Grace is Sufficient : I found mosquitoes and the week was still good.

Ami Altagracia got baptised and confirmed! Stuff happened for a minute and she had a hard time, but the Lord and lots of people helped her. We'll see if she'll ever get over the cold water in the font... but she's still happy and so are we!

I fell asleep in her first lesson, we taught a lesson in a McDonald's, the font was ice cold and she had school and a job and she still got baptised and hasn't missed a day of church even for stake conference. This is definitely an example of the Spirit teaching people who listen even when the missionaries are totally lost.

Writing on a train again so this email might get a little chaotic:

It's rained almost every day of my mission so far but the last week has been 80 degrees, sunny, and strange. It's bringing the mosquitoes and bugs out of the woodwork (literally) but it's also bringing all the people out, so we'll find new people ready to listen soon. Today, thankfully, is a little cooler and overcast. People love telling me "it looks like you've found the sun!" And they all feel very clever and original saying it. I'm happier finding the sun than the mosquitoes! They normally shouldn't be around in April but the toasty warm weather confused everybody.

We are still looking for places to go finding in our area since most people are very comfortable in their lives near us, and aren't really interested in listening to us yet, but we'll get there. Most people that accept an invitation approach us first, like this awesome guy named Richard who left off repairing the road to ask "Sisters! What's the good news?" Turns out his sister converted in west Africa but he never really knew what it was.

There is a huge bee type thing living outside our patio door and we're trying to fumigate it with vinegar cleaning spray and hair spray. The French phrase for a huge bug is a "huge beast!" Which is accurate.

We've taught a lesson at a public park this week, as the ami was babysitting her grandson, and the bugs were very interested in the lesson even if the people were distracted. But, the lesson was on creation and the fall so they just helped us make an object lesson out of it, right?

We got to Facebook video call into the baptism of a wonderful man we met at the temple!

Okay today is busy again but challenge of the week: Talk to a stranger. Anyone, doesn't really matter there, but get used to it so you can talk to somebody when you need to someday. That's how Altagracia came to the temple and met the missionaries! A random woman on the bus said "have you seen the temple?" And gave her directions. Small and simple things.

2. Ask the missionaries if they have any investigators you can help with. That you could befriend, or have a lesson with, or anything.

Love you all, be safe, have fun!

- Soeur Amott

lentils

yum!

I made an apple crisp for district meeting and let the elders warm it up in the oven. They tried to scrape off all the black parts... we heard "nooooooooo!" All the way down the stairs.

The shirt and charger are because a really sweet man came into the VC who was here for a Microsoft conference... He was Japanese American. The little prince is from Soeur Foley, my "fairy great-grandmother" in the mission.