Buenos Tardes,
So we were on our way to church the other day and in the median in the middle of the road there was an old man and woman. They were fully decked out in khaki safari clothing and had binoculars. Yes they were bird watching in the middle of the road. It's fine.
Also Hermana F and I went to Waffle House at 5 pm on Thursday... So many sketchy people eating waffles... It rained almost everyday this week. Literal cats and dogs were falling from the sky. I accidently parked kind of far away from the curb and Hermana F was trying to avoid the small river running through the gutter and she slipped and fell on the car... oops. She laughed though so I don't think she was mad... We wash our car each week down the road from our apartment every Pday. We have made friends with the African American man with a tear drop tattoo below his right eye. He's very nice. Oh also Hermana F (NONE of the Hispanics can say her name) has three new admirers. One at the bakery down the road where we put up English class posters, one at a potential investigator's door, and one guy from our English class. They're interesting men...
Everything is good with Y and her crazy husband. The situation has calmed down quite a bit and she's officially out of the apartment. We were helping her move the other day with the elders. She doesn't have a car and the mattresses wouldn't fit in our's so us and the elders carried the mattresses from her complex to her sister-in-law's. That was probably an odd sight. SHE GOT HER TEMPLE RECOMMEND! We're going to go and do baptisms for the dead before this transfer is over! R is going to get her's this month as well:) p.s her husband stopped doing drugs! Her daughter was just baptized on Saturday! I is the greatest! The baptism started an hour late because Y's ride bailed, but it all worked out. The confirmation was so cool. It's interesting to hear all of the ordinances done in Spanish.
Yesterday morning we went over to a recent convert/less active's house. This is the family that the wife left last week but now she's back! They have a billion children and haven't been coming to church for 2 or 3 months. We went over before church and rang the door bell about 3 times, knocked on the door for awhile, and called their phones twice. Probably super annoying but they finally answered the door! We helped all the kids get ready and do their hair. We were kind of afraid what Hermano H would say but he was so grateful. He kept on saying how thankful he was that we came and woke them up. We sat next to them during sacrament meeting :) That was definitely the happiest moment I've had so far on my mission. I could feel how happy they were to be back. I felt just a tiny glimpse of the Lord's love for us.
Well it's already been 3 months since I left good old Arizona. I am gaining an eternal perspective that I have never had before. I began reading the Old Testament this week. Many of the sins and weaknesses that they struggle with then, we still struggle with now. As I've seen others struggle, I have realized how accesible the Atonement is. We just don't realize it. God loves us so much that He watched his son suffer. He was without sin, yet He suffered for us. God loves you. Christ loves you. They are all that matter. Nothing else matters. The Atonement is infinite. It covered the sins of those thousands of years ago, and still covers our sins today. Take it all to the Lord. Trust in Him.
Con amor, Hermana Jorgensen
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