Hey mom!!! The Diarrhea still continues on! I have taken those pills but it doesn't stop. I know that it's not normal how long I've had diarrhea and digestive problems but it's whatever. I can't really do anything about it. I haven't really been eating because honestly it hurts to eat. I feel fine though. I eat when I can manage and when I just can't manage I just don't. I am almost always still tired but it's fine I'm getting used to it.
The area I'm serving in is called The Kennedy. This part of the city is called The Kennedy because President JFK helped build it by clearing the forest and the uneasy terrain that once was here allowing them to build a shopping center with the money he also donated to the same cause. The area is the smallest area in the mission looking at it geographically speaking but it's jam packed with houses. Literally if somebody opens their door and it opens to the outside then it could easily touch the house that is built in front of it. The entire place is just built in a series of blocks full of houses. It's super easy to get lost in the labyrinth but it's fun teaching the students and residents who live here.
Of course I have been teaching new people!! If I wasn't teaching then the work would never move forward!! As of right now I am working and putting the majority of my focus on a small handful of people. First is Renè, He is 60 years old and wants to get baptized the 9th of July!! I hope he comes this next Sunday so we will be able to help him achieve his baptism goal! Next is Leticia and her daughter Mia. They are awesome!! More Mia than Leticia but I know that thanks to the faith of Mia that Leticia will be baptized too. It's sometimes funny the way that The Spirit works within a home. God knows whose hearts are softer and uses them to soften the hearts of the rest. I know God is working through Mia and that they will one day be baptized and hopefully it is during the month of July as well as Renè. The work is always advancing but only as fast as the missionaries are pushing it forward. Even being sick I try my very best to make sure that when I get home at 9:30 that I can say I left it all out there in the streets doing everything in my power. I hope God can recognize my efforts always but I know He is blessing me in my work.
This week has been a ton of fun and definitely the highlight was that on Saturday I was given the amazing opportunity to go to the temple with one of my very first converts, Mariela, who was just endowed and is preparing to serve her own mission in Bolivia. That morning I truly learned a whole new aspect of missionary work. I know now that missionary work isn't just teaching people so they can get baptized but that truly we are supposed to stay with our converts supporting them and nurturing them until they enter the house of the Lord and make higher covenants with Him. Many missionaries will always say that the best days on the mission were always the days that they baptized. It's true!! I was one of them that said that before but now I know that the best day is when that convert you baptized at least a year earlier is going into the temple and you truly are able to see them as God sees them. God is good and God is great. He loves us and I know He is there beside us every moment in this life.
Love Always,
Elder Jonah McKee
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