Week 54: General Conference in Spanish!
10/6/14
Hola
familia y amigos,
¿Como están?
So much has happened
in the past week. Such a great week!!
So we have cambios
tomorrow and Hermana Baturité and I are still together. This is her last
cambio so I will 'kill' her. We are having a really hard time finding
people to teach, but the good news is that this last week was the first week we
had an investigator in church with a baptismal date. Yeah it was a good
pay off after a whole cambio. His name is Benjamin and he is 10.
His mom is a member and we have been working with her as well and she has been
reactivating herself. We actually meet them in church like 4 weeks ago
and only just this past week have we been able to actually start teaching
them. He is so amazing and loved Conference. He reads everything we
give him and he answers the questions we ask in the lessons better than any adult
I have ever taught!! He is set to get baptized on the 18th of October, so keep
him and him mom Karen, in your prayers.
Also with him he has
been wanting to learn violin for a while, but they had never found a teacher,
so they never bought a violin to start. Well that was until they met
me. Yep as of friday I am a legit orchestra teacher. It is hard
enough to teach an insturment, but also in Spanish with all these wierd words
and in Latin America, the musical notes are not ABCDEFG they are Do Re Mi Fa
Sol La Si Do. Yeah wierd right? haha So the class was a lot of fun is all
I can say.
Okay mom so you asked
about what a Sister Training Leader does. Afew of the things we do
are:
-Call the hermanas in
our group at least once a week.
-Have a mini
cambio(One of us goes to there sector and one comes to our sector) with
them at least once a cambio.
-We report to
Presidente every week about there progress in an email.
- And we have studies
which is like district class but only hermanas.
-We have an activity
with just the hermanas as well. Like cook food or watch a mission
approved movie.
-Do anything that we
think would help our hermanas.
Yep it is extra work
but it is so worth it. Just like anything that takes extra effort.
So as for the
conference i definitely loved the afternoon sessions the best and I got the
answers I needed for these next 6 months. I was the only gringo in my zone that
watched the whole thing in Spanish. All the rest of them went to the
english room. I was proud of myself. I didn´t understand everything
but it was great and it really helped my spanish!! Also that was so cool
to listen to those who speak directly in Spanish! We didn´t have to listen to
the translation. It was really cool!
It made all the
members really happy and feel more apart of it and important as well.
Yep also I went and
traded 15 American Dollars for other currency of what ever they had and I got
Euros, Brazilan Reales, Argentinian Pesos, Chinas bills, and an Australian
bill. It was so cool!! I felt like I was robbing a bank because I
got so much for just a few dollars. They are so cool!!
Well that is about it
for the week! I am going to try and hurry out of here to get a nap in
hopefully before pday is up.
Love you all!
Have a great week!!
-Hermana Corbett
