Hey friends. So...my first week in Rio
Gallegos was an ETERNITY. My companion is Hermana Rodriguez...she's got
about 6 months in the mission and from Peru. She has lots of sicknesses
including severe chronic gastritis and a couple other stomach problems
so we don't get to work as much as I like... President Rogers is watching
her closely which also means that I talk with him way more than I'm
used to over the phone...which is probably good. Hermana Rodriguez has
been labled as one of the "hard" companions in the mission for lots of
reasons only one of them being her health...president told me if I can
get throught this transfer I will have magnified my calling... haha...I
think it was mostly a joke...at least I hope so!! Apparently she has a
really strong personality. BUT! I don't tell you all this to complain
about my companion because that's not cool. Mostly I'm just gonna send
out a quick reminder...something one of my seminary teachers always
said, "There are two types of people in the world...the ones you love
and the ones you don't understand." I can tell it's probably gonna be a
hard transfer...my companion is one of the people I don't understand
yet. I'm gonna have to understand her to love her, and love her to
understand her. We'll see how this goes! Wish me luck...and
remember...don't judge people...because usually once we get to know them
we love 'em!
I love Rio Gallegos so far. The
members here are awesome. I love the familia Fernandez...and thanks to
Hermana Hundley...they love me! Everyone here loves Hermana
Hundley...and I get to see her in 3 DAYS! I'm sooo excited. It should be
a great conference with the apostle. It's gonna be a looong bus ride
though....
I can't really think of anything
that happened this week...the Elders in my district are great. My
district leader, Elder Rendon, is from Colombia...my zone leaders are
great..I've met them both before...Elder Benitez...the kid that I sat
next to for 5 hours during that protest in Caleta when I was headed to
Grande? Good times. And Elder Mamani...don't remember where he's
from... Chile I think.
Leaving Caleta Olivia was
brutal. I cried HARD. Hermana Villela...my replacement...showed up
about 2 hours before I left...awkward. I was not down to hang out with
her and was surprisingly jealous as I realized that she was gonna be
living in MY pension...sleeping in MY bed...eating lunch with MY
families...visiting MY Maxi...I hope she takes good care of them.
Anyway...Maxi was such a capo and stayed in the terminal with me until
my bus left. His mom even came to say goodbye. That surprised me cause
she doesn't want anything to do with religion (although she supports
Maxi and is happy he's making good decisions with his life) She told me
she's gonna miss me and that she loves me and thanked me for all I did
for Maxi...yep...I was crying. Maxi gave me a letter and drew me a
picture of a tiger...I didn't know he could draw...but wrote that the
tiger was sad because I'm leaving...I try not to look at it because it
makes me sad. I'm gonna get permission from President to call him for
his birthday in a coulple of weeks...and at the conference I'll probably
steal Hermana Davis' phone and send him a message...oh...Hermana
Rasmussen is in Rawson...in my area...and Elder Tarwater is also in
Rawson. I'm super jealous. Okay...so that's all I can come up with to
tell you...next week I promise I'll write a good letter...I read all
your letters this week so I didn't have a lot of time to write.
I
LOVE YOU ALL! This week I've been singing "I'm trying to be like Jesus"
all week long...what a great song. Do ya'll remember the words? :)
Have a great week! Sorry for the boring letter! Next week's will be awesome for sure!
Hermana Heath
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