Sometimes I really can't believe that I'm a
missionary! Every morning, the alarm interrupts my dreams and the sunlight
streams through the windows: 6.25am. I role off my bed onto my knees and mutter
a roman-glish prayer to my Father in Heaven. In mutual silence Sora and I get
dressed to go running. The silence is disturbed only by the sounds of our
toothbrushes buzzing away the morning breath. By the time we get outside its
6.35am and the sea breeze wakes us up and we start chatting about the day and
we set off on our run down the beach. The old man in the jump suit waves
"good morning girls!!" in super a thick accent. The man with the dog
also waves "neata!" The beautiful dog is wagging his tail, big pink
tongue drooping out of his mouth as if to say "Oh yeah guys isn’t this
great?! This is really great huh?! Yeah it is! So fun! Best day ever!"
Often we take the time in the mornings to count our blessings. The view of the
sea is breath taking! Every day I can hardly comprehend how blessed I am to be
serving here. |
| View from the apartment |
At the moment we only have one progressing
investigator, Andreea. She's doing wonderful but because of exams and other
commitments she can only meet once a week. This allows us the opportunity to
contact every day. Lately we've been focusing on English contacting, in the
hope to have a large English class this transfer. English contacting results in
a few outcomes. Most people are interested and will politely take the flyer to
read. A few people, the golden people, will stop and talk and usually we can
actually commit them to coming. Then there's the few... the smart Alecs, who think
they're so clever "I is knowing Eeengleesh. I is speaking Eeengleesh the
10 yeaah. I is not having need of yours Eeengleesh class." Silly people!
Most people we speak to are really great so fingers crossed we'll have a nice
big class!
Sorry I don’t have time for more. But I'm
doing wonderful! I love my companion, and this city is fantastic. In random
other news, my debit card got stolen and my shoe broke last week. Oh well! Such
is the life of a missionary
Keep the Faith!
Sora Rivera xx
:)
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