It's been a great week! We've found a lot of really great people. We met this guy named Dean who has read up to chapter four in 1 Nephi! Which is cool, let me tell you. Yesterday, he gave us food that he got at some Hindu prayers, like roti, channa and aloo, and chutney, etc. It was really nice of him :) Then we visited our investigator Natalia, who is hopefully getting baptized in a few weeks! Her family has very poor living conditions; I cannot even describe it---it's not even a shack, I mean, at least a shack has walls. It kind of looks like a bomb went off in their house . . . IDK. Sister Roubidoux said that during the whole lesson she just kept feeling like she needed to give some of the food to Natalia's family, so she asked her mom if they had had dinner. Her mom had not, but she gave her kids some biscuits and tea, which is basically nothing. So Sister Roubidoux gave them some of the roti skin and the chutney. It's very humbling to teach people who live in these circumstances. It makes me want to be better, you know? I have so much, even here. Don't be wasteful or complain because you have vegetables instead of chocolate. Some people have literally nothing. I want to be better at that.
Yesterday was Fast Sunday. President Mehr had encouraged us to have a special mission-wide fast, where we visited members and reminded them of the purpose and power of fasting. Yesterday fast and testimony meeting was great. So many people got up and shared their testimonies of the power of the Atonement and the scriptures. It was amazing. I know that fasting works. Our investigator Hamilton loves fasting, especially as he has tried to overcome his various addictions.
This is a picture of a cat who loves me. Every time we go over to this member's house, it goes around my ankles whining, because it wants me to sit down so it can come on my lap. It's crazy. It doesn't like me to pet it, though . . . it tries to bite my hands. IDK, I think it has trust issues.
Have a great week! Love you!
Sister Aida Tibbitts
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