Hermana Hilary Harper: Brisas

¡Buenas Tardes!

So this week, again, was a little bit of a bummer. We surprisingly had a lot of lessons with a lot of new people, but it's SO hard for people to accept the restoration. Most people think we're nuts to believe Joseph Smith was a prophet and the Book of Mormon is everything we say it is.

Iguana just roaming around Brisas

Sometimes its just hard to get people excited about going to church or reading their scriptures. Haha, it's funny because I totally understand that it can be boring, but I also see things with my missionary perspective too. You just gotta make time for God and make his commandments a priority and life really is just happier. More wholesome. It's frustrating to see how much effect the world has on so many people. Including us sometimes! Life is FULL of distractions and it's so easy to put off things that God has asked because something in the world is more fun for the moment.

Something different about this week is that we had exchanges with the sister training leaders. I stayed in my area with one and my companion went to another area with another sister training leader. My companion that day was Sister Nuñez. It was so fun watching her teach and being able to learn from someone, instead of having to be the missionary who's supposed to know what's going on all the time. I loved it because Sister Nuñez really has a way of bringing the spirit. We had one lesson with a brand new person that were able to have set a baptism date, so that was really cool!

Birthday Party for a Ward Member

Other random things...My companion and I are slowly getting along better. Last Monday we made a whole bunch of bolis, which are a big thing here. Bascially, it’s just a bag of frozen fruit, like a popsicle pretty much. We bought mangos and mamey and blended them with milk and sugar and poured them in these special bags, and yeah. That's all you do to make them.

Making Bolis (Fruit Popsicles)

Bolis - Ready to Freeze!

How we got our mameys is kind of a funny story. One day we were out walking and saw a tree with a whole bunch of super ripe mameys and decided to ask the owner if they would let us have one. When we knocked (more like "yelled" haha), we discovered that it was an old couple that lived there who couldn't get their mameys down themselves. So, we offered to get a bunch down for them and they gave us 5! We had a member with us, so of course we made him climb the roof, and we caught the mameys he threw down. Haha, one of the many mini adventures we have here in Merida.