Hello everyone!
This week was a good one but a hard one. The poverty here really hit me this week after we found our investigators literally digging through dumpsters to find bottles to sell for money or to find food to eat or toys for their kids. Then later this week, one of my investigators, Alexandra, told us she didn´t have enough money for food, not even rice... my heart literally broke. It´s so hard seeing people have so little when you know you have so much more at home, but it´s comforting to know we can at least help them in some way by sharing the gospel to brighten their lives.
This week´s highlights:
- Experienced my first hailstorm here!
- Taught a guy with 2 hook hands, but sadly didn´t get the story of how he lost both of his hands, I´ll keep y´all posted if I do get the story haha.
This week I finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in Spanish! I got to restart this week from the beginning, and now I can understand everything I read without comparing it to my English scriptures, ¡que bendición! I know the Book of Mormon is true and can change lives! I have seen it bring light into people´s lives that are harder than we can imagine. Don´t take it for granted, read it every day! The Lord will bless you so much as you do so!
Hope y´all have an awesome week, don´t forget to count your many blessings!
Con todo mi amor,
Hermana Harris
- I blend right in with my latina pals
- Alexandra, wanted to dress up for church but didn´t have money for a skirt, so I gave her one of mine, which called for a pic together!
- Alexandra had us pose like this haha! Her house is the size of a walk-in closet so we teach her on her bed.
- Guaguas de pan and colada morada! Translates to "kids made of bread" and "purple drink". These are traditional seasonal foods but nobody knows why they´re only sold during this time of year haha!
- One of my cutie investigators, Andres!
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