Dear Family and Friends,
It's been an up-and-down sort of week. We were going to have a baptism on Saturday, but we couldn't meet with her all week, so we have rescheduled it. Hopefully it will work out this week. It is Natalia, and she is so excited to be baptized!
Our Sister Training Leader, Sister Giles, was transferred to St Vincent for her last transfer, so we have new leaders, Sister Mitchell and Sister Bennion! Sisters Galea'i and Giles stayed with us Monday and Tuesday, which was interesting. There is a part of our area that we aren't allowed to go tracting in; we can only go there if we have a set appointment. We met a man who lives there and were going to go visit him on Tuesday, all four of us sisters. Let me tell you, there is a reason we don't go there. You'd think the men had never seen a white woman before! And they have these freaky-looking apartment buildings that are painted all sorts of garish colors . . . and we had to go into them! We went tramping up the stairs very slowly and cautiously, with plenty of clinging to each other. Sister Galea'i, being quite tall, looked around the last corner and saw a whole crowd of guys liming at the top, and so we turned and scampered back down! We found a guy we had talked to earlier and begged him to accompany us up. He did, saying, "Hey, let the girls through, let the girls through." It was pretty creepy, but we got through. Let me just say that we will go there a little as possible.
Saturday Arima Branch and Curepe Ward hosted a stake talent show. We had thirty-something performances that evening. Sister Roubidoux, Natalia, and I sang the song 'I Walk By Faith.' Natalia did not have much time to practice, so she kind of, well, didn't sing much, but she tried :) There was a man from Chaguanas that did a super-awesome looking kathak dance, with traditional dress and everything, and then a young woman who did a lovely dance to a Bollywood song. One of the elders' investigators played the flute and the saxophone; he held one note for about two minutes! Then, they announced that President Mehr was doing a piano solo! He was quite surprised, considering he doesn't play the piano. As Sister Mehr set him up, he told us that he MIGHT remember a little bit from when he was young. He then proceeded to play three notes over and over again on the piano. After we were laughing too hard to hear him, Sister Mehr called up Sister Baker, who added a little bit, then she called up me, and I played a descending scale, then President and Sister Gould, and Sister Miller and then herself. It was crazy! all of us on a little keyboard. Eventually it turned into "Give, Said the Little Stream." Sister Roubidoux has a video somewhere, maybe I can get it to you sometime :)
So, it's been a fun week. Today we had a game morning with our zone. I played chess with Elder Parker, though Elder Haderlie finished for me (he swept the floor with poor Elder Parker). Plus, I am awful at basketball, as if you hadn't already figured that one out ;D
I just read President Mehr's last letter to us. Is that a tear? We are getting our new mission president this week.
I hope you guys are doing well. Love you!
Sister Aida Tibbitts
No comments:
Post a Comment