I don´t really know where to start with this week. But I´ll start with a few little things -
1. I literally saved a cat from a tree. Like that old joke or whatever it is, I did it! Even though I really strongly dislike them and it wouldn´t bother me too much if it was stuck up there forever, I´m one of the tallest people in this country so I thought I would help them out. I just kind of grabbed it and threw it on the ground...whatever works, right?
2. The other day, I was doing my hair, just like every other day of my life. Out here, since there´s so much sun, my hair is getting pretty light in some parts. Not blonde, but significantly lighter. So I was doing my hair, and I saw this really, really light hair, and I thought "WOW a blonde hair! My hair really is turning blonde!" I was pretty excited. Then I looked a little closer and saw that it was GRAY. 100% GRAY. What the nasty? I´m only 20! If I come home with a head full of gray hairs, I´m gonna be a little bummed. Don´t worry, I pulled it out. It´s like it never happened.
Well, this week has been really long. It has been great, but really, really long. Last week we had transfers, and Hermana Mack went to a different area called Vitarte. I hear it´s pretty but I´ve never seen it. She was really sad, but also excited to start a new adventure. Cieneguilla was her first area in her mission, and she was here for over 4 months! It´s hard to change but it´s definitely fun to have new experiences.
Speaking of change, I also had an interesting change. I am currently training a new missionary! I don´t know why God thought that that was a good idea, but that is my current situation. My new companion´s name is Hermana Ponce, from Argentina. She´s from a part of Patagonia, which is super pretty and touristy. She is so great and we are really getting along really well. She is pretty shy, but she is really good at teaching. It´s always nice when you speak the language you´re teaching in...I
wasn´t very good at teaching and I couldn´t speak the language, so she´s already doing a lot better than I was when I started ;)
In all honesty, I was so nervous when I found out that I would be training. "Training" just means that I´m adding on to what she learned in the CCM, and helping her adjust to the missionary life. We have a specific little book that we do the training from, and it´s kind of a good amount of work. But anyway, I was really nervous. I didn´t really think that I would be able to do it, and I was sad that Hermana Mack was leaving. I prayed a lot that night. And the next day I met my companion, we had our little day-training, then we came back to Cieneguilla. That part was relatively easy. But this week just happened to be the most complicated week of my whole entire mission. We had two baptisms planned for Saturday, but on Thursday we found out a bunch of stuff that we didn´t know before; we had to make about 1,000 phone calls using public telephones since we don´t have a cellphone right now, we had to schedule meetings and interviews and had to go to the doctor and SO MANY
THINGS. Honestly, it was just a little bit more than I could handle. I was already nervous to be
training, and then all of this other stuff happened. I felt so bad because those days were the first days of my companion´s mission, which just made me feel even worse. I was really stressed out, and she was just super calm, going with the flow. She really helped me out those days. It felt more like she was training me than that I was training her. But in the end, everything turned out just fine, Ignacio got baptized, and Luis will be getting baptized either this Saturday or the next. Everything turned out just fine.
On Saturday, Ignacio got baptized. After days of freaking out and feeling like I was all over the
place, I found that I was really happy, and it made me so much happier to see Ignacio and how happy HE was. His baptism was so sweet. He´s just a sweet old guy.
And on Sunday we had our testimony meeting, when any member that wants to share their testimony can stand up and share their thoughts. Luis got up and shared his testimony, and it was just about the sweetest thing I´ve ever heard. I just sat there, listening to the members of my ward here in Cieneguilla, in the middle of Peru, and felt so grateful to be a member of this church, and even more to be a missionary. It was a great moment.
Sorry, my thoughts are really jumbled becasue there are about 34 people around me screaming in a different language. But I want you to know I love you! Have a great week, I´ll be talking to you soon!
All my love,
Hermana Michelle Scott
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