Not only did Eureka come on, but NCIS was on another day. Get behind me Satan!! Haha. GUESS WHO MASTERED MAKING PANCAKES OVER A GAS STOVE THIS WEEK. This Hermana. Ohhhh yeah. They were way delicious, and I intend to make them again soon. Normally I eat Honey Bunches of Oats like they are going out of style each morning. Each box is like $5 in American money. Totes worth it. I didn´t spend much on groceries so far this apoyo (this is what we call our stipend every two weeks- it is spanish for ¨support¨). The reason being that it is Christmas and we are going to try our best to eat like crazy at every activity. It´s a pretty sweet deal.
Tomorrow is our Christmas dinner and zone conference and I am pretty pumped. I am looking forward to seeing President and Sister Douglas again. We went to the salon today to prepare. All of the women here go to the salon to have their hair washed and blown out. They then wrap their hair around their heads and use a crocheted hair net to keep it in place and have it last longer. I made it known to my fellow hermanas that I really want one of these hair thingies, so that I can feel Dominican. We will see what happens. Haha. Seeing is my hair does what it does, I just got my nails done. I´ll try to remember to take a picture. It was like... A dollar fifty in American money to have them painted. Shabam.
Last Wednesday, after I wrote, we had our weekly ward activity at the chapel. We stopped by the house of the adorable little kids we are teaching, and they came too. They are planning on coming this week, and I just love it. We stopped to help a man shell some peas the other day, and found out he is a member, but less active because he works Sundays. It was just the three of us, then two of these same three kids showed up. Then a girl who is a member and her friend. Then her mom. Then the Elders because they were going to show us where an investigator lived. ALL of us were shelling the peas and knocked that sucker right out. While we were shelling, the girl who is a member and the oldest girl that we are teaching both invited other friends to the activity this week. I just love their example. It was so easy and natural for them to invite their friends to come and enjoy the same blessings they are receiving. Why can´t we all be more like that?
Yesterday we went to teach an investigator who is SO awesome. She´s such a good girl with her head on straight, but she receives money from another church because her parents both passed away, so she is struggling to choose to be baptized. Anyway, we went to visit her and there were probably 5 or 6 other teenage girls there, including her sister. We ended up teaching the whole group of them- a lesson on the Law of Chastity- and we have an appointment to meet with all of them again next week! They are all so good and smart. I just want them to have all of the good things in life (Evangelio de Jesucristo, obvioooo).
We also have a new investigator, S. She is a superstar. She loves to read and listen and learn and has been looking for the true gospel her whole life. She read the entire pamphlet we had left with her before we arrived for our lesson. She just gets it, and I am really hoping that we are able to teach with the Spirit and give her all of the truth she has been yearning for.
Anywhosit, I had better write my letter to President. Things are going well, and although I have hard moments, it is really just so good to be here. It is amazing to me that although it would be so much easier, more family-filled and at times more fun, more clean, and more delicious to be at home... I feel so privileged to be a missionary. I´m so grateful for your prayers and support. I hope this email finds you all well and in the Christmas Spirit, that is, the Spirit of Christ. There is no greater joy than that in giving, and I hope you choose to give the light and truth that we have in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then your joy will be eternal, preserved in the heavens where thief does not steal, nor moth corrupt. All my love to you!!!!!!!!! XOXOXOXOXO
Hermanita Harden
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