Feb 23rd: My week went well! i found out for sure that i´m going to be training! i don´t have my comp right now but i´m going to get her tomorrow with some other people who are training! i´m super nervous and excited and i feel so unprepared but hey, we can learn together too! i just don´t feel like i know the scriptures well enough or even the gospel as good as others enough to train but for some reason i´m training so we´ll see how it goes! i´ll let you know also that means that hna deluca left to another area and i´m super sad for her! i miss her so much already!!! i have gotten so close to her over the last few weeks and i just started crying the other night when i was writing in her mission journal haha even though at the beggining it was hard, i learned so stinkin much from her and i was able to get to know her so well and could talk to her about anything basically. she is just so cute and awesome and i´m going to miss her tons but alas, así es la mision. but ya, before she left we had an asistence in teh church of 55 people!!!! 55!!!!! we were so stinkin happy i can´t even tell you how happy we were! in our little church we had people sitting in the hallway listening because there wasn´t enough room in our little church room haha but it just made me tear up a little cause it means that we really are finally progressing! i can´t really explain how happy i felt it was increadable! AND our investigator came to church with her younger daughter too! we were soooo happy! and her older daughter who is like 19 asked us for a book or mormon to read the last tame we had a lesson with her mom! she had 0 interes before but now she´s showing some interes! we are so happy! and her kids always say that ever since we have been coming they have seen a huge change in their mom. not only has she basically stopped smoking and drinking, but they said that the house and her have just been so peaceful lately and chill! we were all like: yessssss! hopefully, with time, the whole family will be able to be baptized and sealed together in the temple! that´s the end goal right?!?
March 2nd: Ya, my birthday went well!!! we went to a few members´ house and ate a lot of food! they were super nice about the whole thing! and ya, it´s fun being a trainer but kind of hard. i didn´t notice until now but, i was kind of getting tired, like a missionary does... haha but my comp, hna chauque from mendoza, is amazing i can´t even explain! she doesn´t need to be trained at all haha she is just already ready to do everything right haha she´s training me more than i´m training her haha! for real! i think she gets frustrated sometimes when i don´t understand her... i´m her first american comp so i understand that haha i´m the first that doesn´t understand her ALL the time. but i´m trying to just love her and help her be happy and do the things right :) Love you!
Birthday Cake!
March 9th: I just can´t stop talking about how much i´m learning from my comp. she is just such a good missionary and already completely prepared for the mish! she´s putting into practice everything that she learned in the mtc and the new tricks they taught her and everything! something cool that happened this week was that i just witnessed a miracle happen in a person haha so there was this one investigator hna deluca and i were teaching and she wasn´t progressing like at all... when we would go over she would make fun of joseph smith sometimes and just say rude stuff about our church while we were giving a lesson so we decided to drop her then like a week ago she sends us an email asking if we are going to pass by again soon. so i was REALLY not wanting to go again and i was kind of dreading it but i though ok, i´m going to give her another chance especially cause she reached out to us. so we went over and ya... she completely changed it was weird! but i think it was because after we dropped her her brother passed away in an accident and then her mom was diagnosed with cancer and she completely just humbled like crazy. she is so receptive of us and even though she is kind of a hard investigator still, i feel like she has a lot of potential. she might take a little more time to really be ready but she´s on the road! she even came to church this sunday! we had to pick her up because she told us it´s hard for her to wake up in the mornings but she came! we were soooooo happy! she said that she actually REALLY liked the classes we gave and stuff. she couldn´t stay the whole time but she said that next week for sure she will stay the whole time so we are supper excited about her! she´s making good progress! :) so that just showed me to have faith and that anyone can change if you just give them a chance. it was super cool to see the change in her, really, and i have high hopes for her! :) we just got to remember that sometimes things don´t always happen in OUR time but the LORD´S :) he is so patcient with us it´s increadable! :)
My trainee Herm. Chauque taking a Selfie haha
March 18th: my week has been pretty chill :) we found two more investigators and are really trying to work hard on getting the members excited about missionary work! we are bringing more members with us on our visits and stuff :) also one of the sisters is washing our close now! i can´t even tell you what a stinkin´ blessing that is! i have clean clothes!!! haha ;) and we had 50 people asist this Sunday !! including two of our investigators (mariela and laly) and mariela´s youngest daughter and her other daughter told us that she would come to church with us next week with her boyfriend so we are super excited about that too! :) so ya, things are going well :) we also had our district activity and it was super fun! everyone dressed up as if they were home aka it was weird to see how some people dressed haha then we ate tacos and went to an argentinian gift shop and i spent like all my money... haha but i got some cool stuff! :) and then the next day we had our zone conference and it was super amazing and i just loved it! :)
March 25th: OK, well, this week has been good! our investigator stopped smoking!!! well so far it´s been like three days but it´s a huge step for us in the right direction! and our district is awesome and they decided to try to focus on us having lessons with members and it was hard to get started but now the younge women are asking us when they can acompañarnos without us even asking! i found out the importance of having members in our lessons. not only does it help the investigators feel more comfortable cause they have someone ¨normal¨ with them but a lot of the members have gone through the same problems that the investigators went through and it also helps the members with their own personal testimony and helps energize them to get excited about missionary work! it really is great! :) and it´s fun! that´s a plus haha but ya, also we had a branch activity the other day and that went super well and it was a good time to just kind of chill with the branch like normal people haha we played ninja and that was fun! but ya, that was basically my week. and it was a good one because, well, i´m a missionary and doing the work of the Lord, there´s no better or more rewarding thing in the world! i feel my testimony grow every week and every week i´m reminded that this church is true. even if the people don´t want to listen to it or deny it, this work will go on with or without them because it´s the work of God and his work will never end. i´m so blessed to know this precious truth and i want to show it to share it with all the world! I finally understand how alma felt when he said: ¨oh that i were an angle¨ (alma 29:1-2) i feel like i´m doing my personal best and even though there are many things that i wish i could do and that i wish i could be perfect in, i just try to keep going and keep doing all that i can do and i know the lord will be happy with my service :) bueno, i just want you to know that i know this church is true with all my heart, might, mind and strength. i know that joseph smith was a prophet called from God and that through him God was able to restore his gospel to the earth once more with all the power and authority like in antiguidad. i know that my redeemer lives and because he lives will will live again! oh how amazing is the plan of the lord my God! i will forever be in his debt! :)
Us at our district activity day. We could wear normal clothe, and went shopping for cool souvenirs!
A traditional '9 months along' photo haha I can't believe I am at my halfway mark already.
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