Dear Family,
This week is a pretty momentous one in a missionary's life; I officially celebrate one year since I put the tag on and became a full-time missionary in the West Indies. It feels like about two weeks, but I have loved serving the people of the Lord here in the Caribbean. I have grown as a person; I'm not the same person I was when I hugged you goodbye at the curb, Mom (thank heavens). I have grown in my love for people and my desire to serve them. I can actually talk to people now! If you will believe, Sister Leishman told me that she would never have believed I used to be shy. If that isn't a miracle, I don't know what is! I really didn't know what I was getting myself into when I sent those papers off, but I don't regret doing it. I am so excited to see what the Lord has in store for me these next six months (!!!!). Hopefully I change even more.
It's been an interesting week. I know I always say that, but really. We celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali this week. Basically they make A LOT of food and then say prayers and light little candles (called deeyas) to symbolize the Mother Goddess chasing away darkness on the darkest night of the year (something like that). People gave us so much food I was almost sick, but luckily we got a little respite. It rained a lot that day, so most people had to light deeya the next day. One of our investigators put a little henna design on our hands.
Also, we had our international day of service the week before last. Everyone was saying that they were going to be doing a Mormon Message, but I don't know about that. I do know that one of our YSA reps posted a lot of pictures on the Mormon Newsroom Facebook page, so I think if you go on that page you can see pictures of our service day.
A lot of rain this last week. Rainy season is coming to a close, but we are just now getting a lot. We've had more rain this week than there usually is in a year in California, but people say we even get more than this usually.
Thanks for all yuh!
Love, Sister Aida Tibbitts
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