I've been out in the field 2 months tomorrow! Crazy eh? Hmm ok this letter is going to be ALL over the place because there were sooo many things that went on this week! I loved all your letters :)
Ok so first things first I forgot to tell you about one funny thing that happened. Ha you'll feel my pain mom. :) Haha so we had a talent show back in August, and during correlation our Ward Mission Leader asked if any of us had a talent. Well, my companion said oh ya Hermana Wright would LOVE to sing. She'll sing I am a Child of God. He starts writing it down and I was like NO she's kidding. They joke around about it for a little and then she ends up telling him that she was just messing. Well, we show up to the talent show and guess who was on the PROGRAM?! Ding ding ding. This little Hermana who can't sing or stand in front of people for the life of her! I about had a hard attack. Hahaha can you just imagine that sight? Not good. Although to the Hispanics I'm a fantastic singer. It's so funny... they can't hold a tune at all. They're so cute. But ya, that was quite the experience :) Haha
Ok so we were talking to this guy named Mario, and he was basically trying to convert us to his church. To sum up the story we agreed to going to his church if he came to ours. OHH my goodness it was the craziest thing I've ever been to! You know how I hate loud noises... it is screaming the whole time. You have to scream to hear over the band. The whole time people were yelling Amen, Hallelujah, Mmmhmm! ya it's VERY interesting. On top of that they had a greeting time where everybody just goes around hugging people. Ha 5 men tried hugging me and I awkwardly had to put my hand in between because they couldn't hear me saying I can't hug them! I was on the outside of the bench so I had the worst of it. Hna. Wallis had it easy. Anyway, that was quite the experience! All I can say is if that was the true church, I think I'd be damned (scriptural language don't worry)... cuz it just stressed me out being there! It sure made me grateful for our peaceful church!
A bit of sad news now. A lady in our ward has cancer, and it's getting pretty bad. She showed up Wednesday to our scripture class and her hair was gone. :( She's going through Chemo. Everybody was just bawling, including her 6 year old daughter. She's just not doing so well. It was one of the harder things I've had to watch. This woman is AMAZING. I just wish there was more we could do for her! Yesterday was her bday and so we made her a strawberry cake on her request. She has never had a party before! So we went over there and celebrated with her. How heart breaking to watch her degrading so quickly.
EXCHANGES! We had exchanges with the sister training leaders this week and boy was that great! I was completely in charge of the area! I even had to talk on the phone! Usually I don't ever do that unless it's an English speaker. I was a bit nervous at first, but it went great! I was with Hna. Moon and she is the BEST! She's the missionary I want to become. She makes missionary work so FUN! (Quick side note... poor girl had to find out about my sleep walking the hard way. I guess she moved a tiny bit and I SHOT up. I went into the bathroom turned on the water and just let it run for like 3 minutes. She said sorry to me and I just laid back down without saying a word. Haha that's when she realized I was not awake. My poor companions... Ayy ayyaNYWAY...) Usually I'm a little bit timid to talk to people when knocking, but she made me LOVE it! It made me super excited to get to that point. The lessons all went wonderful and it was all great! At the end of the night I had no idea what to do cuz we only had about 15 minutes. She didn't know what to do cuz she doesn't know the area at all. We decided to say a prayer and wow isn't revelation AMAZING?! At the end I instantly knew that we needed to see somebody who we've tried seeing multiple times. She's never en casa... but guess what?! She was there!! We had another lesson with her this morning, and she's on her way to being reactivated! Not literally.. but I'm super excited about her so I hope so! Then on Saturday we were put in a similar situation. We felt like we should go knocking, but it was FREEZING outside and it was already late. Well, nonetheless we decided to go for it. I was thinking where should we knock? When suddenly we turn the corner and a Hispanic came walking out of his house. Coincidence? NO WAY! The Lord works miracles! I think he had been waiting for us all day. He's super nice, and he needs this gospel! It was AMAZING! Truly I have learned SO much about personal revelation, and following the spirit. The Lord knows best, so learn how to recognize the promptings of the spirit. Sometimes I'm not the best, but I'm learning! It's the best feeling ever to see the miracles that come from it.
Well, today we had a pretty successful week. Last week we had 6 people at church!! We were thinking we would have it again, but unfortunately we didn't. 2 people fell off date that we thought were doing super well, so we'll have to see about that. We had an amazing lesson with one of our investigators (Luis). He's passing through quite a few trials in life with his family and such and the lesson had him crying. Hno. Mazanis gave him a blessing at the end and boy was that good. Teresa didn't make it to church this week but the lesson went fantastic once again! She's darling, and I continue to hope and pray that she receives the answer that this is the one and only TRUE church.
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