Another week bites the dust...

Wow this week has flown by! Hna Woods and I are still together, and still in modelo, my first time to have 2 changes in the same place. Monday we spent almost all day in the office, and in our house getting it ready for the new missionaries. The ones from guatemala came in in bus and were her about 4 so we did their health interviews and settled them into the house, and Hna Woods and I went and worked for an hour(better than not at all), and taught a family about fasting, their son was going to have surgery the next day and they were going to fast for it. The missioneries from Provo(the Hnas already speak spanish and so only had 3 weeks in the MTC) came at about 10, and after we did their interviews and got them settled, we helped Hna Capra back to leave for Belice the next morning. To come on plane from guatemala you can have 2 bags that weigh 50lbs, but to go to belice it is 2 bags that weigh 35 lbs, so she was trying to figure out what she could leave behind. An interesting challenge. She wound up leaving an assortment of clothes and her shampoos, and lotions, and a few other toiletries. Tuesday we had the new people meeting, it was a very different format, go figure different president, but it was good and we learned a lot, and then We had a baptism! Claudia finally got baptised, yeay! I am so excited for her, she is so powerful and I know that the gospel really will change her life. Wednesday we got to work for all of the morning, but we had to go back to the house to wait for the Office elders to bring the suitcases of the Hnas that were leaving, and we waited for a while, they were delayed by a huge rainstorm that we were so thrilled to have been inside when it hit, the other Hnas in modelo didn't have such luck, and they didn't have their umbrellas either. But the Elders finally brought the suitcases, and we visited a menos activo that said she is coming back to church on sunday even if it means she loses her weekend job. :D
Thursday we had our district meeting and we taught a few really positive investigators and we planned a wedding for this saturday for one of the investigators and a menos activo. :) He has a fecha for next Sat. :)
And now we are to Friday once again.
Anyway, things are going well her in modelo, and the nursing part has been relatively quiet, only the new missionaries that came from Provo are sick, which is just the shock of the food and culture being so different, they'll be better in a few days. I think that is another reason why the CCM is such a good thing, because it gives us the opportunity to be sick when we are close to the bathroom all day.
This week I've been studying about how important it is to understand who we are. We are children of Heavenly Father, and when we can understand our divine heritage, we can understand that we are capable of so much, and also that there is nothing and no one but our selves that can keep us from Heavenly father. It is a great truth, and when we truly understand it we want to do our best and be our best everyday. We realize that nothing is impossible. Our vision of our self worth is infinately increased when we understand our divine potential.
So this week is the last week of The temple open house, and today is our ward's last bus trip but we don't have any investigators to bring this time so we're not going this time. We have gone 2 times and loved every minute, but is takes a lot of working time to go to San Salvador, go through the temple and then come back. Most of an afternoon, and since we really have so little working time to begin with, it really is important to use it in the most effective way, which unfortunately is not going to the temple open house.
BUT there is a chance that we'll get to be a part of the cultural celebration... small, but possible, AND President Cordon said that after the temple opens we'll get to go about once every 3 months(it will be a rotation through the zones, one per pday) on our pday. :D that is exciting. It is also really exciting that we can teach our recent converts that they can go and do baptisms for the dead. In the CCM we learned that the retention rate goes from in the 30% to in the 90% range when recent converts go to the temple to do baptisms for the dead right after their baptism. That is HUGE.
I am learning so much and I love these people so much, and it is such a great opportunity that I have to be here serving them.
Con Amor,
Hna Allen