t know where we’re going, but this will be fun.” Followed by a small talk including fun small details such as we don’t actually even live in our area. We have to walk half an hour to get to our area. We have elders in our area, and our area book only has about 30 papers in it. Woot-woot. 🐣 Well, I’m excited. I’m scared, but I’m excited.
I miss Carolina, but it’s beautiful here. In the last few days we’ve visited two beaches 🏝🏝 (from a distance – following every mission rule to exactness), walked basically alongside a forest, and we’ve seen a lot of tourists. This area has a lot of people who only live here in the summer but also a lot of people who are very humble and offer to feed us fish they caught this morning.
I love it here. We’ll have fun, get lost, and see miracles. God’s here helping us; I know it. Enjoy some pictures and don’t judge my typing skills. The keyboard to this computer is very sucky and a few keys are very sticky. I promise i can type. 🤘 (P.S. I love emoji’s and I miss them. Hope you like my emoji choices for the email 📑🗿🐯🍹).
This is when we first met. My cute new HUGE house in Cabo Rojo. We live with two other sisters who work in the area next door to us. Hermana Green and her new child Hermana Post. They’re really cute, but I have no group photos right now. Sorry!
This is a photo at 9:10 at night. We came home, both drank half a gallon of COLD water and took a picture. My cute little blanquita got super sunburned and I got a bit more tan, but we’re both equally tired. She just knows how to mask it jajaja.
So this was after a long day when we walked to an area called Boquerón; it’s the third closest thing to our house. It’s 6 miles to and 6 more miles to come back. We also had to walk around in the area and we estimated we walked about 14 or so miles that day. It was long and hard and Hermana Green sacrificed one of her loofas to clean our legs for us. Honestly – an angel sent from heaven.
The aforementioned feet that walked 14 miles in one day. To the left, we have a real Latina and her natural skin color after living in the Puerto Rican sun for almost a year. To the right we have me, a white girl who got very tan and very dirty. I’ve never been this dark before in my entire life.
This is the fun map the elders drew for us to get to an investigator’s house. They’re very good at the classic Puerto Rico directions with slightly iffy points of reference and bad estimation skills. It’s like 3.5 miles to get to this house. It’s the second closest thing to our house. I’m so tired. We walk a lot. I’m rambling. Sorry.
Other fun things: I ate mac and cheese for the first time on my mission this week. It made me sad. I Know now I can fit my entire life into two suitcases and I’m good. We call Walgreens the Celestial Kingdom because they have Slurpee’s there and we get them on the way home when its reallllllllly hot. I went to the bathroom in a fisherman’s warf this week cause I reeeeally had to go and we were very far away from any other bathroom. It was spooky and a little sketchy, but we sang hymns and I think we were pretty safe with the spirit and all that stuff.
We got a visit from a friend named Kory this week with some Mexican candies from my uncle CR. I almost died from happiness, we had a great visit and she and her friend really helped an investigator of ours understand the importance on the Santa Cena <sacrament> in a lesson. A true miracle/blessing!
So I actually had a fun case of food poisoning the first few days I got here. It was not fun, I don’t suggest it. But I was able to work through it. I don’t ever want to be sick again. I have a few stories of miracles to tell you guys. But I’ll tell ’em next week cause I’m out of time!
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Les amo, hope the suspense doesn’t kill you!
Hermana Thelin