As a Sister in Zion: Week 9 Letter

Hey y’all! How’s everything back at home? Of course I miss everyone, but know I’m doing well. This week, I have to try and make it short but I’ll try and mention the important parts.

This week was a lot better than last week, that’s for sure. I have to apologize for last week’s email bc I feel like I complained and whined the whole time. But I am doing a lot better this week. My perspective has changed quite a bit and I owe it all to my Savior. This past week I studied the atonement during my personal study time and even though I feel like I haven’t studied a whole lot (bc only 1 hr of study time is not enough! I could seriously study for like 5 hrs every day and still feel like I needed more time) my gratitude and perspective of why I am here has changed. I owe everything to my Savior, Jesucristo.

But yeah, just know that I’m doing a lot better and I did receive a blessing from my district leader this morning and that was a huge help and comfort at well.

Let’s see, no mom, I haven’t felt any earth quakes at all.

Every day it seems to rain, which is amazing and such a blessing when it does. It’s blazing hot in the morning hours, then the strangest thing happens. Like clockwork, almost every day at 4 PM the sky starts to darken and then it starts to thunder and lightning and then it’ll rain for about an hr and then it’ll stop and for the rest of the day it’ll be pretty cool and it’ll feel amazing! My comp and I get caught in the rain nearly every day and every day we look forward to it. We love walking around when its pouring outside bc it feels soo good and it’s also a good way to get into people’s houses bc they feel bad for us. hehe.

The Spanish is coming along. I’m obviously not fluent, but I’m contributing a letting bit more to the lessons every day, so that’s progress. Plus all the people here are so understanding about me not knowing the language and keep encouraging me to talk even though they don’t understand anything at all bc my speech is so broken.

Oh, one last thing that happened this week, and then I’ll be done. So we have this new investigator with a baptism date named Israel. And he’s a total Mayan hippie! We love him to death, he is so funny! He seems really interested and my comp and I have high hopes of maybe baptizing him in the future. But the interesting part about him is when we had the first lesson with him we had it up in the catholic cathedral. I don’t know if you remember but I think I mentioned in one of my first emails that in the plaza right in the middle is this huge yellow Catholic cathedral with these big stone steps leading up to this little square field and all around it is this walk way over looking Izamal. so anyways, bc I don’t speak Spanish and can hardly understand it, I don’t know how we decided to teach up there, but it was raining and we had no cover in the plaza so we decided to walk up there and teach in the walk way of a catholic cathedral. Coolest lesson ever. I’ll take pics next week and send them to you bc I didn't get to take any while we were there. But yeah, that’s it.

So that was my week. I’ll send pics here in a bit. But just remember that I love you all and cannot thank you enough for all of your prayers. I feel the strength of them every day. Remember the Savior and all that he has done for you.

We are in the business of happiness, mi amigos.

Love always

Hermana Perryman