New Missionaries in Cordoba
Mon, Aug 29, 2011
To: Van/Sarah Rowse
One of the more exciting things that happened i forgot to include in the last letter. ok so... Sunday morning we woke up and we didn't have any gas... which means no cooking and no hot water... but we have to take a shower ever day. So sunday (of two weeks ago) i took an ice cold shower. I am surprised that the water did not come out frozen. It was FREEZING!!!!! we then had to cook our lunch at the church, which wasn't too bad. so this is where it continues to get exciting. :)
Monday was a holiday down here, so the gas companies were not working. therefore.. hahaha FREEZING cold shower on Monday. by then i figured out a way to make it a little less freezing. I would get wet from the sink (method was splashing water) i would then get soap everywhere. turn on the shower, hold my breath (mostly because it was impossible to breath with the cold water) and then rinsed as fast as i could hahaha. On Tuesday we called 3 different gas stations to come and whichever one got there first got the money hahaha. needless to say on Tuesday i had a warm shower :) yay.
Ok now i´m going to jump ahead to yesterday. So I was cooking my eggs, getting a nice Sunday breakfast going on, but all of the sudden all the electricity died. Throughout the whole city! So I cooked and ate in the dark it was pretty fun experience. also since the whole city lost electricity i could not play the piano Sunday morning. lets see.
This week has been good. It was pretty rough with being sick and having a sore knee. but i am feeling better today, i stil have the sniffles. You should definitely tell david i understand why he likes hankerchifs (spelling) i used one every day this week. They are great!!!! Lets see.. i think it was tuesday, we didnt plan very well and we ended up walking a good 20 miles. No joke. and no one answered the doors. we were having no success what so ever. and i want to say we had a cool experience where i said.. no elder lets do one more... but kinda cool, was the last door that we did knock on the person answered! so that was pretty cool. Wednesday and Thursday we planned a little better and i started doing my talk to everybody activity and we had a lot of success. Not like baptizing success but more like talking, having contacts, teaching beginning lessons, finding future investigators.
The language is still a little difficult, but i completely believe in the gift of tongues. yesterday was actually really exciting because i communicated more than i ever have. I understood (for the most part) everything that the people said. Saturday the other elders in our area had a baptism. they baptized a family and it was really cool to see the gospel bless the life of a family. The work definitely is hard physically and emotionally. We have not had a lot of success but we are working as hard as we can. There is this one family that I thought were going to be really receptive we had a great first lesson, but we have not been able to meet with them, or they are not at home when they said they would. We don’t have too many full on lessons (we had 16 this week with non members), but when we do have them. it is very exciting.
I love it when I teach someone about prayer and they have never prayed i LOVE it! These people are receiving ways to feel the love their Savior has for them. There is nothing better than inviting people to come unto Jesus Christ. That is why this gospel is true! i love this gospel.
One last cool story. So i started teaching piano lessons on sunday (i teach piano and the other elders teach English) I have no clue how i did it. I have never taught a piano lesson in English but here i am teaching members and nonmembers to play the piano, and explaining it in Spanish!!!! there are miracles around us every day! It is sometimes difficult to see them, but when we look hard, and pray for the ability to see them. The miracles seem to be overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, life is rough here, its hard. but i love it all the same. I want to share this message so bad with the people, and i cannot wait until i can speak openly with them, share my thoughts, my complete testimony, and invite them to come unto Christ. I hope you can begin to see the miracles in your lives! I love you all! more than you can imagine.
les quiero!
One of the more exciting things that happened i forgot to include in the last letter. ok so... Sunday morning we woke up and we didn't have any gas... which means no cooking and no hot water... but we have to take a shower ever day. So sunday (of two weeks ago) i took an ice cold shower. I am surprised that the water did not come out frozen. It was FREEZING!!!!! we then had to cook our lunch at the church, which wasn't too bad. so this is where it continues to get exciting. :)
Monday was a holiday down here, so the gas companies were not working. therefore.. hahaha FREEZING cold shower on Monday. by then i figured out a way to make it a little less freezing. I would get wet from the sink (method was splashing water) i would then get soap everywhere. turn on the shower, hold my breath (mostly because it was impossible to breath with the cold water) and then rinsed as fast as i could hahaha. On Tuesday we called 3 different gas stations to come and whichever one got there first got the money hahaha. needless to say on Tuesday i had a warm shower :) yay.
Ok now i´m going to jump ahead to yesterday. So I was cooking my eggs, getting a nice Sunday breakfast going on, but all of the sudden all the electricity died. Throughout the whole city! So I cooked and ate in the dark it was pretty fun experience. also since the whole city lost electricity i could not play the piano Sunday morning. lets see.
This week has been good. It was pretty rough with being sick and having a sore knee. but i am feeling better today, i stil have the sniffles. You should definitely tell david i understand why he likes hankerchifs (spelling) i used one every day this week. They are great!!!! Lets see.. i think it was tuesday, we didnt plan very well and we ended up walking a good 20 miles. No joke. and no one answered the doors. we were having no success what so ever. and i want to say we had a cool experience where i said.. no elder lets do one more... but kinda cool, was the last door that we did knock on the person answered! so that was pretty cool. Wednesday and Thursday we planned a little better and i started doing my talk to everybody activity and we had a lot of success. Not like baptizing success but more like talking, having contacts, teaching beginning lessons, finding future investigators.
The language is still a little difficult, but i completely believe in the gift of tongues. yesterday was actually really exciting because i communicated more than i ever have. I understood (for the most part) everything that the people said. Saturday the other elders in our area had a baptism. they baptized a family and it was really cool to see the gospel bless the life of a family. The work definitely is hard physically and emotionally. We have not had a lot of success but we are working as hard as we can. There is this one family that I thought were going to be really receptive we had a great first lesson, but we have not been able to meet with them, or they are not at home when they said they would. We don’t have too many full on lessons (we had 16 this week with non members), but when we do have them. it is very exciting.
I love it when I teach someone about prayer and they have never prayed i LOVE it! These people are receiving ways to feel the love their Savior has for them. There is nothing better than inviting people to come unto Jesus Christ. That is why this gospel is true! i love this gospel.
One last cool story. So i started teaching piano lessons on sunday (i teach piano and the other elders teach English) I have no clue how i did it. I have never taught a piano lesson in English but here i am teaching members and nonmembers to play the piano, and explaining it in Spanish!!!! there are miracles around us every day! It is sometimes difficult to see them, but when we look hard, and pray for the ability to see them. The miracles seem to be overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, life is rough here, its hard. but i love it all the same. I want to share this message so bad with the people, and i cannot wait until i can speak openly with them, share my thoughts, my complete testimony, and invite them to come unto Christ. I hope you can begin to see the miracles in your lives! I love you all! more than you can imagine.
les quiero!
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