Hey
everyone!
Great
week here in Riverhead!
Exchange
calls were made this morning. Everyone in my district is staying except for my
mission mom, Acosta. She's mexicana and totally awesome. She's going
home/dying.
Today
we had an incredible miracle. We were hanging out at a park near Flanders
called big duck park. A lady drove up and got out of her car. She did kind of a
double take and asked us if we were Mormon missionaries. We said yes, and then
she broke down and started crying. I asked her how we could help and she said
that her daughter had broken her shoulder and injured her back really badly and
was having a serious struggle with depression and general recovery. She said
that fifteen minutes or so previous she had basically hit an emotional wall,
put her daughter in the car and started driving, not knowing where she was
going. It's incredible that she found us because Flanders is pretty far and we
don't go there ever. But we gave her daughter a blessing and said a prayer. I
love that as missionaries, people are guided to us so that we can help them in
whatever little way we can. Hopefully I will be here when the daughter gets
baptized because she has been taking lessons from the missionaries in Hampton
bays.
Guess
what!? I got adopted into a Guatemalan family this week! The Deleon family!
They are great. We've been teaching part of the family but the other night we
had a huge family night with all of them. Apparently the part of the family
that we don't teach really liked me because Cecilia told me that
they would take me to Guatemala after my mission. She was really persistent in
telling me that she wasn't joking, and I took her up on the offer! So here's to
a Guatemala trip sometime soon!
Well,
this week overall has been great. It's finally warming up here. We started
playing fútbol here. I love it a lot! Definitely not claiming expert status
yet, but soon!
Que
vayan con Dios!
Ry
