Surprise! Pdays for everyone in the office are Fridays, so for the next few months I will be writing every Friday.
Tuesday was a long day of goodbyes and packing before leaving early in the morning Wednesday for Tegucigalpa. Every time there are changes we wait outside the mission office for the bus from the south, the bus fron Danli, and everyone from the city to get there to exchange companions and head to our new areas. That part is so fun, because we get to say one more goodbye to everyone leaving and talk with our old comapnions and people from our old districts and zones while we wait. And at 12:00 I found Hna Wengert and we got straight to work!
As a mission nurse what we do is pretty different. We have an area, Girasoles (sunflowers), but we also have the responsability of going to pharmacies, delivering medications, going to all the doctor visits of everyone who isnt in the south, and just whatever else we have to do to make sure everyone in the mission is healthy. Nurse things are our priority, and our area follows, so our schedule is filled with emergency calls and runs to the mission office.
This means that we hardly ever set lessons at specific times, which makes it hard to find people in their houses. But this week I have learned a lot about the power of prayer and listening to the Spirit to guide us in our path and know when to find people in their houses. We have the challenge of other responsabilities, but the Lord blesses us more than you could imagine.
Annnnnnd HERMANA WENGERT! I love Hermana Wengert! She is from Arizona and has one more change than me. She is an incredible missionary and loves this work so much. We are so similar, we get along like weve been friends for years. This change is about to be incredible.
Another thing is, since were both English speakers, we started talking in English for the first few hours together, and it just felt weird! We started talking about it and decided we are going to speak 100% spanish, in the street, in the house, everywhere except when people want to talk to us in english over the phone to describe their symptopms or with our leaders in the office. We have already seen blessings come in our communication because of this. The gift of tongues doesnt keep coming if you dont work for it!
And I have to admit, we are priveledged. We wash our clothes every week with a members laundry machine, we have a hot water shower, a toilet that flushes, I finally use my blanket at night, and President and Hermana Chase made extra dinner last night so they invited us over with the office to eat with them. And sent us home with extra food. They felt like my Honduran parents before, but now that we see them all the time they truly are my mom and dad here :)
Amo este evangelio! Dios responde a oraciones! Siempre somos bendecidos!
1. The relief society president of Yusguare, Rita and her daughter.
2. Map making until the last second, hoping nobody gets lost down there in Yusguare!
3. In Yusguare, Ani
4. Last lunch with Hna Josfina :(
5. Alma y Amulek...digo Hermana Morgan y Hermana Wengert :)
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