Well I can’t even begin to describe the positives of this area,
because there are far too many and the whole place is so beautiful! I love it
despite the fact that my knees are about ready to fall off due to the crazy
hills and thousands of stairs. I think one of the greatest parts about
this area is that the office Elders and the Assistants to the President share
the ward with us, so the meals that they actually come to are a blast! I
officially feel like a secret agent due to the office Elders. This week
has been interesting because not one of the food appointments has been in our
area and if I’m getting lost in my own area imagine how great it is when I have
to go explore in someone else’s. BUT luckily the "headquarters"
has my back. I call in to tell them where the food appointment is (they naturally
have no idea where it is because they rarely leave the offices) they type the
address of the member into Google maps and BAM, I’m getting a fully guided tour
to the house of the member. Something like this, "are you looking at
the blue house? Okay so you’re going to walk five more houses down to the
orange house and there will be an alley way....don’t go into the alley
way." hahaha thanks Elders.
The not so convenient part is that President Kusch lives around
the corner which can be rather embarrassing. I haven’t even been that
lost this week, but the other day coming back from lunch we had no idea where
to get a bus to get back to our area so we were crossing streets and looking
crazy lost. Out of nowhere we hear someone call out, "Hey Hermanas,
are you lost?" I turned around, thrilled and hoping to see a member, only
to realize that the question was in English and there were President and Sister
Kusch laughing at us from their car....que pena!
More than ever this week I was incredibly thankful for the power
of the priesthood and priesthood leaders. This week my insomnia came back
and it hit harder than ever. I didn’t get any shut eye for about 3 days
and after 5 months no problems, I wasn’t use to overcoming it. By day
three I was so beat I couldn’t even express Spanish and smiling made my head
hurt. Worse than ever, I knew my comp was exhausted too, first week on
the mission and all, so I couldn’t complain. I finally broke down and
asked for a blessing which resulted in a family council (offices elders and
assistants). Their advice and help was amazing and I’ve been dreaming
again. I’m so thankful that the Priesthood truly has been restored to the
earth and is here in this church! What a blessing it is to ask for aid and receive
it from on high.
This week we also had the last zone conference ever with President
and Sister Kusch and everyone was rather down....well almost everyone. My
newbie comp (no pun intended) was dying of sleep by the second hour and had a grumbling
stomach by the fourth hour. I guess the whole goodbye to the president doesn’t
have nearly the same effect when you just met them 5 days before. The
rest of us were hanging on to every word and just loving every moment of
it. It’s going to be super hard to say goodbye to them, but I’m grateful
for the chance to have served with them!
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