Kind of a slow day today. It has been cooler here today than it is in Morgan! The cooler temps have probably been brought on by the violent wind and rain storm we had this afternoon. Our apartment has huge windows on three sides that the wind was whistling through. The rain was being blown every which way and the thunder was loud. Funny thing though, you never see lightening. It was actually scary for me because it sounded like the windows were going to be blown out! Scott kept telling me it wasn't worse than some of the terrific wind storms we had at home and I guess he is right. We just don't have windows this big in our house. We were listening to the noise before the storm and the sudden thought of "what are we doing here?" passed through my mind. In a place so foreign to what we are used to. (The peace and quiet!) This I know - we will get used to it before we leave here.
When we received our call we both thought that when we got here they would discover we had no musical ability and let us work with inactives or with a branch with leadership training, which would have been much easier for us. In the past four months I have learned that the Lord knows far more about us than we know about ourselves. He wouldn't send us here to do something we already knew how to do. These growth opportunities are certainly a stretch for us. I think it is more difficult for senior missionaries to leave home than it is for young elders. (At least for the grandmothers !)
The opportunity to get to know some of the people here has been great. Your heart aches for so many that have absolutely nothing but they are warm, friendly, wonderful people.
We start teaching a big directing class on Sunday in one of the stakes for their people, most young, some older. It will be a stretch for both Scott and I but in our handbook it says that the Lord will bless us if we are willing to do it - we are relying on that!
Yturraldes stopped by to visit after they visited Pres. Lee and his wife in our building. They are fun. He is in the middle of building a house for the Relief Society president in the ward they have been assigned to. They are just building the frame of the house around the outside of her existing house because she has no place to live. Never heard of that before. Elder Yturralde is an amazing man - always taking on projects that will help the people help themselves.
Received white popcorn kernels from home and a kettle popper from Amazon.. Wow - that was soooo good! Makes you feel life is a little more normal.
When we received our call we both thought that when we got here they would discover we had no musical ability and let us work with inactives or with a branch with leadership training, which would have been much easier for us. In the past four months I have learned that the Lord knows far more about us than we know about ourselves. He wouldn't send us here to do something we already knew how to do. These growth opportunities are certainly a stretch for us. I think it is more difficult for senior missionaries to leave home than it is for young elders. (At least for the grandmothers !)
The opportunity to get to know some of the people here has been great. Your heart aches for so many that have absolutely nothing but they are warm, friendly, wonderful people.
We start teaching a big directing class on Sunday in one of the stakes for their people, most young, some older. It will be a stretch for both Scott and I but in our handbook it says that the Lord will bless us if we are willing to do it - we are relying on that!
Yturraldes stopped by to visit after they visited Pres. Lee and his wife in our building. They are fun. He is in the middle of building a house for the Relief Society president in the ward they have been assigned to. They are just building the frame of the house around the outside of her existing house because she has no place to live. Never heard of that before. Elder Yturralde is an amazing man - always taking on projects that will help the people help themselves.
Received white popcorn kernels from home and a kettle popper from Amazon.. Wow - that was soooo good! Makes you feel life is a little more normal.
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