How are y’all??!! Super happy I hope!
Today makes the start of another transfer! Hermana Gonzalez and
I are going strong! But really, I love
her to pieces. I have been so blessed as her companion! She is a dork and super
funny and we just have a good time even with the stress and ups and downs of
missionary work. She is so strong and we work hard. Our district leader was
training too and his companion finished his training today and was transferred.
They both about cried saying goodbye and Hermana Gonzalez says, “Oh no! I am about to cry! Oh no! The day they change us I will cry so
much!” She is a doll and it has been so
fun working with her.
Okay so the pictures! I am a terrible piano player but I don’t
love how the simplified hymns sound, I like hearing all the cords so I started
playing with the Children’s Hymnbook. I just really feel like it is something
that I need to learn. I love the Spirit I feel when I play even if I play like
a turtle and mess up a lot! One day,
right??
Also, I dyed my hair this week. Sometimes when you feel a little
sad, you do fun things like dye your hair. I have the best stylist! Ha! Ha!
Please enjoy the Creysi Donas.
It made me laugh so hard! Get it, like Crazy? But you have to write it
like Creysi so that in Spanish they pronounce it like that.
This week we went to ward FHE! The elders planned it and it was
so great!! We had plans to bring some families but pretty much all of the plans
fell through. We got to the church feeling pretty bummed and the elders asked us
to put music in the chapel. As we were sitting in the chapel and listened to
some Paul Cardall piano hymns, Hermana Gonzalez says, “We’re going to hug and
cry right?” That’s exactly what
happened. The elders set up an awesome activity where they blindfolded everyone
and were leading them all around the church and through obstacles but they
couldn’t talk. The objective was to make it to the chapel where there was
light, they took off their blindfolds, and we read them a scriptures in Luke
22:32 that talks about once we’re strengthened, we go out and strengthen the
rest, and then people left and helped others make it to the chapel. First of
all because none of our people made it to the activity, we were a little bummed. The stronger we felt the Spirit, the more we
cried a bit. One of the Elders jokes, “Well
I think Hermana Rawe really enjoyed this activity. What do you feel Hermana Rawe?! Insert more tears. Ha! Ha!
In the middle of all this, our kids show up in the activity. The
10 year old says she wants to talk to me. She tells me, “I want to be a
missionary like you and Hermana Gonzalez. You’re just good people and I’ve
learned a lot from you both. I know I need to get baptized and learn lots more,
but I want to be a missionary and teach people too!” She gives me a huge hug and well then I cry
some more. Hermano Oscar was there too, by himself because his family was sick,
but he comes to visit us and says, “I know you!
You’re literally my sister. What’s
going on?” Ha! Ha! Well we chatted a bit
and he tells me that Heavenly Father called me to find and work with his most
difficult kids and then says that he’ll be receiving the Melchizedek priesthood
next week! How awesome is that?! He says, “Don’t you see? We are just working and working and next is
temple sealing! If you’re not there I will go to your house and pick you up and
bring you here!” It is so incredible to
see people progress so much in the gospel. He is literally the big brother I
always wanted!
This week we had interviews with our mission president. We
talked about how sometimes we just have to stop teaching people that are
keeping their commitments and look for the people that are truly prepared by
the Lord. This has always been so hard for me in the mission. I always feel
like maybe I didn’t put my whole part in and that’s why they are not
progressing. I hate to stop teaching
people. This week I realized that my time is really short. This could be my
last transfer here. I just felt like there truly are prepared people here. As
we were walking one day just looking for people to teach I felt the Spirit so
strongly as the Lord told me, this is what I want. I need you in other houses. I’ll show you where to go. My President
mentioned how much faith it takes to look for chosen, prepared people. This hit
home as I realized we have stopped teaching about everybody and we are looking
for new people all day every day, and visiting some less active members and
recent converts. We have the faith and we’re going to find them!
Hermana Rubi called us one morning so excited!! Her husband
received a sentence of one year 2 months in jail, but he is applying for
libertad condicional (I forget what that’s called in English). Basically, he
could be home really soon. She says that he has changed so much and wants to
marry her and get baptized, and pay his tithing, and “be somebody” at church.
He says, “I’m trying to get out because I want the “guerita” to teach me!” The “guerita” or “white girl” is pretty much
me! Ha! Ha! Rubi told him he better hurry up and pray a
lot because Hermana Malacara already left and who knows how much time they’re
going to give to Hermana Rawe! I would die if I got to teach him again and see
him progress! Ahh!
This week I was studying a lot in the January Liahona. There
were so many things that I liked! First of all, the article about President
Benson and his wife just melted my heart! I realized so much about what our
Heavenly Father really wants for marriages and families. We, well I, need
somebody that supports me in the gospel and I support him and we put the Lord
first and overcome challenges and serve and just do good things! I read about how
the Savior wants us to teach and his model for teaching. As missionaries this
is so important, but it’s also incredibly important in Sunday School classes!
We have to teach better and more like the Savior in our church meetings. Then
because I’m a nerd, I read “Family Councils for Couples.” I thought about all
of the family councils we had and I imagine, although I never imagined it
before, that you, mom and dad, also had couple councils and tried to, with the
help of the Lord, lead us and teach us toward good things. I just want, well
need, a family that receives the Lord’s guidance and help. We can’t do it
without Him.
With it being January and everything, I started thinking a lot
about my goals, but not just for this year, really for my life. It’s so
important to me that we just joyfully live the gospel, that we share what we
know, that we put the Lord first, that we are truly happy, that we are always
honest and repent when it’s necessary. I just want to be so prepared to be able
to raise and teach a family centered on the Lord and a mom and wife that truly
represents the Lord in how I do pretty much everything.
This week I felt like the world was really heavy. Like we live
in a world filled with problems, filled with people with truly big sins and little
desire to make things right, in a world where people have lost the concept of
what is a family. The gospel truths are not regularly taught and practiced. We
saw a lot of things this week, a lot of truly sad things relating to the
family. We want to help people be happy but we have to live the gospel to be
happy! I promised myself this week to never be a selfish mom, to do everything
in my power to put others before myself.
Love
you all to the moon and back! Be good!
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