Wow everyone is so busy
at home! I hope you are all still keeping your heads above water and enjoying
it all. As you can see, I am writing today and not yesterday! This is because
we went to a secret location, which I will later reveal, for a meeting of just
sisters- no elders! Here am I with my companion in the telefonico (cable car)
way high up! Then there´s a picture of me at the top with a great view. Can you
guess where we are, yet?
This has been a really
interesting week. One of our investigators is a ¨movie learner¨ I found out
this week! We have started bringing videos about part of our lesson to help
her. It is amazing how much better she can understand! I´m so grateful for modern
technology, no matter how little of it we use here in the mission. haha. Mao is
a really great place to be right now. We find out about transfers on Tuesday,
and I´m hoping I get at least one more here with Hermana Loarca and our
investigators... not to mention the less actives we are working with. We have
been visiting one family for these whole 5 months I have had in Mao, and they
came to church on Sunday for the first time!! It´s also fun to be here with the
missionaries who are assigned. I just found out this morning that one of the
sisters we live with is going to train, so we know that the other sister
(Hermana Pierre) is leaving. I´m going to miss her!! The mission is full of
changes though. I think it´s better that way. We meet more people, befriend
them and love them.
We´re in Brazil! Haha, just kidding! But here is a smaller
Cristo Redentor here in the DR. We had a lot of fun taking pictures in this
secret location. Here´s a hint- we saw Elder Day! He is still in this area and
wanted to see his Mao family. He and some other elders crashed the hermana
party.
The other photo was a
view from a bridge there at the top with the Christ statue. It almost looks
unreal, doesn´t it?? Wow the DR is beautiful. I had the chance to get to know
some of the other sisters a little better in this activity. We had a blast,
although it was exhausting. haha. Are you ready for the big reveal?? Check out
this pic!!!
PUERTO PLATA, baby!!!
Mom, you totally guessed it! We went to the beach!!! This isn´t even one of the
prettier beaches up there, but it was close and time was short. The water is
such an unbelieveable shade of blue! I found a big piece of coral washed up on
the sand which is now sitting on my desk. My companion named it ¨Cori¨. haha.
She´s pretty clever. lol.
There
were some guys just swimming around in their flippers with these little metal
lance things, fishing. They let us take pictures with their catch! I don´t know
if you can see it, but there was a little milky white octopus on one end. Man,
I fell in love with this place. I definitely want to come back and see it all
as a normal Jane with nothing to do. Haha. I hope we can come as a family! It
was such a beautiful place, and although it´s warm, there was always a really
nice breeze. Sign me up, ocean front property! Haha. What a fun p-day! Wow,
this transfer flew by. We are having a lot of fun as a companionship and a lot
of success and progress with those we are teaching. I can see how serving a
mission prepares one to be a parent in some ways. I just love being able to
help these people discover the restored gospel for themselves. It is a
privilege and a serious responsibility as well. The gospel is complete and the
church is perfect. This life is designed for our success and happiness. We just
have to understand what our goals need to be and learn self-discipline. Above
all, we need to learn to love. It´s hard, but vale la pena.
I love you all very
much. See you on the other side (of transfers)!! haha.
Hermana Harden
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