Queridos amigos!! :) Bueno, este mes de febrero, la misión esta haciendo algo que se llama, La Fe de Febrero Trae los Milagros de Marzo, en la cual hacemos un sacrificio personal. Creo que si queremos ver milagros, tenemos que sacrificar algo que será un poco difícil para nosotros, para que podamos demostrar a Dios que sí queremos ver milagros. :) Donde hay sacrificio, hay bendiciones!! Y...uno de mis sacrificios es no leer las cartas de mis amigos...ni escribirles, sino por medio de esta carta general. Entonces, por ahora no les voy a escribir, pero después de que termine el sacrificio, sí. Si quieren, pueden continuar escribiéndome para que tenga algo que leer ...en Abril :) Al final, voy a estar muy emocionada por responder a todos, pero hasta que ese momento llegue, esto sera nuestra comunicación :) Gracias, y les quiero mucho.
Dear friends!! Well, this month of February, the mission is doing something called, the Faith of February brings the Miracles of March, Where we each make a personal sacrifice. I believe that if we want to see miracles, we need to sacrifice something that will be a little hard, so we can show the Lord that we DO want to see miracles. Where there is sacrifice, there are blessings.And...one of my personal sacrifices is to not read friends emails...nor write you guys until this personal sacrifice ends. Just through this weekly mass email. If you want, you can keep writing me so i have something fun to read in April... At the end of the sacrifice, I'm stoked to respond to you guys, but until then, this will be our means of communication. :) Thank you and I love you!
We are in carnival and wish so much that I could play, but we cant! So I hope you guys are playing for me (those of you who know what carnaval is). So, since these days are carnival, there is no one here and the people who are here are throwing water at us. But I'm convinced that our angels are protecting us because the water balloons have been coming straight for us and then all of the sudden, they like curve and miss us. ha ha, and the buckets of water too. Like coming right for us and nothing! ha ha and one of the Elders, someone threw an egg and it hit him, then fell on the floor and broke. we're protected I tell ya!! ha ha, but I don't want to speak too soon..... because the people outside of this cyber are playing too.. ha ha oh yeah and so we have been only allowed to go to set appointments and if not, we have to go to the house and study. But we've had appointments so that's been cool :)
To be honest, it was a really tough week. Ha Monday, we had an appointment with Gladys and Santiago, our evangelical couple, but Gladys' sister was there and she's just... a whole different story. We went with a member couple who are awesome and have gnarl testimonies, but Gladys' sister was just making it impossible for us to teach anything. It wasn't even the spirit of contention, rather the spirit of immaturity. We realized that she is definitely just following whatever her pastor says because ... ahhh. I'd rather not remember that appointment, but we kept our calm and remained humble. I could see that Gladys and Santiago were a little embarrassed by the comportamiento, behavior, of the sister. So that made us want to cry, but we shall prevail.
Tuesday, we found a less active member and found out that she went less active because her dad was impossible, and everyone was telling us about how mean her dad was... but the funny thing is that we found her.... by teaching her dad. ha ha and we are always saying that Nestor, is like our mission grandpa. He is so sweet and deff has a special place in our hearts :) ha ha, so everyone is like wow... so we are going to rock this family! :) Then we went with Carolina, but she was busy and found out that her family.... are other investigators that we had found last week!! ha ha so we taught them, but it was tough. The mom... just doesn't understand. like it just doesn't enter into her head.. that was hard because you just love the people so much and try to explain everything so simply, but they still don't get it. I know the Lord will help though... and the rest of our citas (appointments) kinda fell through. bumm,.
Wednesdayyyyy. Uuufffff. We had members accompany us all day and every appointment fell through and all the people that we found... had no time.. or "had no time". :( and then at night, we went with a less active who is wanting to come back to church and she came too late, right when we were leaving, but begged us to share something . so duh we shared something. How were we going to just leave them? But they talked forever and didn't let us go... and then we didn't make it to a really important appointment with the Elders and Gladys and Santiago. Then, the Elders reprimanded us / corrected us and that was the hardest part... we try to make someone happy and then bail on someone else, just trying to be good. So that was a really hard night.
Thursday... uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhffffffff. Equally hard if not harder. We had our zone meeting and ya ye it was about charity, one of my favorite things, but Hna Colque and I were still bummed about the night so it was me. Then we (thinking that we had told the mamita that we were going to come late) went to our mamita for lunch and then she chewed us out about coming late because she had a medical appointment and everything else and we just felt like horrible because we thought that we had told her. Ahhhhhhh. I wanted to leave crying! We were so tired. Sorry people. We try to help you and then hfhgkjfsd. We were proud though. All this correction is for our good :) Then, we went to an appointment with the recent converts daughter and husband and we taught the lesson and then at the end... they left us. They couldn't do it at the beginning so we didn't have to sprint down the mountain to our next appointment? :O and then I made the little boy cry because I forgot to let him do the closing prayer. And it wasn't just cry. it was like screaming crying.,so we were like..... "We're not fans of today, or yesterday". Not that I'm complaining. just... it was hard. BUT this is where the light came into our lives!!!!!! DOUGLAS!!! we had an appointment with him at the church and he was there early and everything. The elders started giving him a tour of the capilla (chapel) and he was making all kinds of amazing questions and telling us that he didn't know how to explain how he felt in the church, but he felt sooooo great. Like his heart was filling up with joy... so we explained that it was the Spirit :) Then invited him to pray about the church and he told us that he already did!:D Ahhhh and he said that he had felt that way when he prayed about the church! Ahhhhh, so we left sooooo happy after feeling so down. It was BEAUTIFUL! :D
The finally, Friday was a WONDERFUL day. Finally. Ha ha, we were like.. ahh! We had an appointment at the church in the morning, but they didn't come, so we studied and then when we were coming out of the church, we found Denise and her mom (recent convert and her mom who is coming back to the church) and they were like all frantic and told us that the uncle who is schizophrenic, and all kinds of mentally handicapped, and elderly, escaped from the house and they were looking for him. We were like... have you guys said a prayer yet? And they said NO!! Ahhh, so we said a prayer with them and told them that we were going to find him and they shouldn't worry. So we set off to cancel the mamita and she had forgotten about us anyways. Ha ha perfect. So we just said .. OK the Spirit will guide us! :D then, we just went walking for about an hour and took some turns, asked some people, no one knew anything. So, we got to the occidental, which is like the highway and thought.. well. I don't think he would have crossed this street..... so we stayed there for a moment and my companion was just looking across the street at some man sitting down... and was like I think that's him. And then, we screamed because... IT WAS HIM!! We found him!! It was literally like playing where's Waldo!!!! Ahhhh, and so we said a quick prayer of gratitude and crossed the street and took him back to the house and the mom... Ahh, this lady.. just saw us come in with him and was like with the face of... "oh no. ya ye, but, these missionaries really do what they say they are going to do, and I never put my part".... and after we taught something and we were really direct about keeping the commandments, because she hasn't been doing it, even though we tell her over and over.. :( and we felt a lot better after that! :D
Then after that, we went to just see how Beatriz was doing and we asked about the BOM and she was like... Ahhh!! I can't stop reading it! I have read 13 chapters last night!! :D I just feel so good when I read it!!! And she was like teaching US about what happened in the chapters that she read. It was marvelous! We just felt the Spirit so strongly! :D Soo happy! Thennnn, we went to see how Emma was doing and she was with her brother who looked all serious, and well, what the heck presented ourselves to him an he was actually like super interested. He was so bummed that he is never home to receive the lessons, but he was so excited about the BOM and asking for chapters for his wife and everything! Ahh, it was sooo nice :) Andnnndndndnadnadnd the biggest part! They realized that they can close the store Sundays so that she can come to church! Ahhh!!! I just really hope he progresses with us. :) Saturday was just a day of service because our citas (appointments) fell through and its carnaval , but we found members who needed our help, so we helped! :D
Sunday. church was cool, but I think the week got to me when a member was like why didn't you guys come Friday!!?? We had missed an appointment and they were ACTUALLY there for the first time and this time we didn't go. So I had a small breakdown, but my comp is so great and the elders also made me laugh so that was cool, but we had to go home after church and just study, so we did so and just talked and we both felt so much better :) It was great.
Now, today, we just decided..since we're in Carnaval and have to be careful, to have a chill day. So we watched the testaments ... and I think that was the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. We were bawling at the end. With Jesus comes it was like.. rivers of tears!! Man. Even though we had a really tough week for various reasons... it was a really good week in a way. I have nothing to complain about. I'm soooooo so so so grateful for Jesus Christ who has suffered for all the things of the world. Who has given me happiness and filled my heart with joy. I can't really explain my feelings, but I KNOW that He has come to the earth and that He WILL come again and all eye shall see Him :) I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father answers prayers and I'm so happy that I know that we are God' s children and He loves us. Life is beautiful and I'd rather be faithful to the Lord than to anyone else. I know that He lives. I know that this is His church. I have no doubts. Now it's just my part to be as strong as I can be.
Love you guys!
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