August 10, 2015: La Ducha..!! (The Shower)

This week has been so great and quite the adventure! One of my highlights was the shower. So I got in the shower and there was a hose thing and a shower head, and I was expecting that the water would come out of the shower head.... but it was coming out of the hose thing. So I turned the water higher, and the almost broken hose, broke!  So water was just coming out of a hole and shooting into the shower wall. So I tried to hold the hose onto the hole of the shower with one hand, and use the other hand to shower... But the hose holding the shower was receiving a low key electric shock while I was trying to use the pathetic hose thing to rinse off... So now I have an old yogurt container, and I fill it up with water from the hole that shoots into the wall, and shower off bucket by bucket! 

Also the other night there was a huge rain storm and it dumped for about an hour and a half. And the streets were filled with water, so I was tromping through a river of water calf high to try to find an investigator's house. Now we keep sandals with us, so that next time, we can just wear those, instead of heavy wet shoes!

My companion´s name is Hermana Castro. I am super grateful for her! She is the only member in her family. She has been a member for only two years, but has a huge testimony and knowledge of the gospel!  She is super nice,and so helpful and patient! She also loves food, and to buy treats all the time.. so we get along well! :)

There is a family here who owns a hot dog stand on the way home to our house each night. I was not a fan of hot dogs before my mission, but for some reason, the hot dogs here are bombdiggity. I seriously cant believe I am saying this, but you are going to have to trust me on this or ¨ come see for yourself Napoleon!¨

 Also, there is a member lady that lives near us, that is like a mom to us, Hermana. Martinez. She is super awesome and helps us out ALOT! 

One of my greatest experiences this week was with a familia we are teaching, the Palmeryn family. We were teaching them and asked them to be baptized. They accepted, and the dad said, that he felt the spirit so strong. Especially when I was testifying of Jesus Christ. He says he understands the power of God because he knows it is a miracle that I am sitting in his house speaking Spanish, and he feels the spirit and the truthfulness of my message, and can understand me. Wow! I was floored at this experience! I know that when I open my mouth, I have no idea what I am going to say, but the words come with help from God and the Spirit, and I am able to share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gift of tongues is a real thing! 

Oceans of love to all,

Hermana Barton

The hose is supposed to be connected to this part of the shower. But it electrically heats up the water so when you touch it, you get electrocuted.  But thanks to plastic flip flops, you don't get too electrocuted. Then I resorted to a yogurt container instead to not get electrocuted anymore... Maddy, you're a genius!