14 October 2013

Hello family!

So this week I am sitting here in front of the computer drenched, but happy to be drenched. This morning we combined with another zone and went to hike Pico Bonito. We hiked out to a couple waterfall spots that are really pretty. Everything was super green. While we were at the waterfall, it started raining. Even though it was never raining really hard, you get drenched if you hike for half an hour in moderate rain! Oh yes, at the end we had to slosh though a bit of stream. Outgoing we'd been able to cross on rocks, but with the rain it was just too slippery to walk on the rocks! It was a nice change after days of heat! Oh yes, and ugly black bugs that some of the missionaries were calling bees attacked us on the trail. In my analysis: It was a good hike. It got even better with the rain. And it became highly memorable with the attacking bugs. We were all slapping and hitting each other to get the bugs off! We had bonding time! So now I'm sitting here, writing you, wet and even a little muddy. I really look the part of a professional missionary, huh?

Oh yes, last night, walking home from dinner, I took a spill. It had started raining and while I was opening my almost dead umbrella I didn't notice the bump in the road. I scraped up my right knee it a moderately impressive fashion. This morning my comp asked me how my knee was,  if I could still do the hike. I said of course. I wasn't going to miss an awesome adventure in the mountain over some minor abrasion, ugly as in might appear. Now, Mom, don't worry,  This morning I went to the pulperia and bought hydrogen peroxide and gauze. I'm going to keep this good and clean. 

In other news, we actually have a modest pool of investigators, something that is a victory after coming here at the beginning with just one investigator that we inherited. But what we are starting to see now is that we have to once again work hard on finding. We try to find all the time, but right now we are seeing that almost all of our investigators aren't making the leap to progressing. You can't spend all your time visiting three to four times a week people who are happy to talk to you but won't keep commitments to read the Book of Mormon or come to church. Oh, we'll keeping visiting most of them from time to time, but right now our job is to do some more finding.

Oh yes, another victory. We have almost two weeks without getting majorly lost. We still sometimes struggle to locate a specific address because it can be hard to know which of the six green houses on the street is the right one. But we now always know more or less where we are, how to get to the church, and how to find our house.

Have a wonderful week!

Hermana Davis