9 September 2013

Dear Family,

Thank you for the emails and keeping me updated on the goings on in Eagar. I hope all is well with you all.

I am a little bit at a loss of what to say. It has been a HARD week. The Lord is sending me trials and more trials right now that have really taken away my desire to work. So it has been a rough week but I hope that all will get better from here. I am doing my best to humble myself and learn what the Lord wants me to learn. I had been wanting to talk to President and Sister Hintze for weeks now when suddenly they came to Sonsonate for interviews. I really really like them and can feel their love for me. President Hintze reminds me so much of you, Dad. Because of this, I couldn´t hold back my thoughts. I spilled out all of my thoughts, doubts, and tears in my interview. The poor man. But he told me everything that I am sure that you would have told me, Dad, reassuring me of my worth and the love that Heavenly Father has for me. The only thing that lacked was the hugs that you always give me Dad. No one can take your place for those. I will just have to wait 9 more months to have them. I am so very grateful to be in this new mission with the Hintzes. The Lord knew that I need parental figures here in El Salvador. Unfortunately President Hintze could not fix all of my problems and make the mission easy but his words really did help me to have strength to keep going. He also gave me some good news. Transfers come the 18th of September and from the mouth of President, he said that I will be changing areas. After seven months and half of my mission here in Sensunapan I finally will have the opportunity to get to know somewhere else. The problem is that I now have way too much time to think about where I could go and all of the options. 29 new missionaries are coming this time and 23 are North American. 8 are sisters and all of the them are North American. Only one sister that is already here is ending her mission right now so they have to open new areas to fit all of the new sisters. Sister Hintze told me that 3 of the new areas are in Belize and only one is here in El Salvador. I won`t lie, I am dreaming of going to Belize. Ha! Just because I want to so much, I will probably stay here in El Salvador. But there is a super high chance that I will be training because there just aren´t many sisters in the mission and so many are already training. It would be interesting to train a gringa. Who knows what will happen but it is really making it challenging to work. Ooops. That is probably why normally they dont tell us the transfers until the day before. But I am determined to have a good last week here in Sensunapan. Oh, random thought, but I finally figured out what Sensunapan means....it is an word from the natives here that means large river. We have the Sensunapan River in our area. It all makes sense now. haha.

Well I hope all is well with all of you. Please keep writing. :) I love you all!!

Hermana Heap