My dear sweet family!!
I love you all too much! But really, I am so incredibly grateful
for the family that I have and I hope that you’re all doing well.
It rained the whole week! Nonstop starting Tuesday afternoon! I
have never seen rain like this! Some days I left prepared ... the day in green
was the day I thought, Nah! It’s not
going to rain, and then I got soaked! Ha! Ha! Not to mention, we had a
sacrament meeting attendance of thirty people.
On Tuesday I had exchanges with Hermana Peña. She has 5 months
in the mission and is from El Salvador! She is a doll! We had a good time and
leaving our meeting with the bishop, it starts pouring rain. We had umbrellas,
but the feet were just soaked as we crossed rivers and nobody was opening up!
We visited one of her investigators that was supposed to get baptized last
week. As we get to her house, the power goes out. We were giving a lesson with
cellphone flashlights and watching our breath because it was so cold! It was
definitely an experience I will never forget!
Today was our deep cleaning day again and so we were home all
day and celebrating finishing with pizza!
The beautiful young lady with me is Hermana Lucy. She has been a
member for 6 years and she’s about 80 years old. She loves to go with us to our
lessons and she is an absolute doll.
Fun fact! It’s Friday and
we’re walking to an appointment. The phone rings. Hola Elder como está? It was
the Zone Leaders. Hermana Rawe you’ve
been chosen to sing on Uruapan Idol.
Wait, what??!! No that was a joke, but really, you are going to sing in
our Zone Conference with President.
Again, what??!! Yes Hermana! With how many people? Three others. Ummm, that means you can actually hear me
sing! Okay Elder, gracias. This is the
part where I ask you guys to start praying for me! Singing for converts in baptisms is way cool
… Singing in front of other missionaries, not so much!
We visited a member’s house this week. She’s less active. Her daughter is a recent convert, and her two
sons are also less active. They’re 19 and 20 years old and involved with drugs
and well they don’t go to church anymore. I asked my companion if she had ever
taught them and she said no. Being my
stubborn, sometimes fearless self, we strike up a conversation and end up sharing
a message with one of the boys (the other one wasn’t home). As we sing and pray and start talking, he
gets super nervous. Then he starts talking a lot about how he knows that God
has a plan for him, He knows God lives.
I think I´m nervous because I haven’t talked about this with anybody for
a long time. It makes me feel things I haven’t felt in a long time. I miss
church. I know I need to live the word of wisdom and the law of chastity. We
felt the Spirit so much and it was incredible.
He’s a future missionary and future Melchizedek priesthood holder.
We also visited Hermano Mike some more this week. He’s accepted
a baptismal date and it really excited.
He’s reading the Book of Mormon and wants to repent. He says he just
feels it’s the truth. He says he feels like he’s found what he’s been looking
for. He says he’s the happiest he’s been in a long time and he just wants more.
He’s so special!!
On Friday we had such a cool experience. Well as you saw, I left
the house unprepared and at about 7:30 all of our plans fall through, and we
decides to look for new people to teach. It is raining so hard and then it
starts hailing. We are literally soaking wet and we went to about 11 houses.
It’s now 8:40 and we go to another house. The young lady answers and tells us
that the person we’re looking for doesn´t live there. We introduce ourselves
and ask if we can share a lesson with her. She invites us in and we start
getting to know her. I felt like I should ask her if she had a question that
she had always wanted to know the answer to.
I felt so weird asking that and she was thinking for a long time.
Finally she says, well actually, I have a lot.
For example, is there really life after death? We saw her so interested
and we are pumped to work with her this week!
We found another new investigator this week named Rosy. She has
Lupus but she has so much faith that God will heal her. She is pretty involved
in the Catholic Church but she decided to listen to us. She has a desire to
know the truth and she is so sweet.
This week we just worked hard. I feel a new inspiration or
actually I don’t know what to call it but I felt it. I felt urgency as we
worked. I felt like I didn’t want to lose even a little bit of time. I have
been focusing so much on the questions I ask.
I think it’s a worldwide weak point for the church. I think sometimes we
just teach and teach ... as missionaries, as Sunday School teachers, in our
homes, in Young Women’s, everywhere. We
are so accustomed to teach and teach and we don’t ask thought provoking, Spirit
receiving questions. It was a lesson I
learned this week that my whole life I want to listen, to really listen to what
people are telling me, and teach based on their answers. It’s a secret wish of
mine to teach the youth after my mission! Ha! Ha!
I’m
just happy this week. I’m getting settled in to my new area and it’s feeling
more and more like home. I love people. I just love them! I hope y’all are
doing great and living happy! Until next week!
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