This week has been awesome! We have been working really hard and tyring to have more lessons and find more people to teach. Last week we found 19 new investigators! (our goal as a mission is 17 in a week, and the closest I`ve ever come to it was 13) So we were really excited for that! This week, we had a new focus: lessons. Our goal was to have 40 lessons this week, and we DID IT! The Lord was really helping us a ton this week (well, he always helps us, but we just were super blessed this week). 40 lessons seems like a huge thing, but there are many other missionaries in the field who have already reached this goal a million times, so it`s nothing really special, but I am happy that I finally was able to reach it. I feel like I`m finally reaching that point of being the effecient hard-working senior companion missionary. I still have a lot to improve but with only 8 months of my mission left, It`s about time I got to that point of being an exemplary missionary. (I don`t know if that`s a word, but yeah).
So, I want to tell you guys about lesson number 40. It was 8 o`clocksundaynight, with one hour left of the day and 39 lessons, we were praying hard that we could find someone to teach. Then I remembered a contact that we had talked to on the street, and we just so happened to be by her house, so we went and knocked on the door, and she answered and let us in , so we were super excited! (Her name is Felicia, and she`s about 65 and lives alone with her mother who`s in her 80s). We came in, and immediately, the smell of urine stung our eyes and noses. Not to mention the fact that it was completely dark (except for another room int he back and the light from the street that let in a little light). The lightbulb had gone out, and she didn`t have one to replace it, so she had been sitting in the dark eating her dinner. So she invites us to sit down, and my companion is in a chair next to the table, and I sat down on the corner of a sofa (there was clothes and things piled up all around). We sat down and as we were talking, I heard things moving next to me, bags rustlying and things falling, and I asked ¨Felicia, do you have a cat?¨ and she sayd, ¨Oh no, those are rats¨ . . . ERMAGERSH!!!!!!! lol!!!! Ok, now I`m laughing, but when I was there, I was trying not to cry, lol. As our eyes adjusted to the dark, we saw cockroaches crawling over everything and we saw at least 7 giant rats! And I do not even want to think about how many rats and cockroaches were around me . . . I`m pretty sure I was sitting in their nest. So we had a ten minute lesson, and then told her we`d be back the next day to help her. So we left smelling like pee and covered in rat parasites and cockroach poo . . . and wouldn`t you know it, we got back to the apartment, and there was no water to take a shower (that happens everyonce in a while, welcome to south america) . . . so yeah. We went through a package of babywipes and now we`re all clean and happy and still a little jumpy when we see something move out of the corner of our eye, but everything`s good now. I`m so glad that we were able to find her and that we`ll be able to help her. She was so sweet, and her questions were so genuine and she really is looking for help. Today we`ll be going back in the day time with the relief society president so that we can start to help her.
Anyway, I hope my mom doesn`t have a heart attack reading that, but just know that I would not trade anything in the entire world to be here on my mission, even if, at times, it feels like I`m on an episode of fear factor. What doesn`t kill yah, makes yah stronger, as my family always says, lol. I love being here and doing the Lord`s work. This really is the happiest time of my life. I love you all so much and I hope that you have a great week!
Love you!
Hna. Hulse
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