This week has been super great. I´m mostly excited because . . . this week is transfers already (I can´t believe how fast time is going by) and I´m finally going to have a real companion! Hna. Sedano has been super awesome, and she´s learned a lot and is going to be an amazing missionary! But I´m excited to have a real missionary as a companion again. It´s kind of hard to explain why, but just trust me that it´s different, haha. Soooooo, she´s going home tomorrow, and I´ll be getting a new companion.
So, I´m gonna tell you a little more about Belen and Ashley, because I´m just so grateful for the chance God has given me to know them and be a part of their life, because they teach me something new every week. Even though they´ve been receiving a ton of blessings, they´ve been having trials as well. That´s how life goes, right? So this last week, Belen, still jobeless, received a pension from her husband for the week to buy food . . . about 20 dollars. They were walking down the road (because they can´t afford the 20 cent bus ride to the market) and they found a woman who was walking with her son. Her son had rags tied around his feet, and the woman was incredibly skinny and malnourished looking . . . well, long story short, Belen and Ashley ended up giving their week´s pension of 20 dollars, to this woman and her son. When they got home, empty handed, minutes after sitting in the kitchen, wondering what they were going to do, a knock at the door came, and our ward mission leader´s wife had a box of food. She said that the bishop had called and they felt they needed to put this box of food together for her. God has stayed true to His promise, that she never would have want of food if she followed Him. It´s so true that everything we have literally comes from God, and if we want to prosper, we have to put Him first. When we put the world first, we receive only what the world can offer, and those things will fade with time, sickness, theives, and disasters. God is the only sure thing that we have in this world. I´m so grateful for the opportunity I have to share the happiness of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, and let everyone know about a better life and a better world that awaits them. I know that this gospel is true, and the only way to be happy is to LIVE it.
I love you all so much and I hope that you have a great week! Remember that we work to live, not live to work. Take care of yourselves spiritually so that you can be ok physically and be able to take care of those around you. Love you!!!
Hna. Hulse
I don´t know what order the pictures are in, but one is of Belen and Ashley at their baptism, the other is Jenny and her kids (I LOVE this family, and Jenny and her husband are getting ready to get baptized, but we´re waiting for some documents to get here so they can get married first), the other is of me and my companion having Lunche . . . they don´t really eat dinner here. It´s usually something like bread and hot chocolate, or something super simple like that. The other picture is . . . soup in a bag (Kristin and Selina, you should know how to say that . . . haha sorry everyone, inside joke). But yeah . . . they always sell liquids in thin bags and it freaks me out. Sometime I´ll send a picture of someone drinking lemonade from a plastic bag out of a straw. It´s a thing, here.
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