My companion has COVID.
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| District and Sister Training Leaders with one of our llama friends. (All photos this week are from preparation day last week, when we were able to do things out in the world.) |
I also hit 16 months today, but I figured I’d get the most interesting part out of the way.
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| This is the restaurant where I got a piece of churrasco that was so fatty and so impossible to chew that everyone laughed at me. I was accused of having weak teeth 😒 |
Now, I’m sure if you have average reading comprehension, you might have caught on to the way I phrased the first sentence of this email. “But Hermana Mary Newton,” you might be asking, “what about you?”
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| Only real “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius” fans will understand |
Thank you so much for directing the conversation to being about me! To answer your question, my test came back as negative. And for the time being, I don’t have any symptoms. #PfizerGang But Hermana Herrera and I are still quarantining and social distancing and all that jazz. She keeps the door to the room open, and then I sleep on a mattress a safe 10 feet away where we’re still able to see each other. Most of my days are now spent on the balcony reading Saints while Hermana Herrera rests. I’ve gotten to Part 3 of Volume One, The Standard of Truth! Please send support so that I’ll be able to finish No Unhallowed Hand during this time as well.
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| When we got to the Llama Place™ (I have no idea what it’s actually called) and the llamas were late to the party. |
I’m also sure you’re wondering how my companion got COVID and I didn’t. I’m asking the same question! I think my vaccine really did pull through, but as a word of advice, if you’re going to feed the missionaries, and then start experiencing flulike symptoms … don’t feed the missionaries.
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| What is being on a mission if not going to a lookout point where you can see the entire department where you’re serving? |
Highlights of the week included:
☆ “Call Me Maybe” playing on the bus on the way to the llamas
☆ Every lunch this week being a chicken dish
☆ One guy giving us his number without us asking for it
☆ Singing Adele’s “Hello” to the district
☆ The APs showing up out of nowhere (never thought I’d be excited to see the APs)
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| My love for my district leaders continues. Elder Ruano might be my favorite? Definitely top three. |
During my personal study, I was reading this section in Alma 33 that really struck me:
19 Behold, he [Jesus Christ] was spoken of by Moses; yea, and behold a type was raised up in the wilderness, that whosoever would look upon it might live. And many did look and live.
20 But few understood the meaning of those things, and this because of the hardness of their hearts … there were many who were so hardened that they would not look, therefore they perished. Now the reason they would not look is because they did not believe that it would heal them.
21 O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish?
Something I’ve learned on my mission is that we complicate things a lot. I do especially. But if we know what we’re supposed to do, which is center our lives in Christ, then we should do it. And if we believe, He will heal us. All we have to do is look up.
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