This is Jessie and Hermana Miller with the Kay Family.
Jessie is with Sweetie, her landlady's dog.
So, this week’s entry will be a bit strange and disjointed because Jes and I got to ‘email chat’ (on 1/12/11). She had time and I was online, so we sent emails back and forth. She’d started to write a letter, which is the first portion of this entry. After that the segments are related to things we were talking about. Of course, there was a lot of personal stuff which I haven’t included, but there’s plenty here to share.
The past couple of weeks have been very rough for Jessie, but she’s doing much better and on the uphill climb. She loves her mission president and his family and has already developed a bond with them. From what I can tell he seems to really understand her and who she is. This is truly a blessing for Jessie and (I feel) will ultimately help her in her success as a missionary in Puerto Rico. Thank you President Alvarado!
Como le va mama?....
Hola mama how’s it going? So let’s see what has been going on.... so I've have come to learn that the people of PR are bi-polar.. no jk, but they are so hard to understand and are hard and soft hearted. We try teaching people showing them that we care and trying to help them understand and love the gospel and they just shrug their shoulders at us. So heartbreaking.... but then there are times when we are visiting and they love us and show us hospitality. I don't understand and it is so, so hard seriously getting shut down all the time and no success stories happening. I keep having to remind Hermana Miller and myself that we are planting seeds and we probably won't see the fruits of our labor, a sacrifice we have to take. It's not easy though keeping up that perspective. We have a bunch of people who invite us over and really seem like kind sincere people and then they all give us a wrong address, wrong number, hang up, or we get there and they won't be there ever, or they say they are not interested once we get there. I don't know if we stink or something who knows. Maybe we need to improve our teaching I just don't understand how people could be so cold that way. No one wants to hear about the gospel here it seems like and it hurts to see that people would treat us this way. Even our menos activos are always giving us excuses and brushing us off. No one likes us sisters, but they like the elders. Oy.... and then some days they are confessing and we have them offer us stuff, and enjoying our presence... they are hard people to read. We'll see... Last night was a super rough night for Hermana Miller and I so we decided to get pizza and ice cream and we talked and just had plain good old time girls chat. Doing that helped us forget our unsuccessful, hard, painful day. It was wild like yesterday not sure, but we think someone told us to get out after we taught them a nice lesson and showed love to their family. It was heart dropping and so scary... but then after an awkward 15 min pause we asked if we could return and they said yes. Also 2 people had lights and we could hear them in their houses and the moment we made noise or called for them... lights shut off and the houses became quiet... we were like "really we know they are in there.... we were so saddened that people would treat us this way instead of just saying they don't want us." We're fine if they just say no... It’s bizarre and very sad. So please pray that the people hear will have soft hearts and change their ways.
So more to share.... our awesome district leader left and went home and his companion is awesome... we basically have a Disney quote from him every night. He likes quoting Robin Hood...LOL and so now he's all over the place being the acting district leader and he has only been here for 12 weeks. Yikes... but he is seriously one of the most humbling people I've met... and then he received a new companion (covering two areas) and he's from England, also 12 weeks out. The poor elders since they have been here it’s been hectic for them, but they are great. Also they were companions in Provo and were like we thought it would be longer if we would become comps.
I asked if he was fluent in Spanish before he got to PR….
Yeah they are still learning Spanish, but he's pretty fast learner. He's not the district leader yet, he's just acting until transfers, but knowing president he should expect to be one.... yeah I feel bad, but he's great he can do it, everyone can picture him becoming an apostle some day. LOL. His name is Elder Hunt and the other is Elder Sinclair (only black guy and from England.) they like each other, but they are still fresh.
I asked how Hermana Kamisese was doing. She was Jessie’s companion through both MTC’s and is now serving in the Dominican Republic………
Hermana Kamisese is doing great and just loving it. Her trainer is DR and she speaks only Spanish... so guessing she's already fluent by now. And she is only 5 mins from the ccm and is successful... (CCM- is the abbreviation for the DR MTC)
I was asking her about the dog in the photo. We have a dachshund (wiener dog) named Cody and he’s a cuddle bug. Jessie used to love to cuddle with him on the couch and would always hog his attention when she came home from her adventures…….
ahhh i miss my doggy.... yeah she's the landlords and she'll probably die soon so i wanted a pic. She's a sweety... literally that’s her name LOL.... there are dogs everywhere but none are weenie dogs...
I was telling her about the bitter cold we’ve been experiencing and about how the whole country has been getting snow……
Definitely don’t miss the cold and i hate the rain LOL....
Adios mi amor!!!!!!
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