So, today it is snowing like crazy!!! The cars are parked for the
day, BUT our zone had interviews with president, so he gave us
permission to just come to the New Brunswick chapel because he doesn't
have the time to reschedule them. So, now here we are, we had our
interviews and now it is snowing so hard and were all just going to
chill here to wait and see if it calms down. It's pretty fun. Were using
the family history center to email, but i don't have very much time
because there's a lot of missionaries.
This week was really good though, we got to do service twice, which
I love. On Wednesday we went and helped one of our members take down
her store. It was so sad that she had to close down her store, but it
was so much fun. We were there for about 4 or 5 hours just helping her
take down clothing racks. She bought us some really yummy Mexican food
after. These Hispanics know exactly where to get the good food. I hadn't
really had any really good Mexican food since I've been here in Perth
Amboy, since it is mostly an English communities, but this place was
really yummy. Then, the next day, Thursday we went to another member's
house and she bought us some pizza and we had a really good lesson with
her. It was our no driving day, so we usually go visit her on Thursdays
because she lives the closest to us (about an hour walk). We saw that
her house was a little messy because she just works and works and works.
We asked if we could come by on Saturday and help her clean and she
gratefully accepted. We stayed there for about 6 hours helping her
organize everything in her ho use. It was a lot of fun. She made us some
really good rice too. I love serving the members, they have a lot of
really cool stories and I learn how to say a lot of fun things in
Spanish. I am learning dichos, or little sayings. It is really fun to
ask them what their favorite dicho is, they get really excited about it
and they teach you ones that is specific to their countries. An example
of a dicho is, "otro perro con eso hueso" the literal translation is "to
another dog with that bone" but it really means like, ahh get out of
here, you get the idea. I know a lot of them now, it's fun to use them.
So if you didn't notice the subject of this email, I hate the
Superbowl. We have one investigator with a baptism date and she is
sooooo ready and she has accepted the date and is preparing, her problem
is that she lives with her mom and sister. Her mom isn't a member, but
her sister is a very active member. Her sister is in college and comes
home for the weekends and takes her to church. Because of the Superbowl
though, her sister needed to leave earlier on Sunday
to get back to her school before hitting the Superbowl traffic. SO, she
didn't come to church. It was so frustrating. We got a ride for her and
everything, but she didn't want to go without her sister :(.. She can
still be baptized on her date though, but church is really important.
Yesterday was so fun, our neighbors invited us over for lunch. She
made us some really good chicken and pasta. It was so yummy, it was
weird to be over for dinner at someone's house and have American food. It
was so fun to talk to her though and to play with the girls. Her
daughter just had her first chemo treatment last week and she is such a
champ! She was definitely a lot calmer than she usually is, but she is
still so awesome. Her mom is so great, she tells her that she has to
defeat the cancer so she can say "in your face tumor!" and that just
makes her laugh and laugh. They're the sweetest family. Then after that
the Smiths, our senior couple, invited us over for dinner. They are so
cute! I loved going over to their house. She reminds me of grandma Clark
for some reason. She made us beef and mashed potatoes and steamed
vegetables. We had a good time talking to them and we helped them do the
dishes - then we had ice cream and cookies, then shared a message with
them. They just keep going with the dying jokes though, I can't handle
it, it's way too funny.
We have this one investigator that I love. She is from Puerto Rico
and she is just spicy. She has this sass that I love. She will always
tell us, "now girls, you know I'm not racist, but wow this Mexican!" and
we just look at each other and we have to try to hold in our laughs....
This is such a funny thing with Hispanics and having so many different
cultures in one branch. They crack me up though, they are always polite
and serve each other even though they may not like each other's countries.
They're awesome.
Well, I'm just about out of time, I love you all and hope you have a good week!
-Sister Clark
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