Things have been pretty rainy in Tamboril this week. I'm sure it will continue on throughout these "winter" months. Speaking of the coming months, I am a little anxious about transfers. They're next Wednesday and Sister Buchanan is done with her training. I feel like these transfers went by crazy fast, and I only have 3 left. It's so weird, and I try not to think about it. haha. I've been gone for so long that I have basically forgotten everything I once knew. For example: I mentioned to my companion that the movie Jenga used to scare me as a kid. She was like, "You mean... Jumanji?" hahahahaha. I just about died laughing at myself.
On Monday we went to visit an elderly widowed sister who had been sick. We got there and found her alone- she needed help getting into bed. We helped her and quickly learned that she had fallen the night before and woke up still on the ground the next day!! We ended up staying with her and more members came until finally someone could take her to the hospital. We sang hymns and I told stories while she laid in bed. I told her that I wish she could have met Dad. I know that Dad could have made her laugh. I was thinking about him a lot as we kept her company. It was an interesting experience. It made me think about the scripture in James: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Dad is such a good example of that to me.
I was reading in Alma 30 this week about Korihor. His story makes me think about the counsel we received at conference to seek personal confirming revelation. We have to be wary of following the philosophies of men- even those who seem just so convincing.
After having read that passage of scripture, I watched The Testaments and bawled like a big baby so predictably at the end. But it was cool because they use a lot of parts from the Book of Mormon in the story and parts of the fictional characters. Have you guys seen Meet the Mormons?
Anyway, I am bummed that I won't be there tomorrow to eat delicious food until I no longer have the capacity, but maybe we can reenact the Thanksgiving dinner in the spring... haha. Anyway I love you all so much and think about you more than you know! Talk to you soon!!
Hermana Harden
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