Monday, July 28, 2014

Letter 19 - This Week Was Super Good!


 



This week was super good!


Well, I have my daughter! Her name is Hermana Garcia from Mexico. She has 23 years. She is a really good teacher. She likes to use a lot of analogies and teaches a lot of object lessons.


Tuesday night we went to Jaqui and Jorges house.. and Jaqui said that Jorge accepted to get married! They will be married this Friday and then Jaqui will be baptized this Saturday! I am so unbelievably excited!!!


Wednesday we had Zone meeting! It was so good to see everyone! I love Zone meetings! After Zone meeting, we went to a members house to do service because she just had surgery. But, when we first got there, she said I have to go there is a problem with my sister and her neighbor, will you guys watch my kids? and she left. Well, we ended up watching them for 2 hours! It was really annoying.. but, it turns out that her sister and her neighbor.. They are both members of the church.. got in a fight and the one girl punched the other girl and one of them had to go to the hospital! It was super terrible!


Elder Toleafoa is training a gringo named Elder Shoemaker from Mesa Arizona. It is funny to see him because I compare myself a little bit. It is good to realize that I am a lot better in Spanish from when I was first here! lol


Sunday was interesting.. Church was great! Lunch was great! Everything was great! In the afternoon... we had a lesson with a member in a closed neighborhood type thing... Well, this is what happened. After a lesson with this member.. We were walking in the street.. and it was night time by this time and we saw a man walking in the street. He looked normal. So, as we passed him.. all I said was Buenas Noches! and then he got really stiff and SCREAMED! When he screamed, his teeth flew out of his mouth and he grabbed his stomach and just fell to the ground face first and just SMACKED his face into the ground! Then he started shaking really bad! Almost like he was having a seizure!So, My companion looked at me... and I was like well, maybe we should go back to the members house... so we went to the members house and they called for an ambulance. Meanwhile... the man in the street started to snore... but, I dont think it was snoring.. I think it was because he was trying to breathe... but his nose was broken... Anyway.. we were standing there with these members... and this man got on his hands and knees.. like a dog and looked up at us.. and his face was just BLOODY! He stood up and walked to the side of the street and sat down on the curb.. he was drunk. But, during this whole thing... I could only think.. Man this man is a child of God! God loves him! I feel like I was pretty sheltered growing up in the US where things like this dont happen.. and if they do. They dont happen in our part of town! But, then this guy stood up and started to run at us! We all entered this members house, and everyone here has a little window on there door... so we peeked through.. and this image is just caught in my mind! It was like a scary movie! When he passed the door, he looked at us and his face was just super bloody! It was so terrible!


Then today we went to San Juan and hiked up this HUGE mountain! We could see three volcanos at once! And we went on the biggest zip line in Central America! My companion didnt want to go and was really scared... Hermana McGill told me to go because she had gone once before and that she would wait with my Companion. Well, After I went, Hermana Garcia decided that she was going to go! So, she did. and she got to the plat form and I rushed over to her to congratulate her on this! and she passed out in my hands! It was really scary! Her eyes rolled back into her head!
This week was super good! 
Well, I have my daughter! Her name is Hermana Garcia from Mexico. She has 23 years. She is a really good teacher. She likes to use a lot of analogies and teaches a lot of object lessons.

Tuesday night we went to Jaqui and Jorges house.. and Jaqui said that Jorge accepted to get married! They will be married this Friday and then Jaqui will be baptized this Saturday! I am so unbelievably excited!!! 

 Wednesday we had Zone meeting! It was so good to see everyone! I love Zone meetings! After Zone meeting, we went to a members house to do service because she just had surgery. But, when we first got there, she said I have to go there is a problem with my sister and her neighbor, will you guys watch my kids? and she left. Well, we ended up watching them for 2 hours! It was really annoying.. but, it turns out that her sister and her neighbor.. They are both members of the church.. got in a fight and the one girl punched the other girl and one of them had to go to the hospital! It was super terrible! 

Elder Toleafoa is training a gringo named Elder Shoemaker from Mesa Arizona. It is funny to see him because I compare myself a little bit. It is good to realize that I am a lot better in Spanish from when I was first here! lol

Sunday was interesting.. Church was great! Lunch was great! Everything was great! In the afternoon... we had a lesson with a member in a closed neighborhood type thing... Well, this is what happened. After a lesson with this member.. We were walking in the street.. and it was night time by this time and we saw a man walking in the street. He looked normal. So, as we passed him.. all I said was Buenas Noches! and then he got really stiff and SCREAMED! When he screamed, his teeth flew out of his mouth and he grabbed his stomach and just fell to the ground face first and just SMACKED his face into the ground! Then he started shaking really bad! Almost like he was having a seizure!So, My companion looked at me... and I was like well, maybe we should go back to the members house... so we went to the members house and they called for an ambulance. Meanwhile... the man in the street started to snore... but, I dont think it was snoring.. I think it was because he was trying to breathe... but his nose was broken... Anyway.. we were standing there with these members... and this man got on his hands and knees.. like a dog and looked up at us.. and his face was just BLOODY! He stood up and walked to the side of the street and sat down on the curb.. he was drunk. But, during this whole thing... I could only think.. Man this man is a child of God! God loves him! I feel like I was pretty sheltered growing up in the US where things like this dont happen.. and if they do. They dont happen in our part of town! But, then this guy stood up and started to run at us! We all entered this members house, and everyone here has a little window on there door... so we peeked through.. and this image is just caught in my mind! It was like a scary movie! When he passed the door, he looked at us and his face was just super bloody! It was so terrible!

Then today we went to San Juan and hiked up this HUGE mountain! We could see three volcanos at once! And we went on the biggest zip line in Central America! My companion didnt want to go and was really scared... Hermana McGill told me to go because she had gone once before and that she would wait with my Companion. Well, After I went, Hermana Garcia decided that she was going to go! So, she did. and she got to the plat form and I rushed over to her to congratulate her on this! and she passed out in my hands! It was really scary! Her eyes rolled back into her head! 

During the hike, my companion was having a really hard time and said that she couldnt hike all of the way. I kept telling her that she could do it! I told her that this mountain is like life! If we dont endure to the end, we will never see the beauty at the top of the mountain, or the celestial kingdom! That seemed to motivate her for a little bit.. but, then after ten minutes she said I am okay with only being in the Terrestrial kingdom haha it was funny.

I love you guys so much! I think about you all of the time! I try not to think about you guys too much during the day because it distracts me... but, when my head hits the pillow... you bet that you guys are the first things that hit my mind!

I love you guys so much!

Love,
Hermana Natalie Paige Bullough

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