22 October 2013

Happy Birthday Claire! I am not sure if she will read this but I hope she has a great day!

Manuel is the one with white hair.

Another week has flown by. This one was a good week. We were able to work with very few interruptions. I love weeks like that. We had our first Orange Walk 3 baptism on Saturday. A little old man named Manuel Aguierre was baptized. That was super exciting. He was one of those people who was just prepared to make changes in his life. He had been drinking coffee and when we taught him the word of wisdom he accepted it instantly. We asked if he would stop drinking coffee and he said sure and that is would be easy. From that day, he hasn't had any more coffee. Super Prepared! What a blessing!!

On Wednesday we were working with the relief society president, visiting some people. We started teaching this man that we had contacted the week before named William Floors. We didn't get very far into the lesson when I started to have to really strain to understand what William was saying. I would understand about 3 words in 10. I didn't know if it was just a super hard accent to understand or if he was speaking in Creol. I looked at my companion, hoping to find help, but she was even more lost than I was. There was a point in the lesson that I told the relief society president that I didn't understand. She translated a little bit for us into spanish. That was honestly one of the longest, most uncomfortable lessons that I have ever been in! Afterwards the sister with us told us that he had been speaking in almost pure Creol. Con razon no entendi casi nada! Thank goodness we had someone that could understand. I don't know what we would have done if she hadn't had have been there.

Yesterday I was waiting for my companion to finish getting ready and was thinking about what I wanted to eat for lunch. As I tried to think of something that sounded good I realized that I haven't eaten anything here in Belize that I really want to eat another time. I just don't enjoy the food here. For the first time in my mission I had the desire to cook. I went to the store and bought all the stuff for hamburger pie. It is something simple but I can't really remember all of the food that I love from home. And I don't have any recipes. But I just miss really and healthy food!

 In September when we got to Orange Walk the attendance was at about 70 each week. The Elder that got here about a month before us said that it had recently been at about 50. This week the Orange Walk attendance was 107 people!! It has almost doubled in the last three months!!! How very exciting! It is so exciting to see the less actives that we visit come back to church on their own. I honestly think that that is one of the thing that I have loved most in my mission, working with the "lost sheep". We as members really have so much power to help these people feel God's love.

 I love you all!! I hope all is well!

 Hermana Heap

Oh and I forgot to mention, my new address for LETTER ONLY is: PO Box 1123 Belize City, Belize. I have heard that the customs here are crazy expensive so it is still recommende​d to send the packages to El Salvador