Hello there everyone,
Since we just emailed on Wednesday this email might be kind
of short, but it was a good couple days! ha On Saturday Rufina was baptized!!!
YAY! Two little girls from less active families were also baptized with her and
she joked that she's like their grandma getting baptized with them..ha but it
went great. I really love her so much :)
However the day of her baptism was SO hot, we were trying to
teach people and just dripping sweat, it was even hard to breath. Then we rode
the jeep to the church and it started to sprinkle and then it dumped on us
while we were walking and we had one little broken umbrella! We showed up to
the church looking like we'd jumped in a pool...but it was crazy weather. Sadly
because of that Sister Clark got a fever of 101 that night, but I was a good
doctor and she was all better the next morning :)
So I can't remember if I told you this but I'm starting to
write a miracle a day in my journal, and I decided I could share a few with you
now. One day it cooled down a little bit at night and me and Sister Clark
realized that we had chicken legs!! We never realized how small they are when
they're not all swollen!! So Elder Kumar couldn't tease me about my
"chubby leg" as he calls it :) haha It was awesome! It gave us hope
that when we go home we'll be smaller! Also, another miracle was that little
broken umbrella we had for atleast a little protection because actually it was
one we had borrowed from Rufina and bringing back to her...neither of us had
our own with us. And then another good one, one night we were both not feeling
good from walking around all day in the HOTTEST weather you can imagine and
there was orange juice on sale for 25 pesos!! And for the size it was, it
usually would be like double that. I was so excited! I drank it all (800 mL) in
like 5 minutes. ha It was great :)
That's one thing though that I don't think I could have
imagined before I came here-the heat. It might only be around 100 degrees, but
then when you add the humidity it literally is hotter than anything I've ever
been in. You just have sweat pouring down you all day, and literally when I
change into pajamas my clothes are just wet...it's so nasty! There are tons of
ants everywhere, even in our water, that we have to pick out and you just feel
itchy from the sweat. Not going to lie it's a little miserable sometimes, but
it definitely makes me appreciate laying in my bed each night with the fan full
blast blowing on my face :) It's an adventure for sure.
Well the rest of this week was good, Sister Evelyn is still
doing great preparing for her new baptismal date, and then our other
investigator sister Luz is really doing great too. Neither have drank coffee
again so I think they'll be ok! :) Sadly transfers is next week so I might not
be here :( But me and Sister Clark are hoping we can have one more together..
Oh I also spoke in sacrament and that went pretty good. I spoke about the
"it" from the story of the 2,000 stripling warriors, saying their
mother's knew "it" and I think it was pretty good :) ha But that was
basically my week.
I love you all so much, thank you for all your support! Hope
you're doing great :)
LOVE,
Sister Benesch