this week was a fun one! filled with a lot of work and love.
so we started the week with that same cute Hermana, singing
Grande Eres Tu and writing her son for the last time because he comes home this
week! she is so excited. the smile she gets when we ask her if she wants us to sing is one of the biggest
smiles I have ever seen and it just makes my heart happy. also, on Saturday we
cleaned her whole apartment with some other hermanas in the Relief Society. she
is blind and in a wheelchair, you can imagine how dirty that place was. but it
was cool to see all of us come together and help her so her son can come home
to something nice. I love helping people!
That same day, we visited Tomasa. she is still the
cuuuutest! we brought Hermana Regalado again and she did awesome........again.
it is so great to have the members with us and I love how they befriend our
investigators. it just makes the process so much easier. after we taught
Tomasa, we went to our growing English class and Hermana Regalado wanted to go!
(she already knows English) but we were practicing the phrase "I am"
and saying where we lived, how old we were and the basic stuff. It was Hermana
Regalado's turn and she stands up and says "I am a beautiful women, I am
smart and I am funny" hahahah I just love my old ladies.
so the next day it was pouring rain and we weren't having
any luck with the people we were trying to visit. so we were sitting in the
car, planning how we were going to talk to this one person when we get a text.
It is from Kayla saying she wants us to come over today! We haven't been able
to contact her in weeks and it has been super sad. But we raced over there and
asked her how she feels about baptism and she said she feels awesome and is
excited. It was such a tender mercy and showed that Heavenly Father looks out
for us.
Tomasa is doing great! she is reading in the Book of Mormon
and loving it! we are going over today to teach her with the Relief Society
President and another Hermana because Tomasa is a super good cook and they are
going to get her to teach all of the hermanas something in an activity or
something! we are super excited to get her involved with the hermanas, she
needs a lot of support. she doesn't really like her husband/boyfriend/person..haha.
she is doing good but keep her in your prayers! satan is still strong!
the most interesting experience this week. so we went to go
visit a less-active, Hna. Paz. we walked in and she was there with her husband/boyfriend
and his friend and then a member old lady. they were all eating and so she gave
us food and we started eating too! we were all talking super relaxed and then
they start on the topic of religion. one of the guys is drinking and a little tipsy.
he starts going on and on about how God doesn't exist because we have hard
things in our life. he was confused about why children in Africa are starving
and why God lets that happen...all that stuff. it got to the point where
everyone was yelling and arguing in the room and Hermana Anderson and I were
just sitting at the dinner table, silent and listening. Hermana Anderson looked
scared out of her MIND. but I just sat there listening to them argue. The
member old lady was killing it though! she
was defending our church super well, I was proud. but not of the yelling. it
was all just super uncomfortable. During the midst of the yelling and arguing,
I just raised my hand. I had my hand up in the hair for about 10 seconds before
everyone stopped. As soon as it was quiet, I bore my testimony about trials.
And how God gives us all trials at different times in our lives. It is an
example of His love for us. No food, a death in the family, a lost job, any
trial we have is because God loves us and He wants us to learn. The words out
of mouth were from my heart but they came out through the Spirit. After I
finished, they all kind of just sat there thinking. They all started talking
again about it and we shared a scripture with the less-active and got out of
there. It was a cool experience but crazy too...
I hit my year mark this week on my mission! time is flying.
But something that I have come to learn on my mission is the peace I feel about
my beliefs and about the Gospel. I have had a lot of experiences on my mission
where people have yelled in my face, slammed the door in my face, they have
said "we aren't coming to the door!" before we even knocked on it,
they have been rude and disrespectful but the peace that I still feel after
that happens is incredible. Knowing that I am living the way Heavenly Father
wants me to live is enough. Knowing that what I am doing right now is changing
the lives of others and changing mine as well. The feeling of peace in my
heart that I get listening to people yell and argue about the Book of
Mormon, knowing that no one will ever change my testimony. I love this Gospel
and I'm so lucky and happy I get to teach it everyday! It is really hard
sometimes and it is going super quick. I love the Lord and I receive His divine
help every single moment and I'm so grateful for that.
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| the beautiful sky here. it never disappoints! |
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| this sunset we were literally chasing in the car! |
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