Hola mi familia!
This week it was nasty hot and humid. We sweat so much. EWWW. Thankfully it should be cooling down soon!
I've started keeping a list of the different countries that I've met people from... so far I'm at 28 countries! The diversity here is incredible!
On Tuesday I went on an exchange in Bayonne with Hermana Duke, one of our Sister Training Leaders. An exchange is where I basically spend 24 hours in a different area with a different companion so she can see how I'm doing and let me know if there's anything I need to improve on. It was cool being in a different city for a day, but I'm glad I'm back in Union City!
Our miracle of the week is this guy named Harold. We found him while walking by his house as he was sitting on his porch. He's awesome. He was immediately super interested. The next day when we stopped by to see how he was doing, he had already read the Introduction to the Book of Mormon and the testimonies of the witnesses that we told him to read. He's from Puerto Rico and he speaks both English and Spanish. Just two days after we found him, he committed to baptism on September 28th.
We are with the three preteens (Eddy, Daniel, and John) like every day. We are working really hard with Daniel because he is getting baptized in a week! Those kids are so cute, they all look up to us so much and are always asking us to come over to Eddy's house and teach them.
Saturday was a super cool activity that we've been planning for ever since I got here a month ago. It was called Noche Inter-Americana and basically all the ward members brought food and decorations from their different countries and it was a big celebration of everyone's cultures. And in addition to it being a really fun ward party, the main purpose of it was to get non-members to come and get them interested in the church. We missionaries have spent the past 3 weeks handing out invitations to this party to random people we would meet on the street. We spent pretty much all of Saturday morning setting up the decorations. We got little flags from like every Hispanic country and put them all over the room. It looked even better when the ward members got there because in addition to bringing a typical food from their country, they brought big flags from their countries and decorated with random traditional things from their countries. It was so cool how our ward here is so diverse that we would be able to pull off an activity like this! We had members and food and decorations from Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and Colombia. This party was such a big deal that even President Taggart (my mission president) came and brought his family! After everyone ate and had fun, we gave a tour of the church to all the nonmembers there, and the ward members helped explain what each room was (Relief Society, Primary, Young Men's, etc). After that, we went back into the cultural hall and they put on music and everyone was dancing, even President Taggart and his wife! It was such a fun night. I got to try food from tons of different countries and have a ton of fun, and most importantly we met a lot of people who were interested in the Church and got their information so hopefully we can start teaching them soon!
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